It has been so long since anyone has attached some characterization to us. Although, it could be said here, “Great enemy, great respect.” Meanwhile, the persistent educational work of the Munich PI group (photo) has ended up in the SZ (Süddeutsche Zeitung – South German Newspaper). Editor Johannes Boie invited our coworkers and Pax Europa’s committee member Eckhard Kiwitt to a meeting with the idea of writing an article about us. No problem. Eckhard sat for an hour with him and spoke unreservedly with him. We have nothing to hide anyway.

Unfortunately, Johannes Boie doesn’t really apply himself very well to this one-hour conversation but that he is bent on dancing around the subject of PI’s comment area, where sometimes there are articles that even those of us in the Munich PI group don’t like, but also for which neither we nor the admins from PI, but rather the comment makers themselves are responsible. The result was in the printed SZ and can be found online. It starts with the description of a typical meeting that is slanted in favor of Islam in which our presence there gave cultural/critical enrichment:

Now, it had been quiet long enough. Eckhard Kiwitt, a 54-year-old employee of a publisher in Freising, had listened 25 minutes long about Paradise in Islam. Andre Elfiky, a Muslim, had spoken at the St. Korbinian Parish Church on Valleystraße in Munich about the Quran and Muhammad, who at the “end of his life was be caught up into Paradise.” A couple of older listeners had meanwhile fallen asleep. Eckhard Kiwitt, however, was wide awake. He raised his hand, once, twice, then finally he was called upon. “You said that one can interpret the Quran,” he asked the speaker. “But how are the terms ‘kill’ and ‘be killed’ to be interpreted?” Pink-colored balloons hung on the wall in the form of a heart. But it was over with the pleasant atmosphere in the parish house.

Now, pink-colored balloons on the wall fit OK with the stories from 1001 Nights that Mr. Elfiky was telling us. The details of how this memorable evening passed can be read here yet again. However, the SZ had another way of putting it:

Kiwitt and his co-conspirators came to cause a stink. Of the 23 total listeners present this evening, seven of them belong to the ranks of the Islam critics. Unrecognizable to the speaker and the other guests is that they form a unit. The group split up inconspicuously throughout the room. The other visitors of the meeting at the St. Korbinian Church were outraged at the questions from the group because the evening’s theme hand nothing to do with their forced debate over terrorism. The church’s personnel attempted to turn the debate around, but the group would not be stopped. Not one of them argued with knowledge about the Quran, like Kiwitt for example. One said that he had been in love with an Iraqi woman who left him. “What kind of Paradise on earth as promised by Muhammad is that?” he asked. Another told how often the word “kill” occurs in the Quran.

Six of the seven Islam critics that Boie counted sat at one — and therefore full — table. The seventh had to practically lay on the table in order not “to split up inconspicuously in the room.” And since Islam does promise Paradise for the slaying of infidels (see Sura 9 verse 111), our question would most definitely have something to do with the theme of the evening. This issue apparently had escaped the SZ editor. But in his head, it was OK enough to spit out that violence has nothing to do with Islam. Ultimately, that’s what has been pounded into the heads of do-gooders for years by Muslim functionaries.

As to the story of the Iraqi woman, our coworker told us that shortly after he met her, her brother and father cut off any contact with her. Therefore nothing can be said of “leaving.” It was determined “inner-family.” But that of course, like honor killing, could have nothing to do with Islam as well. Or, how was that once again with “Take no infidel for friends” in Sura 5 verse 51?

And further with the SZ Text:

Eckhard Kiwitt believes that Islam is no religion, but rather a “political ideology similar to National Socialism (Nazism)” that is bringing hate and terror into the world. The Freising citizen is not alone, rather part of a movement with thousands of adherents in Germany. They form together on the Internet at the website “Politically Incorrect,” which is clicked on more than 30,000 times daily. And the readers of the pages are increasing taking to the streets and plazas of German cities.

And the “southland” newspaper has hardly published an article about us but that we haven’t had more than 40,000 and even peaked at 70,000. Thanks SZ. Also a nice observation otherwise. And we haven’t just taken to the streets and plazas:

Lastly, he held an informational event with the Islam critic group “Pax Europa” on the theme of Islam at the Munich guild house. Right at 200 people came and listened peacefully. The Munich enemies of Islam also started a petition initiative together against the mosque that was planned in Sendling. Right at 1300 signatures were gotten together, and the delivery to the city of Munich town hall was documented publically. Thanks for the work of the Munich “opposition cell” was given on the PI website. And also for the initiative at St. Korbinian Parish Church.

Of course, PI has to be politically correctly brought into connection with “resentments that are hostile to foreigners.” As if Islam didn’t already produce enough for criticism:

There are various ones, mostly anonymous, that are belligerent against Islam, Muslims and against the supposed too lax policy on integration. There is also the campaign for a closer bond between Germany, Israel and the United States. Therefore, according to the protection of the Constitution, the website isn’t classified as radical Right – although, resentments against foreigners above all are published daily in the Internet site’s comment area. The website was founded by Cologne teacher Stefan Herre. It is a successful model for hundreds of smaller websites with similar content.

We’re not belligerent, but we do argue. And not all-inclusively against Muslims but rather against Islam that, according to the statement from Bekir Alboga from the Turkish-Islamic religious authority DITIB, is a “comprehensive” and totalitarian ideology. The editor of SZ can count for sure, but apparently only to 38. Or the count must have been made a while ago, for in the meantime there are already 42 groups.

The readers of the website have already founded 38 action groups in Germany – from the Ruhr to Dresden, from Karlsruhe to Hamburg. Several hundred people have been allowed to form the hard core of the rapidly growing scene. They have varying motivations for criticizing Islam: an occasionally distinctive love for Israel, or the feeling that Christian values are being lost in German. Others are afraid of Islam or have been shaken up over the production of reports about “honor murders.” “We are defending the fundamental free/democratic order against totalitarian ideology,” Kiwitt says. He’s serious about that; he’s active in the Munich group, which was founded three years ago. We know each other by pseudonyms. That reduces the danger that their employers would catch wind of their Islam-hostile activities. And it strengthens the feeling of being a member of a conspiratorial and militant troop.

That’s exactly right. We know each other only under pseudonyms. And when we visit each other, every one has to put on blinders and ride for hours through Munich in the trunk of a car before it comes home. We also use no telephones but rather flash mail. And whoever breaks the Omertà (code of honor) will drown in the Isar, or as an option must evaluate the SZ for 14 days.

By the way, the reading of Islamic primary sources was enough for us to have an extremely well-grounded concern for developing the subject of Islam. Johannes Boie still has not understood that we are not criticizing a “religion,” but an ideology:

Criticism of the religion of a minority and hostility against a minority lie tightly together. On one side the young movement is often captured by the Right and misused for selfish purposes, like their great model also, publicist Henryk Broder. Only a few days ago, a Chemitz city councilwoman from the NPD (National Democratic Party of Germany) wanted to reach out to the Islam critical author and congratulated him on his battle against “over foreignization.” Broder answered, “The imagination of being in the same room with you makes me want to throw up.” Such clear positions are lacking on PI; it’s not possible to confine oneself on the Right. The quality of comments is rather dubious, more on the level of the discussion at the pub than that of a political essay. Editors and politicians that are taken to task on the website receive insults and threats by E-mail. However most of the readers and activists can’t be right-wing radicals. Kiwitt votes conservatively, now and then for the FDP (Free Democratic Party). “I would never put my mark to the right of the CSU (Christian Social Union party) – and never to the left of the SPD (Socialist Party of Germany) who I still call the SED (Socialist Union Party of East Germany).”

After all, according to the SZ, we apparently aren’t right-wing radicals. We’ve been lucky once again that the muzzle called ‘Nazism’ has narrowly managed to swing past us this time.

(Text for German PI: byzanz / Photos: RChandler – Munich PI Group / Translation: Anders Denken)

It has been so long since anyone has attached some characterization to us. Although, it could be said here, \"Great enemy, great respect.\" Meanwhile, the persistent educational work of the Munich PI group (photo) has ended up in the SZ (Süddeutsche Zeitung - South German Newspaper). Editor Johannes Boie invited our coworkers and Pax ...

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