Vehicular Jihad Thwarted at a Bavarian Christmas Market
16th December 2025
Christmas is just around the corner, which means it’s time for large trucks to go barreling through Germany’s Christmas markets, tearing up vendors’ booths and squashing unsuspecting shoppers under their wheels — much as they did nine years ago this week at the Breitscheidplatz in Berlin.
Police in Lower Bavaria were able to thwart a plot to launch a vehicular jihad attack against a Christmas market in Dingolfing. The vehicles were thought to have an “Islamist” motive — or perhaps their would-be drivers did; in any case, the ideology was “Islamism”, and not true Islam, which as we all know is a peaceful religion that would never consider perpetrating such vile and murderous deeds.