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You see the pattern first in Europe’s Christmas markets: disruptions, intimidation, and the sense that Christian holidays need police protection just to exist. Islamists aren’t targeting these spaces because of Gaza, or Israel. They’re doing it because Christian public life is a symbolic battlefield in a much older civilizational struggle. Jewish Israel is one target - Christian Europe is another.

This has deep roots. For 1,400 years, Jews and Christians in the Middle East lived as second class citizens or “dhimmis” - permitted to exist only under subordination. They paid the jizya (humiliation tax), were barred from authority, and lived with constant threat. The inequality was daily and intimate: they couldn’t testify against Muslims in court, couldn’t carry weapons, couldn’t build houses taller than Muslims. Their religious symbols had to stay hidden; no public crosses, no church bells. Many had to wear special clothing marking them as inferior. They had to yield in the street. Churches couldn’t be repaired without permission, and new ones were usually forbidden. A Muslim could insult their faith freely; a dhimmi accused of insulting Islam could face death. A Muslim man could marry a Christian or Jewish woman; a dhimmi man couldn’t marry a Muslim woman at all. Conversion went only one way. Their entire existence was conditional.

Wherever Islamist movements gained power, Christian communities shrank or vanished. Egypt’s Christian majority became a pressured minority. Lebanon, once majority Christian, fell under Hezbollah’s domination. Bethlehem was over 80% Christian in 1950; today, under Fatah and Hamas pressure, Christians barely remain.

The same pattern now appears in Europe. In the last decade, thousands of churches have been vandalized, desecrated, burned, or converted into mosques. France sees hundreds of attacks annually. Germany, Spain, Sweden, and the UK show the same: smashed statues, burned pews, decapitated icons, churches repurposed as prayer halls. It mirrors the old dhimmi logic - pressure the minority faith, erase its visibility, treat its sacred spaces as expendable.

Islam as a the political ideology is explicit about this mission. The Qur’an says: “He sent His Messenger… to make it prevail over all religion” (9:33). Hassan al-Banna wrote: “Islam must dominate every sphere of life.” Sayyid Qutb divided the world into Islam and jahiliyya to be eliminated. Qaradawi predicted Islam’s “return to Europe” through ideology, not conquest.

And the Muslim Brotherhood operationalized it. In the Holy Land Foundation trial, internal Brotherhood documents described their mission in America as “a civilization-jihadist process… destroying Western civilization from within.” Those documents listed organizations later normalized in U.S. civic life and even consulted by Democratic administrations - all established in federal evidence.

This is why Israel is not the end goal. To Islamists, Israel is a Western democratic outpost on what they consider Dar al-Islam, land that should never return to non-Muslim rule. Its success is a theological humiliation. No wonder Jews are attacked in synagogues in Europe, regardless of the victims views on Israel. The same ideology targets Christian Europe, Christian holidays, and Christian institutions. It is one project with many fronts.

The tragedy is that many Westerners march alongside the very ideologues who would abolish their freedoms. They confuse a civilizational ideology with a human-rights cause, chant propaganda they don’t understand, and align with movements that erased Christians from the Middle East and now burn churches in Europe.

If the West paid attention to history - or simply read what Islamists write openly - it would see what’s happening. Christmas markets are the warning sign. Israel is only the beginning. And unless the West wakes up, it will discover too late that the movements it defended never sought coexistence - only dominance.

[Dr. Maalouf ‏ @realMaalouf]

Islamist preacher: “When Muslims become the majority in the West in the next 40 years, non‑Muslims will have to convert, pay the jizya, or be killed, because Sharia will rule.”

Is the message clear, or does it need to be spelled out?

[Eric Matheny @ericmmatheny]

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RIP Ozzy.

[Gary Hacker @garyhacker]

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[Mike Lee @BasedMikeLee]

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Listen to what @pmarca says in this interview

The federal government has truly become evil

It’ll be hard, but we can fix it

And we must

[Gary Hacker @garyhacker]

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[Mike Lee @BasedMikeLee]

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