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UK: Heavily-armed police guard Canterbury Cathedral nativity scene

Dec 22, 2016 8:39 am By Christine Douglass-Williams

So much for peace on earth and goodwill to all. Who would have thought only two decades ago that a nativity scene would need heavily armed guards? The guards at Canterbury Cathedral situation demonstrates an inherent clash of values.

Christianity is already virtually wiped out in the middle east by jihadist thugs and its well on its way on Western soil, unless Westerners have a change in attitude and wake up.

“So much for peace and goodwill to all men: Machine gun police guard Canterbury cathedral and its nativity scene as security is stepped up across the UK in the wake of attack on Berlin”, by Rebecca Camber, Liz Hull and Andy Dolan, Daily Mail, December 20, 2016:

Within the hallowed grounds of one of the most famous Christian buildings in England, the traditional Christmas nativity scene should have been a place of peace and tranquillity.

But yesterday crowds who gathered to appreciate the sacred scene at Canterbury Cathedral were confronted by the fearful sight of armed police bearing assault rifles patrolling the manger where the figure of Baby Jesus lay.

The extraordinary image offers a chilling glimpse of Britain braced for a possible terrorist attack just days before Christmas in the wake of atrocities in Berlin and Turkey.

Security was stepped up dramatically around the UK yesterday after a total of 12 people were killed and 58 injured when a truck was driven into crowds at a Christmas market in Berlin, hours after a Russian Ambassador was assassinated in Turkey on Monday night.

Within hours of the carnage which Islamic State claimed responsibility for, police in Britain responded by throwing a ring of steel around potential major targets including the Changing of the Guard.

In an unprecedented move, Scotland Yard announced that roads around Buckingham Palace would be closed to vehicles from today and additional barriers placed around the guard movements over the next three months.

The measure was described as a ‘necessary precaution’ to protect the substantial number of military personnel and huge crowds drawn to the spectacle which takes place daily between 10.45am and 12.30pm.

Elsewhere in the country, other forces dispatched scores of officers to Christmas markets in towns and cities to prevent a copycat attack….

Police say there is no intelligence to suggest an attack in Britain is imminent.But there are fears that the call from ISIS could lead to a lone wolf attack from any of the 400 militants who have returned here from fighting in Syria or Iraq……

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  1. Charles says

    Dec 22, 2016 at 8:48 am

    Thus hath Satan, that old Serpent, reared his ugly head, yet again to TERRORIZE mankind!
    Islam is Satan worship! And the god of islam is The Prince of Darkness himself. Untill the “Spiritual” element in this conflict is seen and recognized, the people will remain in fear and darkness.
    This, the Army of Satan must be conquered with righteous and Truth! The very thing our Political leaders lack!

    • Tradiguy says

      Dec 22, 2016 at 10:37 am

      Hear hear! Bang on!

  2. ermom says

    Dec 22, 2016 at 8:56 am

    That the UK has let itself be invaded, AND allowed KNOWN JIHADISTS back into the country is national suicide. Europe is toast, and we’re next.

    • Tradiguy says

      Dec 22, 2016 at 10:41 am

      We might not want to admit it but we are going to have to fight and the quicker we see that the better. This is not going to stop. We need to come together as a nation and say ‘Enough is enough!’
      and bollocks to all the lefty liberal tosspots who welcome this scum into our midst. They should be thrown out with the Muslims- they can go and live with them if they like them so much!!

      • Real McCoy says

        Dec 23, 2016 at 9:31 pm

        Well said Tradiguy, As soon as possible, IF NOT SOONER.

  3. R Russell says

    Dec 22, 2016 at 9:02 am

    I appreciate that tourist income is important and that the cathedral is steeped in history, however I think it would be better if the police were to protect human beings before they protect buildings

    • Mirren10 says

      Dec 22, 2016 at 9:10 am

      The police are there to protect **people**.

      Where did you get the idea they were there to protect *buildings* ?

      • DFD says

        Dec 22, 2016 at 10:19 am

        Mirren, please go to https://www.jihadwatch.org/2016/12/trump-on-berlin-attack-islamic-terrorists-continuously-slaughter-christians-as-part-of-their-global-jihad/comment-page-1#comment-1578393

        ‘Hope that will do.

        Best, Merry Christmas & Happy 2017

        • Mirren10 says

          Dec 22, 2016 at 11:28 am

          Dear DFD, I’ve been, and replied, twice. As I already said, no worries. Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year !

          When you post, do you click on the ”notify me of follow-up comments” button ? Then you get all the replies to your post by email.

  4. Mirren10 says

    Dec 22, 2016 at 9:05 am

    .”But there are fears that the call from ISIS could lead to a lone wolf attack from any of the 400 militants who have returned here from fighting in Syria or Iraq……”

    Correction:

    ”But there are fears that the call from ISIS could lead to a lone wolf attack from any of the 2,869,000 muslims living in the UK, since the islamic religion requires all good muslims to murder non-muslims.”

    That’s more like it.

    I notice the Mail has no condemnation for the political decision to **allow back into the UK ”any of the 400 militants who have returned here from fighting in Syria or Iraq……” **

    No, indeed, to refuse to let them back in, muslims who have **publicly proclaimed** their animosity to the West, and their dedication to islam over and above the country they have infested, would be ‘islamophobic, racist, bigoted’, and ‘not who we are.’

    And we have **more** than 2,869,000 muslims in the UK (that census was taken in 2010, besides, we know how truthful and law abiding mohammedans are), and **any one of those mohammedans could decide it was time to become more pious and go out to murder some infidels for ‘allah’ **.

    But that’s OK. May’s keeping out those nasty ‘islamophobes’, Robert Spencer and Pamela Geller.

    • somehistory says

      Dec 22, 2016 at 9:53 am

      And not one of them is a *lone wolf* as they all have the same mind-set, the same set of goals, the same *enemies*…even if those enemies are in their mind only…and a large support group that will assist before, during and after a murderous attack.

      In a world-wide pack, of a billion (billion plus) human *wolves*…none of them are *lone.*
      They, each one, have demonic backing and direction to act in concert to bring about the subjugation of all mankind to the service and worship of satan.

      Not one of them is like the Unibomber, who could be considered a *lone wolf.* He carried a grudge against a certain group. The entire pack of moslims, whatever their total number in the world or any given place, have an evil grudge against the rest of us.

      • Mirren10 says

        Dec 22, 2016 at 11:30 am

        So true, somehistory.

        Merry Christmas to you and yours, and a Happy New Year !

        • somehistory says

          Dec 22, 2016 at 3:10 pm

          Thanks, Mirren and the same to you. Life is worth living, even with all of the problems the world may hurl at a person.

  5. IQ al Rassooli says

    Dec 22, 2016 at 9:19 am

    Muslims & Islam in a nutshell~

    Every Muslim is the enemy of every none Muslim Infidel/ Kafir on planet Earth. 80% of humanity

    Every Muslim is a potential Mass Murderer the instant he/ she decides that he/she is NOT Sharia compliant enough

    Every Muslim is therefore a Time Bomb primed to go off

    All other explanations are unnecessary and redundant

    IQ al Rassooli
    Kafir & Proud!

    • Michael Copeland says

      Dec 22, 2016 at 12:10 pm

      As Raymond Ibrahim says, we are forced to play Muslim Roulette.

  6. RichardL says

    Dec 22, 2016 at 9:20 am

    Very islamophobic these guards: pretending that muslims would attack the nativity scene! But they probably are there to prevent backlash by a frenzied Anglican.

    • DFD says

      Dec 22, 2016 at 10:17 am

      Well, it’s either that or they are safe guarding our values…

  7. Crusades Were Right! says

    Dec 22, 2016 at 9:28 am

    Did you know that trying to defend yourself against Mohammedans trying to kill you is racist and Islamophobic?

    The tolerant thing is to let them slice off your head. Then you will feel your racism and Islamophobia leaving your body…

    …along with your blood.

    • eur says

      Dec 22, 2016 at 10:55 am

      “Kill them wherever you find them.” If we defend ourselves we would be denying the veracity of the coran .. and that is so Islamophobic !!!!

  8. mortimer says

    Dec 22, 2016 at 9:35 am

    The British people have not woken up even now. It will obviously take another repeat of the 7/7 attack in 2005 to galvanize British opinion concerning the JIHAD DANGER.

    Scotland Yard and regional police are working overtime watching for jihadists. And with good cause. Surely, one of the 400 returned, unpunished ISIS fighters will come up with something soon.

    The pessimists about jihad are RIGHT, while the optimists about jihad are totally WRONG and their naivety will facilitate the terrorists to commit more terror.

    • Anne Smith says

      Dec 23, 2016 at 5:52 am

      Most people think the Queen was flown to Sandringham for Christmas in a helicopter to avoid any risk of an attack on her while taking her normal train ride to Sandringham.

      A heavy cold was the official excuse given.

  9. beyondculturewars says

    Dec 22, 2016 at 10:28 am

    ISIS just disseminated a list of churches to attack for jihad/qital.

    I think Canterbury Cathedral might just be on that list, along with Buckingham Palace.

  10. david wardle says

    Dec 22, 2016 at 10:50 am

    Did you hear the latest ? Bristol council organised more police on the streets following the carnage at a Christian market in Germany caused by a muslim because they fear there may be Islamophobia in their city! Yes you heard it right ,needless to say it’s a labour council in its own little PC bubble.Now let’s not forget Nice , where a similar murderous event took place ,oh yes ,by a muslim. What about the beheading of a priest in France and the thousands of sex attacks on New years Eve across Germany by, oh yes muslims. Hundreds of no go areas across the Eu , assaults , violence and police being attacked with petrol bombs etc….by muslims. Boys being bug=ered in swimming pools by muslims . Is it me or is there a common denominator here.? And Bristol , dear of these lefties ,still swimming around in their idealistic Corbyne bubble.

  11. Westman says

    Dec 22, 2016 at 10:51 am

    A sad “Canterbury Tale”…….Jesus still needs guarding from the very people who claim him as a prophet.

  12. Walter Sieruk says

    Dec 22, 2016 at 10:53 am

    It’s a sorry situation on the world today then a nativity scene need be be guarded to be kept safe from jihad-minded Muslims. Much is this madness in the mosques and madrasas the Muslim clerics, as the imams who speak many awful and unproven terrible things against Christians and Christian doctrine. So much so the many Muslims get all worked up against Christians and Christian teachings and some those Muslims commit violent actions against Christians. Such false religious teachers, as those Muslim clerics, who speak to people unfounded and invalid evil things about Christians and Christian doctrines have been described in the Bible. For the Bible informs the reader in Second Peter 2:12. “They speak evil of things they do not understand, and will utterly perish in their own corruption.” [N.K.J.V.]
    It also should be make clear that in this specific above Bible verse, as well as in John 3:16. The word “Perish” does not mean loss of being but loss of well-being. As in going to ruin by ending up in languishing in torment in a terrible place of suffering that the Bible calls hell. Luke 16:19-31.

  13. Michael Copeland says

    Dec 22, 2016 at 12:15 pm

    Making it necessary to employ extra police is part of the bankruptcy jihad.

  14. August West says

    Dec 22, 2016 at 1:13 pm

    Why do they need guards? Why not just have the Archbishop of Canterbury and Prince Charles stand near the Nativity Scene and tell any approaching vandal/jihadist how peaceful they are and how the are misunderstanding Islam?

  15. Angemon says

    Dec 22, 2016 at 1:40 pm

    Police say there is no intelligence to suggest an attack in Britain is imminent.But there are fears that the call from ISIS could lead to a lone wolf attack from any of the 400 militants who have returned here from fighting in Syria or Iraq

    Why are they allowed to roam free?

    • Michael Copeland says

      Dec 23, 2016 at 8:59 am

      Memo to police:
      If there are 400 of them they are no longer “lone”.

  16. Carlos Danger says

    Dec 22, 2016 at 2:39 pm

    Merry Christmas!

    Another triumph of multiculturalism. Ain’t diversity grand?

  17. Peggy says

    Dec 22, 2016 at 6:02 pm

    All this could have been avoided if the traitors didn’t sell their country out to the highest bidder.
    Years ago I was saying that unless something was done our grandchildren will have to fight a bloody war and pay with their lives to be free.
    How many times do we, non Muslims have to fight Islam? Haven’t we learned anything from history?
    How do people who either have no idea of the evil they are dealing with or are prepared to sell their souls get elected time and time again?

    We have been reduced to second class citizens in our own countries because Muslims have become superior to us as far as our laws are concerned. They can bomb us, run us down with vehicles, cut our throats, rape our children and we still can’t openly say anything bad about Islam.
    Did we ever think that we would be reduced to the way of life our brothers and sisters had to live in the ME?

    I am angry beyond words and at this time of the year I should be filled with joy. Once upon a time Christmas decorations were everywhere. Our streets were decorated and it felt festive everywhere. Now not only have the Christmas decorations reduced and in some areas disappeared altogether, we either see in person or photos of armed guards around our places of worship and peace.

    This Christmas as in pervious ones I will pray that the evil which engulfs us now will be sent back to where it came from. I wish Christmas I had as a child back. I pray for that so that next generations can celebrate Christ in peace and love.

    Merry Christmas to all here and may your lives be safe, peaceful and happy.

  18. Champ says

    Dec 22, 2016 at 6:13 pm

    What a sight! Such measures have become necessary to guard against mohammedan evildoers and their constant jihad, murder & mayhem …

  19. sidney penny says

    Dec 22, 2016 at 7:36 pm

    “Police say there is no intelligence to suggest an attack in Britain is imminent.But there are fears that the call from ISIS could lead to a lone wolf attack from any of the 400 militants who have returned here from fighting in Syria or Iraq……”

    One is bad enough but 400!!!!!

  20. Gee says

    Dec 23, 2016 at 9:00 am

    I find it ironic that is a gun-free country like the UK that the police are armed with assault rifles and it the gun capital of the world the US they carry pistols on patrol.

  21. John Thomas says

    Dec 23, 2016 at 3:12 pm

    …. but we’re regularly told “it has nothing to do with Islam”!

  22. RL Robison says

    Dec 23, 2016 at 8:44 pm

    Apparently Prince Charles would have us believe that police are guarding the Canterbury Cathedral nativity scene because Britain’s Christians are picking on the poor Muslims. Charles is a privileged, pampered and protected dummkoph who should go back to talking to his plants. GOD save the Queen – long may she reign!

    • IQ al Rassooli says

      Dec 24, 2016 at 4:42 am

      R L Robinson

      Tragically, Charles was being taught about Muhammad’s Quran by Imams who literally DECEIVED him and Charles never independently investigated Muhammad’s Quran but relied on their ‘interpretations’

      $100,000 says that it would be OBVIOUS to any rational thinking person who has STUDIED Muhammad’s Quran would come to the very simple following conclusions:

      1. Allah is most certainly NOT the same as the God of Jesus Moses and Abraham; the God of the Bible

      2. Allah is the voice over of Muhammad the VENTRILOQUIST

      3. Therefore Allah is actually Muhammad pretending to be Allah

      4. Hence Islam is NOT the religion of Abraham but a CULT belief system; the CULT of Muhammad

      5. The above TRUTHS utterly discredit Muhammad as a prophet and the alleged divine origin of his Quran

      6. Concluding that Muhammad’s Quran is the same as Hitler’s Mein Kampf; a Road Map to Total WAR
      Any Muslim challengers willing to lose $100,000?

      IQ al Rassooli
      Kafir & Proud!

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