A package lay in the Christmas market in Potsdam, Germany,
recently.
It wasn’t filled with a toy or a
gift. It was filled with nails and an “unidentified powder.” It was filled with
hatred. Of Christians.
Police
completely evacuated the popular holiday market before destroying the
“suspicious” container in what was termed a “controlled explosion.”
Germany
was formally reunited, with more than a little difficulty, on October 3rd,
1990. It stood prosperous and complete once more. Now it is torn by strife
again. The rising tide of Muslim immigration is threatening to permanently
sever the civil bonds of a once proud nation.
Idyllic
scenes of unhurried- and unworried- people strolling through similar markets,
bathed in the warmth of the holiday season, used to be commonplace. Today,
however, there is a fear in the back of the minds of those engaged in the same
simple acts. Will a truck suddenly swerve off the road? Will an explosion ring
out? Will I be harassed by a group of Middle Eastern or North-African men?
The
Germans have a term for a certain, special cordiality and congeniality, a
feeling of warmth and closeness: gemütlichkeit. Sadly, today, gemütlichkeit is
being shattered by threats of continuing terrorist attacks and diminished by Germans’
fear of being labeled intolerant by politicians, the media, or fellow citizens
if they dare to honestly speak out against the clear and present Islamic
threat.
I do
not make any appeal whatsoever to the moronic, radical right-wing, skinhead
types, but if Germans- and Germany- do not insist on protecting their long and
storied culture from Muslim domination, the home of Luther, Bach, Brahms,
Beethoven and Einstein will eventually succumb to darkness and silence.
It will
be a very different kind of Stille Nacht, indeed. And one from which there will
likely be no escape.
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