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Dutch town cancels Christmas celebrations for fear of Berlin-style jihad massacre

Dec 23, 2016 10:16 am By Robert Spencer

“Against them make ready your strength to the utmost of your power, including steeds of war, to strike terror into the enemies of Allah and your enemies…” (Qur’an 8:60)

And it works: jihadis have struck terror in Europeans. Are European authorities going to continue to exacerbate the problem with their immigration policies?

“Christmas celebrations in Meppel canceled due to ‘Berlin,'” De Telegraaf (Google Translate), December 21, 2016:

A Christmas celebration with more than two thousand children in the town of Meppel is canceled tomorrow. The eight elementary schools and the town of Meppel concerned decided Wednesday to pull the plug out of the event because they fear for the safety of those present.

School Director and organizer Herman Langhorst says he does not want to risk something happening on a busy square full of young children.

All parents Wednesday received a letter of explanation. “Obviously events and current developments in the world played a role in our decision,” it said. It would have been the first time that there would be a Christmas celebration on such a large scale in Meppel.

According Langhorst saw the municipality no objection to the cancellation of the event, but it was the schools themselves who do not want the risk. “Everyone’s a little tense because of recent events. You do not want a panic when someone shoots off a firecracker or other fireworks. ”

The Christmas celebration for primary school pupils are now celebrated on the schools themselves. Furthermore, there is a program for groups of seven and eight in the Cross Church in Meppel.

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  1. Daniel Triplett says

    Dec 23, 2016 at 10:23 am

    Instead, set a security perimeter, and only let the natives in.

    • DFD says

      Dec 23, 2016 at 1:38 pm

      I’d rather establish a security parameter around Europe and throw the non-natives out.

      • Daniel Triplett says

        Dec 23, 2016 at 4:31 pm

        Much better.

        But I’ll go a step further:

        Let’s force a planetary boundary on “No Muslims Allowed,” then set a no-shit example of this.

        Prognosticating this out, there’s only one solution:

        Worldwide forced criminalization of Islam. (And yes, of course this will involve nuclear weapons)

    • Tom says

      Dec 24, 2016 at 9:19 am

      I don’t blame this man for his reaction. He might have had his own children or grandchildren attending the festivity. I am a very peaceful person, that does no harm to anyone. However……

      How much will we take as a nation before we act? Now, when I am out and see a Muslim women in garb, my spidey sense goes off and I go into reactionary mode. It is getting to the point that I do not trust any Muslim, for any reason.

      I want all Muslims removed from America and this must begin 21 Jan 2017. Make Islam/Muslim religion a criminal enterprise and “Cry havoc and let loose the dogs of war”.

      Si vis pacem, para bellum.

  2. ermom says

    Dec 23, 2016 at 10:30 am

    We cannot cave to jihadists! Pure behaviorism: you reward behavior you desire to be repeated, or that you approve of.

  3. Ciudadano says

    Dec 23, 2016 at 10:35 am

    The anti christian secularists must be very happy that muslims are doing the dirty work for them, no wonder they want to bring more of them

  4. Dan says

    Dec 23, 2016 at 10:50 am

    So let’s see.

    Um….

    Apparently.

    Terrorism works.

    • Daniel Triplett says

      Dec 23, 2016 at 11:44 am

      Yes, terrorism does work.

      Let’s terrorize the Muslims with six nuke strikes in one day. We must earn their fear and respect.

      Day One: Pakistani nuke arsenal, Iranian nuke production facilities, and Raqqa.

      Then one nuke strike on a random Dar al-Islam target every 72 hours until Dar al-Islam criminalizes Islam. This worked for our grandfathers, and will work for us too. And we don’t need to lose one serviceman’s life.

      Thank God for Donald Trump.

      • Dan says

        Dec 23, 2016 at 12:04 pm

        Yeah.

        You hear Trump already talking about getting America’s nuclear arsenal back up to snuff?

        The libs are melting down like they’ve already been nuked.

        I’d said a lot of this Muslim sh** could be stopped, if all the bad guy’s names were just thrown in a hat, and when some Muslim terrorist pulls off something, if we can’t figure out who actually did it, pull a random name out of the hat and then attack them.

        That way, they know ALL their heads are on the block when someone effs up.

        And something else you might find interesting.

        Besides not being an American, I didn’t like Trump. I liked Cruz better, and a few others, and told my American friends I just didn’t trust the guy to follow through on things.

        But, I said, if he does, I will be apologizing left (Well not to the lefties) right and center.

        As long as he keeps going like this, I’ll be more than happy to keep eating humble pie.

        • Kepha says

          Dec 23, 2016 at 3:25 pm

          Dan, where are you from?

          I felt pretty much the same way you did–and I am an American (I also held my nose and voted for Trump, even though it didn’t make a difference in my deep indigo state).

          I hope Trump will consider ramped-up versions of Israel’s Iron Dome or similar systems to protect the USA and kill missiles sent to kill us. Reagan had a good idea, and it should be on the table. One reason why he liked the “Star Wars” idea was that along with lots of other Americans right, left, and center (including Pres. Truman, who made the fateful decision), Reagan was horrified by the use of the A-bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki–even if he recognized the realities of the world that nuclear weapons had birthed.

        • Dan says

          Dec 23, 2016 at 9:36 pm

          Kepha,

          From Canada.

          Hope Trump turns out to be another Reagan.

          What a lot of people don’t even know now, is that back in WW 2 the Japanese were as fanatical as the Islamists.

          The Kamikazes, the Banzai attacks, the Bataan Death March, the Rape of Nanking, Comfort Women, beheading competitions, pretty much ALL of the Japanese prison camps for allied prisoners, they all were pretty much the same kinds of atrocities Islamists are committing now.

          Before the Allies dropped the nukes, they crunched numbers for a conventional invasion, and already had a million coffins built for estimated casualties.

          Our problem now is the “enemy” is inside our gates, so once we go for it we’d have to be liberal – I mean morons – (Sorry. Force of habit.) to think there won’t be repercussions here.

          But this dip wit twit Trudope is just proof again, appeasement never works.

          Otherwise Canadian churches wouldn’t be on the ISIS hit list.

      • DFD says

        Dec 23, 2016 at 1:42 pm

        Hi Dan, you may recall that I opposed your views of nuking, preferring convential warfare instead. Wont take much more and I” be fully round to yourviews and sign on 🙂

        Merry Christmas and a Happy 2017

        • DFD says

          Dec 23, 2016 at 1:44 pm

          Whoops! Two Dans, three Dan posts. I replied to Dan Triplett.

        • Moroccan Infidel says

          Dec 24, 2016 at 8:57 am

          To JW’s Dan from Kepha, Canada, and to all dedicated to Robert’s Jihad Watch.

          His subject above was the atrocities of Imperial Japan during WW II………

          I read this a few years back under the topic about the beheading of the Japanese journalist at God Like Productions……Warning! That web site is not moderated for content!

          The #1 question: Is this actually a fact that we never hear on MSM? Or did some member of God Like Productions make this up?

          * No political leader or a prime minister from an Islamic nation has visited Japan not the Ayatollah of Iran, the King of Saudi Arabia or even a Saudi Prince!

          * Japan is a country keeping Islam at bay by putting strict restrictions on Islam and ALL Muslims.

          1) Japan is the only nation that does not give citizenship to Muslims.

          2) In Japan permanent residency is not given to Muslims.

          3) There is a strong ban on the propagation of Islam in Japan ..

          4) In the University of Japan, Arabic or any Islamic language is not taught.

          5) One cannot import a ‘Koran’ published in the Arabic language.

          6) According to data published by the Japanese government, it has given temporary residency to only 2 lakhs, Muslims, who must follow the Japanese Law of the Land. These Muslims should speak Japanese and carry their religious rituals in their homes.

          7) Japan is the only country in the world that has a negligible number of embassies in Islamic countries.

          8) Muslims residing in Japan are the employees of foreign companies.

          9) Even today, visas are not granted to Muslim doctors, engineers or managers sent by foreign companies.

          10) In the majority of companies it is stated in their regulations that no Muslims should apply for a job.

          11) The Japanese government is of the opinion that Muslims are fundamentalist, and even in the era of globalization they are not willing to change their Muslim laws.

          12) Muslims cannot even rent a house in Japan .

          13) If anyone comes to know that his neighbor is a Muslim then the whole neighborhood stays alert.

          14) No one can start an Islamic cell or Arabic ‘Madrasa’ in Japan .

          15) There is no Sharia law in Japan .

          16) If a Japanese woman marries a Muslim, she is considered an outcast forever.

          17) According to Mr. Kumiko Yagi, Professor of Arab/Islamic Studies at Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, ” There is a mind frame in Japan that Islam is a very narrow minded religion and one should stay away from it.”

          In 1941 the Imperial Japanese government may have gotten the attack on Pearl Harbor all wrong, but NOW if it’s TRUE they’ve got this concern spot on right! If these rules were passed under General Douglas MaCarthur’s time in Japan. It’s too bad he did not mention this in his farewell speech to the US Congress!

          MI

        • Daniel Triplett says

          Dec 24, 2016 at 12:34 pm

          Hi DFD,

          I’m glad to hear my power of persuasion is having some affect with you. I’ve been tweaking the message over the years to be regarded as a serious military strategist instead of a madman. It’s working, with you and others. Whenever I poll test my strategy essay on Twitter, hundreds vote, and 75% agree with me.

          It just makes sense. Why sacrifice thousands upon thousands of our nation’s finest and bravest troops, when we can accomplish our objective and win the war without losing one serviceman?

          If our grandfathers had atomic weapons on 7DEC1941, would they have sacrificed 407,300 of our best Americans, waiting 3 1/2 years before using them? Of course not. They weren’t stupid.

          “Total War: Extinguishing Islam from Earth” @dantriplett

          https://medium.com/@dantriplett/islamic-jihad-is-total-war-for-all-marbles-6c858098b76e

        • Kepha says

          Dec 24, 2016 at 12:43 pm

          @Moroccan Infidel:

          The list of statements that say Japan has a virtual ban on Islam and Muslim immigration is incorrect. Tokyo University has a functioning course of study in Arabic language, and Muslims are resident in Japan. It is estimated that some 70,000 Muslims live in Japan, of whom 10,000 or fewer are counted as Japanese.There are even functioning mosques. Japan also has diplomatic representation in a number of Islamic states, and these reciprocate.

          Japanese got their first taste of Islam only since Japan’s opening to the West in the late 1800’s. During the war, contact with Muslims in southeastern Asia and Occupied China influenced a few Japanese towards conversion to Islam. Japan also harbored Muslim Tatar refugees from Bolshevik Russia–although Christian Russian refugees, and even Jews, far outnumbered these.

          Having Taiwanese connections myself, I will even note that Japan had Muslim subjects in Taiwan, even though most in that small community of Taiwanese Muslims were “Muslim” only to the extent that they did not offer pork in sacrificing to ancestors.

          It is, however, a fact that foreign nationals of any variety may have a hard time getting permanent residence in Japan and these have even a harder time getting citizenship.

      • Christopher Watson says

        Dec 23, 2016 at 5:43 pm

        You wouldn’t need more than one. Preferably somewhere in Saudi then the fallout would be limited – that is from civilised countries. You then demand that all moslem countries build Christian churches and allow moslems to become Christians. The beaten must KNOW they are beaten.

      • Berengaria says

        Dec 23, 2016 at 11:41 pm

        I love your plan Daniel, but all people of European Descent are scared to death of Islamic Violence. The Muslims feed off of this fear & are emboldened, plus, they know our LE are trained to be PC, when they hear a whiny, clipped Tongued savage.

  5. Kiel says

    Dec 23, 2016 at 10:54 am

    General Curtis Le May, America’s longest serving 4-Star General in history; father of Strategic Area Bombing and later the Commander of USAF Strategic Air Command has a word or two to say about fighting a ruthless enemy.
    His brother-in-arms Sir Arthur Harris, (aka ”Bomber Harris”) Commander of RAF Bomber Command during WWII:
    “The Nazis entered this war under the rather childish delusion that they were going to bomb everyone else, and nobody was going to bomb them. At Rotterdam, London, Warsaw and half a hundred other places, they put their rather naïve theory into operation. They sowed the wind, and now they are going to reap the whirlwind.”
    Do our dumb politicians see any similarities to present day Islamofascism?

    • Daniel Triplett says

      Dec 23, 2016 at 11:23 am

      My God, we need General LeMay like never before.

      I think DJT is doing his best to stack our military with leadership like that. Men with the balls to kill millions, and tell the President exactly what he needs to hear are the war fighters for whom he has the greatest reverence.

      He did his best to find a General Patton clone to fill the SECDEF post.

  6. Angemon says

    Dec 23, 2016 at 11:06 am

    School Director and organizer Herman Langhorst says he does not want to risk something happening on a busy square full of young children.

    I suspect that if Geert Wilders said something along those lines he’d be accused of “hate-speech” so fast he’d think he fell in a black hole…

    • DFD says

      Dec 23, 2016 at 1:46 pm

      Yup! Definitely so.

  7. Jerry says

    Dec 23, 2016 at 11:13 am

    Yes, they don’t want something to happen to children in a busy square. Like become slaves and be forced to give up their own traditions for a barbaric religion, just as an example.

    Don’t blame the “world” for current events, blame those responsible–muslims and their filthy, fake religion. This is another attack on western Christian traditions for islam, we are all becoming slaves to their demon god. This slippery slope will lead us right to an islamic hell. There will be no end to the demands they make against us, one concession will lead to another. We shouldn’t be canceling anything for these intellectual and spiritual cretins. If they kill one of us we should deport a thousand of them. If they impose their devil worship on us then we should outlaw their right to impose. If fear of muslims is just islamophobia then why are countless concessions being made by our leaders who criticize us for it? Gosh, if we’re so irrational in our objections to muslims’ violent religion then how do we explain the endless kowtowing by our leaders? Are they islamophobes too? Or is it that they act the same way they speak– like liars, moral cowards, and facilitators for islam’s fascist advance. I think we know.

  8. Norbert says

    Dec 23, 2016 at 11:17 am

    Send the Dutch a nice big white flag. They have surrendered. Maybe the rest of Europe should follow the Dutch, the Swedes and the Germans and just….. give…… up.

    Can I have the ISIS black flag concession? BTW: Here in the US, Black Flag is a brand of insecticide….

  9. Richard James says

    Dec 23, 2016 at 11:35 am

    One down, 1.3 billion to go, I’d guess.

  10. John A. Marre says

    Dec 23, 2016 at 11:42 am

    The Jihadis have already won.

  11. common sense says

    Dec 23, 2016 at 12:23 pm

    The fact that they think citizens “might panic because a fire cracker or other fire work” shows how pathetic these citizens are.
    First, the inability to assess a situation makes you a blob of incoherent human flesh. Second, you let other people decide things for you like herd of sheep. Third, allowing a jihadist to dictate your behavior and then legitimize their effectiveness when your leaders cower down makes you ripe for attacks. Stupid stupid stupid.
    I’d be down there anyway I don’t give a shit what any coward says. I’ll be at Mass on Christmas eve standing watch at my recently targeted Church in winter weather AND enjoying the festivities downtown f*ck the Jihadis this is America.

  12. Kev Mack says

    Dec 23, 2016 at 1:06 pm

    So much for our glorious limp brained leaders telling us that their actions must not be allowed to change our way of life. Seems like it’s doing just that.

  13. Davegreybeard says

    Dec 23, 2016 at 1:45 pm

    @Kiel

    “General Curtis Le May, America’s longest serving 4-Star General in history; father of Strategic Area Bombing and later the Commander of USAF Strategic Air Command has a word or two to say about fighting a ruthless enemy.”

    C’mon Kiel, if you’re going to bring up General Curt, let’s have the “money quote”

    “…If you kill enough of them, they stop fighting.”

  14. DFD says

    Dec 23, 2016 at 1:49 pm

    To all of you: Such news has to spread to raise and rise the emotions, *PARTICULARLY* of those ignorant of islam, and complacent.

    Copy such articels sporadically, only one pr two, and mail these to friends.

  15. Gene says

    Dec 23, 2016 at 1:49 pm

    It’s okay for the school to do this because of a reasonable fear of Muslims. But, it’s wrong for Geert Wilders to question whether it is a good idea to import more Muslims into the country who might want to kill your children for having a Christmas celebration. That’s insane.

  16. abad says

    Dec 23, 2016 at 1:59 pm

    The Netherlands is not the best place for Muslims to be. They should be rounded up and deported to a nation they would feel more at home.

    Like Syria.

  17. Nahiyan says

    Dec 24, 2016 at 9:17 am

    I don’t understand what’s wrong with you people. Mr. Spencer, please take a look at the verse which comes right after the verse you quoted: “And if they incline to peace, then incline to it [also] and rely upon Allah . Indeed, it is He who is the Hearing, the Knowing.” What does that tell you? I don’t want to have a debate with you about this, I don’t have the time to do that, but just think about it.

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