It looks like the only way to avoid an Islamic terror attack at a Christmas market in Germany is to have a muezzin ululate the Islamic call to prayer over the opening of the market.
Yep, that should take care of the problem.
Many thanks to Hellequin GB for translating this article from the online news portal Nius:
Karlstadt in Franconia: Christmas market opens with muezzin call
In Karlstadt, a tranquil town in Franconia, the Andreas market took place on November 26th, which was intended to introduce visitors to Islam this year.
Under the motto “Orient meets Occident,” the local mosque associations, including the Ditib* Mosque, which is under Turkish control, took over the reins. A muezzin opened the market with loud Islamic prayer chanting over loudspeakers.
After the opening, things continued in the spirit of oriental Islamic customs: relevant Muslim prayer practices were presented on stage, for example in which postures symbolic submission should take place.
Christian Christmas songs were completely omitted at the announced “pre-Christmas flea market”; a children’s choir performed Muslim songs instead. The culinary offering was also adapted to the oriental concept: instead of mulled wine and fried almonds, this time there was fried Turkish garlic sausage and tantuni, reports the Main Post.
Who is behind the event managers?
Ditib, the Turkish-Islamic Union of the Institution for Religion, is one of the largest Islamic organizations in Germany. It includes over 900 member associations, primarily mosque communities. As an association, Ditib reports directly to Diyanet, the Turkish state religious authority.
Ditib and the Turkish umbrella organization Diyanet have been criticized for years for being the mouthpiece of the Turkish AKP government, holding anti-Semitic sermons in the Ditib mosques or publicly praying for the Turkish invasion of the Kurdish areas. “O Allah, lead our glorious army to victory,” the prayer text says.
The local newspaper Main Post reported uncritically on the event and noted that the participation of the population was low. The lack of interest in the Islam market was attributed to the bad weather.
Afterword from the translator:
Bad Weather? What a sad excuse. If it had been a real Christmas Market, only a full blown blizzard would have stopped people from going. I remember the Christmas Markets from ‘84 and ‘85 with average daytime temperatures of -15°C and night-time as low as -40°C, and they were packed. No, the people do NOT want Islam in their society and homes, and they show their dislike for the ideology and its adherents in this way.
And what I also noticed in the short twitter video-clip is that on this particular market “Merkel Legos” don’t seem to be necessary at all. Quite curious, wouldn’t you agree?
| * | Ditib: Turkish-Islamic Union for Religious Affairs (Turkish: Diyanet İşleri Başkanlığı; German: Türkisch-Islamische Union der Anstalt für Religion) |
I had to look up Merkel Legos; I had never heard of them. The first photo I saw was of large concrete barricade sections with “Diversity is Strength” stenciled on them.
What absolute nonsense! Barricades that are required at Christmas Markets because of the threat of Islamic violence, brought to the continent by governments pushing diversity, are painted with that slogan to assure the population that: No, there aren’t any downside issues with inviting millions of followers of a religion that seeks the deaths of all other religions and their followers, and there is absolutely no need for this barricade; but in an abundance of caution we have placed these barricades around Christmas Markets in case some Christian fundamentalist decides to carry out an act of right wing extremist violence.
Their absence at the Muslim Market says a lot.