This is just what the jihad terrorists want: to compel non-Muslims to curtail their behavior and live in fear. This cancellation will only provoke more jihad terror threats.
“Frankfurt bike race cancelled over Islamist terror plot arrests,” by Justin Huggler, Telegraph, May 1, 2015 (thanks to Pamela Geller):
Police in Frankfurt ordered the cancellation of a professional cycling race hours before it was set to begin on Friday, over fears of an imminent Islamist terror attack.
A married couple living nearby were arrested overnight, after police found a pipe bomb, assault rifle and ammunition for a bazooka inside their home.
The arrested couple have been identified only as Halil D, 35, and Senay D, 34, under strict German privacy laws.
Halil D, a German citizen of Turkish origin is known to have ties to Islamist extremist groups, according to the police.
His wife is believed to be a Turkish citizen.
The couple’s home was raided after Halil D was spotted hanging around car parks and repeatedly walking the route of the annual Eschborn-Frankfurt City Loop race where it runs through woodland.
Police said they had no concrete evidence of a direct threat to the race, but ordered it to be called off as a precautionary measure.
Some 200 police officers searched the route of the race on Thursday.
Over 100 rounds of assault rifle ammunition and bomb-making ingredients were also found in the couple’s home.
Police said it was unclear whether they were acting alone or part of a wider network.
“The accused had ties to the extremist scene in the Rhine-Main area,” Albrecht Schreiber, the head of the Frankfurt prosecutors’ office, told reporters.
Citing unnamed sources close to the investigation, *Welt* newspaper claimed Halil D has links to the Algerian-based group al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM)….