Who's Watching Who? by Edward Drobinski - HTML preview

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Christianity

Europe Caving to Diversity and Islamist Influence,

Restricting Christmas and Christianity

Muslims are praying at St. John's Episcopal Church in Aberdeen, Scotland, which has opened its doors to Muslims for Friday prayers.

Governments across the formerly Christian world are yielding to DEI, woke ideology, and pro-Islamist pressure, passing laws and ordinances that restrict outward displays of Christmas and Christian celebrations.

Rather than defending historic traditions, officials increasingly frame Christian expression as a problem to be managed or suppressed.

Europe is increasingly restricting public Christmas celebrations as political and cultural elites retreat from the continent's Judeo-Christian identity while simultaneously caving to liberal pressure to embrace Islam and aggressive secularism.

Public displays of Christmas, once understood as inclusive and unifying, are now treated as controversial in countries such as France, Spain, the United Kingdom, Germany, Denmark, and others.

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Across Europe, schools, municipalities, and public institutions have removed Christian references from holiday events under the banner of inclusivity and secularism.

In some cases, schools have eliminated Christmas language from performances, while cities have rebranded Christmas markets and celebrations with neutral "winter" themes.

These changes often occur despite Christianity remaining the majority religion in the affected communities.

A headteacher at Wherwell Primary School in Andover, United Kingdom removed all references to Christmas from the school's pantomime, Jack and the Beanstalk, stating the decision was made to ensure the performance was "inclusive" for children of all faiths.

Parents were informed that Christmas songs and mentions would be excluded so that children whose families do not celebrate Christmas could attend.

Ovenden explained that some parents normally withdraw their children from festive events on religious grounds. However, census data shows Andover's population is approximately 62.4 percent Christian and 0.6 percent Muslim.

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The decision sparked backlash from some parents, who argued that Christmas is part of the UK's cultural heritage and that removing it to avoid offense amounts to erasing tradition.

Critics said a pantomime held during the Christmas season inevitably carries festive associations and should not be altered to accommodate a small minority.

The pantomime company confirmed it typically includes Christmas references but removed them at the school's request.

School officials said they were disappointed by national media coverage and maintained that the intent was practical rather than ideological, stressing that pupils remain excited about upcoming Christmas festivities held elsewhere in the school calendar.

France, once a stark Catholic country, now illustrates the same trend, with many cities replacing Christmas imagery with generic seasonal branding following jihadist attacks on Christmas markets.

Rather than reinforcing cultural confidence, authorities have intensified secular policies, removing Christian symbols from public festivities. These decisions have drawn criticism even

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from immigrants who view the erasure of Christian traditions as excessive and damaging.

In Spain, government leaders have avoided explicitly referencing Christmas while openly recognizing Islamic holidays, and left-wing municipalities have scaled back Christian decorations.

At the same time, private life tells a different story, with families and workplaces continuing to celebrate Christmas traditions outside official settings.

In Germany, a proposal in Berlin's Kreuzberg district has been discussed for years that seeks to ban all public religious festivals.

The stated rationale is to avoid noise complaints by prohibiting every religious display, including Christmas, rather than targeting a single faith.

The effect, however, is the same: Christian traditions are singled out for removal from public life.

Denmark has seen several institutional decisions affecting Christmas celebrations over the past decade.

In 2017, Gribskolen school canceled a Christmas church service, citing laws restricting religious preaching in schools.

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The same school had hosted a "Syria Week" the previous year, during which students learned about Middle Eastern culture.

In Spain, Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez avoided using the word "Christmas" in a 2024 holiday greeting, instead wishing citizens a new year of health and prosperity.

In contrast, he explicitly referenced Ramadan in messages addressed to Muslim communities. Separately, some mayors from far-left parties reduced Christmas decorations in public spaces during the same period.

In most cases, the restrictions were imposed by local councils, schools, or administrative bodies citing secularism, inclusivity, or neutrality as justification.

In multiple instances, however, institutions that curtailed Christmas references or displays continued to promote or accommodate Muslim holidays such as Ramadan or Eid.

Across Europe, legal and social restrictions increasingly affect Christians, including prosecutions related to silent prayer near abortion facilities and cases involving speech on religious beliefs.

The Commission of the Bishops' Conferences of the European Union has called on the EU to appoint a coordinator to address anti-

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Christian hatred, citing the need for parity with existing coordinators for antisemitism and anti-Muslim hatred.

OIDAC and Church officials have also raised concerns that broadly defined hate-speech and discrimination laws are being applied in ways that restrict the public expression of Christian beliefs, contributing to what some Church leaders describe as ideological discrimination rather than overt persecution.

This is how cultures collapse. Not through one dramatic event, but through a thousand small surrenders. Cancel the Christmas market. Hide the decorations. Avoid offense at all costs. Then shame anyone who notices and insist the problem is their intolerance.

Europe's cultural decline is driven less by aggression from outsiders than by internal renunciation.

When leaders suppress their own traditions in the name of tolerance, they hollow out the cultural confidence needed for genuine pluralism.

Continued retreat risks emboldening radical demands and leaving European societies unable to defend their own heritage or traditions.

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Meanwhile, Western families are told they cannot celebrate their own traditions on their own streets because officials are afraid of "security concerns." The reality is simple. Tolerance that requires you to abandon your own culture is not tolerance. It is submission.

The deeper issue is not external pressure alone, but the willingness of European leaders to abandon their own cultural foundations.

Strict secularism is increasingly applied to Christianity while Islamic practices receive accommodation, particularly in schools. This imbalance, combined with low assimilation rates, undermines social cohesion and weakens shared identity.

Christian pastor arrested after reading from the Bible says he

was treated 'shamefully' - and was 'doing what my job

description says'

A woman was heard shouting “This is a Christian country” as the preacher was led away.

Police said they had received complaints about his “Homophobic comments. Sodom and Gomorrah only exist for celebration.”

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The preacher was arrested under the Public Order Act, a “law” of dubious merit, which essentially makes anyone being outside their home in jeopardy of being arrested if anyone makes a complaint, regardless of validity or actual harm; the un-written part being unless the alleged perpetrator is a muslim. If public Bible reading causes someone "severe emotional distress," they should be viewing the inside of padded white walls. Any prosecuting attorney or judge taking this case shows a disregard and disrespect for the rule of legitimate law.

The seventy-one year old, Christian pastor who was arrested after he preached from the Bible said yesterday he had been treated shamefully.

John Sherwood, was led away in handcuffs, questioned in a police station and held overnight after being accused of making homophobic comments outside Uxbridge Station in west London.

The grandfather claimed he was left bruised after police pulled him from a mini-stepladder he was using and cuffed his hands behind his back.

Police said they had received complaints the man had been making “allegedly homophobic comments” and arrested him under the Public Order Act, which can be used under the vague proviso that

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someone is using “abusive or insulting words” that cause “harm” to someone else. In other words; the use of hurty words.

Mr. Sherwood, a pastor for 35 years, said: “I wasn't making any homophobic comments, I was just defining marriage as a relationship between a man and a woman. I was only saying what the Bible says. I wasn't wanting to hurt anyone or cause offence.

I was doing what my job description says, which is to preach the gospel in open air as well as in a church building.

When the police approached me, I explained that I was exercising my religious liberty and my conscience. I was forcibly pulled down from the steps and suffered some injury to my wrist and to my elbow. I do believe I was treated shamefully. It should never have happened.”

His file has now been passed to the Crown Prosecution Service for review.

Two women were heard shouting “this is a Christian country,” as the policeman lead the 71 year old man away when he refused to stop addressing the crowd outside Uxbridge Station in West London. The women were right ........ ten or more years ago.

Mobile phone footage of Friday's arrest shows Mr. Sherwood standing on the stepladder with a Bible in his hand outside a

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Tube station in Uxbridge, West London. Officers can be heard telling him to get off his steps before they appear to grasp his hands and pull him down.

Onlookers can be heard shouting; “He's an elderly man; take it easy with him,” before officers put Mr. Sherwood in handcuffs and pushed him to a police car.

Mr. Sherwood said officers grilled him over his attitude to gay people. He was even asked what he would do if his children were gay. The married father of two said: “The question was irrelevant to the allegation against me. I said I would seek to bring them to Christ, but of course I would love them no matter what, because they're my children.”

Andrea Williams, of campaign group Christian Concern, said police needed greater understanding of the law surrounding freedom of speech and religion.

She added: “There is an idea that if people are offended you should arrest someone, but in this country we also have freedom of speech.” .......... Hmmmmm, she apparently isn’t paying very much attention.

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A Met Police spokesman said its directorate of professional standards had assessed video footage of Mr. Sherwood's arrest and had found no evidence of misconduct by officers.

A statement posted to a Christian Facebook blog by his supporters read: “Whilst he was preaching, he expounded the final verses of Genesis 1, declaring that God's purpose in creating mankind was to set human beings in families, headed by a father and a mother, not by two fathers, or by two mothers.

The distinction within mankind of just two genders, male and female, made in the image of God, constitutes the essence of God's created order.”

Pastor Peter Simpson, Minister of Penn Free Methodist Church in Buckinghamshire, who was preaching with Pastor Sherwood before the arrest, said: “Everything he said was bible based. He was not saying anything abusive; he is a Christian minister. There did not seem to be any recognition from the police that Christian ministers and such views exist.

If there was an obscene Pride parade in Uxbridge in full view of children, the police would support it even if Christians were offended.

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You don't have to be an evangelical Christian to be shocked by this. Anyone who cares about liberty should be concerned about what happened in Uxbridge.

This is about defending our Christian civilization, or what is left of it. The belief in Genesis 1:27 is fundamental to Christian belief.

This arrest of a faithful minister for doing nothing other than declaring what the Bible teaches about one of the important moral issues of our time reveals a dangerous assault upon freedom of speech and, not least, upon the freedom of Christian pastors to declare in public all that the Bible teaches. The State has no right to designate that some parts of God's word are no go areas.

Whatever one's personal views, if any, on homosexuality might be, it is surely pertinent to ask what kind of nation have we become that the minister of a Christian church is arrested for upholding in the public square the very truths which Her Majesty the Queen promised to uphold in her Coronation Oath in 1953, with a Bible in her hand?”

Andrea Williams, chief executive of the Christian Legal Centre, said: “Street preaching has a long and honored history in the UK. In many ways it is symbolic of the kind of freedoms we have

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treasured in this nation. So to see a 71 year old pastor arrested in such a manner for preaching the gospel in London is deeply concerning.

The laws to protect the freedom to preach in public are very strong. Sadly what we are seeing all too often is police officers who are quick to arrest at the first suggestion that a member of the public is offended, because of the prevailing cancel culture. The Christian Legal Centre has defended dozens of Christian preachers for over a decade and have a 100% success rate on this issue.”

The statement on the Christian page continued: “Police officer also spoke to a second pastor about homophobic speech.

The minister explained that to uphold God's moral law and speak about the dangers of sin in respect of LGBT issues implies absolutely no hatred or unpleasantness towards any individual or group of people.

Nevertheless, the Bible's condemnation of homosexuality is plain.”

To this the policeman responded that }Some matters simply cannot be referred to in public places,” implying that homosexuality is one of them. The officer also stated that “There is no freedom

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to make statements in public which offend people, “ as if there were anything that doesn’t escape the wrath of some lunatic.

The statement concludes: “This arrest of a faithful preacher for doing nothing other than declaring what the Bible teaches about one of the important moral issues of our time reveals a dangerous assault taking place in modern Britain upon freedom of speech, Christianity itself, and not least, upon the freedom of Christian pastors to proclaim in public all that the Bible teaches. See Acts 20:27.”

White pastor claims Christ's arms “aren't wide” while making

“racist” comments about B&B people

Arkansas-based pastor Thomas Robb, sat down with journalist Joshua White for an interview in September. He said, "In spite of what people say, the Bible doesn't address B&B people hardly at all." He then added that he did not know if B&B people could be saved and go to heaven, and that it wasn’t any of his concern. “You know, for at least a century now, everyone has been taking every ‘issue,’ and desecrating it from the B&B point of view,” adding; “It’s time to stop the nonsense.”

Robb also made it clear that not all people were welcome in his church, saying, "There are a certain element of people that just aren't welcome." He further added that while the "benefits of

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Christianity are applicable to everybody, that doesn't make them a part of the covenant. That doesn't make them marriage partners for my family."

Talking about B&B men in America, Robb said that they were "gang bangers and rapists" and added that "The best thing for them would be to understand the rule of law." On the other hand, for the White people in America, Robb said, "Love your God. Love your people."

The libtard AI generated comments criticized Robb heavily, which will not be regurgitated here. ..... Same old. Fill in your own blanks.

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Help! Mom! There are Liberals Under My Bed

Don’t ever let it be said that Ranney wasn’t well read.

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Help! Mom! There Are Liberals Under My Bed!

Katharine DeBrecht

This full color illustrated book is a fun way for parents to teach young children the valuable lessons of conservatism. Written in simple text, readers can follow along with Tommy and Lou as they open a lemonade stand to earn money for a swing set. But when liberals start demanding that Tommy and Lou pay half their money in taxes, take down their picture of Jesus, and serve broccoli with every glass of lemonade, the young brothers experience the downside to living in Liberaland.

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