Robert Spencer : This Muslim Christmas market terrorist plot should not be confused
with the previous French Christmas market terror alert that led to the
shutdown of the New Year’s Eve celebration or the 5 Muslims busted in the German Christmas market terror plot.
This one took place in Poland. But they’re all reading from the same Koran though.
Polish authorities said on Tuesday that they had arrested
a 19-year-old university student on suspicion of plotting an attack on a
Christmas market and seeking contact with the self-styled “Islamic
State” terrorist group.
A spokesman for Polish special services, Jacek Dobrzynski, said that
the suspect wanted to commit an attack using explosives that could have
caused mass casualties.
“The man was very fascinated by Islam, sought to establish contacts
with the Islamic State, and was preparing an attack in Poland, in one of
the cities during a Christmas market,” Dobrzynski said.
“Fascination with Islam” kills.
There’s a similar pattern here with some recent attack plots in the
United States in which an American teen converts to Islam and plots an
attack.
Now there’s yet another Muslim terror attack plot that is not to be confused with all the previous Muslim Christmas terror plots.
A 21-year-old man suspected of planning an attack is now
in custody in Magdeburg. Police took him into custody on Friday,
December 12. According to the Interior Ministry, the plans may have been
motivated by Islamist extremism. The arrest was intended to prevent a
potential attack on large crowds
According to her, the suspect entered Germany in June 2024 with a
visa for an au pair stay. Most recently, he completed training as a
nursing professional , which granted him a residence permit. According
to information obtained by MDR SACHSEN-ANHALT from security sources, the
suspect is a man from Tajikistan.
According to Zieschang, investigators had been focusing on the
21-year-old because he had recently shown an interest in weapons and
shooting training. At the end of November, he called a training
facility, and at the beginning of December, he visited a gun shop in
Magdeburg, though he didn’t buy anything. He had previously had
arguments with other vocational school students about religious matters
and had glorified terrorist attacks.
Imagine if we started kicking out foreign nationals who met these criteria? How many more terror attacks before we go for it?
Back in 2018, I assembled a fairly detailed list of Christmas terror plots in Europe.
On the second day of Christmas, the only things stirring
in some apartments in Frankfurt, Germany, were some Muslim refugees, the
German cops smashing through the door and the chemicals in their
kitchen bomb labs which they had been plotting to use to commit mass
murder a year before 9⁄11.
The massive Al Qaeda terror plot in Strasbourg targeting the
cathedral, Christmas market, possibly a synagogue and European
Parliament building would have brought together Muslims from Spain,
Germany and the UK in a grandiose plot that might have included the use
of nerve gas and bombs.
“This cathedral is Allah’s enemy,” the Algerian Muslim refugee
narrated as he watched the cheerful shoppers outside the Strasbourg
Cathedral.
In 2016, the Kindergarten bomber, a 12-year-old Iraqi boy, had
planted a nail bomb in the Christmas market in the German city of
Ludwigshafen.
That same year, a North Africa Muslim refugee drove a truck into the
Berlin Christmas market killing 12 and injuring 56 until it came to a
halt on a trial of blood with its back wheel resting against a market
stand boasting of the “magic of Christmas”.
And then there were the alleged failed Christmas bomb plots in the UK
and Belgium. A total of 29 lone wolves were busted in Christmas terror
plots in the UK, Australia, Brussels and France.
One of those plots was centered once again on Strasbourg with the
arrests coming five days before the opening of its famed Christmas
market. The seven arrests were announced in Strasbourg and Marseille
preventing, what was described as, “a long-planned terror attack.”
The number of Muslim Christmas terror plots has only escalated since.