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Birmingham, UK: Historic tree to be cut down, replaced with concrete barriers to protect city from jihad

Jan 11, 2017 2:33 pm By Robert Spencer

This is not the end. Britain and the West in general are going to have to make many more adjustments in view of the advancing jihad. It would be much more efficient to acknowledge the motivating ideology of the jihad terrorists and work to limit its spread, as well as to discredit it, while restricting the influx of Muslim immigrants, among whom will inevitably be an unknowable number of jihad terrorists. But Theresa May would never do any of those things: such actions would be “Islamophobic.” And so the tree has to go. What else of British life will have to go before all this is over, one way or the other?

“Birmingham tree to be cut down and replaced with concrete barriers to protect city from Berlin-style attack,” Telegraph, January 11, 2017 (thanks to David):

One of the oldest trees in Birmingham is to be cut down so council bosses can replace it with concrete barriers to protect the city from a Berlin-style terror attack.

The tree, in Centenary Square and thought to be 140 years old, faces the chop so concrete benches can be built in a bid to beef up security in the city centre.

The decision is part of a £10 million revamp of the square, which will see heavy stone benches with deep foundations installed to deter terrorists from ploughing trucks into crowds.

The London Plane tree, which has been there since the 1930s, is one of 25 tress [sic] to be removed in the coming weeks.

Originally it had been thought the tree was being cut down to allow for a Metro tram extension, but Birmingham City Council deputy leader, Ian Ward, has since confirmed it is to prevent terrorism.

Councillor Ward said: “These benches will be barriers and require deep foundations which mean the tree’s roots will be cut.

“We wanted to move the benches forward, but the square is used for big events like the Remembrance Parade and ice rink so we needed the space.”

Campaigners, including members of the Birmingham Trees for Life group, had called for the tree to be preserved and said that both the Metro and Centenary Square revamp could be planned around it.

More than 1,300 people have signed an online petition to save it.

Although 25 trees are being cut down, the councillor insisted 59 replacement trees will be planted.

He added: “It will be more than enough to compensate.”…

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  1. FP says

    Jan 11, 2017 at 2:42 pm

    The English Channel would have been a much better barrier against such Islamic attacks, but the camel is already out of the barn. Now, fear of Islamic attacks are forcing the Brits to destroy their own property and culture to defend against the enemy that is already within their gates. In short, whether Muslims succeed killing people or merely force the destroy ancient trees, they still win.

    • FP says

      Jan 11, 2017 at 2:43 pm

      *destruction of

    • Lucia Bartoli says

      Jan 11, 2017 at 2:54 pm

      You have spoken with a lot of wisdom and a bit of pithiness…can’t everyone just take over the trees & sit in them and refuse to allow this? This decimation is, in my humble American opinion–completely UNBritish and will NOT stop the marauding islamists. You may as well take down BigBen or any monument in the roadway. Replace bridges with well–something else
      What complete silliness!!

      • FP says

        Jan 11, 2017 at 3:01 pm

        Absolutely correct. No public place will ever be safe again. One cannot protect them all. Such attacks will never end, unless the Europeans take the drastic measure of vetting and/or deporting mass numbers of enemies of the state. Unfortunately, I do not think that most westerners have the stomach for that anymore.

        • medaber_emet says

          Jan 12, 2017 at 2:28 am

          My valuation is that within several years (not too many)
          England will descent into civil war
          since the indigenous English don`t have the stomach
          they will not win and eventually Islam will wipe out the English culture

        • Bob says

          Jan 12, 2017 at 3:58 am

          FP – our politicos. particularly in the UK’re quite incapable of any drastic action against the scourge of islam. PC and the fear of being accused of islamophobia have taken over! They just bend over backwards to satisfy the muslim demands, egged on by the left-wing loonies!

        • FP says

          Jan 12, 2017 at 1:40 pm

          Bob, I can’t imagine living under those conditions. I am very sorry for you and hope that matters improve with time (Brexit?), but I doubt that it will. If many others feel as you do, you may have to bypass the politicians, organize secretly, and prepare for civil war (which would be difficult because the UK has limitations on firearms). Or, people like you would be welcome in the USA. However, you all will need to decide whether it is worth the cost of real resistance or not, for such actions should not be taken lightly. Is this a cause worth dying for? As for me, I would not be wiling to put up with politicians that were for the subjugation or genocide of my own people. I do not want my children or grandchildren to grow up under Islam or as Muslims. I hope that the UK will once again summon the great fighting spirit that it has shown in the past (e.g. the Crusades, WWI, WWII) and stand up to the politicians and the Muslims (who are actually in league). Drive them into the sea! May God bless you and be with you!

        • FP says

          Jan 12, 2017 at 2:00 pm

          *willing

  2. Tradiguy says

    Jan 11, 2017 at 2:47 pm

    The devious and ignorant politicians have allowed cancer to be injected into the body – now even the trees die because of this God forsaken political system. Are we completely defenceless? Our politicians hope we are!

    • Anne Smith says

      Jan 12, 2017 at 5:28 am

      The terror of being accused of racism dictates the entire political agenda.

      Quite ironic really, when you consider that Islam is not a race.

    • karl Anglin says

      Jan 12, 2017 at 11:24 pm

      The British Lion is extinct!!!!!!!!

  3. tom parry says

    Jan 11, 2017 at 2:56 pm

    We might as well live in a prison-which is also concrete and a safe plac. It comes with halal food, 5x prayer a day and free indocration to the koran. And its free; paid for by hard working dhimis.
    I am at my ropes end, my last hope gives thanks to jihad watch/ Robert for the news we never see in the papers.

  4. Carlos Danger says

    Jan 11, 2017 at 2:57 pm

    In its prime, Birmingham was famous for engineering. It would not be too difficult to come up with a solution which would satisfy both he perceived need for a robust security barrier and the desire to keep the tree alive and well. Hold a contest for solutions.

    • gravenimage says

      Jan 11, 2017 at 3:50 pm

      Even more to the point, if Britain did not have ravening Mohammedans, it would not need such security barriers. This is not so much an engineering problem as it is one of “social engineering”–i.e., allowing in hordes of Jihadi Muslims.

      • Annak says

        Jan 12, 2017 at 3:28 am

        True. Erecting effectively ‘fortress walls’ within GB will have no effect in the long run. They used to build coastal fortresses against invading hordes on all sides which they should be doing now. Learning from history.
        This is more akin to the Viking invasion of GB. They were eventually overcome but it was a long hard savage struggle.
        Eventually the Vikings converted to Christianity and stopped their barbaric ways taking the faith back to Scandinavia.
        I see no such outcome with the Muslims and they were around back then too.
        They were never invited in anywhere throughout history either.

  5. marina says

    Jan 11, 2017 at 3:04 pm

    Why don’t they take the same stance against the virus Islam? Now innocent trees have to die.

  6. Artus says

    Jan 11, 2017 at 3:32 pm

    Birmingham is very dirty city. James Watt built first steam engines over 200 years ago in Birmingham, now this city is a disgusting ghetto

  7. gravenimage says

    Jan 11, 2017 at 3:46 pm

    Birmingham, UK: Historic tree to be cut down, replaced with concrete barriers to protect city from jihad
    …………………………..

    My mother was born in Birmingham before it became a Muslim sh*thole. That tree was there when she was born. God, I hate Islam–and hate suicidal dhimmitude almost as much.

    • medaber_emet says

      Jan 12, 2017 at 2:39 am

      I cant think of anything i hate more than islam
      they are constantly working to destroy my country
      Israel

      • gravenimage says

        Jan 12, 2017 at 5:25 pm

        So true, Medaber.

    • Real McCoy says

      Jan 12, 2017 at 5:19 am

      Hoooly Moses, the 150 years tree will be cut down by the order of council?. I have a gum tree on my back yard its about 30 yards in high, I ask the council permeation they didn’t let me to cut. Its better to put the statue of Theresa May written Allah Akbar on 4 sides of the statue.

  8. Angemon says

    Jan 11, 2017 at 4:07 pm

    Couldn’t they make the barrier a few feet before or after the tree? Or, you know, let the tree be in place of a barrier? Because I doubt trucks can go through trees…

    • Phil Copson says

      Jan 11, 2017 at 6:44 pm

      Exactly – in what possible way can a concrete barrier be a better obstruction than the tree itself ?

      This is just self-important grandstanding by the council. It is perfectly possible to drive concrete or steel posts into the ground between the tree-roots and then fasten the barriers to the posts.

      As usual in this country, they care far more about “being seen to be doing something” rather than actually achieving a result.

      • Bob says

        Jan 12, 2017 at 4:03 am

        Phil – how many of ‘them’ are on the council?

        • Phil Copson says

          Jan 12, 2017 at 11:14 am

          Indeed – here in Northampton we had an RoP councillor who flipped parties to whichever was in the majority, and had relatives standing for all three major parties to keep all the bases covered.

      • LR says

        Jan 12, 2017 at 11:59 am

        “This is just self-important grandstanding by the council.”…

        Yep…Happens all over the place…

        Stupid city council in U.S….Wanted to bring the ‘central square’ together by re-routing that one block of street dividing it..That’s fine…Save for businesses that lined the area would go under.

        But what did they do?…Ripped out all the nice fountains, sunken performance space, etc., and cut down over 17 full grown Redwood trees…Didn’t need to do any of that at all…All they needed to do was join the street part together…

        And, to top it off…Big, bold assurances stating it would for sure be done by end of November 2015.

        HA!… The square is STILL a boring, big, flat, muddy mess in construction…not one single tree planted yet…

        Blockheads and a**holes…

  9. DFD says

    Jan 11, 2017 at 4:07 pm

    Birmingham, Birmingham, Birmingham, that rings a bell. Ah Yeah, now I remember. Just days after the rapefest of Cologne (2015/16) became publicly known, the mayor of Birmingham proclaimed that such events are a daily occurrence in Birmingham, particularly on its high street(s).

    All hell broke lose in (some or most) of the British mainstream media. Her apology was demanded! Yup. She refused. A few days later, the raging shit-storm has simply **disappeared**. Not a word, not one.

    BTW, the lady concerned is a member of the labor party…

  10. Artus says

    Jan 11, 2017 at 4:37 pm

    Christmas carols were banned in Birmingham city centre in 2015, unsure about 2016

  11. Hugh FitzgeraldI says

    Jan 11, 2017 at 4:40 pm

    And the 15th century fresco by Giovanni da Modena in the cathedral of San Petronio in Bologna,, showing Muhammed being cast into hell, is no longer possible to see clearly, because of Muslim threats. It is now behind a grate, and you can only view i it, in its dark side altar, from a much greater distance than before the Muslim threats were made. All kinds of adjustments, to the man-made as to the natural world, are being made because of the threat. But greater still are the changes in our own sense of ourselves.

    • LR says

      Jan 12, 2017 at 3:51 am

      That’s pathetic…They are allowing the madmen to start running the show.

      Where is their pride for THEIR culture?

      Wish they would have made a bunch of forgeries, and if one got ‘ruined’, just bring out another one. Keep the original one for safe keeping until things ‘die down’.

      That’s what ya’ gotta’ do.

    • LR says

      Jan 12, 2017 at 9:39 am

      Ah, where is an army of Ents when ya’ need ’em.

      • LR says

        Jan 12, 2017 at 10:17 am

        The army of trees that is…(not Ents).

  12. davej says

    Jan 11, 2017 at 5:24 pm

    Completing the transition from shady civic square to concrete battlefield…

    I doubt the Muslims are too fond of the Queen either, so let’s demolish Buckingham Palace to be on the safe side.

    • LR says

      Jan 12, 2017 at 9:54 am

      “Completing the transition from shady civic square to concrete battlefield”…

      How true…and how heartbreaking…

      That tree needs to stand…

      Someone needs to knock those Brits upside the head, and knock some sense into them.

  13. mortimer says

    Jan 11, 2017 at 5:39 pm

    The TRUCK OF PEACE is comin’ your way. Who do you think they’ll BUMP INTO today?

    Britain’s gettin’ ready for the TRUCK O’ PEACE.

  14. Singh the Sikh says

    Jan 11, 2017 at 6:15 pm

    Will removing the tree protect from a spray of bullets, or a knife in the back, or axe in the skull? What about a bomb? We all know how ingenious Jihadis are, driven by an insatiable lust for kafir blood. With the prospect of cavorting with 70 virgins in mind, a maniacal Muslim bent on dying or killing can overcome any barrier.

    • LR says

      Jan 12, 2017 at 10:14 am

      “Will removing the tree protect from a spray of bullets, or a knife in the back, or axe in the skull? What about a bomb?”

      Nope…

      “We all know how ingenious Jihadis are, driven by an insatiable lust for kafir blood. With the prospect of cavorting with 70 virgins in mind, a maniacal Muslim bent on dying or killing can overcome any barrier.”

      Yep…Although, I would’t exactly use the word ‘ingenious’…Just a bunch of miserable, murderous dolts looking for anything they can use as a weapon.

  15. David M says

    Jan 11, 2017 at 7:06 pm

    anzac march west of Sydney to be cancelled due to the insurance cost of protecting it.

    http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/the-terrorists-are-winning-anzac-day-marches-cancelled-in-blue-mountains-20170111-gtpsvb.html

    • LestWeForget says

      Jan 12, 2017 at 1:45 am

      It won’t be cancelled.
      They are two hours travel west of Sydney.
      It’s provincial.
      And you can’t protect every inch of the country.

      Cancelling Xmas shopping sales in the city would be a higher priority
      but no is going forgo bargain shopping just to spite our local jihadists.

      Probably the local Returned Service League do need some funds (they could
      use some of the millions formerly given to that recently cancelled fraudsters
      King Fahid Islamic school in Sydney).

  16. citycat says

    Jan 11, 2017 at 8:30 pm

    A thousand curses on those responsible for destroying out trees.

  17. Rob says

    Jan 12, 2017 at 2:33 am

    Je suis tree

  18. Tony Malta says

    Jan 12, 2017 at 7:11 am

    The islamonazis will just change tactics, and use suicide vests, rucksack bombs and gun/knife attacks etc!!!!

  19. Babs says

    Jan 12, 2017 at 8:04 am

    Islam is inimical to beauty of any sort and it wants to turn the whole world into a death-doling image of itself. And STILL the UK allows these dregs in!

  20. dsinc says

    Jan 12, 2017 at 1:35 pm

    Enoch Powell proved right again and again. Qhatwill it take to wake the Brits up?

  21. Frank J. Verderber says

    Jan 12, 2017 at 2:23 pm

    Its just a 150 year old tree. We have older ones in the USA.

    What is missed here is that Britain likes to admonish the world to save a forests or use less coal, fight for the liberal rights of LBGT and Muslim peoples, yet can’t muster enough courage or cash to plant trees. Hypocrites the lot of Royals and Lords. I’ve been to England its nothing but stripped hills filled with sheep dung! The most famous oak tree – the one they said was planted by Jesus Christ and Joseph of Arimathea, fell over stone dead after the Gnostic cult of England celebrated its satanic opening and closing ceremonies for its Olympics! The oak tree was nothing more than a totem – a Baal tree for their Wiccans like Theresa May – kept so they could dance around under a full moon. That full moon is why they like the Moon-god so much. .

    But just to show that I am a sporting fellow, have the city counsel write to the city of Springfield , Massachusetts. They have a Plane tree direct from England that sits proudly in the Museum Square. Ive grown trees from its seeds.

    • Phil Copson says

      Jan 12, 2017 at 4:54 pm

      Hmm……should that be “verderer”, Frank ? – what with your interest in trees, an’ all ?

    • gravenimage says

      Jan 12, 2017 at 5:38 pm

      Frank J. Verderber wrote:

      Its just a 150 year old tree. We have older ones in the USA.
      …………………………..

      Frank, do you really believe that a single historic tree is all we are going to sacrifice–and to have taken from us–by ravening Muslims? It is not.

  22. Champ says

    Jan 12, 2017 at 5:16 pm

    Robert Spencer wrote:

    It would be much more efficient to acknowledge the motivating ideology of the jihad terrorists and work to limit its spread, as well as to discredit it, while restricting the influx of Muslim immigrants, among whom will inevitably be an unknowable number of jihad terrorists.

    ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

    How true …

  23. Carolyne says

    Jan 12, 2017 at 9:09 pm

    It all started when they built the “Chunnel.” England has always been safe from invasion because it was an island. It is now easily accessible to invasion and is undergoing a Muslim takeover. I hope the tunnel is wired to be blown up if need be because it might come to that. England has lost its culture and it’s safety from invasion. How ridiculous to just roll over for these barbarians.

    • gravenimage says

      Jan 12, 2017 at 9:23 pm

      Unfortunately, Britain has foolishly invited a lot of Muslims in. It is not just that they are sneaking over through the Chunnel.

      • Custos Custodum says

        Jan 12, 2017 at 10:27 pm

        Quite correct, of course, GI.

        One of Tony Blair’s PR guys (neather) later admitted that they intentionally flooded the UK with Muslims to rub the noses of working class Brits in diversity.

        http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/law-and-order/6418456/Labour-wanted-mass-immigration-to-make-UK-more-multicultural-says-former-adviser.html

  24. Peggy says

    Jan 12, 2017 at 11:24 pm

    Do they intent do build barriers around everything? Muslims are attacking people on the street and hacking them to death.
    How do we stop that?
    It should’ve never got to this point and people have to make it clear that they will pay for their treachery.
    Yet, we still have idiots in every western country prepared to march against organisations like PEGIDA.
    Once we have rid ourselves of Islam or Islam imposition at least we should also rid ourselves of people like the traitors who are in government, media and academia. Pack them all off to Pakistan or somewhere similar.

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