We Are Not Alone

[retrocop]

I seem to recall that the Christian Ceremony of the Birth of Our Lord was a time for terrorist Murder for decent people in Europe last year. :-(



https://metro.co.uk/2019/11/29/several-people-stabbed-busy-shopping-street-hague-11243550/?ico=pushly-notifcation-small&utm_source=pushly

[retrocop]

Apologies. Another thread just started before mine.

[jno]

just because Oxford St lights have been switched on doesn't make this Christmas.

[Old_Geezer]

But it makes it looking a lot like ...

[jno]

maybe, but at a guess, terrorists have a stricter definition of Christmas than our great retail centres.

[jourdain2]

In the same mindset - Rome is a major target for Muslim immigrants. It's not just that though, Russia invaded Afghanistan (I think, but I was very young and the details are hazy) on Christmas day one year. It is symbolic for the West. These days Christmas markets provide handy gatherings of a lot of people in one space. Only today, I was up at church decorating with foliage only (no flowers in Advent) ready for Sunday. We're singing Elgar's 'Ave Verum' - lovely tune, can recommend it if you don't know it.

I think this time of year is now always going to be a focus for terrorism.

[Peter Pedant]

o god I thought you meant the Birth of Our Lord and Herod's massacre of the little infants

bit tenuous even for AB

you did
I checked - todays stabbing was in a hudson bay store in the Hague:

https://www.telegraaf.nl/nieuws/1179460023/drie-slachtoffers-steekpartij-den-haag-zijn-minderjarig

three victims of stabbing in the hague are minors

so yeah talk about the little baby Jesus and herod going after the innocents

( forrin alert)

[emmie]

madness wherever it is..