Posted on 12/16/2018 6:21:37 AM PST by Louis Foxwell
20 Years of Muslim Christmas Terror in the Capital of Christmas "This cathedral is Allah's enemy." December 14, 2018 Daniel Greenfield
Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the Freedom Center, is an investigative journalist and writer focusing on the radical Left and Islamic terrorism.
On the second day of Christmas, the only things stirring in some apartments in Frankfurt, Germany, were some Muslim refugees, the German cops smashing through the door and the chemicals in their kitchen bomb labs which they had been plotting to use to commit mass murder a year before 9/11.
It was the year 2000. And Muslim terrorism was far from unknown, but still a little bit exotic.
While the Algerian terrorists did not prove very cooperative, their home videos were very evocative, especially a shaky video videotape taken by Salim Boukari at the Christmas market in Strasbourg, France.
"This cathedral is Allah's enemy," the Algerian Muslim refugee narrated as he watched the cheerful shoppers outside the Strasbourg Cathedral.
"These are the enemies of Allah. They dance and are happy. You will go to hell, Allah willing."
As the home of the European Parliament and, around this time of year, the “Capital of Christmas” with lavish displays marketing to tourists from around the world, Strasbourg was a natural target.
The massive Al Qaeda terror plot in Strasbourg targeting the cathedral, Christmas market, possibly a synagogue and European Parliament building would have brought together Muslims from Spain, Germany and the UK in a grandiose plot that might have included the use of nerve gas and bombs.
Instead the Muslim refugee terror plot was broken up.
Boukari, who had tried to claim political asylum in the UK, had his conversation with Abu Doha, the terrorist mastermind and another refugee, intercepted.
Aeurobui Beandali, the bomb builder, was another refugee who had come to Germany as a minor, applied for asylum, and committed thefts and assaults. Despite a deportation order, he stayed in Germany and began selling drugs, carrying out robberies and then made it out to terrorist training camps in Afghanistan. He then used that training to work on a pressure cooker bomb.
At the trial, Lamine Maroni, a Muslim refugee who had applied for political asylum, quoted the Koran, declared that non-Muslim were dirt, accused everyone in the courtroom of being Jews, and refused a lawyer because, "Allah will defend me."
Allah didn’t do a great job. But he didn’t have to. It was a European court, so the terrorists were only sentenced to between 10 and 12 years in prison. That was well below the legal maximum of 15 years. Maroni got 11. Boukari, who mocked the judges, got 12.
That means they’ve been free men for a while.
Abu Doha, the mastermind of the attack, had a special hatred for Christmas. The United States had been looking for him over the LAX bomb plot on New Year’s Eve. But Doha was another Muslim refugee who had applied for political asylum in the UK in the 90s. And his lawyer claimed that he couldn’t get a fair trial in America. When last we heard from him, he was in the UK under house arrest.
While the Strasbourg Cathedral bomb plot, as it came to be known, faded from memory, the threat never went away. It just fell to a new generation of Muslim terrorists to carry it out.
"This cathedral is Allah's enemy," a Muslim refugee had declared in Strasbourg in 2000. “You will go to hell, Allah willing.”
On December 11, Cherif Chekkat, a Moroccan Muslim terrorist, opened fire at the Christmas market in Strasbourg. As bullets cut through the shoppers, he cried, “Allahu Akbar”.
What North African terrorists had failed to do for Allah in Strasbourg in 2000, a North African terrorist was doing now.
Cherif Chekkat’s story echoes his Jihadist predecessors who had plotted mass murder in the same place. Like them, he was a criminal who turned to terrorism. Despite a reported 27 convictions for theft and assault, he remained on the loose.
On the morning of the attack, he was due to be arrested for attempted murder.
Like his Jihadist predecessors, Chekat had operated and been arrested in Germany. And had been deported last year from Germany to France.
But Chekkat was very different from the members of the Frankfurt cell, whose work he had completed, in one disturbing way. While they were mostly refugees who had migrated to Europe, he was born there. In the time between the original Strasbourg Cathedral bomb plot and the latest attack, a generation of homegrown Islamic Jihadis had been born and bred on European soil.
Chekkat and the 12,000 Islamists on the terror watch list are the new generation of Islamic terror. Despite the watch list and the Christmas market security zone, he was able to carry out his attack.
Eighteen years later, few meaningful precautions had been taken to stop Islamic terrorist attacks even though Christmas market terror plots have lately become ubiquitous in Europe.
In 2016, the Kindergarten bomber, a 12-year-old Iraqi boy, had planted a nail bomb in the Christmas market in the German city of Ludwigshafen.
That same year, a North Africa Muslim refugee drove a truck into the Berlin Christmas market killing 12 and injuring 56 until it came to a halt on a trial of blood with its back wheel resting against a market stand boasting of the "magic of Christmas".
And then there were the alleged failed Christmas bomb plots in the UK and Belgium. A total of 29 lone wolves were busted in Christmas terror plots in the UK, Australia, Brussels and France.
One of those plots was centered once again on Strasbourg with the arrests coming five days before the opening of its famed Christmas market. The seven arrests were announced in Strasbourg and Marseille preventing, what was described as, "a long-planned terror attack."
Four of the arrests were made in Strasbourg.
One of the arrested men had worked for the Strasbourg government on "special events".
The plot has been largely kept secret by French authorities, but was allegedly, “an action envisaged by the Strasbourg group for the first of December.”
Potential targets might have included the Christmas market on the Champs-Élysées, rather than in Strasbourg.
That same year, 7 Muslim settlers from Strasbourg were convicted of having gone off to join ISIS. The 7 were part of a group of 10. Of those 10, 2 were killed in the fighting in the region.
One man, Foued Mohamed-Aggad, came home, slipped past the authorities, and helped kill 90 people in France in the Bataclan attack.
After the long trail of Islamic terrorism leading out of Strasbourg, it was inevitable that a Muslim terrorist would strike in the French city and finish what the Frankfurt cell had started in 2000.
Death and terror had been deferred at the Christmas market for eighteen years.
And then Cherif Chekkat, one of the numberless North African Muslims crowding France’s terror lists, slipped past the security zone and opened fire, killing tourists in the “Capital of Christmas”.
The attack was inevitable.
Individual Islamic terror plots can be prevented, as had happened twice in Strasbourg, but the sheer momentum of Islamic terror is a relentless force whose motivating power is the Islamic population.
You can no more stop Islamic terrorism than you can stop crime or end poverty. But, unlike crime and poverty, Islamic terrorism is not a human condition. It is an Islamic condition. It is inevitable in Islamic countries and in those countries that choose to maintain Islamic populations with their infrastructure of Jihadist mosques and Islamist organizations interlinked with counterparts in their mother countries.
After the 2016 plot, Strasbourg’s Christmas market was sealed off. Pedestrians approaching the market were searched in security zones. It might have been enough. But it wasn’t.
Cherif Chekkat got through with a knife and a gun. He shouted, “Allahu Akbar” and began to kill.
Strasbourg Mayor Roland Ries told a TV station that, "life must go on."
It's a familiar refrain in the cities targeted by terror.
And life will go on. Until the next attack. And the one after that. Until everyone learns the lessons of Strasbourg and the shadow of Islamic terror no longer hangs over the “Capital of Christmas.”
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islam is incompatible with civilization.
Period.
L
It seems so.
These governments are openly encouraging these vermin, by inaction if nothing else.
"This cathedral is Allah's enemy," a Muslim refugee had declared in Strasbourg in 2000. “You will go to hell, Allah willing.”
That's a hopeful thought, mutatis mutandis. The Cathedral will always be Allah's enemy. The terrorists, at least, recognize that, even if some members of the hierarchy don't. And it will certainly feel like hell to Allah, when the Lord Himself sings joyfully over His people, and the Just triumph rejoicing.
From today's reading for the Third Sunday in Advent:
Zephaniah 3
Shout for joy, O daughter Zion!
Sing joyfully, O Israel!
Be glad and exult with all your heart,
O daughter Jerusalem!
The LORD has removed the judgment against you
he has turned away your enemies;
the King of Israel, the LORD, is in your midst,
you have no further misfortune to fear.
On that day, it shall be said to Jerusalem:
Fear not, O Zion, be not discouraged!
The LORD, your God, is in your midst,
a mighty savior;
he will rejoice over you with gladness,
and renew you in his love,
as one sings at festivals.
Monsters among us...
After 1396 years of continuous warfare against the rest of the world, one would think the rest of the world would realize the dangers of Islam.
Islam is incompatible with God. Civilization does not “civilize” without God so Islam finds itself set against all things civil.
Mans lusts are the driving force behind the breakdown of civilization. If man will not not subject his lust to civility by the action of his will, his lusts will take over and subject the man.
Islam is mans attempt to harness the power of lust by religion for the use of man. A religion of lusts harnessed for use.
God is a far better master than lust. Islam misses the point entirely.
Wipe them out. It’s going to have to be done sooner or later anyway.
Funny that this kind of stuff doesn’t happen in Poland.
Now why could that possibly be?
MBS of Saudi Arabia is definitely not a nice guy. But, who did he reach out and touch: a much nastier guy who wanted to destroy MBS and spread terror here in the US. If, somehow or other, MBS can be persuaded to use Islamic procedures to deal with wannabe and actual Islamic terrorists who’re trying to perpetrate Islamic terror here and in Europe, all the good guys and gals benefit.
Each and every Muslim and their non-Muslim sympathizers need to be herded into a remote area of North Africa...and then sanitized with the necessary number of MOABs and enough nuclear weapns to make the area uninhabitable until the Second Coming.
There is a sharp contrast between Western and Eastern Europe. Western Europe is rotting away by leftists and being supplanted by Islam as Eastern Europe is a renaissance recently shedding the communist slave chains and putting up the wall to the murderous barbarians of Islam and tyrannical leftism. The USA is similarly at a crossroads.
The mulims and marxists have infiltrated the EU and are using the United Nations (of Islam) to legitimize their hijrah.
Islam is on an expansionary march, quietly imposing itself on the western world.
IMHO a secondary problem is that other religions that believe in other supernatural beings don't have beliefs that their supernatural beings want people who don't believe in THEM to be subjugated and killed.
Killing non- believers is a part of what Allah wants done, and non- Muslims have trouble believing that,because it is so alien to their religious beliefs. - Tom
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What holidays are for. Even their own. Of course terror is OK on non holidays too. Maybe every day is a holiday. I'd suggest it relates to an intolerance for other religions, but then I'd be Islamaphobic. Despite the facts pointing in that direction.
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