Der WESTEN writes:

As reported, the Vietnamese woman was robbed at Hans-Böckler-Strasse by a hitherto unknown customer at her eatery Friday morning around 3:20 p.m. The robber had given a large order for drinks. While she fetched supplies from a cooler, he grabbed her purse and fled in the direction of Kluse.

Bernd Haldorn, of the Hagen district attorney’s office reports of another incident: “The woman chased the man who apparently was being waited on by two accomplices with a dark BMW in the area of the street ‘Kluse.’ One man climbed in back, another in the front passenger seat. The woman stood between the automobile and the open passenger door and spoke to the men. The the car started rolling. She climbed on the runnerboard and held on to the automobile. Then the car sped up and must have struck an obstacle with the right door.

District Attorney Bernd Haldorn is going on manslaughter to cover a crime. Clearly speaking, that means murder, “The woman fell upon the asphalt as a result of action by perpetrators and received life-threatening injuries from which she died.” The autopsy on Thursday showed that the woman suffered from basal skull fracture and serious head injury.

The murdered leaves behind a man and three children of three, seven and eleven years. Of the perpetrators was said:

The three active young criminals are presumably Southerners. They are between 20 and 30 years old. Wear short dark hair. Two men are slim and between 170 and 180 cm large. The third offender is smaller and more stocky. The driver (one of the slim ones) wore at the time of the crime a white polo shirt with blue-orange horizontal stripes. Another offender wore a purple T-shirt. Perhaps people in the traffic on Hans-Böckler-Straße might have seen Thi-Kein-Oanh Vu-Lam chasing an unknown purse robber in the direction of Kluse.

Tips regarding the criminals or the automobile are being received by the police in Iserlohn. Telephone 02371/9199-0

(Many thanks to all contributors)

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Some tips sniffed out in Germany are difficult for even hardshell PI authors to believe. When a reader reported to us about a toilet only for Muslims on the Zugspitze, we thought it was a joke at first. The following excerpt from the BILD am SONNTAG newspaper from August 22, 2010 still couldn’t convince us completely:

A personal call at the Marketing Division of the Bayerische Zugspitzbahn Bergbahn AG (Bavarian Zugspitz Rail and Cable Car) created certainty: The reality has overtaken any possible satirical fantasy in Germany. Germany’s highest lying restaurant possesses a special toilet for the Devout. Their needs can be learned about on Pflege-Wiki:

After using the toilette, a Muslim often doesn’t use toilet paper, but rather cleans his private area with running water and the left hand. The left hand is considered unclean and is therefore not used for eating or greeting.

At the Zugspitze, it is hoped with the little holy place having Arab placards and a Muslim prayer room constructed directly next to it that rich Arabs will be drawn in. For what’s the oh so nice saying? “Money doesn’t stink.”

(Hat Tip: Koltschak and Bernd / Translation: Anders Denken)

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The Tagesschau writes:

“When applying for employment, women with children, older people or applicants with foreign sounding names have considerably worse chances than others,” complained the leader of the Federal Antidiscrimination Bureau, Christine Lüders. She refers to a current study by the Bonn Institute for the Future of Labor (IZA-Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit) and the University of Konstanz. This study substantiates the fact that applicants with a Turkish name are put at a disadvantage. In a field test, their chance of receiving an invitation to a second interview was up to around a quarter less than with applicants with a German name.

Lüder’s authorities, therefore, are beginning a pilot study in September on the anonymization of applicants in which five firms will participate. The objective is for businesses to decide based on the professional qualification of an applicant, whether the person will be invited to an interview or not. The cosmetic conglomerate L’Oreal and the consumer goods producer Procter & Gamble will be participating in the test run. The other three businesses will be disclosed on Wednesday.

Beginning in September, these firms will test whether anonymous applications will fetch better chances for a job for older candidates, women or foreigners. In the anonymous process, cover letters will be altered. The name and address of the applicant will not be allowed to show up in the paperwork because the former allows consideration of the background and the latter of the social status of the one interested.

Besides that, the applicant will not supply a photo with his documents nor will he supply birthday or familial position. Thus, discrimination on the basis of age or background will be hampered. People over 50 years and applicants with foreign names simply “would most often be the first ones separated from the stack,” Lüders said to the “Hamburger Abendblatt.”

The employers are against this nonsense. They presumably don’t know that Turkish offspring have the better graduating results. So, the result then is that the sorting out will take place right in the interview.

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Whether the rape of little girls forced into marriage with old geezers can be experienced in a playful way, the report makes no mention of that.

Ad hoc News writes:

The first five book titles will appear in the Fall.

Questions will be posed by “Der kleine Hassan (Little Hassan)” about the prophet Muhammad just as they are about Jesus, about the Islamic Victim Celebration (Eid al-Adha) and Christmas. In “Fayzal der Krebsfänger (Fayzal the Crab-Catcher),” a young person will learn to deal with his illness (Translator note: ‘Krebs’ is German for ‘crab’ or for ‘cancer’ thus the fun title of ‘crab-catcher’). “Mein erstes Gebetbuch” (My First Prayerbook) playfully guides by means of cheerful images into Islamic prayer ritual being accompanied by kittens that also take a try at bows. “Arabisch lernen mit Simsim” (Learning Arab with Simsim) is a teaching book for elementary pupils. Here the teaching pattern pursues new ways of imparting language for Muslim children growing up in Germany. “Das Geschenk” (The Gift) imparts the value of the word as a special gift to a young boy as given by the grandfather or prophet Muhammad.

For Salam Publishing head Ahmad Milad Karimi, who in 2009 was the first to bring the Quran poetically and true to the original text into the German, and is publisher of literature and art periodical “Kalliope”, this new form of publishing has the meaning of “pioneer work at every level,” as he stresses. The goal in this is not “to spread Islamic body of thought, “rather to support Muslims in Germany in their own religiosity and complexity.”

Christian Zell, interim head of the Pastoren city kindergarten facility in Bremen, in which “70 to 80 percent are mostly Islamic immigrant children” being cared for would “heartily welcome” it, if he had a better selection of literature geared toward children that covered Islamic celebrations and intercultural subjects. He remembers, however, when at the last Victim Celebration Turkish mothers from the Kita advisory council went around with self-authored writings from group to group in order to explain the meaning of the Muslim holidays to the children.

We find it fantastic that it is a whole-society edition that brings children closer to Islam. It is really an encouragement that Muslim parents themselves have to explain the butchery of the Victim Celebration to their children!

The publisher’s idea “is more than overdue,” said Sineb El Masrar, producer and head editor of the “Gazelle” in Berlin, the only intercultural women’s magazine for immigrants. The daughter of Moroccan immigrants has known nothing of any German children’s literature up until now dealing with life in the new cultural circle and especially with the “integration of Muslim girls.” She herself “often missed out” as well. The 29-year-old creates a great demand for the books today not only for families rather in elementary schools and kindergartens as well. As member of the German Islamic Conference (DIK), she sees an important mission in all of this as first of all to awaken interest in this literature.

Bülent Uçar, German-Turkish professor for Islamic Religious Pedagogy at the University of Osnabrück and author of the teaching book “Mein Islambuch” (My Book of Islam) developed for German elementary schools, complains that up until now there has been “only sparse materials” in tis country for the purpose of “strengthening” the coexistence of “Muslims and Christians.” The scholar welcomes the reasons of the publishing house. They take up subjects of the Islamic Conference and “meet the demands” for doing more “for the normalization of Islam” in Germany.

Milad Karimi called in a “scientific advisory council” to accompany his publishing idea. Besides Sineb El Masrar, Bülent Uçar, as well as co-publisher and Islam scholar Nora Hodeige, he was also able to get the distinguished German-Iraqi author with Christian-Aramaic roots, Rafik Schami, and the Austrian human rights advocate Alfred Zauner.

In order to first be able to bring the small production of 2000 to 3000 copies for each title to the market, Andreas Hodeige — Rombach publisher and main owner of the Salam publishing house as well as several booksellers — intends to deliver to the place “where the people are.” For this, he has put views on German and Muslim schools, mosques, Imams and kindergartens. However, not booksellers because in his experience Muslim parents only seldom visit one, since up until now there were hardly any books in German geared to children with Islamic background.

Aha! So that is the reason. Not exactly, say, because of a complete inability to speak German, or being unacquainted with reading.

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But fortunately, it is only a very, very small minority of the Muslims that are inclined to violence. One hopes that, in any case. Because up to this point there has been no address of solidarity by the great, peaceful majority for threatened journalists.

The Rheinische Post reports:

On the Internet, two video messages have surfaced in which those journalists have been badmouthed as liars and villified as “terrorists who in the past few days had reported about the planned building of a school for Islamist Salafists in Mönchengladbach.

One of the videos, presumably recorded in Qatar, shows in its leader of more than a minute a so-called “list of names of smear journalists,” in which editors of our newspaper are named. In connection to this, Pierre Vogel is calling for a German convert to Islam to make a public apology for “lies and distortions” in an address to be held in German and Arab.

“You — and we know your names — should be ashamed,” the 32-year-old added to the address to the journalists. His message is targeted above all to all “Muslim brothers and sisters.” (…)

In another video sequence, the EZP second in command, Sven Lau, threatened to make the alleged “smear campaign” the subject at the next Friday prayer in the Gladbach mosque.

Salafism is only a small minority inside Islam. Thus the number of violently inclined Salafists in this country is estimated to be around 200.

A PI-recommendation for Journalists of Quality who are presently sleeping not so well: Schuster, hang in there. Leave the Islam criticism preferably once again to the Islamophobes and prove your bravery in the heroic “Battle against the Right.” Then, you will once again sleep well.

(Hat Tip: Henry 9th / Translation: Anders Denken)

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Die WELT reports:

Near the end of the event, when one is already at tea, there falls of the mouth of a community member, “We have to go to the streets. We have to stand against this hate.” He was upset at how his mayor was treated. A nod in turn ensues.

Sauerland has brought the anger of the Germans upon himself by attempting to roll the responsibility on to others after the mishap and getting increasingly caught in lies and contradictions. However, a resignation would be bad for his pension benefits. Worst case is that he will still have to work a few years in his career as a teacher — possibly in a diversified school in Marxloh. The CDU man would prefer first hiding it the public.

For his first public appearance after the catastrophe, Sauerland sought out the mosque in Wanheimerort. After darkness set in, a break of fast in the frame of the Month of Fasting, Ramadan, took place. Around 80 people sat in the great hall. On the wall were pictures of the visit by Federal President Horst Köhler four years ago. The community is considered liberal and cosmopolitan. Here, Sauerland is among friends. The heads of the community hug him, a girl has her photograph made with him.

He has been considering for a long while what occasion might be the right one for his return to public, Sauerland said in his speech. “Interreligious dialog is a good opportunity.” Without beating around the bush, he comes to speak of the catastrophe. “We will never forget the 21 dead. I, especially, have to live with this.

The applause was cordial, however, he still wants to boost it up. For now, Ahmet Ünalan, founding head of the community, speaks. “We didn’t count on your raising the subject,” he said. He spoke of the meaning of Ramadan, of the purification of sins and of righteousness. “We should not judge prematurely, so that rage and anger cannot rule,” he said. “It is not just that everyone should be jumping on one individual right now.”

He called for applause for the mayor who met the acclamation with an unmoved face. Mehmet Yildirim, president of the Turkish Businessmen in Duisburg, explains this affection this way, “no other mayor has done so much for us as he has.” In fact, Sauerland has advocated strongly for citizens of Turkish descent. “Stand firm,” they said to him when leaving Wanheimerort.

So much warmth and humanity exists after all only by our Turkish compatriots — especially at Ramadan.

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Grounds enough for the advocates of “the true faith of peace” to feel uncontrollably insulted, particularly that the organizers would presumably come from an “extreme right” group. A similar plan of organizing a street festival with alcohol and pork in a heavily Muslim part of Paris had been forbidden some weeks ago (PI reported).

Especially worked up is the National Secretary of the Socialist Party, having the southern name Mehdi Ouraoui, “When Sarkozy imitates the ideas of the National Front, it is no wonder when some followers of the right-wing camp copy methods of the extreme right,” he said of the Haram cravings of the French citizens (note: ‘haram’ has the meaning of ‘forbidden’ in the Arab language).

(Hat Tip: Wursti / Translation: Anders Denken)

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(By epistemology / Translation: Anders Denken)

Of course it couldn’t have had anything at all to do with the exclusive claim to power and the thoughts of superiority of the most peaceful of all religions. And so, what is dealt with here is most certainly that of an unfortunate heaping up of various Isolated Cases™, for justified reactions to unsensible actions by the intolerant bio-French society of the majority and for desperate self-defense from aggressive French racism.

These four minutes are well worth the viewing. In the beginning it refers to better times in French history, when there was pride of country, its history, the achievements of the Enlightenment, and when it had its own identity. Also before left-wing warped self-hate convinced the French of a bad conscience because of the allegedly evil age of colonization, when civilized advances were brought to various underdeveloped regions. In this video, music and images meld to form a powerful message: Let’s defend this country with its cultural character!

The messages at the end of the film could be sprayed on walls everywhere in Germany:

Did you know that your grandchildren will say in 50 years, “How could you let it happen?!”

Open your eyes, your next victim could be you, your children, your wife!

We are all affected by this violence, these aggressions; France is your country — protect it!

Stop the anti-white racism!

I agree entirely with the statements in this video, with one exception: The matter here, in my opinion, is not that of “anti-white” racism, even though the slogan “hunt for whites” is used. The matter is much more that of the battle between civilization and Islam, as well as between enlightened society and antiquated barbarity. This only superficially has to do with skin color. There are enough people in France with dark skin that do not participate in these violent activities because they don’t belong to the Religion of Peace™. On the other hand, there are also male and female converts who are included to violent acts. The latter is especially true of the female examples.

The scenes in this video play out mainly in the region (department) Seine Saint Denis (93) in the area surrounding Paris, therefore the number also showing on the T-shirt. In this the impression is produced: “This region already belongs to us.” In three different cities there, the French flag was removed from the townhall, burned and replaced with the Algerian flag. How they burn the flag can be viewed in the film. In one of the pictures, a police officer can be recognized from behind. He is even decked out with helmet and shield, but upon directive from above, he still doesn’t intervene. My penpal writes in addition:

“The police was there and had received the command not to budge. The government is forbidding the police from entering the suburbs, otherwise that might be a provocation.:

The mother of three children knows precisely what she’s talking about. Her husband is a police officer and they lived in the greater Paris area from 1996 to 2008; during this time, she was in an accountable position in the Security Service. Her husband, therefore, has been in the middle of the turmoil for eleven years. There can hardly be any more speaking of riots, that would be criminal downplay of the situation.

“2005 was terrible! The immigrant bands burned children’s cribs (for children from 0 to 3 years) and schools (for children of age 3 through 12 years)! It was an open war!”

Civil war in the country of human rights and the Enlightenment. If France falls, then it looks even more somber for Europe.

“A short while ago, a robber was killed in Grenoble. The bands have laid the city waste! They have threatened to kill the police with rocket launchers!!! And the government has seen itself forced into evacuating the police so that they can hide somewhere in France…”

“The cops are second-class citizens“, that is the headline of an article the desperate young woman sent me. There, a police officer from the Anticriminal Squad (Brigade anticriminalité) , a special unit for fighting crime, who of course wishes to remain anonymous, reports of his depressing experiences. Conclusion: One gives in to the leaders of the bands and uses the police for canon fodder (at least that’s how they appear). If the police would only be allowed to police, then the youth would already clean up their act, but they simply aren’t allowed. Thus the statement of the police.

Almost everywhere in Europe these barbarians are allowed to do just about anything. In France and Great Britain, the situation is, of course, especially bad, since the Muhammadans settled there are very well the most aggressive in Europe. Here in Germany, we should see these countries as examples of warning. Resist the urges. After all, we have been allowed to experience twice in the last century what it means to be ruled by a dictatorship.

(Video processing: ramadama – Munich PI Group)

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(Open letter to Wolfgang Bosbach by Monika Kaufmann / Translation: Anders Denken)

I turn to you about a far more difficult and complex issue. Your legal expertise is being questioned here because I do not belong to belong to the legal community. I am a natural scientist.

The American Constitution contains certain amendments, that is to say, additions. In the First Amendment, for example, the right to free speech is established. Analogous to these amendments, I would like to ask you to bring a bill before the German Bundestag that would anchor an amendment in our Constitution making it impossible for all time for Sharia or parts of it to get a foothold in the German administration of justice.

You will probably counter that our Constitution excludes Sharia anyway, and thus far it gives no place to it; but these things aren’t so simple. In southern Thailand, for example, Sharia has already been instituted at the urging of the Muhammadan majority there (4% of the total population), and it appears that the the southern Philippines (less than 10% of the total population) will follow. Please don’t tell me now that these lands are far away and not part of Europe; the earth has meanwhile become a village. No one is untouched anymore by what the other does. These countries have a lot in common with us. They belong to the civilized world, they are democracies and have absolutely nothing to do with Islamic non-culture. Thailand is Buddhist, and the Philippines are Catholic, just like you, Mr. Bosbach.

But now, let’s turn to Europe. In Great Britain there are already 86 Sharia courts that aren’t necessarily taken up with carrying out the administration of justice in this country. Abused women are not granted redress, they don’t receive their proper inheritance, etc. The argument for Sharia courts is given that there are also Beth Din courts there, and that the Muhammadans should have the same standing as the Jews. This argument is incorrect on two grounds:

First, we live in a Judeo-Christian culture; Judaism is an integral part of European culture. The same things cannot be asserted about Islam, which we Europeans have always rejected. Take note of Spain, France and the Balkan countries.

Second, the administration of justice by a Beth Din applies only to Jews, while Sharia lays claim to universal validity. Even if the Sharia courts in Great Britain are currently available only for family matters and business disputes with Muhammadans, in this they already have a foot in the door of the British system of justice and will demand more and more concessions for the barbarity of Sharia. When they get something, they are not satisfied and ask for even more.

Here in Germany as well, Sharia administration of justice has managed to gain entry. A female judge attempted to prevent a woman from getting divorced because she was beaten by her husband on the grounds that in the Quran it says he is allowed to do so. In 2007, “Der Spiegel” published a deep reaching article in which was brought to light the increasing tendency of German courts to turn to the Sharia administration of non-justice when Muhammadans are involved in the case. This article is, unfortunately, not available to me; I received this information from the newest book by Bruce Bawer, “Surrender, Appeasing Islam, Sacrificing Freedom.”

The author Bruce Bawer, an American living in Norway, is part of a minority being tracked by Islam. He is an avowed homosexual and married to his Norwegian partner. Unfortunately, there are only a few who are completely aware of this threat by Islam. Most of them are known to follow a course of appeasement.

As a Jew, I also am counted part of a minority threatened by Islam. We Jews were the first victims of the self-appointed Prophet, and are threatened to this very day. Not only in Sderot, southern Israel, a place where rockets are always being fired from Gaza. In the Quran, we are denigrated as “monkeys and pigs.” And the expressions of this unholy book are inalterable for Muhammadans, being sent from Allah himself. And we are now, as ever before, being slandered and attacked by Muhammadans in the whole world, and not just verbally but also physically.

On all of the grounds mentioned above, I ask you, dear Mr. Bosbach, to bring a bill before the German Bundestag about an amendment to the German Constitution that would categorically bar any form of Sharia.

This letter has been published by PI, and I look forward to an in-depth discussion.

With cordial greetings,

Monika Kaufmann

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(By the Editrix)

Not quite. Cordoba stands for many other things as well. It was the name of the Islamic empire’s center, from where Islam ruled most of the then known world. It’s stands for one of the grandest mosques of that time which was, notabene, built on the ashes of a Christian Visigoth church. It stands, too for a massacre of the Jews of Cordoba in 1011 (yes, Al-Andalus wasn’t quite what Muslims and their enablers would like us to believe) and for the rape of the city by the Almohades in 1148. Some websites claim that the year 1011 carries some symbolism as well, but while that is entirely possible, it is too far-fetched to make it a point here.

To understand the full implications one has to know two basically simple things:

First, Christians and Jews build their places of worship to, well, worship. Muslims build mosques to symbolize Islamic supremacy over others, to proselytize, to politicize, as an arsenal.

Second, Muslims act on symbols.

The Al-Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem on top of the Jewish temple symbolizes Islamic supremacy over Judaism, the Ummayyad Mosque in Syria is built on top of St. John the Baptist, Hagia Sophia in Constantinople was converted into a mosque as a symbol of Islamic supremacy over Christianity. The Cordoba Initiative mosque will be built on the ashes of almost thousand Americans who couldn’t be recovered after September 11, 2001. An innocent naive fallacy? Maybe, but I doubt it.

Here are some examples from Germany, my country, a country with, as of 2009, 4.3 million Muslims (5.4% of the population). Of these, 1.9 million are German citizens (2.4%). As of 2006, there were about 15,000 ethnic German converts. The large majority are of Turkish origin. Most Muslims live in Berlin and the big cities of former West Germany, mainly in the those of the industrial stronghold along the rivers Rhine and Ruhr.

The Yavuz-Sultan-Selim mosque in Mannheim is one of the biggest in Germany. Its patron, Selim I was the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1512 to 1520. Selim carried the empire to the leadership of the Sunni branch of Islam by his conquest of the Middle East. On the eve of his death in 1520, the Ottoman empire spanned almost 1 billion acres.

More than 50 mosques in Germany are called Fatih. Fatih means conqueror and refers to Mehmet II who was Sultan of the Ottoman Empire for a short time from 1444 to September 1446, and later from February 1451 to 1481. At the age of 21, he conquered Constantinople in a bloodbath, bringing an end to the Byzantine Empire. Mehmet continued his conquests in Asia, with the “Anatolian reunification”, and in Europe as far as Belgrade.

Other popular names for mosques in Germany are:

Aksa/Aqsa means “farthest”, and in this context the “farthest [so far] from Mecca”. The Muslim claim to Jerusalem and the Holy Land comes in here as well.

Ayasofya is emblematic for and purposefully reminiscent of Christian humiliation.

Hicret (arabic hidschra) refers to Mohammeds flight from Mekka to Medina in 622.

Imam Ali.

Al-Quds stands for Jerusalem. (It was an Al-Quds mosque in Hamburg from where Mohammed Atta set out to promote his very own brand of conquering.)

Selimiye refers to the megalomaniac Selimiye mosque in Edirne:

Then we have the Merkez mosque in Duisburg (Merkez means stronghold in Turkish), currently the biggest in Germany and probably in Europe as well. I discussed it previously for example here and here.

The controversial projected mosque in Cologne is called “Merkez” as well, which is (politically correct) translated not as “stronghold”, but as “center”. Everything not to let Muslims appear in a less than angelic light. I have covered the interesting and complex controvery that was triggered by the Cologne mosque, but went far beyond, it here:

» 02/17: What Americans don’t twig
» 04/26: Innocents Abroad
» 04/30: The Unembarrassables
» 05/10: Loose Apes with Razors
» 05/10: Shameless Cologne
» 05/13: The “Fission Fungus”
» 05/15: Rent-A-Nazi
» 10/02: German Patriot now Muslim

Another popular name for mosques in Germany is Bilal. No, this has no apparent, blatant connection to Muslim conquest, however, it is interesting in a different sort of way. The Ethiopian Bilal ibn Ribah was the first Muezzin in the history of Islam and called from the rooftop of the first mosque, no minaret in sight. Until today, minarets are not mandatory in Saudi Arabia and many minaret-less and relatively inornate mosques among the older ones, some of them very important, can be seen there. Why? What about “symbolism”? Saudi Arabia was, and is, Muslim heartland and needed no “spearheads” to impress and bully infidels.

Ask for the name of the mosque next to you and do a quick Google search. The result might be interesting.

One more word about the Cordoba Initiative. Granted for argument’s sake that the Ground Zero mosque, pardon me, the Cordoba outreach center to make better people of infidels, was planned and is being realized in good faith. Then we still have to deal with the sensitivity aspect, haven’t we. Wasn’t it abundantly clear in the first stages of the planning process already that only too many Americans wouldn’t react kindly to a project like that? It seems that the sensitivity and respect Muslims are always so stridently demanding for themselves is utterly missing when they are addressing non-Muslims. Is it too far fetched to speculate how the idea of a German cultural center together with Protestant church, theater, swimming pool, the lot, as a gesture of reconciliation at the Westerplatte would be received by the Poles? Or why the Japanese did never propose a center for the promotion of their culture at Pearl Harbor?

I will never forget where I have been when 9/11 happened and how long it took for the reality of WHAT had happened to seep in — and the horror when it finally had. Shortly after 9/11, an anonymous New Yorker released a Macromedia Flash presentation with a collage of news photos from the attacks and the victims. “Only Time” by Enya (which I hadn’t heard before) was used as a soundtrack. The Flash presentation spread rapidly over the internet and it is still available. I don’t know how many times I’ve watched it during the days and weeks following 9/11, bawling my eyes out. 30 times? 50 times? How can I ever forget the pictures of those who chose to fall to their death rather than to burn or to suffocate. Some choice. How the thought of the hundreds of firefighters who rushed to the scene to never come back? How the face of the gallant Father Mychal Judge who died, 68 years old, in a hail of steel and concrete as he administered the last rites to a firefighter and an office worker. And you, you who have been there, allow THEM to build one of their disgusting symbols of heathen supremacy over YOUR culture on the ashes of the victims.

What else do you need to know about Islam?

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Here now is a police report about an event from eastern Westphalia:

Back on June 8th in a train from Paderborn to Bielefeld there were verbal and threatening actions by a group of four. One of the people allegedly waved about with a machete. Besides that there was talk of a pistol on the train. These remarks had been passed on by the passengers to the police who intended to take the group into custody in Bielefeld. The group, however, debarked at the station in Brakwede. There it led immediately to serious bodily injury among the intoxicated group at 11:14 p.m. In the incident, a 34-year-old man from Schloss-Holte was beaten to the ground by a 19-year-old Albanian from Brackwerde and kicked several times in the head. Another (20-year-old) of the group was then commanded by the Serb to “stab” the 34-year-old with the machete. Fortunately it didn’t come to that because a third one from the group (20-year-old) took the machete away from him. The 34-year-old man had to be brought to a hospital and remained stationary there. He suffered from a concussion, serious injuries to the face and contusions. The machete was found and secured by the police in the area of the bicycle stand there. The 19-year-old Albanian has already appeared many times in criminal police records and is still under surveillance. Upon request by the district attorney, he was brought to arraignment. The Bielefeld administrative court issued a warrant for his house arrest.

Did you notice? The non-profesisonal report of the police officer is completely overloaded with uninteresting data that would only confuse citizens and have nothing to do with the real incident. A professional has to take care of it — in this case, a Quality Journalist from the Neuen Westfälischen. And now, from the confused scribblings, a well-formulated newspaper report, that even you and I can now understand without problems:

Rioting in the Train from Paderborn to Bielefeld on Friday: A group of four men threatened with a machete and beat a 34-year-old man from Schloss so that he had to go to the hospital.

Passengers had already alarmed the police and reported about a pistol. The rioters had left the train in Bielefeld-Brackwede. At the train station, the 34-year-old was beaten up by a 19-year-old and kicked several times in the head and face. The 19-year-old told another group member to “stab” the 34-year-old with the machete. At just the right moment, another group member intervened and took the machete out of the action.

The 34-year-old was brought into the hospital with a concussion, serious injuries to the face and contusions. The 19-year-old was brought before the arraigning court and is now under investigative custody.

See how it works? Great, then you can also become a Quality Journalist!

(Hat Tip: Dapunk / Translation: Anders Denken)

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This TV report from Swedish television was broadcast back last spring. But the conditions described therein are good examples of the developments in all of Europe, so much that it is important to view this film yet again with German subtitles:

The blog “Zölibat & mehr” (celibate and more) took the subject up at the end of September last year and reported about an Enricher, that shot at police and paramedics. In this case with even 50 bullets:

We waited a few days because we had to know whether German “Media of Quality” would report to you according to truth about the horrible political events in Europe. Now? You can forget it! Since mid-August 2009, Palestinians in our neighboring country have been shooting constantly at police officers, with heavy ammunition. In one case, they fired right at 50 times on paramedics and police. For German media, this wasn’t newsworthy. It is indeed “just” police on which a population group disinclined toward integration out of simple hate. The reversed racism of the immigrant citizens is considered normal by our “Media of Quality.” Kim Thyssen is one of the police officers at whom the Palestinians shot in the Palestinian neighborhood Vollsmose in the Danish city Odense in the past few days. It doesn’t surprise him that politically correct media don’t report about it. The Danish Palestinian residential area Vollsmose meanwhile has indeed become a No-Go Area for non-Muslims in Europe.

Denmark, in this respect, is no isolated case:

It is not just in Odense of Denmark, however, that civil warlike conditions are the rule, rather also in Brussels, in the Parisian suburbs, in Belfast, Birmingham, Göteborg, Uppsala, Malmö and in other large European cities. In Göteborg, for example, the vehicles of the police, the fire department and the paramedics are being hit more often by mostly Muslim immigrants with rocks of plaster during their service calls in order to hinder their work. Violence against police, paramedics and firefighters, vandalism, burning automobiles and burning trash containers have meanwhile become commonplace in Hising, a suburb of Göteborg. The crimes are carried out by Muslim immigrants. The youth have sprayed warning against the police on the wall. It says: “Whoever kills a police officer enters Paradise.” More and more often, police, firefighters and paramedics end up in life-threatening situations.

Now, this message has arrived in the Muslim neighborhoods of Europe. Only last week in France, in the cities Paris, Grenoble and Auxerre police were shot at, so that President Sarkozy had to react. He would like to withdraw citizenship immediately for the use of violence against police (PI reported).

The CIA chief’s predicted civil war for 2020 in Europe’s cities becomes evermore evident:

Falling values, Islamization, mass unemployment and the absence of the desire to assimilate by some immigrants that would themselves battle against “legally free ethnically far reaching homogeneous places” with violent weapons as against other German problems would, according to this study, be unleashed in a civil war.

There doesn’t remain much time for us to put a stop to it…

(Michael Stürzenberger / Translation: Anders Denken)

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Certain upper schools have also already been affected as well. The advocates argue for the measures by saying that the number of Muslims has increased so much in the elementary schools that responsibility can no longer be taken for “unclean” food. When the little ones become older, the usual upper schools will certainly follow up as well. And thus, a once proud kingdom is collapsing and dismantling itself.

(Hat Tip: Alex L.)

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(Open letter from René Stadtkewitz to Frank Henkel)

I find this unfortunate because I have had the privilege of experiencing much approval for my positions, especially in the presentations I have held these past months in various local chapters of the Berlin CDU. The subsequent debates were long and drawn out, and it was impressive to feel that even the members of the CDU also wanted to have a discussion about the political influences of Islam, the consequential refusal to integration with all of its relevant problems. But even more, they expect from us parliamentarian representatives that we engage ourselves in finding political solutions, or at least have sensible debate in the parliaments.

I am not accusing you of anything because you don’t know Geert Wilders, however I do fault you for using false statements from unchecked sources for alleged citations and building a destructive judgment from them. Thus you judge almost every fifth voter in our neighboring country in various regions who indeed in their free and democratic decision have voted to make out of the Party for Freedom, whose party and fraction chief Geert Wilders is, the third strongest political power in the Netherlands. It is part of political decency to respect these results, and it is part of political decency to join in the debates. We can be certain of this, that our neighbors who have been tolerant for so long wouldn’t have voted this way for a politician who — as you wrote — categorically writes off Muslims and arbitrarily suggests certain things about them, for precisely this is not something he does.

He does accurately differentiate between the Muslims and Islam. In turn, he distinguishes Islam between its religious part and its politically instrumentalized, societal part. This differentiation is necessary since we cannot comprehend Islam well with our adult understanding of religion. Only by differentiation does it become clear that Islam is considerably more than a religion. It is even a patriarchal, intolerant system of society, a political ideology that brings its own legal system with it that seeks to regulate every aspect of our life. Therefore, it doesn’t have to do with making their religion controversial among people.

Certainly Wilders does exaggerate from time to time, which I find completely legitimate. It is not necessary to embrace all of his statements, rather this is a matter of urgently needed debate about political Islam as cause for the refusal to assimilate and as cause for many problems in the ghettoization of our city. And Wilders has successfully carried this debate into the political arena. And I am also trying to do this same thing because this is where it belongs.

The comparison of the Quran with Hitler’s “Mein Kampf” wasn’t created by Wilders, rather the Italian author Oriana Fallaci in her Islam-critical book “The Power of Reason” that came out in 2004. In it, she contested the existence of a “moderate Islam” and advocated the idea that Islamist violence isn’t the result of an abuse of this religion, rather that it is derived directly from its origins.

Incidentally, it was Winston Churchill who described Hitler’s “Mein Kampf” in his book “The Second World War” as “a new Quran of faith and war: pompous, long winded, shapeless, but pregnant with his message” and therefore was the first to make this comparison. In 1954 he received the Nobel Prize for Literature for his books about the Second World War.

There has been criticism of Islam since there has been Islam, and there will be as long as Islam is that which we know it today, or at least until Islam has undergone some kind of an enlightenment. Karl Marx once wrote about Islam, “The Quran and the Muslim legal system that has its footing in it reduce geography and ethnography of the various nations to the simple and convenient division of believers and infidels. The infidel is “harby,” that is to say, ‘the enemy.’ Islam ostracizes the nation of the infidels and creates a situation of permanent enmity between Muslims and infidels. In this sense, the pirate ships of the Berber countries were the holy fleet of Islam.” (Marx-Engels Works, Volume 10, Page 170).

According to your logic, the matter with Marx and Churchill likewise was that of right-wing populists. With due respect, it is hard for me to believe that. It is really hard for me to believe that we withdraw more and more from uncomfortable debates by declaring the author of the debate as a non-person.

Tolerance and attention to human values are, as you correctly wrote, pillars of our society. Therefore, I am getting involved so that in the future peaceful coexistence of all citizens in our land is also a customary thing. This, however requires that any occuring grievances are allowed to be addressed publicly and without reservation. From time to time we honestly do address the grievances, but don’t allow ourselves to talk about the causes. This, however, is necessary to be in the position at all of hammering out an attempt at solving the problem. For ultimately it is the ideological influence of political Islam that that drives especially young people increasingly into the disorientation between diametrically contradictory concepts of values and society with the consequences that, unfortunately, all of us know about.

We are constantly making the mistake of using secularized Muslims who have freed themselves from the misanthropic ideology of a fundamentalist Quran interpretation and have the courage to question critically what is behind the origins of Islam as an occasion for minimizing the dangers altogether. But it’s precisely these courageous people that need our support, and we need them. Tolerance, therefore, cannot mean anything goes; tolerance also means knowing the limits. An undefined and unlimited tolerance is nonsense and leads to confusion.

With a formulation in an “integration paper” where it is simply stated that political Islam is rejected doesn’t necessarily mean it has happened. It must be followed with actions. The least of which is discussion itself and this because this political Islam has, in practical reality and contrary to so many appeasers, long since become more distinct and demanding. A few years ago there were, for example, discussions about the question whether children should participate in swimming class, or whether they should be exempted on religious grounds. The debate was indeed carried out, but the results failed to appear. Even you know that today more children don’t participate than at the time of the debate. Even worse, today 8-, 9- and 10-year-old children are already wearing head covering in school, which serves as a notable indicator for the increasing Islamic influence in our society. We know, though, what kind of future these children will have. The debate was too feeble, and above all besides the point. For much too seldom do we comprehend what the cause really is.

Why are we so hard on ourselves? I would also like to discuss that, too. I would like to have a debate about what power we still have to bring the values of our Judeo-Christian culture from which our constitution is constructed back to influence in all areas of our city, and make them understandable as a fixing protective barrier for everyone.

The debate with political Islam has long since begun; it must be undertaken with intensity. The one thereby will have as motivation the defense of freedom and rule of law, the other will take care of the countless young girls that are forced into marriages, enslaved, and sometimes become even victims of so-called murders of honor.

However, it doesn’t matter for what reason, even you will not be able to evade this debate. To give out the slogan, “We need Islam” is simply too lame if the explanation for why we need it is missing. There are political decisions that have made this immigration so hard to keep tabs on. Today it is teachers, youth officers, police, judges and the citizens themselves who carry the burden of this policy unasked. But they all need clear answers from policy. At least even just a sign that policy is interested in solutions. Even if we are not responsible for these decisions of the past, we are under obligation. It is the mandate that obligates us.

On these premises, I can and will uphold my invitation to the Dutch politician, Geert Wilders, who will possibly still be a member of the Dutch government before the event, and set all hopes on the event of October 2 here in Berlin of successfully advancing the necessary debate.

Furthermore I hold, on the premise that the CDU has, unfortunately, departed more and more from its own values and convictions, that the attitude test of yours is absurd. Under these conditions, I am deciding for freedom and will engage myself for my beliefs.

With friendly greetings,

René Stadtkewitz