In this episode of “Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words,” Victor Davis Hanson and Jack Fowler explore the troubling phenomenon of immigrants attacking the cultures they chose to join, including attacks on Christmas markets in Europe.
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Jack Fowler: Victor, let me get right to this story. All over Europe, Muslims are desecrating churches and holy places and disrupting seasonal Christmas markets. So, last night—we’re recording on Sunday the 30th. So, this was Saturday, Nov. 29. I’m reading from an X post in Brussels:
“In a terrifying sight, Muslims stormed the opening night of the Christmas market in Brussels, waving Palestinian flags, setting off smoke bombs and scaring families. Coming to your town if Islam is not exiled from the West.”
Victor, I’ve seen numerous other videos. Germany, particularly, has these Christmas seasonal things in their plazas, and now many places they’re surrounded by these massive concrete blocks to prevent any car bombings, etc. I don’t know that German citizens are going to be car bombing their Christmas seasonal markets. It’s all because of the growing and intensifying local Muslim outrage at these kind of institutions. Also, we see many signs of church masses being disrupted, priests being smacked, urinating at St. Peter’s, etc. This is getting more prevalent. Your thoughts?
Victor Davis Hanson: Well, I’ll just enumerate them. There are many. No. 1, there’s no reciprocity. Thank God. I mean, do you really believe that if you were a Christian, and there’s a few left in the West Bank, but if you were in the West Bank and you decided to go to the feast of Ramadan, go desecrate a mosque, I don’t think you’d be alive.
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