Christmas Market in Germany Cancelled due to Islam

JosephZ said:

The true reason this year’s Christmas market has been cancelled in Overath is because of unaffordable expenses for mandatory anti-terror measures. Last year's deadly attack on a Christmas market in Germany was carried out by someone who was anti-Islam.

Germany’s alleged Christmas market attacker was steeped in far-right ideology.

Al-Abdulmohsen consistently expressed views inspired by the counter-jihad movement, a loose network of bloggers, thinktanks and organisations promoting anti-Muslim and often far-right ideas. He considered Islam to be a dangerous, violent and totalitarian ideology, not a religion. He described Muslims and Arabs as intellectually primitive, promoted conspiracy theories about the “Islamisation” of Europe and justified discrimination against Muslims.

He also supported international far-right figures promoting counter-jihad ideology, including Dutch politician Geert Wilders. In April 2019, he retweeted a post in which Wilders justified revoking Muslims’ freedom of religion. In 2020, he shared multiple tweets by Wilders that said “Stop Islam” or “Stop Muhammadanism”. In August 2024, he shared a post calling Wilders a “hero”.

...indiscriminate attacks by far-right perpetrators on German festivals are not unprecedented. In 1980, a far-right extremist attacked the Oktoberfest, killing 13. And in recent years, the alleged attacker increasingly directed his anger towards Germany, accusing the German state of supporting Islamist extremism while persecuting ex-Muslim asylum seekers.

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