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Polish student detained over suspected Christmas market attack plot
Reuters ^ | 12/17/2026

Posted on 12/17/2025 12:01:31 PM PST by EBH

WARSAW, Dec 16 (Reuters) - Polish security services have detained a 19-year-old student suspected of seeking to establish contacts with Islamic State and charged with preparing an attack at a Christmas market that could have caused mass casualties, authorities said on Tuesday.

Mateusz W., a student at the Catholic University of Lublin, wanted to commit an attack using explosives and planned to join a terrorist organization, said Jacek Dobrzynski, a spokesperson for Poland's special services.

"The man was very fascinated by Islam, sought to establish contacts with the Islamic State, and was preparing an attack in Poland, in one of the cities during a Christmas market," Dobrzynski said during a press conference. He declined to say in which city the attack was to be carried out so as "not to cause panic." He added that the man was detained in late November in his apartment in Lublin, eastern Poland, and Internal Security Agency officers seized data carriers and items related to Islam.

The prosecutor's office charged Mateusz W. with "undertaking preparatory actions to carry out a terrorist attack that could have resulted in the death or serious injury of many people." The court ordered him detained for three months.

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


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: christmas; computersinternet; europe; islamtruth; religionofpeace; terrorism
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1 posted on 12/17/2025 12:01:31 PM PST by EBH
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Even when they’re European boys, it’s Islamic violence they’re interested in.


2 posted on 12/17/2025 12:04:26 PM PST by Alas Babylon! (They don't kill you because you're a Nazi, they call you a Nazi so they can kill you.--CFW)
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To: EBH

well, looks like the universities in Poland are up to western standards


3 posted on 12/17/2025 12:05:05 PM PST by sten (fighting tyranny never goes out of style)
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To: EBH

Why is it?

when someone converts to Buddhism, they become a monk and go to meditate in a monastary.

when someone converts to Christianity, they go to work at a soup kitchen and preach the gospel

when someone converts to Islam, they want to commit a mass murder


4 posted on 12/17/2025 12:09:45 PM PST by PGR88
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To: Alas Babylon!

Islam is on the march. No doubt about that. And Islam appears to be winning. That will attract weak minds who want to be associated with a winner.

I blame much of this on that garbage piece of trash George W. Bush. He could have strangled radical Islam after 9/11. Just as FDR strangled fascism in WW2.

Instead Bush told the entire world that “Islam is peace.”

And so here we are.


5 posted on 12/17/2025 12:12:09 PM PST by Leaning Right (It's morning in America. Again.)
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To: EBH
I read this on CitizenFreePress earlier and it gives you pause.

Link will take you to video of Warsaw Old Market celebrating Christmas, maybe just last night.

Christmas celebration in Warsaw Poland — with no fear of Muslim attack

6 posted on 12/17/2025 12:18:36 PM PST by StAnDeliver (Trump II)
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To: EBH

Friggin’ “students”. They’re all dumber than a two scoop crap ice cream cone. Give them a cell phone to poke and they think they are one of the smartest people ever to roam the Earth.


7 posted on 12/17/2025 12:26:14 PM PST by FlingWingFlyer (Freedom isn' FREE. Neither is Socialism. Somebody has to pick up the tab for the freeloaders.)
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To: EBH

Mental illness historically has had many different ways it is made apparent. In the 21st century the internet and social media have given the crazies a huge new platform to express themselves, conspire and be validated.


8 posted on 12/17/2025 12:26:17 PM PST by allendale
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To: Leaning Right
"Instead Bush told the entire world that “Islam is peace.”

Bush wanted Saudi money.

9 posted on 12/17/2025 12:28:32 PM PST by StormEye
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To: PGR88
when someone converts to Islam, they want to commit a mass murder

Those nuts hear a lot of strange voices out in the desert.

10 posted on 12/17/2025 12:28:38 PM PST by FlingWingFlyer (Freedom isn' FREE. Neither is Socialism. Somebody has to pick up the tab for the freeloaders.)
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The problem is that everyone is treating the Moose Limbs as if they are practicing RELIGION, with all the due respect, good will, reverence, and legal and tax protection that religions traditionally get.

To hell with all that, I say.

Enact that it is a terrorist organization. NOT A RELIGION. No tax benefits, no public ceremonies allowed, no meetings allowed, even 'mostly peaceful' ones.

Kick ANY miscreants out to a Moose Limb Country of their choice. One way. Coach. Give them a per diem for a week or so.

As long as we keep deluding ourselves, these animals will perceive it correctly as weakness. And things will continually worsen.

And to hell with George Bush, who led our country down this dark, dark, highway. Shame on this ignorant, cowardly person.

11 posted on 12/17/2025 12:30:11 PM PST by caddie (Going forward we all need to become Trump, and also Captain Obvious, and Charlie Kirk too. )
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To: allendale
Mental illness historically has had many different ways it is made apparent. In the 21st century the internet and social media have given the crazies a huge new platform to express themselves, conspire and be validated.

The sad part of all this is that it was entirely predictable and therefore, preventable. But here we are.

12 posted on 12/17/2025 12:37:47 PM PST by paulcissa (The left hates you and wants you dead.)
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To: FlingWingFlyer

> Those nuts hear a lot of strange voices out in the desert. <

More than just that. The Koran demands it.

When the sacred months are over slay the idolaters wherever you find them.
- Sura 9:5


13 posted on 12/17/2025 12:44:51 PM PST by Leaning Right (It's morning in America. Again.)
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To: caddie

Exactly.


14 posted on 12/17/2025 2:03:43 PM PST by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as )
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To: No name given

Thomas Jefferson dealt with it in the form of corporate welfare.

The fascination with Islam. I can understand. Women are ‘protected’ with burkas. That plus they’re less likely to fool around or go militant because of it.


15 posted on 12/17/2025 2:22:11 PM PST by DIRTYSECRET
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To: EBH

Random?

Or pattern?


16 posted on 12/17/2025 2:45:09 PM PST by Jeff Chandler (The issue is never the issue. The issue is always the revolution.)
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Why is it if someone is fascinated by Judaism, Christianity, Buddhism or Hinduism, they buy a book or start attending houses of worship and learning more about how to serve God in that faith. But this kid was “fascinated by Islam,” and immediately looked for ways to kill non-Muslims.


17 posted on 12/17/2025 3:04:35 PM PST by montag813
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Bookmark


18 posted on 12/17/2025 3:32:24 PM PST by missthethunder (Since the 1980 Rona Barrett interview. IYKYK. )
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To: EBH

Radicalizing the native born Poles.

Islam is a death cult.


19 posted on 12/17/2025 8:36:52 PM PST by simpson96
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PGR88 “when someone converts to Islam, they “

well, that is logical - Buddhism tells you to meditate to save yourself. Christianity says to help other people accept God’s salvation. I says to go and fight the in fide l until they surrender.

The core texts of the belief dictate the “attractiveness” of the belief, along with the actions and inspiration of followers.

There may also be the aspect that Iz looks “manly” in some ways - aggressive etc. and can be attractive to weak people (weak because the aggression is directed against the weak, the Iz warriors run scared when they come across someone who stands up to them)


20 posted on 12/18/2025 4:22:46 AM PST by Cronos
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