AT THE end of last month ago a pro-Palestinian mob stormed the Brussels Christmas market on opening night, throwing smoke bombs and spewing hate-filled slogans. As families fled in panic, it was discovered the interlopers had decapitated a baby Jesus doll in the market’s nativity scene. The reactions of so-called ‘far right’ politicians such as Geert Wilders were widely covered by the mainstream press, but only through a GBNews clip shared on X and posts on private social media pages could a factual (unbiased) depiction of the incident be viewed.
The limited availability of truthful reporting about this story by corporate media outlets is almost as concerning as the incident itself.
So this year it’s the turn of Brussels, after last year when a car drove into the Christmas market in Magdeburg, Germany, killing at least five and injuring more than 200. Now we can expect (following Berlin, Strasbourg and Nantes) to see regular Islamist attacks on this yuletide tradition in Europe.
Shouldn’t there be a disclaimer or warning on the BBC’s travel website now about Europe’s Christmas markets since they have been turned into terror zones?
Indeed, these recurring attacks lend support to recent claims by President Donald Trump that uncontrolled immigration is leading to Europe’s ‘civilisational erasure’.
The way Londoners have addressed the threat to seasonal markets is a typical blend of chicanery and snobbishness. It is a solution rather akin to lockdown street parties where folks gathered in temporary, hidden enclosures to defy the Government’s covid mandates: London’s Christmas markets have gone underground.
They are kept strictly under wraps, held in private members’ clubs or on tiny streets with limited advance notice, no publicity and advertised only by word of mouth. Covered by well-armed security guards or (even more intimidating) cheerily smirking toffs, entry entails an up-and-down inspection, through a small gate or stairs, and in the event of an open-air street you are admitted one at a time with a pat-down worthy of the strongest airport security screening measures. Everyone at the market is watched closely and any hint of deviant behaviour results in prompt ejection. These are by no means shady events but welcome children and families. Rabble-rousers simply aren’t tolerated.
To distract attention from these fun and authentic markets some false advertisements have begun to spring up. Last month a fake Christmas market was advertised at Buckingham Palace, only for arrivals to find an empty street with locked gates.
But what a travesty that for safety reasons our Christmas markets have been forced underground. Measures to hold such events in secret for select members of an ‘in-group’ are a sad testament to the large-scale unravelling of civilised society brought on by uncontrolled immigration from countries with antithetical values to ours.
Such attacks on the beloved tradition of the European Christmas market serve as further evidence that many who migrate to our shores are filled with hatred and seek to destroy our way of life.
We should take a cue from President Trump whose administration has recently expanded a ban on immigration from 19 countries specified as ‘high risk’, following the shooting by an Afghan migrant of two National Guards in Washington DC.
Until our leaders get serious about deporting Muslim criminals and their families, and stop more from coming, our formerly joyous and free spaces stand to become hell zones.
