It’s beginning to feel a lot like Christmas when everywhere we go, we have to watch our backs.
Birmingham City Council have just installed ‘hostile vehicle mitigation bollards’ to protect visitors to the Christmas market. Armed police were spotted at Liverpool Christmas Market.
In Kent, extra patrols have been laid on over the festive period to protect women and girls. The Metropolitan Police have urged the public to be extra vigilant.
It’s the same story across Europe. In both Germany and Poland, plots to attack Christmas markets have been foiled. Due to security threats, French authorities have cancelled the iconic New Year's concert on the Champs-Élysées.
Memories are short because the horrors seem unrelenting; it is only one year since five people, including a nine-year-old boy, were murdered at a Christmas market in Magdeburg, Germany.
These events are not just attractive to terrorists because they draw big crowds – they are symbolic. They are selected to inflict the deepest possible cultural wound. We see it, too, in the vandalism of nativity scenes.
In Erbach, Germany, a living nativity scene was vandalised, the donkeys were attacked, and the vandals defecated in the church. It isn’t just mindless vandalism; it is a vicious act of desecration.
Likewise, in Amiens, France, the baby Jesus was decapitated. In Brussels, the baby Jesus was decapitated, his head stolen, and the nativity graffitied with ‘Free Palestine’ after the Christmas market was besieged by pro-Gaza protesters.
Such symbolism, of course, is not limited to Christian festivities.
The most devastating attacks in recent months have been antisemitic and tied to major Jewish holidays.
In October, Jihad al Shami set out to murder Jews as they worshipped on Yom Kippur, and now in Sydney, fifteen innocent people have been murdered in cold blood while they celebrated Hanukkah.
Islamic State has called the attack a ‘source of pride’.
Our politicians must stop tiptoeing around why Christmas markets have become so dangerous - Emma Trimble
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Are we expected to accept this as Europe’s new normal? The fact is, beyond the West, Jewish and Christian communities are subject to religious violence on a regular basis.
Yet despite being confronted with attack after attack for decades, successive governments have invited disorder to our shores by refusing to secure our borders.
They have refused to face up to the sectarian divisions that they imported and allowed to fester. While seeking to keep a lid on those tensions, two-tier justice has inflamed them, emboldening the aggressors, sidelining their victims and silencing critics trying to tackle the problem head-on.
As a result, Jews are not safe, and Christmas markets need bollards to protect them from miraculously radicalised vehicles.
Just days after Hamas massacred Israeli civilians on October 7th, protesters shouted ‘gas the Jews’ outside the Sydney Opera House.
Just hours after the attack on the synagogue in Manchester, pro-Palestine protesters clashed with police in London. And now, just days after the Bondi Beach pogrom – let’s call it what it is – crowds marched through London’s streets spewing genocidal chants.
This is what ‘Globalise the Intifada’ means: it means mothers, fathers, grandparents, and infants murdered in the name of ‘resistance’.
The second intifada in Israel was a five-year-long campaign of suicide bombings and armed attacks on civilians. Globalised, its first victims are Europe’s Jews at the hands of Islamists.
But it won’t stop there – this movement is infused with the progressive leftist worldview that has blighted Britain over the last five years.
Some of them might be useful idiots, but for their less fatally naïve Leftist allies, ‘Globalise the intifada’ is an extension of the decolonisation movement. Israel, for them, is a white settler colonial state, and Western countries – like Britain – are cut from the same cloth. Britain, like Israel, is complicit in genocidal oppression and ‘whiteness.’
The path to liberation – in their view – is to tear it all down. To ‘decolonise’ it by repudiating everything we have inherited, including our traditions.
This resonates nicely with the Holy War of their Islamist comrades who seek to ‘break the cross’– to use the title of a 2016 issue of Islamic State’s magazine (yes, they had a magazine).
It is a dangerous liaison.
Burgeoning sectarian tensions have led experts to warn of the prospect of serious sectarian disorder, or even civil war. We are on the road to new Troubles, and no litany of sweet platitudes from Labour politicians will get us out of this storm.
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