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Submission to Islamism -- Christmas market in Overath cancelled
American Thinker ^ | 5 Nov, 2025 | Thomas Kolbe

Posted on 11/05/2025 4:55:48 AM PST by MtnClimber

In the German town of Overath (North Rhine-Westphalia), this year’s Christmas market has been cancelled. The cost of protecting visitors from potential terrorist attacks exceeds the organizer’s budget. The city refuses to cover the expenses. A capitulation to Islamism.

It wasn’t long ago that Christmas markets were among the social highlights of the year. Whether in small towns or major cities -- they were meeting points for friends and family, for mulled wine, sausages, and quiet conversations wrapped in winter’s cold and early darkness.

Places of Togetherness

There was this special peaceful coziness. A place where community was celebrated -- joyful, calm, and without fear. A tradition that brought people closer together.

What would urban life be without safe and regular gatherings in public spaces? A wasteland. A dystopia.

These moments -- when people could pause, breathe, and let the soul drift for a moment -- have become scarce in Germany’s public life. Since 2015, since Angela Merkel’s open-border decision, Europe has entered its own Michel Houellebecq moment.

The mass influx of young men from predominantly Islamic countries has deeply shattered the population’s sense of security.

The Loss of Carefreeness

And in this increasingly tense atmosphere, just when Chancellor Friedrich Merz touched a sore point by speaking about the changing face of cities, a manufactured storm of outrage erupted against him.

Even after deadly Islamist attacks -- Berlin’s Breitscheidplatz in 2016 with 12 victims, the Solingen festival stabbing in 2023 with three dead, or the car ramming attack at the Magdeburg Christmas market last year -- Germany still refuses to confront militant Islam pressing into Europe.

The aggressive rejection of any criticism within Islamic circles points to the core problem: Islam never passed through the crucible of Enlightenment like Christianity did. Christianity’s claws were cut

(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...


TOPICS: Society
KEYWORDS: europeons; germanistan; jihad; moslem
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To: MtnClimber; antidemoncrat; PGalt; packrat35
[Even after deadly Islamist attacks -- Berlin’s Breitscheidplatz in 2016 with 12 victims, the Solingen festival stabbing in 2023 with three dead, or the car ramming attack at the Magdeburg Christmas market last year -- Germany still refuses to confront militant Islam pressing into Europe.]

The Enemy's #1 goal is to suppress the Gospel of Jesus Christ
of Nazareth as Almighty God's Word and His Chosen Messiah


✝️✝️✝️🙏🙏🙏🛐🛐🛐


41 posted on 11/05/2025 2:54:03 PM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Days of Lot; They did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
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To: SaveFerris

Thank you.


42 posted on 11/05/2025 3:15:47 PM PST by PGalt (Past Peak Civilization?)
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To: PGalt

God bless you 😇😇😇🙏🛐🛐🙏✝️✝️✝️


43 posted on 11/05/2025 3:19:39 PM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Days of Lot; They did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
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To: The Ignorant Fisherman; Karliner; 444Flyer; Nervous Tick; metmom; Maudeen; Bulwyf; HeadOn; ...
(for the thread)

The Enemy's #1 goal is to SUPPRESS the Gospel of Jesus Christ
of Nazareth as Almighty God's Word and His Chosen Messiah

The Enemy is That Old Serpent 🐍 Called the Devil and Satan

His Goats 🐐🐐🐐 do the spirit of antichrist
works of their REAL FATHER (John 8:44)





We are NOT the same


44 posted on 11/05/2025 3:31:31 PM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Days of Lot; They did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
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To: SaveFerris

Canaduh is the test subject, in the ‘free world’. Carnage’s deep ties to the WEF and ChiComs, make him the ideal Manchurian Candidate. He is as ‘deep state’ as you can get! We are oh, so screwed!

Carnage presented his budget on Tuesday, only six months late! Over those six months, he’s spent billions, with no authority, and without a sitting Parliament, yet not even a whimper from the MSM. Less than two months ago, the Chair of the Bank of Canaduh announced that within one year, Canaduh’s economy will collapse, if nothing is done about the debt. Carnage has done nothing. With only two votes from other Parties needed, the chances are, that it will pass.

I see Carnage doing nothing to spare the economy. When it crashes (as orchestrated by his actions and policies, over the last six years), he will ‘ride in to the rescue’ with his CBDC, to ‘save the day’. The sheeple will applaud him as ‘their saviour’. Then, he will have the ability, and backing, to bring in even worse censorship.

Maranatha.


45 posted on 11/06/2025 5:37:26 AM PST by A Formerly Proud Canadian (All we need is 177k signatures to get a referendum on freedom in Alberta!)
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To: SaveFerris

Persecution is coming and already here:

11/4/25

“If this Canadian Liberal MP gets the chance, he’s coming for your Bibles”

Liberal Member of Parliament Marc Miller made it as clear as a Liberal can: if he gets the opportunity, he is coming for your Bibles.

Miller is the chair of the House Justice Committee, and last Thursday he wondered whether Canada’s Criminal Code allows too much space for people to defend “hate speech” when they refer to the Bible. As LSN reported previously, the context was a discussion about Bill C-9, the government’s “Combatting Hate Act.”

“Combatting Hate Act.”

“...“Clearly there are situations in these texts where these statements are hateful,” he added, directing his question at Derek Ross of the Christian Legal Fellowship. “They should not be used to invoke, be a defense, and there should perhaps be discretion for prosecutors to press charges. I just want to understand what your notion of good faith is in this context where there are clearly passages in religious texts that are clearly hateful.”..”

https://thebridgehead.ca/2025/11/04/if-this-canadian-liberal-mp-gets-the-chance-hes-coming-for-your-bibles/


46 posted on 11/06/2025 6:09:27 PM PST by 444Flyer (John 3, Revelation 20, Joshua 24:15, 1 Kings 18:16-39, Pick a side...)
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To: SaveFerris

https://canadafreepress.com/article/liberal-minister-marc-miller-suggets-prosecuting-people-for-preaching-bible-verses-he-find-hateful#google_vignette


47 posted on 11/06/2025 6:10:32 PM PST by 444Flyer (John 3, Revelation 20, Joshua 24:15, 1 Kings 18:16-39, Pick a side...)
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To: 444Flyer

[“If this Canadian Liberal MP gets the chance, HE’S COMING FOR YOUR BIBLES”]

The Bible and/or SIGNIFICANT PARTS OF THE BIBLE
WILL become illegal

THAT will be a significant sign in accompaniment
with the rise of Satan’s Antichrist and
Satan’s False Prophet

And it’s ALREADY HAPPENING 😲😲😲 in the European Union
(Thanks for keeping us updated)


(Stay prayed up)

🔝🔝🔝

🛐🛐🛐🙏🙏🙏✝️✝️✝️

Matthew 24:42-44
New King James Version

42 Watch therefore, for you do not know what hour your Lord is coming.

43 But know this, that if the master of the house had known what hour the Thief would come, he would have watched and not allowed his house to be broken into.

44 Therefore you also be ready, for the Son of Man is coming at an hour you do not expect.

https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew%2024%3A42-44&version=NKJV


Luke 21:34-36
King James Version

34 And take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and cares of this life, and so that Day come upon you unawares.

35 FOR AS A SNARE SHALL IT COME ON ALL THEM that dwell on the face of the WHOLE EARTH

36 WATCH YE THEREFORE, AND PRAY ALWAYS, that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand before the Son of Man.

https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Luke%2021%3A34-36&version=KJV


Acts 2;38

John 3:17-18

Revelation 3:10


48 posted on 11/06/2025 6:45:51 PM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Days of Lot; They did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
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