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UK city protects shoppers from vehicular jihad massacres with anti-terror bollards disguised as Christmas trees

Nov 25, 2017 2:32 pm By Robert Spencer

Was this some EU-wide order that went out — put a happy face on the rapidly escalating jihad?

“Hull’s anti-terror bollards wrapped up for Christmas,” by Sophie Corcoran, Hull Daily Mail, November 22, 2017:

Anti-terror bollards in Queen Victoria Square have been wrapped and packaged as Christmas presents ahead of the city’s light switch-on.

The bollards outside the Maritime Museum and Hull City Hall have had a makeover and now resemble presents underneath Christmas trees.

Thursday night’s big switch-on will include fireworks and a light display.

The city will be bathed in a spectacular winter lighting turned on by the Lord Mayor of Hull and six-year-old Bransholme boy Daniel Carter.

Alongside the Christmas trees, stunning white LED lights will illuminate King Edward Street, Whitefriargate, Ferensway, Prospect Street and Jameson Street giving a huge 360 degrees of illumination across the whole of the city centre….

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  1. Gaz says

    Nov 25, 2017 at 2:38 pm

    I didn’t think they were allowed to have Christmas trees in the UK in case they offend muslims.

    • mortimer says

      Nov 26, 2017 at 12:17 am

      Anti-jihad trees.

    • J D S says

      Nov 26, 2017 at 5:01 pm

      Gifts and Christmas trees in Muslim country???

  2. gravenimage says

    Nov 25, 2017 at 2:42 pm

    UK city protects shoppers from vehicular jihad massacres with anti-terror bollards disguised as Christmas trees
    …………………………..

    How festive! sarc/off

    Here’s an almost identical story from Germany:

    “German city protects Christmas markets from vehicular jihad massacres with gift-wrapped car barricades”

    https://www.jihadwatch.org/2017/11/german-city-protects-christmas-markets-from-vehicular-jihad-massacres-with-gift-wrapped-car-barricades

    Welcome to the “new normal”, filthy Infidels.

    • mortimer says

      Nov 26, 2017 at 12:20 am

      Enjoy your blockaded holidays. Metal detectors and armed guards in all major churches as there are already in NIGERIA. Women do not carry purses into churches in NIGERIA.

    • dumbledoresarmy says

      Nov 26, 2017 at 8:46 am

      Imagine if somebody *redecorated* those rows of bollards with painted cardboard shields bearing the Cross of St George and the Templar Cross.

      And with the names of renowned Infidel resisters – e.g. Jan Sobieski, Charles Martel, Jean Parisot de Valetta, Pelayo. (For a multicultural touch, one could add the names of heroes of Christian Abyssinia who, in the past, fought to repel Muslim attacks; and the names of the heroes of the Indian resistance, such as Shivaji).

      • dumbledoresarmy says

        Nov 26, 2017 at 8:48 am

        And how about some representations of living beings?

        I suggest, posters with paintings of dogs on guard – BLACK dogs.

        And some reproductions – preferably hand-painted copies – of icons of St George, and St Michael the Archangel.

  3. DFD says

    Nov 25, 2017 at 2:43 pm

    The Germans call these “Merkel Legos”. My guess, we’ll soon have barbed wire spirals, I wonder what these will be called? Merkel Curls? Or: French Macronis?

    • mortimer says

      Nov 26, 2017 at 12:22 am

      Thanks, DFD. So delicious, but when will Germans vote Merkel out of office?

      • Georg says

        Nov 26, 2017 at 3:10 am

        “…when will Germans vote Merkel out of office?”

        By vote or otherwise this may happen quite soon. Here’s to hoping it does (not necessarily a holiday song, but full of cheer regarding Merkel’s possible exit):

    • Keys says

      Nov 26, 2017 at 7:24 pm

      Merkel legos instead of deporting muslims.

      The more muslims “imported” into infidel countries the more “work-arounds” required.

      Soon fitted steel collars around the entire neck to deter throat slashings and beheadings; lockable chastity belts for the girls; state subsidized bullet proof vests and gas masks; poison test kits; medieval armour, …….

      Just do work-arounds ! Could be a booming new industry ! Why get rid of the muslims !

  4. Michael Copeland says

    Nov 25, 2017 at 2:57 pm

    Concrete blocks are going down all over Europe.

    • mortimer says

      Nov 26, 2017 at 12:18 am

      Counter-jihad blocks.

      • Georg says

        Nov 26, 2017 at 3:19 am

        Allahu-akbarriers

  5. Michael Copeland says

    Nov 25, 2017 at 3:12 pm

    The big question for all these European mice at their meetings:

    Who will bell the cat?

    • mortimer says

      Nov 26, 2017 at 12:29 am

      Mike, they are still DENYING that there is a cat. They believe that the ISLAMIC TIGER is a vegetarian!

  6. solsticewitch13 says

    Nov 25, 2017 at 3:44 pm

    isn’t out of control multiculturalism BS just marvelous???

    • gravenimage says

      Nov 25, 2017 at 9:22 pm

      Yes–so very “enriching”.

      Good to see you posting again, Solsticewitch.

  7. marble says

    Nov 25, 2017 at 4:00 pm

    To be used year round?

    • Georg says

      Nov 26, 2017 at 3:23 am

      In many places. They’ll dress them up with different Christian iconography throughout the seasons.

      • dumbledoresarmy says

        Nov 26, 2017 at 8:52 am

        They would make good ‘soapboxes’.

        Perhaps some sufficiently brave persons can figure out a suitable way of using them as such.

        • Georg says

          Nov 26, 2017 at 9:52 am

          Good idea

  8. Jack Taylor says

    Nov 25, 2017 at 4:05 pm

    I live in this city and confirm that parts of it, just like many UK cities, is becoming unrecognisable. So sad.

    • Jayell says

      Nov 25, 2017 at 4:34 pm

      That’s terrible. I thought east Yorkshire was relatively uncontaminated. Next they’ll be building a mega mosque opposite York Minster.

      • Budvarakbar says

        Nov 26, 2017 at 4:04 am

        Or turning YorkMinster into a mosque

      • Cicero says

        Nov 27, 2017 at 5:28 am

        Unfortunately no place however remote is protected from Islamic encroachment. Grimsby and the English sea side resort of Cleethorpe wee traditional English towns with a prevailing atmosphere of quiet pluck and grit.

        However over the past five years followers of a particular ideology have Ben buying up property and moving in their large families.

        Cleethorpes sea parade is now dotted about with women in billowing black gowns clucking and squakng over their enormousbroods.

        Poor poor England

  9. Yohanan says

    Nov 25, 2017 at 4:41 pm

    Here in Israel we have year-round car ramming barriers of various styles. (and need more) Maybe there are also some seasonal holiday-styled barriers – but I haven’t seen them. For temporary barriers there are also water-filled plastic traffic dividers.

    Here’s link to article on accessibility requirements, e.g. barrier distance from bus stop. https://www.timesofisrael.com/jerusalem-balances-security-with-accessibility-in-protecting-bus-stops/

    • gravenimage says

      Nov 25, 2017 at 9:23 pm

      That these are needed almost everywhere is just so grim.

      • Billy Chickens says

        Nov 26, 2017 at 12:42 am

        I’m so sick of Islam. When is the world going to step up and get rid of it?…Like putting all Muslims in one country such as Saudi Arabia – and building an electric wall around it and making them all live there and only there forevermore. Or maybe a distant island in the middle of an ocean. They could only be with themselves and not around any civilized people. Just go away. Stay away. Begone, Satan!

      • Budvarakbar says

        Nov 26, 2017 at 4:06 am

        Thank all of your’s and our’s a$$kissing politicians

    • dumbledoresarmy says

      Nov 26, 2017 at 8:57 am

      I’m going to say what I see the clearest-headed Israelis saying, in Comments to ‘Times of Israel’ and ‘Israel National News” and Jerusalem Post, every time there is a murderous or would-be murderous attack carried out by a Muslim against a Jew, the Muslim being from the Muslim colonies in Judea and Samaria and Jerusalem, or else from the Ummah colony inside the *rest* of Israel.

      That is: the simplest way to not have these attacks that are carried out on Israeli soil, by Muslims issuing from the Muslim colony that resides *within the gates*, is… not to permit Muslims to *remain* within the gates. Deportation. Expulsion. Got Muslims? Got Jihad. Remove the Muslims – send them to Gaza – and … you only have *external* Jihad to defend against, rather than the insidious kind that puts poison in a restaurant meal, or drives a car down a road and runs Israeli Jews over, on their own home territory, or runs amok with a knife, or with an axe or a gun inside a synagogue or a yeshiva in Jerusalem.

      • gravenimage says

        Nov 26, 2017 at 5:32 pm

        Hear, hear!

      • LeftisruiningCanada says

        Nov 28, 2017 at 9:35 pm

        It is unfortunate that they leave little option but the one you mention.

        The wall in Israel is also unfortunate, but it has worked. Very well.

  10. R Russell says

    Nov 25, 2017 at 5:08 pm

    The cities where these precautions are in place were announced in the media. Any jihadi with a brain will just go where there are no bollards.

    • Georg says

      Nov 26, 2017 at 3:27 am

      There are a million and one other ways jihadists can kill civilians. Textbook example of addressing a symptom — and of course always taking it out on the gracious rather than vicious group. Truly dystopian in its trajectory.

      • R Russell says

        Nov 26, 2017 at 4:27 am

        I have also read that ISIS is about to us biological warfare against us delivered by drones.
        Why oh why can our government not act? They are like rabbits caught in the headlines.

        • LeftisruiningCanada says

          Nov 28, 2017 at 9:35 pm

          Aren’t they all drones?

  11. Cheer Bear Girl says

    Nov 25, 2017 at 5:24 pm

    If this is the new normal I don’t want it. I am glad I don’t live in the UK. Anyone who wants to live in fear of terror everyday is a moron.

    • Older Canadian says

      Nov 25, 2017 at 5:30 pm

      Very well said.

  12. Voytek Gagalka says

    Nov 25, 2017 at 5:41 pm

    If they think that those silly anti-terror bollards wrapped up as “presents” are going to help them and prevent jihad attacks, rude awaking is awaiting them. Fools!

    • Budvarakbar says

      Nov 26, 2017 at 4:08 am

      The gang will just drive up to them and jump out and go to town with their AK-47’s — merry eff’n Christmas

  13. Benedict says

    Nov 25, 2017 at 7:05 pm

    Maybe the Christmas bollards will be matched by suicide bombers disguised as Santa Clauses?

    • gravenimage says

      Nov 25, 2017 at 10:02 pm

      Could be, Benedict. There is already at least one case of a Muslim dressing up as Santa Claus in order to put his victims at ease so he could murder them:

      “Islamic honor killing in Texas: “Santa” who murdered family on Christmas morning was Muslim who didn’t like his daughter dating a non-Muslim”

      https://www.jihadwatch.org/2011/12/islamic-honor-killing-in-texas-man-who-murdered-family-on-christmas-morning-was-muslim-who-disliked

      • Benedict says

        Nov 25, 2017 at 11:08 pm

        Thanks for link, G. Haven’t heard of that story.
        Evil is the master of pretense and disguise and very imaginative. Bollards may stop a truck but Islamic terror will find new ways.

        • gravenimage says

          Nov 26, 2017 at 5:36 pm

          All grimly true, Benedict.

  14. LeftisruiningCanada says

    Nov 25, 2017 at 8:28 pm

    Santauakbarriers?

    • Georg says

      Nov 26, 2017 at 3:33 am

      There is something perversely poetic about this literal clash of Christianity and Islam in unintentional sculpture. There’s a depravity to all this that it perhaps difficult to comprehend and will take some time to alert the conscience of those Brits holding a determination for what is, or was, theirs.

  15. tgusa says

    Nov 26, 2017 at 12:53 am

    I believe that most or all of these multi-culti western nations only care about Christmas for the fistful of dollars it brings in. Go ahead Christians and buy your gifts and such as we have installed barricades against your sworn enemy that wants you all dead. The enemy that we have brought right to your doorstep. Once we have the loot we can carry on with the anti Christian bigotry we display the rest of the year.

  16. Georg says

    Nov 26, 2017 at 3:03 am

    Yep… the cynicism of this is now sinking in. Took a few days. This is unspeakably offensive. It’s offensive regarding Christmas. Offensive to Christians. Offensive to Western civilization and our identity.

    Dressing up terrorist defenses in Christian symbolism needs to stop NOW!

  17. Eric says

    Nov 26, 2017 at 3:28 am

    Bollards are in place. If they work use it; no matter how they are disguised.

    Eric

    • tgusa says

      Nov 26, 2017 at 3:48 am

      How far do you propose that we go to display so-called security Eric?

      Also, that is not a disguise.

  18. John Forbes says

    Nov 26, 2017 at 4:48 am

    STILL NO UPHEAVAL FROM THE EUROPEAN PUBLIC? THEY ARE ONES WHO HAVE TO PAY! PAY WITH HIGHER TAXES & FEWER SERVICES & MAIMED & DEAD!

    UNLIKE THE HUNGARIANS & POLES WHO WANT NONE OF THIS DELIGHTFUL MULTICULTURALISM OR THE DIVERSITY NONSENSE! THEY WORKE UP LONG AGO!

    GIVE EVERY ONE TO SWEDEN & GERMANY!

    Meanwhile, THE FRIGHTENED COWARDS WHO SHOULD HAVE DEMANDED LONG AGO THAT THEIR NATIONS LAWS BE FOLLOWED HIDE AWAY & “TWEEK” SECURITY PROVISIONS & LOOK FOR EXCUSES TO TOO OUT LIKE OFFERINGS TO THE PUBLIC!

    UTTERLY PATHETIC !!!

  19. Baucent says

    Nov 26, 2017 at 5:33 am

    ” put a happy face on the rapidly escalating jihad?”

    Indeed Robert. Santa will be arriving this year in a red APC.

  20. dragaozao says

    Nov 26, 2017 at 6:16 am

    Clever!!! On one hand they protect, on the other they disguise.

  21. Keith Jordan says

    Nov 26, 2017 at 9:49 am

    In all my 65 years, I have never heard of “bollards”. What are they? Is it a British term, not used in America?

    • gravenimage says

      Nov 26, 2017 at 5:43 pm

      Yes, Keith–this is primarily a British term, and has a more general meaning than the one in the story above:

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bollard

      But the concept of similar things being used to protect against Jihad terror attacks is not unknown here in the US.

      • LeftisruiningCanada says

        Nov 29, 2017 at 10:42 pm

        Correct. And this is really a load of old bollards!

  22. Gbox says

    Nov 26, 2017 at 10:09 am

    But the barriers don’t work. Watch these tests:

    • gravenimage says

      Nov 28, 2017 at 9:54 pm

      Disturbing.

      • LeftisruiningCanada says

        Nov 29, 2017 at 10:43 pm

        Literally so

  23. Walter Sieruk says

    Nov 26, 2017 at 1:04 pm

    The jihadist’s attacks in Western nations be the Muslim terrorists as seen in that such vicious malicious and murderous jihad attacks with the heinous Islamic intention of inflecting “great slaughter” occur in the cities of the West. Such cities as London, Manchester, Barcelona, Stockholm, Brussels, Stockholm, Paris, Nice, Berlin, Madrid and so forth. Those jihad-minded Muslim terrorists who engage in those vicious Islamic terror attacks cannot be and will not be reasoned with. They will not respond to either logic or reason. They aren’t interested, at all, in reason or logic. So they have to be dealt with by a strong force of might. Either by the police or the military. For to even try to reason with a jihad-minded Muslim terrorist is just as much an act of futility as trying to teach algebra to a rabbit.

  24. More Ham Ed says

    Nov 26, 2017 at 10:55 pm

    Those Christmas Trees are going to cause all sorts of internalized RAGE in unholy ko ‘ran followers. It’s going to be bad when more learn how to fly airplanes…

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