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Australian church forced to cancel popular annual New Year’s Eve fireworks party: can’t afford jihad security costs

Dec 30, 2017 11:47 am By Robert Spencer

Is this going to be the West’s response to jihad terror? To cancel or curtail our activities, and hide in our houses, thoroughly terrorized? Did anyone at St. Aidan’s pause to consider why all this security is necessary, and why it wasn’t in the past, and what that suggests about the Muslim migrant influx? Is clear thinking on this issue forever to be condemned as “Islamophobic” while the West slowly commits suicide?

“‘It’s just evil’: Church overlooking Sydney Harbour forced to cancel their popular New Year’s Eve fireworks party over TERROR fears – because they can’t afford the $10,000 bill for security and bollards to stop an attack,” by Stephen Johnson, Daily Mail Australia, December 28, 2017 (thanks to Creeping Sharia):

An Anglican church with a view of the Sydney Harbour Bridge has been forced to cancel an annual New Year’s Eve street party over terrorist attack fears.

St Aidan’s at Longueville, on the lower north shore, had hired bands or put on an annual family-friendly sausage sizzle on the last day of the year since 1999.

The event grew bigger every year to the point 4,000 people would crowd, shoulder to shoulder, along a 100 metre slope of Christina Street as a singer performed on grass outside the church.

Families from across Sydney and out to the Blue Mountains would travel to get the best vantage point for the 9pm and midnight fireworks, as nearby wealthy residents hosted their friends in $8 million waterfront mansions overlooking the Lane Cove River.

Spectators young and old would gather, eating sausages and listening to live music, as they enjoyed panoramic views of the Harbour and Anzac bridges, as five simultaneous fireworks displays coloured the night sky.

Elderly church volunteers in fluoro vests would stand in front of makeshift plastic road barriers directing traffic away from the crowd.

The mowing down of pedestrians in Melbourne’s Bourke Street Mall in January, which killed six people and injured 30 others, has changed the way people can enjoy the traditional Sydney Habour fireworks extravaganza.

In early December, three weeks before a car again ploughed into pedestrians in downtown Melbourne, injuring 20 people, St Aidan’s announced it would have to cancel its traditional New Year’s Eve outdoor party.

For the first time in 19 years, there won’t be festivities spilling out from the church lawns on to the street.

The church’s rector Reverend Craig Potter said new state laws requiring community groups to hire professional security guards and put up concrete or water-filled bollards meant his congregation couldn’t afford a $10,000 bill to ward off a potential terrorist attack.

‘We just couldn’t do it,’ he told Daily Mail Australia on Thursday afternoon….

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  1. MFritz says

    Dec 30, 2017 at 11:52 am

    A truly sad day for Western culture and civilisation.

  2. eduardo odraude says

    Dec 30, 2017 at 12:03 pm

    And this is with Muslims being only 2.6 percent of the Australian population. Muslims make up perhaps 7% of the UK. If events must be canceled because of danger emanating from within a 2.6 percent minority, you can understand why 7% and growing could make dhimmis of virtually all politicians in the UK. But we have seen a great deal of self-censorship also in the U.S., where perhaps 1 or 2 percent of the population is Muslim — self-censorship by terrified public institutions and public figures. See, for example, http://quotingislam.blogspot.com/2011/06/are-lights-going-out.html

    We should consider stopping immigration from all nations that do not maintain a fairly high standard of free speech and freedom of religion. No need to single out Islam and create constitutional obstacles. Such an immigration limitation, without mentioning Islam, would hit Islamic nations particularly hard.

    • gravenimage says

      Dec 30, 2017 at 8:54 pm

      And in France–where events have also been canceled–Muslims are almost 10% of the population.

    • Mel Kozun says

      Jan 1, 2018 at 1:50 pm

      You forget to mention the growth statistics of those mohammdan populations. It’s an explosion – their birth rates are incredible! Many countries will have mohammedan majority populations soon.

  3. melek-ric says

    Dec 30, 2017 at 12:48 pm

    The church should ask each of those 4,000 participants to donate $5 toward security, while giving them a pamphlet explaining that Islamic jihad terror has made this necessary and how their freedom is being incrementally choked off.

    • mortimer says

      Dec 30, 2017 at 8:25 pm

      Muslims will do nothing to stop the jihad against Australian culture.

      • gravenimage says

        Dec 30, 2017 at 9:01 pm

        Mortimer, melek-ric was suggesting that the Infidel attendees of this event help with security–which I think is a good idea. He was not claiming that Muslims would do so.

        • melek-ric says

          Dec 30, 2017 at 10:56 pm

          Thanks, gravenimage. That is what I meant.

        • gravenimage says

          Jan 1, 2018 at 1:53 am

          🙂

  4. Phil Copson says

    Dec 30, 2017 at 1:02 pm

    “….new state laws requiring community groups to hire professional security guards and put up concrete or water-filled bollards …”

    Note the way the “decision” – (they had no choice) – was forced upon the church. They weren’t allowed to take the common-sense approach of policing it themselves with volunteers, and simply parking their own vehicles around the perimeter, they had to give ten-thousand dollars to an outside body.

    So who made the decision at State level that public events in Australia have to have permission conditional upon paying for officially-approved protection, and who gets the money for providing it ? Whenever I see “security” at venues here, it’s rarely by white British people. Call me cynical, but isn’t this just win:win for the islamists ? if the event goes ahead they collect ten-grand in “protection money”, and if it’s cancelled, they’ve asserted their supremacy and knocked another brick out the wall of western civilisation.

    • LeftisruiningCanada says

      Dec 30, 2017 at 8:23 pm

      Typical reaction from control freakery obsessed government.

      In a country of disarmed people, who have also been deprived of the right to self defense along with the means, this is what happens.

      In any open or conceal carry state of actual free human beings, the security could easily be handled by church goers, who could also park their own vehicles to act as barricades. They would probably be at least as effective as temporary concrete blocks, if that test video we’ve seen posted up here is anything to go by.

      These disgusting nanny-like laws combined with castrated citizens only makes us slaves of isis, long before they even get to fly their flag over parliament.

    • Mel Kozun says

      Jan 1, 2018 at 1:53 pm

      The government created this problem with their immigration policies – the government should be, no IS, responsible for providing citizens with security.

      The government should provide the policing required to make citizens safe.

      • LeftisruiningCanada says

        Jan 2, 2018 at 12:42 am

        I’m sure they will.

  5. Lynn says

    Dec 30, 2017 at 1:07 pm

    One of the ways that the jihad will be successful is by raising the cost of living in an open society. Think about all the costs terrorism has forced us to pay: security officers to check passengers and luggage at every airport in the world, police officers at every large public event, private security at churches and synagogues during holiday services, loss of tourist dollars in places like Europe that are no longer considered safe for visitors, etc.

    • gravenimage says

      Dec 30, 2017 at 9:03 pm

      Osama bin Laden said that one of the main aims of Jihad was to bankrupt Infidel societies.

  6. StellaSaidSo says

    Dec 30, 2017 at 5:31 pm

    The sharia noose tightens on Australia.

    • carpediadem says

      Dec 31, 2017 at 6:59 am

      Quite a lot of Uniting Church/Anglican and other Christian types support and aid jihad in the form of proPalestinian activism, which often involves “study tours” and “protection of Palis” in Israel itself. Until they sort out their allegiances I won’t be feeling too sorry for them.

  7. Cheer Bear Girl says

    Dec 30, 2017 at 6:54 pm

    Australia is now being subjugated by so called migrants. Maybe they should send these invaders packing.

  8. gravenimage says

    Dec 30, 2017 at 8:35 pm

    Australian church forced to cancel popular annual New Year’s Eve fireworks party: can’t afford jihad security costs
    ……………………….

    Happy New Year, “filthy Infidels”!

    This is not the fist case like this we have heard of. A Christmas market in Paris shut down because they could not afford security against Jihad.

    We are losing our culture to these violent Muslim thugs.

    • gravenimage says

      Jan 1, 2018 at 1:53 am

      All grimly true, Jay Boo.

  9. Kathy Brown, Esq. says

    Dec 30, 2017 at 9:21 pm

    No one is “forcing” anyone to do anything. The Western nations which fail to totally ban islam, mosques, and all muslim immigration, are playing dead. That’s the real tragedy.

    Soon their “playing” will be the real thing.

  10. Charlie Martel says

    Dec 30, 2017 at 9:59 pm

    You want Mass Muslim Migration? Well pay the bill, pay, pay, pay pay… in blood and treasure. It will cost everything you hold dear.

  11. Dehne says

    Dec 31, 2017 at 4:59 am

    Agreed. Church could have set up own security as suggested above. Absolutely disgusting situation for any public institution to find itself in. But is is easier for government to force people to cower then admit to the problem they created and deal with it. Also, Perhaps the Anglican Church should review it’s immigration and refugee policy of let them all in.

  12. Richard Courtemanche says

    Dec 31, 2017 at 1:04 pm

    What this is telling me is that Australian authorities are failing to quell the Jihad.

    • aVoice says

      Dec 31, 2017 at 8:46 pm

      Exactly.

      And further: the Satan worshipers are exploiting our liberties to subvert us; and we pay in blood and treasure for them to accomplish their demonic ends.

  13. Patrick James says

    Dec 31, 2017 at 4:40 pm

    My brother is policeman in Melbourne. He spent Christmas night guarding Christian Churches.

    • StellaSaidSo says

      Dec 31, 2017 at 11:08 pm

      We are grateful for your brother’s service. Soon we will need to guard every representation of our culture and history. These savages are on a mission to destroy Western civilisation, as they have destroyed countless other superior cultures during 1400 years of plunder, rape, and slaughter. And our ‘leaders’ continue to hold the door open to them.

    • gravenimage says

      Jan 1, 2018 at 1:56 am

      Patrick, I am glad for your brother’s service.

      None of this would be necessary, though, if we were not letting these barbarians into our civilized nations.

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