Die Morgenpost reports:

Berlin’s ruling mayor, Klaus Wowereit (SPD), has called for a vigil to commemorate the erection of the Berlin Wall and the division of the city. The remembrance of this would sharpen our sense of the value of freedom, democracy and the rule of law, Wowereit stated on the anniversary of the wall’s erection 49 years ago.

On August 13, 1961, the GDR government began to raise up the wall. The German-German division lasted more than 28 years. On November 9, 1989, the wall fell. “It is always important to intervene against authoritarian regimes’ and dictatorships’ undisputed party,” Wowereit declared. “History teaches us that.”

At least 136 people died at the Wall by means of the left-wing fascist “GDR.” In the torture prisons of the SED regime, way more than 1,000 others have been estimated. The regime party currently calls itself “Die Linke (The Left)” and governs in conjunction with Wowereit’s Berlin SPD (Socialist Party of Germany) to the detriment of the citizens. In West Germany also, the left-wing fascists in the mean time have been able to count on impressive election results. Left-wing voters, however, are totally confident that “Nobody intends to build a wall.”

Return to the Mobile Edition.

Die Rheinische Post reports:

The Mönchengladbach District Attorney’s Office offered for help from the viewers. A key to understanding was the discovery of the murder weapon. The machine gun was delivered by Manfred Hämmerle , according to statements by the investigators. The man is fraction president of the Left Party in Hückelhoven. “He is charged with the procurement of several illegal arms,” the district attorney stated.

“At the beginning of the year we were informed by the criminal police that an investigation of Manfred Hämmerle was underway,” Bernd Jansen, the mayor of Hückelhoven, confirmed yesteray. According to the district attorney, the politician committed an offense against the war weapons law. However, he is not suspected of murder.

The Chief of the Left Party fraction in the regional assembly, Wolfgang Zimmer, looked surprised. As in any investigational procedure, innocence has been presumed here also. But should it happen that the charges stick against Hämmerle is hard for him to imagine “that he could remain a member of our party. The Left is a party of peace. Members involved in weapons trading have no place with us.”

Peter Biesenbach, internal expert for the CDU fraction of the regional assembly, stated that the case demonstrates thath the “Left Party is a collection basket for extremists.” The party “grew too quickly.” Apparently the party leadership is not in the position to stop questionable members from occupying office. Arndt Klocke, head of the Green fraction in the regional assembly said in contrast, that it was “nonchalant” to project the shortcomings of members upon the party and thereby carry on with “cheap political propaganda.”

The left-wing politicians and the murder victim were apparently friends and took motorbike tours together. According to the investigations, the weapon was in possession of the victim before the act. Hämmerle supposedly procured the machine gun. The ophthalmologist supposedly attempted to sell the weapon to an Albanian. The weapons business could itself be the motive for the murder.

(Hat Tip: Markus P, Hans / Translation: Anders Denken)

Return to the Mobile Edition.

Here is the video of the scene:

The photographer is wearing a baseball cap turned to the back, has on a leather jacket and a carrying back hanging around him. Whether he is taking a picture of the young woman by request, and whether she is with the photographer, are unclear. After evaluation in slow motion and at high resolution, the impression can be gained that both know each other. At least it seems like he is speaking with her; from about 1:21 minutes, the lip motions of the supposed photographer are finally recognizable in the slow motion sequence that follows. However, a definitive statement regarding this is not possible.

He takes a picture, bends over, straightens out, then leaves quickly. The woman stays at the scene and appears to be looking at her notepad. When the camera swings right, right away (at sec. 50) smoke appears next to a parked car, and then an explosion occurs (sec. 52-54).

The explosion happens in a distance of a few meters to the right (out of the camera’s view) at the former position of the photographer. The bomb — if it came then from the photographer — would have to have been the “roll bar” type.

At 1:58 Minutes, the young woman appears yet again in the video. One gets the impression by this that she wasn’t without a certain sympathy for the demonstration.

Screenshots from the video:

Photographer bending:

Photographer quickly leaving the scene of the incident:

In addition, here is an enlargement of the young woman smiling and hanging around in the left block shortly after the explosion:

(Hat Tip & Video Processor: Antivirus, additional Hat Tip: Nockerl / Translation: Anders Denken)

Return to the Mobile Edition.

Videos of the full session say more than a thousand words:

After Ünal’s speech, the President of the Assembly, Regina von Dinther (CDU), puts the proposal to a vote:

“Ladies and gentlemen, the procedural order didn’t forsee a statement of this… um… this… uh… opinion. Therefore, we can vote. Whoever wishes to empower this preliminary procedural order, please show by sign of handraising. … Thank you very much. All opposed? Abstainers? Good, then we are now in agreement for inclu… uh… concluding.

What does “conclude” now mean, Ms. Assembly President? But, of course, that has nothing to do with us…

(Hat Tip: nurednal / Translation: Anders Denken)

Return to the Mobile Edition.

He made the remark during the return trip in his car, when he thought the lapel mike that came from the sending radio transmitter Sky and was hanging on his shirt was turned off. Whether the offended lady will still give him her vote is more than uncertain. In any case, the appearance will have given occasion to think for some who have seen the embarrassing pictures. The Tories can lean back and watch while Labor makes a laughingstock of itself.

Brown says in so many words:

That was a disaster…should never have put me with that woman. Whose idea was that? Sue’s I think Just ridiculous. … She was just a sort of bigoted woman who said she used to be Labour. I mean, it’s just ridiculous. Sue pushed her up towards me.

You can see the scene here:

The disappointed and furious reaction of the lady:

SpOn reports:

The radio establishments transmitted the outburst of the prime minister in full detail. The retiree who was suddenly brought out into the open reacted indignantly when she heard Brown’s statements and demanded an apology. “He is an educated man. Why does he use such words?”

The PM showed remorse thereupon: “I ask this lady repeatedly for forgiveness,” he said on BBC Radio. He doesn’t actually think the things that he said about her. According to a report from his speaker, Brown personally contacted Duffy by telephone and excused himself personally.

On top of that, he later had himself brought by his service Jaguar to Duffy’s house and personally excused himself in her living room. After the conversation, he exited the door smiling and said that he had “misunderstood” Duffy. He is a “repentant sinner.” Duffy herself didn’t appear again in front of the house. She only gave notification that the media must disappear from her entryway.

“I blame myself,” Brown said according to the British news agency PA. “One should also point out that I was helpful to the radio people, that I had hurried in my car with an active microphone to the next appointment, and it was a private conversation that they sent out.” He had gotten irritated about the question of immigration. The retiree had asked the governing head among other things what he would think of doing in the face of record debt, the immigration from East Europe and university tuitions.

A simple little citizen with inconvenient questions has been able to bring the governing era of Labour in Great Britain down, all because of a tiny microphone button.

(Translation: Anders Denken)

Return to the Mobile Edition.

I don’t want to link to everything, but it seems that Rev. Frida Rothe had this document in mind in her reference this past Saturday. In doing so, she compared Gaza and the Palestinan autonomic regions directly to the former Apartheid regime in South Africa, and thus equated Israeli government with that regime.

Excerpt:

Today Christians from Palestine are succeeding. From suffering under the occupation, they make — so they say — a cry of hope. They call it “Kairos Palestina.” They hope that God will free their people from occupation and the seizure of land just like he freed the people in South Africa from Apartheid. The expect that Christians in the whole world will take up their cry in the spirit of Easter faith of love and reconciliation.

And we? Will we recognize the determining moment?

I don’t want to go into complete detail; others can do that much better. On Israelaktuell, they show among other things the massive pressure and threat of violence by Hamas of signing such a document. PI readers have already received enough examples of this kind, where persons who have pitted themselves against Hamas have been shot in the knees as warning. Those individuals have, therefore, come to understand what it means to stand against Hamas. Israelaktuell phrases it a little more politely.

There was an interesting lecture from even this same Rev. Frida Rothe on July 1, 2008, in the church of Kohlesbach in Weilheim-Teck. The title of this lecture was “60 years of the establishment of the State of Israel — 60 years of Nabka of the Palestinians.” Truly a praiseworthy, neutral title, however since both viewpoints were mentioned in the title, then it seems that a neutral lecture would have been given. The worst expectations that some participants had in spite of that — since we know the kind of people we’re dealing with here — were well exceeded. First, she mentioned her desire of telling about her last trip to visit Palestinian friends in Ramallah. The CD, stupidly enough, didn’t function with the pictures; however, she had an older CD with her that contained previous visits. After these beginning problems, she finally was able to get on with the presentation. In a word, it was the typical antisemitic method used by our leftwing and extreme Left.

My definition of antisemitic is this: when equal results from identical treatment receive differing evaluations, regardless of whether one is Palestinian or Israeli. It became clear in a very short time that the Israeli was to blame for everything, the old well-known antisemitic method. Of course, she showed pictures from the border fence for proof, or she called it the border wall. She then showed a picture from the middle of the Old Quarter where the wall is nine meters tall. The indignant whispering of the older listeners could not be overheard, even though some of the ideology of the Hitler Youth era certainly came to mind in some listeners. One listener indicated that about 95 to 98 percent of the fence’s length exists right where the TV team had been invited by certain appointments — and where the exposed area in this photography was taken — in order to stage the gleeful throwing of stones at Israel through effective media coverage. He also pointed out that the wall was nine meters tall right in these places so that stones can’t be thrown over, since some Israelis had suffered from fractured skulls from such stone throws. Furthermore, she was informed that the real reason of the border fence’s erection was because of the suicide attackers from Gaza and Western Jordan, that indeed 211 Israelis had been killed by them in 2002, and that after the building of the protection fence, the count of those who were murdered fell to six in 2006 and to one in 2007. The minister pushed this objection aside with the words that a wall or a fence was no solution for the conflict.

Then she took a mental jump and started reporting about Ahmadinejad’s rumored speech: the old, well-known, extreme left version, where he absolutely did not say that he would drive the Israelis into the sea, but that his speech had been incorrectly translated. Which begs the question, whether this splitting of hairs is really so decisive, for it is simply undeniable that he is a most vicious anti-Semite. And any ally is justified in her antisemitism. Next came the story of the alleged robbery of land by the Israelis. That this is the direct result of the attacks from the Arab countries was, of course, kept quiet. Then she told next of a Palestinian wedding to which she was invited and was able to participate in. Of course, the Apartheid of the sexes was the rule, men and women were strictly separated in the celebration, and she stressed as well, how nice it was to celebrate without the men around.

The most impressive thing was when she recounted, with a glimmer in her eyes, how her daughter — apparently, very much the mother — wanted to buy and wear a Hijab, and she reported how nice, enthusiastic and friendly the lady of the shop was, and especially how happy the daughter was about her new head covering.

At the end, another listener asked, that since she had lived a good while in Jerusalem, whether she had also found Israeli-Jewish friends, or perhaps gotten to know some then. The answer wasn’t surprising anymore by that time. No, she lived in the Arab part of Jerusalem, and therefore she had Arab friends exclusively, and had also not sought out any Israeli ones, since by that time “she had already stood on the side of the oppressed, defenseless, and those without rights.”

Aha, the world is so simple.

P.S.: I heard later on, that a participant had offered to do a presentation from the Israeli viewpoint to Pastor Brigitte Turnacker of the corresponding church. He is still waiting to this day for an answer to his letter.

» Email Frida Rothe at: pfarramt@kirche-gutenberg.de

(By Anonymouse / Translation: Anders Denken)

Return to the Mobile Edition.

Here is what Jewish parents report about their daily routine — not far away or somewhere in the Middle East, but right in the middle of the streets of Oslo:

“My son was on the way to the school to meet a friend there. A few Muslims stopped him and asked, are you Jewish, which he confirmed. With that the seized him and wanted to hang him. Somehow though, he was able to tear himself away from them — to this day he doesn’t know how — he then ran home and cried out of panic. That was the starting point of the nightmare.”…

“My child received death threats; his schoolmates say that he is a Jewish pig and should be shot down.

“There is a notorious denunciation of Jews — from jokes all the way to public death threats.” …

“Many immigrants bring antisemitism with them from their homelands. The embarrassing thing is that there is nobody here who will stand against them.”

The open hostility against Jews in Norway can now no longer be covered with the fig leaf of “Israel criticism.” The discrimination against Jews just because they are Jews is too visible. Nobody is really resisting it as well. Politicians don’t want to know anything about antisemitism in Norwegian society and disavow themselves of any common blame.

That fact that Norwegian politicians have belonged precisely to the sharpest international critics of Israeli policy pertaining to the Palestinians has nothing to do with the intimidation of Norwegian Jews. Such connections are repudiated by (Education Minister) Kristin Halvorsen who occupies the direction of the Socialist People’s Party while at the same time is considered as one of the central stakeholders in the Norwegian government, and in the past had already called for a boycott of Israeli goods.

Finally, the Muslims are a blessing, and Battle against Israel is Battle against the Right™, and therefore hostility against Jews is apparently OK in the reckoning of the Education Minister, even if she wouldn’t openly admit to this.

(Translation: Anders Denken)

Return to the Mobile Edition.

From the taz:

Geert Wilders goes to America! The leader and sole member of his own PVV Party (Partij vor de Vrijheid – Party for Freedom) is looking to conquer LA. On May 1st, a documentary film with the title “Warning to the West” will be shown. The film comes from “PRB Films in collaboration with the Christian Action Network.”

Geert Wilders considers it a “great honor” and if the filmmaker is against homos as well as homo marriages as well, that’s all OK.

The readers of left-wing bourgeois sheet in chronic need of money certainly are becoming sick and tired of all the oppressive parochialism from the Leftwing-Green authors as well. Here are a few readers’ opinions from the taz:

The great German Islam associations are also against homos and homosexual marriage (I recommend a look at websites and publications from the associations). That, however, still has never held Greens and left-wing individuals back from exercising solidarity with the representatives of these associations in talk shows. (…)

Funny that Mr. Madeja doesn’t make any negative statements regarding Islamic associations that would most gladly condemn gays with Sharia.

But no, that doesn’t work because it would require courage, how easy is it though, to bark with a pack that labels everything right-wing that doesn’t think according to the commands of the Opinion Dictatorship.

I have been a 30-year follower of the Greens now. I was multiculti, tolerant and cosmopolitan. I always believed that everyone wants to live the way they wish.

But when my Muslim neighbors become more radical and intolerant, I started to have my first concerns.

The women suddenly started traipsing around in burkas in my yard, and the men declared to me that Sharia was now in force in my yard.

Since then, I have been a follower of Geert Wilders. We must ultimately take some kind of measures against the islamization of Germany.

For wherever Islam has the say, that is the end of multiculturalism. The only thing that rules there is Muslim monoculturalism. And wherever the Imams or the Ayatollahs have the say, that’s where tolerance ends.

And Geert Wilders has recognized that! One cannot react against intolerance with tolerance.

Geert Wilders recognized that progress cannot be made with tolerance. Even Adolf Hitler and his Nazis could not be stopped with tolerance!

One cannot stand for the freedom to take our freedom away. And interestingly enough, the Muslims do not have the tolerance that they demand from us.

And whoever doesn’t believe this needs to take a look at any Muslim land of their choice (…)

Exactly, the self-image of the journalists of the taz is that simple. One doesn’t want to inform, but rather agitate.

It’s a shame then, when the Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan says such things about moderate Islam:

“These descriptions are very ugly, it is offensive and an insult to our religion. There is no moderate or non-moderate Islam. Islam is Islam and it holds its own.”

Since the interesting authors have long since left the taz, there aren’t any more readers left to spoon out the pie-in-the-sky ideological brew without complaint. Nowhere else is it more clear: The ’68 generation is dying out

Here is the trailer for Wilders’ new film:

Return to the Mobile Edition.

(By Anders Denken)

How does the State take over and eventually oppress the People?

– Claim the human body as its property

– Limit the possibility of self-protection

– Limit / shut down access to information

– Control the flow of money

The first answer mentioned above contains perhaps the strongest means that a State can use to control its people.

In the past weeks, actually in the past year, there has been constant discussion about healthcare reform. The media has been almost totally enraptured by this subject. I believe it is simply because the healthcare industry comprises one-sixth of the American economy. But not just that, rather the present government also knows that if you can achieve control over the human body, then ultimately it doesn’t matter what other laws get passed. For therein is true controlling power.

However, we’re not only dealing with healthcare reform here, but also with the limitation of other freedoms. The present regime, as I see it, ultimately wants to shut down our Constitution. There is always talk of somebody that has said something off-hand, for example the sports announcer who said something that was interpreted as “racist.” Conservatives that are simply expressing their opinions about the economy, unemployment, our government, the war in Afghanistan or Iraq, are being attacked directly by the White House or Congress themselves because of what they are saying. They are being marginalized by the State. I have seen this with Rush Limbaugh, Fox News, Sean Hannity, not to mention many others. We see this in Europe with Geert Wilders. It’s very interesting to me that the media on one side of the ocean doesn’t want to deal with what’s happening on the other side. For example, we hear little or nothing about Geert Wilders here in the US. Reuters had a little paragraph, perhaps a three-liner about him. Up till now, the only new agency that has had anything substantial about Wilders is National Review Online.

In addition, there is the issue of the right of being allowed to own weapons privately. On April 4, there will be a demonstration in DC about this right. There is constant discussion among us as to how the 2nd Amendment can be changed, or perhaps disabled through local and state laws without having to touch the Constitution.

As an example of transgression against the 4th Amendment, the healthcare will have far-reaching effects because every US citizen will have to file a statement about their income and how much they have paid out for health insurance, and the IRS will be the administrative arm for the new social insurance law. Whoever is not insured will have to pay an “uninsured” fine, so it will be legally compulsive to be insured upon threat of fines.

OK, so why not go ahead and do away with the Constitution? In order to pass this health reform, many parts of the Constitution have been danced around. First, they weren’t able to get a constitutional majority to pass it with a proper majority. So, because of that, there was the idea of reconciliation, which is primarily used for financial matters. With that, as I understand, that requires the majority of only one vote. Unfortunately, they didn’t have enough votes for that, so Madame Pelosi decided to “deem it passed.”

Enough of the government. The American people don’t want anything of this monstrosity, of the takeover of our well-being, and even less of a great part of our economy. On September 12, 2009 in Washington, there was a demonstration with over a million people present, in which I myself took part. Since that day, many demonstrations have occurred throughout our country. In spite of all of that, this regime wants to pass a law that is contrary to the will of the people.

Acting against the 1st Amendment, the State is attempting to disempower the freedom of expression of the people in that a couple of Representatives of Virginia have introduced a law that will give the President the power to shut down the Internet (and/or specific networks and/or computers) in case of a national emergency. The question is: What will be interpreted as a national emergency? Dissenting opinion? How many of us own personal computers and laptops? That means they will really be able to come into your home, if neccessary, to take a specific computer off the Internet.

Movement, that is automotive movement, is also being looked at in reining in our freedoms. Every one of us already knows about General Moters, how it has been converted into Government Motors. The matter is only the beginning and is becoming much worse. In some cities like Chicago, the police now has the right to put a GPS on the car of a suspect without that suspect’s knowledge. It comes to the question of who will eventually be seen as a suspect? Someone with dissident opinions? Don’t get me wrong, I am not against fighting crime, but there is somewhat the saying, “If laws are passed, then only the law-abiding will keep them.” or in addition, “If guns are outlawed, only outlaws will have guns.”

As to control of money flow, one doesn’t have to say a lot. We already know about the bank bailouts and TARP. With these things, the state has already seized a lot of control over the banks. What interests me is with what money they actually did this? The taxpayers’? We also understand that our country is heavily indebted to a communist (somewhat capitalistic?!) land. Where will the money ultimately be to pay these debts? I believe that this is just the beginning of this drama…

The control that this regime wants to have over us is far more reaching than that of the Soviet Union ever was. At least back then, they didn’t have so much technology that they could employ against the people. They had only informants and somewhat hearing devices that they attached to telephones that could register something against the people, not much more than that.

Now the end of our country can be spelled out as following. Presently, there is an anti-Israeli movement fully underway. At PI and other places, I have read and heard how our country’s government conducts itself in relation to Israel. In my opinin, they want to look like idiots, while the real action of their policies looks quite different. How can we hope to influence Israeli policy? Do we really want Israel to make a peace treaty with a people who have the intent of driving all of Jewry into the sea? Since I am a believer in the Bible, I am of the persuasion that when the US is done with Israel, then the US is completely done for. History has constantly borne this out with only one exception. This exception has to do with the Arabs, who are the descendents of Abraham through Hagar. Genesis 16 and 17 show us why we have so many problems in the Middle East today. And in Genesis 21 and 22, and many other places, that there will be no end for Israel.

====

Addendum to the above text. I wrote this on March 19.

On Sunday evening (3/21/2010), at 11 PM, the United States of America was changed into the Socialist Republic of the United States of America. Just this morning (3/22), I was sent a report of the BILD newspaper where it says that the Germans are celebrating a victory for the American people. That is the opinion of the left-wing media. The real mood of the majority of the American people is that we absolutely do not want healthcare reform in the way it is being done here because we know that this particular law will give the State complete power over our bodies, and therefore our whole life. Therefore, it is a victory for Marxism, something I never imagined would be possible in my life.

Return to the Mobile Edition.

Democracy would then be abolished on the Island and Sharia instituted as the sole legal system in force. The extremist group has already been supported by ten million pounds of British taxpayer money out of a fund for “combatting extremism.” Labour intends to undertake countermeasures — it it’s not too late already to do something about it.

» Further information can be found here.

(Translation of German PI-article by Anders Denken)

Return to the Mobile Edition.

The Hamburger Morgenpost reports:

Christmas gifts bring joy, even if they arrive a little late: The Hamburg organization “Laut gegen Nazis” (“Loud against Nazis”) has just received a $100,000 donation (about €71,000) from Internet giant Google.

“We feel more than honored and more than validated in our work,” from campaign chief Jörn Menge.

In the past year, Google did without the distribution of Christmas gifts to its advertising clients, and instead donated the money — an amalgamate total of 20 million dollars — to 15 charitable organizations worldwide (among others, “World Wildlife Fund” and “Heal Africa”)

(Translation of German PI-article by Anders Denken)

Return to the Mobile Edition.

(Original Germ PI-article from Epistemology, Translated by Anders Denken)

Now, this really means the goat has turned into the gardener (the child has been let loose in the candy shop). One could just as well set up a teaching position for nose piercing research. One truly would be throwing no less money to the wind.

“Enlightened Islam,” now that’s already an oxymoron, a contradiction in itself. According to the declarations of Islamic theologists — that the Eugen-Biser endowment has blessed us with — the Quran is God’s word and message so much so, that enlightenment in and of itself is superfluous for Islam, it is utterly impossible.

In Islam, they (the thinkers of the Christian West) saw the realization of the self-limitation of the religious by reason and enlightenment that they had sorely missed in Christianity.

Far be it from me to doubt that there were some things that were bad in Christianity, when considering reason and enlightenment, but should just such an ideology like Islam, which is so irrational and antithetic to science, be the solution?

The German Science Council … in contrast, suggested the opposite, that is even to anchor Islamic theology in German Universities, with its own institutes and with the same scientific authority as Christian theology.

Aha! Now we shall learn at the university how one can scientifically perform stoning, carry out honor murders, or lead the way to forced marriages. Of course, the scientific foundation for paedophilia will be handed down, being easily understood by a three-part construction.

Enlightened theology … is it for the sake of the religion itself? Because a religion that knows no borders or scruples anymore either grows stiff or it turns into a crusading fundamentalism.

Such an enlightened understanding! Only, where are the borders and scruples in Islam?

Believers and scholars who are both devout and enlightened in this form are profoundly absent in Islam. They aren’t absent because of the fact that Islam is principally adverse to education, incapable of reform, and aggressive — just like the assumption of that dull criticism of Islam that was spread around in the 19th century and served as the stereotype at the time that Muslims are exotic, erotic and uncapable of thinking.

The first sentence can stand on its own. The second one needs some correction. Islam, from the ground up, is “antagonistic to education, incapable of reform, and aggressive”. Dedicated Muslims are incapable of thinking, not erotic, rather much more sexually perverted, geared up to jump any mammal-like creature, male or female, or any other copulable object that could be arranged for them.

This has to do with the future of theology altogether, with the future of a religiosity that opposes growing fundamentals. They are truly not just a purely Muslim problem.

Mr. Drobinski, it has absolutely nothing to do with that, rather it has much more to do with exposing and fighting a fascist ideology that has disguised itself as religion.

…They could, however, give Islam, which seeks a home in Europe, room for doubt and questions — room for the capability of reflection and win back the self-control that it once had.

OK, anyone can seek, but in Europe Islam finds no home; in addition, the thought processes are fundamentally too diverse, whereby I really don’t want to speak about the thought processes of Muslims; they are religiously instilled imbecility.

This idea of reflection and self-control – those are beautiful words and hopes, somewhat typically western, naive concepts. According to the motto that we developed through the Age of Enlightenment, that also happens to be quite relaxed now in Islam. When, at anytime, should there be any ideas of reflection and self-control? When the self-proclaimed prophet killed the Jews from Yathrib, or when he attacked the caravans from Mecca? Perhaps one should look at later times, when the Muslims conquered Spain and India, or when the Turks beseiged Vienna, or when Khomeini seized power in Tehran.

Islam has always been antagonistic to enlightenment, ill-disposed to any criticism, and solidly preoccupied with world domination. Every form of civilization and culture is deeply foreign to and hated in Islam. And, unfortunately, Matthias Drobinski cannot change these things.

» matthias.drobinski@sueddeutsche.de

Return to the Mobile Edition.

Since Wagenknecht has now fallen into internal criticism by her party may be an forthcoming surprise, especially considering the undercurrents against Israel that tend toward antisemitism within this Mauerbauer Partei (English ‘Wallbuilder’s Party’) (as PI has reported numerous times). It is becoming understandable, however, that the vision is to avoid this impression in public. Moreover it is a welcome support for Wagenknecht’s every ambition of taking over the presently vacant chief party chair. This Class-Struggle Amazon, who can’t let go of the old “GDR (East German)” dictatorship, is still unplaceable by the voters.

We can also recognize that in the future, “The Left” will furthermore understand the term “antifascist struggle” to mean “agitation against the Jewish people.” In the best tradition of the GDR, it is indeed well known that they energetically supported the Arabs with weapons and soldiers against the Zionist archenemy. Wagenknecht and her oh so brave battle colleagues in the ranks of this faction in the Bundestag have simply shown what a considerable part of the party thinks.

Deeds do speak louder than words.

(Translation of German PI-Article by Anders Denken)

Return to the Mobile Edition.

(By the Editrix)

On June 2, 1967, Benno Ohnesorg, a German student of Romance and German literature, was shot dead by a plain clothes police officer during a rally against the visit of the Shah of Iran, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi. As a pacifist, Ohnesorg was a member of a Christian Protestant community. He was a poet and aspired to become a grammar school teacher, married, his wife being pregnant with their first child. This had been the first rally he had ever attended. He was 26.

Karl-Heinz Kurras, the fatal shooter, was found not guilty of negligent homicide on November 21, 1967.

Benno Ohnesorgs death led to the militant radicalisation of the extreme left and became the central argument for the self-justification of those who later killed almost hundred people. The Movement 2 June was named after the day of his death. The rest is history.

Now two historians, Cornelia Jabs und Helmut Müller-Enbergs, have made an interesting, potentially explosive, discovery. In an article in the respected historic specialist magazine, “Deutschlandarchiv”, they published an article “Der 2. Juni 1967 und die Staatssicherheit”. While doing research in the Stasi archives, they found documents such as the signed formal obligation of Karl-Heinz Kurras, his SED-membership book and several personnel reviews by his case officers. Kurras had belonged, so it seems, to “Linie IV” within the Stasi, known to have been responsible for “less than pretty dealings”, so Müller-Enbergs und Jabs.

Kurras, so the historians, got a radio message from the DDR-Ministerium für Staatssicherheit following Ohnesorge’s death, saying: “Destroy material at once. Stop work for now. Consider event as deplorable mishap…”.

Anyway, Kurras was, following June 2, 1967, not expelled from the SED and as a member of a special task force of the West Berlin police, a unit that was set up to detect traitors within their own ranks, he was working at an extreme sensitive spot indeed.

So far, the historians can not tell for sure, whether Kurras had killed Ohnesorg at East Berlin’s instigation or not. Facts are, that he was a crack shot who was unlikely to have hit Ohnesorg by chance, that he hadn’t been “attacked” by anybody and certainly not by Ohnesorg, that he had hopelessly entangled himself in contradictions in the aftermath of the fatal event, and that investigation authorities had done everything to clear the name of “one of them”.

Asked 40 years later whether he had, then, made a mistake, Kurras, then 79, replied: “Mistake? I ought to have blasted them to send the scraps flying and not just once; I ought to have shot five, six times. Everybody who attacks me will be destroyed and that’s that”, letting, incidentally, slip that his defence about the warning shot he had allegedly fired had been a lie.