The 4 Freedoms Library2024-03-29T07:04:01ZAlan Lakehttp://4freedoms.com/profile/AlanLakehttp://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/54802804?profile=RESIZE_48X48&width=48&height=48&crop=1%3A1http://4freedoms.com/group/german/forum/topic/listForContributor?user=097vqiv65r6ui&feed=yes&xn_auth=noSyrian Parasite: 3 wives, aiming for 20 kidstag:4freedoms.com,2018-03-14:3766518:Topic:1947202018-03-14T23:44:29.750ZAlan Lakehttp://4freedoms.com/profile/AlanLake
<h1 class="page-header"><span>Illiterate Syrian in Germany Has 3 Wives, Wants 20 Kids, No Plans to Work - German TV Interview</span></h1>
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<h1 class="page-header"><span>Illiterate Syrian in Germany Has 3 Wives, Wants 20 Kids, No Plans to Work - German TV Interview</span></h1>
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<div class="field-body"><p>This culture-enricher loves Germany!, and doesn't hide the fact that he realizes that he has really lucked out.</p>
<p>He has three wives so far, two in Germany (one is 13), and the other in Syria. He hopes to marry a German next, to round it up to 4, and figures he can eventually increase his current 6 children to 20.</p>
<p>He's a big fan of "Mama Merkel", and Germans in general for showering him with this generosity.</p>
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<p><em>Video in German</em></p>
<hr/><p>From<span> </span><a href="http://freewestmedia.com/2018/02/22/tv-interview-with-illiterate-syrian-shock-german-viewers/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Free West Media</a>:</p>
<blockquote><p>Ahmad, an illiterate, and his wives are also satisfied with the apartment financed by the German taxpayer. In a single bedroom – so we learn – the three do not sleep together, but in succession. Being a second wife is obviously a shift worker job.</p>
<p>Ahmad wishes for four wives and 10 to 20 children and would eventually need a larger flat. His third future wife still lives in Syria. For the fourth wedding, the illiterate imagines wedding a German woman, provided she is a Muslim. She may even be only 13, as was the case with one of his current wives.</p>
<p>Ahmad does not want to work or take a German course either. He prefers to be with the children, he says. He is an example to them of a father who does not speak German, nor does he have to work.</p>
<p>The Syrian is keenly aware that all of this is real luxury. He is full of gratitude while he enthuses about “Mama Merkel” and the Germans, “even if there are racists among them”.</p>
<p>Instead of critical thought, <em>Spiegel TV</em> gushes about the “insight into another world. With other norms, other values. But with a life goal that unites everyone: to be happy.”</p>
<p>The online editors of <em>Spiegel </em>even tweeted:</p>
<p class="rteindent1"><em>”So-called polygamy is banned in Germany and not compatible with our moral expectations. But it is allowed in other religions, and it seems to work for this Syrian family as well.”</em></p>
<p>The fact is that this cultural model only works in Germany through comprehensive social benefits at the expense of the taxpayer, is completely ignored by the <em>Spiegel </em>editors.</p>
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During the <em>Spiegel TV</em> interview with the Syrian, he only granted his wives permission to speak after a while. The women barely had a say in the report. It seems that the only thing they were allowed to say was to express their satisfaction with their promised fate.</blockquote>
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</div> Guardian readers delighted as Germany has its nose rubbed in diversitytag:4freedoms.com,2016-03-23:3766518:Topic:1766212016-03-23T06:42:03.891ZAlan Lakehttp://4freedoms.com/profile/AlanLake
<h1><span class="font-size-4"><strong>Seven-year-old girl is gang-raped at an asylum centre in Germany as ‘five Arabic men’ are investigated</strong> </span></h1>
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<li><font><strong>Police called after report the seven-year-old was gang raped by five men </strong></font></li>
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<h1><span class="font-size-4"><strong>Seven-year-old girl is gang-raped at an asylum centre in Germany as ‘five Arabic men’ are investigated</strong> </span></h1>
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<li><font><strong>The incident allegedly happened in Hamburg where the girl was staying </strong></font></li>
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<p class="author-section byline-plain">By <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/search.html?s=&authornamef=Matt+Hunter+For+Mailonline" class="author" rel="nofollow">MATT HUNTER FOR MAILONLINE</a> <span class="article-timestamp-label">PUBLISHED:</span> 16:44, 21 March 2016</p>
<div><p class="mol-para-with-font"><font>German police are investigating another horrific gang rape apparently involving a seven-year-old girl who had been living at an asylum centre.</font></p>
<p class="mol-para-with-font"><font>The incident allegedly happened in Hamburg where the girl had been accepted at a first registration home in the city's quarter of Bahrenfeld.</font></p>
<p class="mol-para-with-font"><font>Police were called in the early evening after a report that a seven-year-old girl was the victim of a gang rape at the centre on the Albert-Einstein-Ring road. </font></p>
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<p class="mol-para-with-font"><font>The suspected attackers were named in German media as five Arabic men, although it is unclear if they were just visiting the asylum centre or whether they were actually registered and living there.</font></p>
<p class="mol-para-with-font"><font>Prosecutor Nana Frombach said: 'We have opened an investigation against five people. The circumstances or what happened are still unclear. The investigation is continuing.'</font></p>
<p class="mol-para-with-font"><font>The asylum seeker centre where the incident took place is a former office building, and although at the moment being modernised is currently also providing accommodation for 550 refugees.</font></p>
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<p><span>Read more: <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3502900/Seven-year-old-girl-gang-raped-asylum-centre-Germany-five-Arabic-men-investigated.html#ixzz43hoju1pS">http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3502900/Seven-year-old-girl-gang-raped-asylum-centre-Germany-five-Arabic-men-investigated.html#ixzz43hoju1pS</a> <br/></span></p> Blackmail by mozlimstag:4freedoms.com,2016-01-23:3766518:Topic:1740652016-01-23T22:08:34.978ZAlan Lakehttp://4freedoms.com/profile/AlanLake
<p>So by stating this, they actually confirm that mozlims ARE ATTACKING!!<br></br>(as if that needed to be stated though)</p>
<p><a href="http://www.jihadwatch.org/2016/01/muslim-group-says-germany-must-ban-alcohol-if-they-want-to-prevent-further-sex-attacks/" target="_blank">http://www.jihadwatch.org/2016/01/muslim-group-says-germany-must-ban-alcohol-if-they-want-to-prevent-further-sex-attacks/<br></br></a></p>
<p>And this has NOTHING TO DO with alcohol:<br></br>"taharrush"<br></br>"Cultural enrichment" has…</p>
<p>So by stating this, they actually confirm that mozlims ARE ATTACKING!!<br/>(as if that needed to be stated though)</p>
<p><a href="http://www.jihadwatch.org/2016/01/muslim-group-says-germany-must-ban-alcohol-if-they-want-to-prevent-further-sex-attacks/" target="_blank">http://www.jihadwatch.org/2016/01/muslim-group-says-germany-must-ban-alcohol-if-they-want-to-prevent-further-sex-attacks/<br/></a></p>
<p>And this has NOTHING TO DO with alcohol:<br/>"taharrush"<br/>"Cultural enrichment" has brought us a new word: Taharrush. Remember it well, because we are going to have to deal with it a lot. Taharrush is the Arabic word for the phenomenon whereby women are encircled by groups of men and sexually harassed, assaulted, groped, raped. After the Cologne taharrush on New Year's Eve, many German women bought pepper spray. Who can blame them?<br/><br/>A culture that has a specific word for sexual assaults of women by groups of men is a danger to all women. The existence of the word indicates that the phenomenon is widespread. Frau Merkel, Prime Minister Rutte and all the other open-door politicians could and should have known this.</p> A lesson for liberal retarded (and other) women, so eager to help the rapefugees...tag:4freedoms.com,2016-01-22:3766518:Topic:1742082016-01-22T00:58:22.551ZAlan Lakehttp://4freedoms.com/profile/AlanLake
<p>In short: a woman who against all the evidence still wants to be an aid worker in a rapefugee centre,</p>
<p>until reality hits her hard....</p>
<p><a href="http://pamelageller.com/2016/01/i-cant-take-it-anymore-german-refugee-aid-worker.html/" target="_blank">http://pamelageller.com/2016/01/i-cant-take-it-anymore-german-refugee-aid-worker.html/</a></p>
<p>In short: a woman who against all the evidence still wants to be an aid worker in a rapefugee centre,</p>
<p>until reality hits her hard....</p>
<p><a href="http://pamelageller.com/2016/01/i-cant-take-it-anymore-german-refugee-aid-worker.html/" target="_blank">http://pamelageller.com/2016/01/i-cant-take-it-anymore-german-refugee-aid-worker.html/</a></p> PEGIDAtag:4freedoms.com,2015-01-06:3766518:Topic:1592472015-01-06T00:04:36.905ZAlan Lakehttp://4freedoms.com/profile/AlanLake
<p>I guess this is growing to be so significant, it needs its own discussion.</p>
<p>Tonight the PEGIDA demonstration had 20,000 at it. Apparently EDL were in attendance (possibly even spoke from the stage). </p>
<p>Here is a video by a German jew, speaking about PEGIDA. Quite frankly, I think it would be worth the whole of the CJM anti-kuffarphobia alliance just adopting PEGIDA as the name of the cause. The word has no connotations in English, and once the abbreviation is explained, I can't…</p>
<p>I guess this is growing to be so significant, it needs its own discussion.</p>
<p>Tonight the PEGIDA demonstration had 20,000 at it. Apparently EDL were in attendance (possibly even spoke from the stage). </p>
<p>Here is a video by a German jew, speaking about PEGIDA. Quite frankly, I think it would be worth the whole of the CJM anti-kuffarphobia alliance just adopting PEGIDA as the name of the cause. The word has no connotations in English, and once the abbreviation is explained, I can't see how any non-looney westerner would object to it.</p>
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</p> Islam in Germany: 2012 Overviewtag:4freedoms.com,2012-12-29:3766518:Topic:1171702012-12-29T16:28:33.849ZAlan Lakehttp://4freedoms.com/profile/AlanLake
<h1 style="margin-bottom: 10px;">The Islamization of Germany in 2012</h1>
<p><b>by <a href="http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/author/Soeren+Kern">Soeren Kern</a><br></br> December 24, 2012</b></p>
<p><b><a href="http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/3512/germany-islamization">http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/3512/germany-islamization</a></b></p>
<p>Post-Christian Europe became noticeably more Islamized during 2012.</p>
<p>As the rapidly growing Muslim population makes its presence felt in towns and…</p>
<h1 style="margin-bottom: 10px;">The Islamization of Germany in 2012</h1>
<p><b>by <a href="http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/author/Soeren+Kern">Soeren Kern</a><br/> December 24, 2012</b></p>
<p><b><a href="http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/3512/germany-islamization">http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/3512/germany-islamization</a></b></p>
<p>Post-Christian Europe became noticeably more Islamized during 2012.</p>
<p>As the rapidly growing Muslim population makes its presence felt in towns and cities across the continent, Islam is transforming the European way of life in ways unimaginable only a few years ago.</p>
<p>Some of the more notable Islam-related controversies during 2012 occurred in Germany, where the Muslim population has jumped from around 50,000 in the early 1980s to more than 4.5 million today.</p>
<p>What follows is a brief chronological review of some of the main stories involving the rise of Islam in Germany during 2012.</p>
<p>In January, German authorities welcomed the start of the New Year by officially confirming that they are monitoring German-language Internet websites that are critical of Muslim immigration and the Islamization of Europe.</p>
<p>In a January 4, 2012 interview with the <a href="http://www.berliner-zeitung.de/neue-rechte/muslimfeindliche-szene-gestoertes-verhaeltnis-zum-rechtsstaat,10911114,11385886.html">Berliner Zeitung</a> and the <a href="http://www.fr-online.de/die-neue-rechte/muslimfeindliche-szene-gestoertes-verhaeltnis-zum-rechtsstaat,10834438,11385886.html">Frankfurter Rundschau</a>, Manfred Murck, the director of the Hamburg branch of the German domestic intelligence agency (the Bundesamt für Verfassungsschutz (BfV)), said his organization was studying whether German citizens who criticize Muslims and Islam on the Internet are fomenting hate and are thus criminally guilty of "breaching" the German constitution.</p>
<p>The BfV's move marked a significant setback for the exercise of free speech in Germany and came amid a <a href="http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/2752/germany-silence-islam-criticism">months-long smear campaign</a> led by a triple alliance of left-wing German multicultural elites, sundry Muslim groups and members of the mainstream media, who have been relentless in their efforts to discredit the so-called counter-jihad movement (also known as the "Islamophobes") in Germany.</p>
<p>In a country stifled by decades of political correctness, the counter-jihad activists and bloggers have been giving a voice to millions of frustrated Germans who see the harm being wrought by the cult of multiculturalism.</p>
<p>Opinion <a href="http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/3487/germany-fear-east-west">polls consistently show</a> that growing numbers of ordinary German citizens are worried about the consequences of decades of multicultural policies that have encouraged mass immigration from Muslim countries. Germans are especially concerned about the refusal of millions of Muslim immigrants to integrate into German society, as well as the emergence of a parallel legal system in Germany based on Islamic Sharia law.</p>
<p>Also in January, Muslims in Duisburg, one of the most Islamized cities in Germany, clamored for the right to <a href="http://www.derwesten.de/region/rhein_ruhr/katholiken-fordern-von-overbeck-erhalt-ihrer-kirchen-id6213151.html">turn empty churches into mosques</a>. All of the churches are located in the gritty Hamborn and Marxloh districts in northern Duisburg where Islam has already replaced Christianity as the dominant religion, and where several Catholic churches have been abandoned.</p>
<p>In Germany as a whole, more than 400 Roman Catholic churches and more than 100 Protestant churches have been closed since 2000, <a href="http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirchenschlie%C3%9Fung">according to one estimate</a>. Another 700 Roman Catholic churches are slated to be closed over the next several years.</p>
<p>By contrast, Germany is now home to more than 200 mosques (including more than 40 mega-mosques), 2,600 Muslim prayer halls and a countless number unofficial mosques. Another 128 mosques are currently under construction, according to the <a href="http://www.islamarchiv.de/">Zentralinstitut Islam-Archiv</a>, a Muslim organization based in Germany.</p>
<p>Meanwhile, on January 16 one of the oldest universities in Germany inaugurated the country's first taxpayer-funded department of Islamic theology. The <a href="http://www.zeit.de/studium/hochschule/2012-01/zentrum-islamische-theologie-2">Center for Islamic Theology</a> at the University of Tübingen is the first of four planned Islamic university centers in Germany.</p>
<p>The German government claims that by controlling the curriculum, the school, which is to train Muslim imams and Islamic religion teachers, will function as an antidote to "hate preachers." (Most imams currently in Germany are from Turkey and many of them do not speak German.)</p>
<p>But the idea has been fiercely criticized by those who worry the school will become a <a href="http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/2768/germany-islamic-centers">gateway for Islamists</a> who will introduce a hardline brand of Islam into the German university system.</p>
<p>In February, the interior minister of the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate, Jochen Hartloff, said he favored the introduction of Islamic Sharia law in Germany. In an interview with the German newspaper <a href="http://www.sueddeutsche.de/politik/justiz-in-deutschland-wie-islamische-schiedsgerichte-fuer-mehr-frieden-sorgen-sollen-1.1274279">Süddeutsche Zeitung</a>, Hartloff, a Socialist, said that using the Islamic moral code "is certainly conceivable when it comes to questions pertaining to civil law." Hartloff said using Sharia law to resolve family law issues such as alimony, divorce or financial contracts "could have a pacifying effect" in Germany.</p>
<p>Hartloff's comments were seconded by Michael Frieser, an expert on integration issues for the Conservatives in the German parliament. He told the <a href="http://www.sueddeutsche.de/politik/justiz-in-deutschland-wie-islamische-schiedsgerichte-fuer-mehr-frieden-sorgen-sollen-1.1274279">Süddeutsche Zeitung</a> that he has nothing against Muslim immigrants seeking judgments according to their own legal systems. "That can ultimately serve the cause of integration," Frieser said.</p>
<p>In March, Muslim mobs in Berlin threatened to "<a href="http://www.pi-news.net/2012/03/neukolln-3000-bei-allah-ist-groser-trauerfeier/">burn down the neighborhood</a>" after a German fatally stabbed an 18-year-old Muslim, in what police deemed was an act of self defence. The March 9 incident occurred in the heavily Islamized Berlin neighborhood of Neukölln, when the German, Sven N., tried to stop a fight between two groups of Turks over who should get a football that had been kicked over a fence. The Turks quickly turned their anger against the German. After a group of 20 Muslims armed with knives and daggers challenged Sven, he stabbed one of the attackers, Yusef Al-Abed, in the heart. More than 3,000 Muslims attended Yusuf's funeral, evoking scenes of the Gaza Strip (<a href="http://www.berliner-zeitung.de/berlin/trauerfeier-tausende-trauern-um-jusef-el-a-,10809148,11851684.html">photos here</a>).</p>
<p>In April, Islamic radicals launched an unprecedented nationwide campaign to <a href="http://www.welt.de/print/die_welt/article106165597/Salafisten-verteilen-25-Millionen-Korane.html">distribute 25 million copies of the Koran</a>, translated into the German language, with the goal of placing one Koran into every household in Germany, free of charge.</p>
<p>The mass proselytization campaign -- called <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SKq3umvvPgA&feature=relmfu">Project "Read!"</a> -- was organized by dozens of Islamic Salafist groups located in cities and towns throughout Germany.</p>
<p>Salafism is a branch of radical Islam practiced in Saudi Arabia that seeks to establish a Sunni Islamic Caliphate (Islamic Empire) across the Middle East, North Africa and Europe, and eventually the entire world. The Caliphate would be governed exclusively by Islamic Sharia law, which would apply both to Muslims and to non-Muslims. Salafists believe, among other anti-Western doctrines, that democracy, because it is a man-made form of government, must be destroyed.</p>
<p>Although Germany's domestic intelligence agency, the BfV, regards the Salafist groups as a threat to German security, Salafists have free reign in the country, and Salafist preachers are known regularly to preach hatred against the West in the mosques and prayer centers that are proliferating across Germany.</p>
<p>In May, more than 500 Salafists attacked German police with bottles, clubs, stones and other weapons in the city of Bonn, to protest cartoons they said were "offensive." Rather than cracking down on the Muslim extremists, however, German authorities sought to silence the peaceful critics of multicultural policies that allow the Salafists openly to preach violence and hate.</p>
<p>The clashes on May 5 erupted when around 30 supporters of a conservative political party, <a href="http://www.pro-nrw.org/">PRO NRW</a>, which is opposed to the further spread of Islam in Germany, participated in a campaign rally ahead of regional elections in the western state of North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW).</p>
<p>Some of those participating in the rally, which was held near the Saudi-run <a href="http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/K%C3%B6nig-Fahd-Akademie">King Fahd Academy</a> in the Mehlem district of Bonn, the former capital of West Germany, had been waving banners depicting the Islamic Prophet Mohammad (see <a href="http://www.welt.de/img/bildergalerien/crop106268856/7828722314-ci3x2l-w620/Pro-NRW-demonstriert-in-Bonn.jpg">photo here</a>), to protest the Islamization of Germany.</p>
<p>The rally swiftly disintegrated into violence (photos <a href="http://www.spiegel.de/fotostrecke/german-right-wingers-provoke-salafist-violence-in-bonn-fotostrecke-82029.html">here</a> and <a href="http://www.spiegel.de/fotostrecke/fotostrecke-81808.html">here</a>) when hundreds of angry Salafists, who are opposed to any depiction of their prophet, began attacking the police, whose job it was to keep the two groups apart.</p>
<p>In the final tally of the melee, 29 police officers were injured, two with serious stab wounds, and more than 100 Salafists were arrested, although most were later released. According to Bonn's police chief, Ursula Brohl-Sowa, "This was an explosion of violence such as we have not witnessed in a long time."</p>
<p>In June, German authorities launched a <a href="http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/3121/germany-radical-salafism">major crackdown on Salafists</a> suspected of plotting against the state. In nation-wide raids on June 14, over 1,000 German police searched about 70 Salafist homes, apartments, mosques and meeting places in seven of Germany's 16 states, in search of evidence that would enable the German government to outlaw some of the dozens of Islamist groups operating in the country.</p>
<p>In a June 8 interview with the newspaper <a href="http://www.welt.de/print/die_welt/politik/article106437736/Radikaler-Salafismus-ist-wie-eine-harte-Droge.html">Die Welt</a>, Interior Minister Hans-Peter Friedrich said: "Radical Salafism is like a hard drug. All of those who succumb to her become violent."</p>
<p>Also in June, German Defense Minister Thomas de Maizière announced his intention to "<a href="http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/3160/european-armies-recruiting-muslim-soldiers">multiculturalize</a>" the German Armed Forces (Bundeswehr) by recruiting more Muslims into its ranks.</p>
<p>Germany <a href="http://www.faz.net/aktuell/politik/inland/bundeswehr-wehrpflicht-soll-zum-1-juli-ausgesetzt-werden-1577622.html">formally discontinued</a> compulsory military service on July 1, 2011 as part of a comprehensive reform aimed at creating a smaller and more agile army of about 185,000 professional soldiers. But Germany's new all-volunteer army has been unable to meet its recruiting goals, and military manpower prospects look dim for the foreseeable future.</p>
<p>In a desperate search for soldiers, German military officials have now identified Germany's Muslim Turkish population (3.5 million and counting) as a new source for potential recruits.</p>
<p>In August, German Intelligence Chief Gerhard Schindler issued a warning saying that Europe is at great risk of terrorist attacks by Islamic extremists.</p>
<p>In a wide-ranging interview with the German newspaper <a href="http://www.welt.de/politik/deutschland/article108568246/Alle-sollten-stolz-sein-fuer-den-BND-zu-arbeiten.html">Die Welt</a>, Schindler said the German foreign intelligence agency, the Bundesnachrichtendienst (BND), is particularly concerned about the threat posed by homegrown terrorists, individuals who were either born or raised in Europe and who travel to war zones like Afghanistan, Pakistan, Somalia or Yemen to obtain training in terrorist methods.</p>
<p>Schindler's warning came amid the backdrop of a <a href="http://www.faz.net/aktuell/politik/inland/duesseldorfer-zelle-prozess-statt-sieg-oder-martyrium-11831954.html">high-security court trial</a> of four suspected Al Qaeda members, which began in the German city of Düsseldorf on July 25. German public prosecutors say the defendants -- three homegrown Islamists born in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia and one Moroccan national -- were planning to stage a "sensational terror attack" in Germany.</p>
<p>Also known as the "<a href="http://www.taz.de/Duesseldorfer-Zelle/%2198715/">Düsseldorfer Cell</a>," the defendants were also accused of plotting to assassinate the former commander of German Special Forces (KSK Kommando Spezialkräfte) as well as to attack the US Army base in the Bavarian town of Grafenwöhr.</p>
<p>Also in August, <a href="http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/3309/germany-integration-turkish-muslims">a new survey of Turkish-German mores and attitudes</a> found that nearly half of all Turks living in Germany say they hope there will be more Muslims than Christians in Germany in the future.</p>
<p>The 103-page study, "<a href="https://d171.keyingress.de/multimedia/document/228.pdf">German-Turkish Life and Values</a>" (abridged version in German <a href="http://www.infogmbh.de/wertewelten/Wertewelten-2012-Pressemitteilung.pdf">here</a>), found that Islam is becoming an increasingly important component of the value structure of Turks in Germany, especially among the younger generation of Turkish-Germans, who hold religious views more radical than those held by their elders.</p>
<p>In September, <a href="http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/3386/germany-co-ed-swimming">a German court in Kassel refused to allow a Muslim student</a> to skip co-ed swimming lessons based on her religious beliefs.</p>
<p>The closely watched case highlighted the growing number of conflicts between German school officials and Muslim parents who, for religious reasons, want to keep their children from participating in sports activities, biology classes and field trips.</p>
<p>The presiding judge, Hans Rothaug, declared: "The applicant should have attended swimming lessons. In this particular case, there are no grounds for exemptions."</p>
<p>In October, <a href="http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/3406/germany-murat-stabbing">a court in Bonn sentenced an Islamist radical</a> to six years in prison for stabbing two German police officers during the protest against "offensive" cartoons in Bonn.</p>
<p>Murat K, a 26-year-old German-born Salafist of Turkish heritage from the western state of Hessen, openly admitted that he had attacked and wounded the two police officers with a kitchen knife during the cartoon riots in May. He showed no remorse during his trial, saying only that he had been morally obligated to follow Islamic Sharia law.</p>
<p>Murat, whose last name has not been made known to the general public due to German privacy laws, claimed that the attacks on the police officers were justified because the German state had allowed offensive images of the Prophet Mohammed to be shown in public.</p>
<p>Murat responded to the verdict by <a href="http://www.welt.de/politik/deutschland/article110037998/Allah-entscheidet-was-gut-und-boese-ist.html">declaring German courts to be illegitimate</a>. He said: "I do not accept this court as legitimate. I am not sitting here voluntarily. Only Allah alone has the right to decide what is right and what is wrong, what is good and what is evil, what is moral and what is immoral." Murat added: "I will answer only to Allah."</p>
<p>In an October 19 interview with the German newsmagazine <a href="http://www.focus.de/politik/deutschland/tid-27782/cdu-generalsekretaer-groehe-sorge-machen-nicht-volle-moscheen-sondern-leere-kirchen_aid_842416.html">FOCUS</a>, the Secretary General of the ruling Christian Democratic Party (CDU), Hermann Gröhe, said the conviction of Murat makes it clear that Germany will not allow radical Muslims to "lead a religious war on German streets."</p>
<p>In November, Hamburg, the second-largest city in Germany, concluded a "<a href="http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/3456/hamburg-muslim-treaty">historic treaty</a>" with its Muslim communities that grants Muslims broad new rights and privileges but does little to encourage their integration into German society.</p>
<p>The <a href="http://www.hamburg.de/contentblob/3683532/data/2012-11-13-vertrag.pdf">November 13 agreement</a>, signed by Hamburg's Socialist Mayor Olaf Scholz and the leaders of four Muslim umbrella groups, was praised by the proponents of multiculturalism for putting the northern port city's estimated 200,000 Muslims on an equal footing with Christian residents.</p>
<p>The most controversial part of the accord involves a commitment by the city government to promote the teaching of Islam in the Hamburg public school system. The agreement grants the leaders of Hamburg's Muslim communities a determinative say in what will be taught by allowing them to develop the teaching curriculum for Islamic studies.</p>
<p>On November 30, the northern German city of <a href="http://www.n-tv.de/ticker/Zweiter-Staatsvertrag-mit-muslimischen-Gemeinden-article9654286.html">Bremen followed Hamburg's lead</a> by concluding its own treaty [Staatsvertrag] with the local Muslim community. The Socialist mayor of Bremen, Jens Böhrnsen, said the treaty reflects "mutual recognition and respect of mutual values."</p>
<p>Critics, however, say the agreements, the first of their kind in Germany, will boost the growing influence of Islam in the country by encouraging the perpetuation of a Muslim parallel society.</p>
<p>Also in November, a <a href="http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/3487/germany-fear-east-west">new research survey</a> found that Germans are overwhelmingly mistrustful of Islam and Muslim immigration.</p>
<p>The 28-page study, "<a href="http://www.ifd-allensbach.de/uploads/tx_reportsndocs/November12_Islam.pdf">Fear of the East in the West</a>" (Die Furcht vor dem Morgenland im Abendland), was produced by the Allensbach Institute for Public Opinion Research, and was published by the center-right German newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung on November 21.</p>
<p>The research showed that more than half of the German population believes that Islam is prone to violence (64%); has a tendency toward revenge and retaliation (60%); is obsessed with proselytizing others (56%); and strives for political influence (56%).</p>
<p>More than 80% of Germans believe that Islam deprives women of their rights, and 70% say Islam is associated with religious fanaticism and radicalism. By contrast, only 13% of Germans associate Islam with love for neighbors, 12% with charity and 7% with openness and tolerance.</p>
<p>The study concluded that the image of Islam in Germany is "devastating." The findings -- which corroborate the conclusions of other recent studies -- underscore a growing divide between ordinary Germans, who are concerned about the consequences of mass immigration from Muslim countries, and Germany's political elites, who are determined to build a "multicultural" society at any cost.</p>
<p>In December, German authorities said Islamic extremists were behind a <a href="http://www.spiegel.de/panorama/justiz/anschlag-am-hauptbahnhof-bombe-von-bonn-hat-gezuendet-a-872977.html">botched bomb attack</a> at the main train station in Bonn. In the December 10 incident, a man allegedly linked to Al Qaeda left a bag containing a bomb on a platform at the train station. Authorities say the detonator was activated, but failed to cause an explosion.</p>
<p>Also in December, a militant Salafist group released several videos calling on its followers to <a href="http://www.focus.de/politik/deutschland/experten-sind-besorgt-salafisten-drohen-in-mehreren-videos-mit-geiselnahmen_aid_885961.html">take German hostages</a> in an effort to secure the release of Murat K, the Islamist who is currently serving a six-year prison sentence for stabbing two policemen in Bonn in May.</p>
<p>The videos promise that "we will not rest until we have freed you from captivity." In one of the videos, a man speaking German with a foreign accent says: "Everyone who offends the Prophet will be slaughtered, whether near or far. And know this, brother, the Germans are easy enough to reach. We will take them prisoners, until you are free for your noble deed."</p> Turkish Muslims Hope for More Muslims Than Christianstag:4freedoms.com,2012-11-17:3766518:Topic:1146792012-11-17T20:31:13.021ZAlan Lakehttp://4freedoms.com/profile/AlanLake
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<p><b>by <a href="http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/author/Soeren+Kern">Soeren Kern</a> August 27, 2012 at 5:00 am</b></p>
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<div id="print_content_3"><blockquote class="content_preface"><p>Integration may even be unattainable if the younger generation of Turkish-Germans increasingly…</p>
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<div id="print_content"><h1><a href="http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/3309/germany-integration-turkish-muslims" target="_blank">Germany: Turkish Muslims Hope for More Muslims Than Christians</a></h1>
<p><b>by <a href="http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/author/Soeren+Kern">Soeren Kern</a> August 27, 2012 at 5:00 am</b></p>
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<p id="">Nearly half of all Turks living in Germany say they hope there will be more Muslims than Christians in Germany in the future, according to a new survey of Turkish-German mores and attitudes.</p>
<p id="aeaoofnhgocdbnbeljkmbjdmhbcokfdb-mousedown">The study also shows that Islam is becoming an increasingly important component of the value structure of Turks in Germany, especially among the younger generation of Turkish-Germans, who hold religious views more radical than their elders' views are.</p>
<p>The findings have filled many Germans with a sense of foreboding and are certain to contribute to the ongoing debate (<a href="http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/3111/germany-does-away-with-itself">here</a>, <a href="http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/3007/germany-koran">here</a> and <a href="http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/2666/germany-muslim-school-prayers">here</a>) about Muslim integration (or, rather, lack of it) in Germany.</p>
<p>The 103-page study, "<a href="https://d171.keyingress.de/multimedia/document/228.pdf">German-Turkish Life and Values</a>" (abridged version in German <a href="http://www.infogmbh.de/wertewelten/Wertewelten-2012-Pressemitteilung.pdf">here</a>), was jointly produced by the Berlin-based INFO polling institute and the Antalya, Turkey-based <a href="http://www.liljeberg.net/tr/">Liljeberg research firm</a>, and was released to the public on August 17, as a follow-up to similar studies conducted in <a href="http://www.infogmbh.de/wertewelten/Wertewelten-2009-Pressemitteilung.pdf">2009</a> and <a href="http://www.infogmbh.de/wertewelten/Wertewelten-2010-Pressemitteilung.pdf">2010</a>. It aims to determine just how satisfied the estimated 2.7 million Turks living in Germany are with their life there.</p>
<p>Of those Turks surveyed, 27% were born in Germany (77% of 15- to 29-year-olds were born in Germany) and 39% have lived in Germany for at least 30 years. Only 15% of Turks, however, consider Germany to be their home -- compared to 21% in 2009, and 18% in 2010.</p>
<p>The survey also shows that labor migration is no longer the main reason why Turks immigrate to Germany; only one in five respondents said they had gone to Germany to look for work. Rather, the most important reason Turks gave for immigrating to Germany was to marry a partner who lived there. More than half of the Turkish women interviewed said they moved to Germany for that reason.</p>
<p>In the area of language, the survey shows a major generational gap. Overall, only 37% of Turkish-origin men and 27% of Turkish-origin women speak better German than Turkish. Nevertheless, in the 15 to 29 age category, 75% of those surveyed speak better German than Turkish. Meanwhile, those in the 30 to 49 age category, 71% of those surveyed speak better Turkish than German.</p>
<p>While 91% of Turks surveyed believe that Turkish-origin children need to learn German from an early age, 90% also say that children absolutely must learn Turkish. A growing number of Turks (53%) believe that German teachers of Turkish-origin children need to understand the Turkish language to be able to help children having difficulty with the German language.</p>
<p>In the area of hypothetical voting patterns, the vast majority (80%) of Turks surveyed say they would vote for leftwing or far-leftwing parties if they were able to vote in Germany. 50% said they would vote for the center-left Social Democrats (SPD), 26% would vote for the leftwing Green party and 5% would vote for the far-left Die Linke. Only 13% would vote for the center-right Christian Democrats (CDU/CSU).</p>
<p>Almost all Turks surveyed (95%) said it is absolutely necessary for them to preserve their Turkish identity; in a sign indicating that efforts at integration have a long way to go, 62% said they would rather be around Turks than around Germans (in the 2010 survey, it was 40%). Only 39% of Turks said that Germans were trustworthy.</p>
<p>At the same time, 87% of those surveyed said they believe that German society should make a great effort to be considerate of the customs and traditions of Turkish immigrants.</p>
<p>Of those Turks surveyed, 72% believe that Islam is the only true religion (in the 2010 survey, it was 69%); 18% say Jews are inferior people and 10% say Christians are inferior.</p>
<p>Arguably the most sobering finding of the study is that 46% of Turks say they hope that Germany will one day have more Muslims than Christians (in the 2010 survey, it was 33%). More than half of Turks (55%) believe that Germany should build more mosques.</p>
<p>More than 90% of Turks surveyed consider themselves to be religious; only 9% label themselves as "not religious" (37% say they are highly religious). The survey shows high levels of religiosity (91%) among the younger generation of Turks (ages 15 to 29) living in Germany.</p>
<p>The study also finds that 63% of Turks aged 15 to 29 year-olds approve of the <a href="http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/3007/germany-koran">radical Islamist campaign to distribute a Koran</a> to every household in Germany, and 36% of the young people said they would be willing to support the Salafist campaign financially with donations.</p>
<p>By contrast, 69% of those over the age of 50 (the older generation was heavily influenced by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kemalist_ideology">Kemalism</a>) are opposed to the campaign called <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SKq3umvvPgA&feature=relmfu">Project "READ!"</a></p>
<p>The authors of the study say this data reflects the increasing role of Islam among the younger generation, who consider the religion to be a "gateway to a politicization which could lead to group building"-- that is, the growing attraction to political Islam.</p>
<p>Overall, the new survey largely corroborates a 764-page study released by the German Interior Ministry in March 2012, which found that 48% of Muslims living in Germany "strongly leaned toward separation" and clearly rejected the culture of the German majority. .</p>
<p>That study, "<a href="http://www.bmi.bund.de/SharedDocs/Downloads/DE/Broschueren/2012/junge_muslime.pdf?__blob=publicationFile">The Daily Life of Young Muslims in Germany</a>," also showed that among Muslims between the ages of 14 and 32 there is a "subgroup" of religious extremists who hold anti-Western views and are reportedly prepared to use violence.</p>
<p>Taken together, the combined research reaffirms that Germany faces significant difficulties ahead in integrating immigrant Muslim population, and that over the long-run integration may even be unattainable if the younger generation of Turkish-Germans increasingly continues to embrace Islam.</p>
<blockquote><p id=""><a href="http://www.soerenkern.com/">Soeren Kern</a><i> is a Distinguished Senior Fellow at the New York-based</i> <a href="http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/">Gatestone Institute</a><i>. He is also Senior Fellow for European Politics at the Madrid-based Grupo de Estudios Estratégicos / Strategic Studies Group. Follow him on</i> <a href="http://www.facebook.com/Soeren.Kern">Facebook</a><i>.</i></p>
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<p><i>Don't Buy From Jews ; <a href="http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/3099/germans-boycott-israeli-products" target="_blank">http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/3099/germans-boycott-israeli-products</a></i></p>
<p>As I peruse this Jewbaiting psychobabble, I'm reminded of another "boykott", 1933, the infamous KRISTALNACHT, in which Jewish stores were destroyed and looted.</p>
<p>DIE JUDEN SIND UNSER UNGLUCK (The Jews are our misfortune! blared the hate-filled message.)</p>
<p>At least in those…</p>
<p><i>Don't Buy From Jews ; <a href="http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/3099/germans-boycott-israeli-products" target="_blank">http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/3099/germans-boycott-israeli-products</a></i></p>
<p>As I peruse this Jewbaiting psychobabble, I'm reminded of another "boykott", 1933, the infamous KRISTALNACHT, in which Jewish stores were destroyed and looted.</p>
<p>DIE JUDEN SIND UNSER UNGLUCK (The Jews are our misfortune! blared the hate-filled message.)</p>
<p>At least in those days, there was clear, unambiguous Jew hatred.</p>
<p>Now, the boycot folks are more sophisticated than to JUST HATE JEWS...they ONLY hate the "settlements", those infernal, damnable biblical settings, where the Forefathers of the Judaeo/Christian ethic established light in a world of darkness.</p>
<p>Now this makes sense...church attendance in Germany is at an all-time low (ca. 10%). More Germans know about the radical Gay lifestyle and how to put a condom on a cucumber, than the Creator of Heaven and Earth. </p>
<p>What's interesting is the JEWBAITING WHILE BERLIN BURNS, so to speak! Here is a country that is poised to debunk Goethe, Beethoven, Kannt, Mann, and Haydn, for a 7th century desert vision of Hell on Earth, to the screamers of, ALLAH U AKHBAR. We are in awe of such a nation, calmly going forth into the night, with sabres pressed against their collective throats, concerned exclusively about that great satanic force, Israeli settlements.</p>
<p>Reckon we won't be buying any Mercedeses, BMW's or Rhine wines this year in retaliation for this recent revival of a long-dormant Third Reich apparition. Makes perfect sense, doesn't it?</p> Victory for Intolerancetag:4freedoms.com,2012-06-04:3766518:Topic:1035362012-06-04T10:25:20.020ZAlan Lakehttp://4freedoms.com/profile/AlanLake
<h3>06/01/2012 06:34 PM</h3>
<h1>Victory for Intolerance</h1>
<h2>How Islamophobes Launched a National Debate</h2>
<p class="spAuthor">By <a href="http://www.spiegel.de/extra/0,1518,632144,00.html" target="_blank">Charles Hawley</a> in Bonn</p>
<p id="spIntroTeaser">For weeks, German politicians and media outlets alike have been focusing their attention on the country's Salafist Muslims. The reason, however, can be found far away from the halls of power in Berlin. A regional anti-Islam party…</p>
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<h1>Victory for Intolerance</h1>
<h2>How Islamophobes Launched a National Debate</h2>
<p class="spAuthor">By <a href="http://www.spiegel.de/extra/0,1518,632144,00.html" target="_blank">Charles Hawley</a> in Bonn</p>
<p id="spIntroTeaser">For weeks, German politicians and media outlets alike have been focusing their attention on the country's Salafist Muslims. The reason, however, can be found far away from the halls of power in Berlin. A regional anti-Islam party known as Pro-NRW staged a cartoon contest ahead of a state election last month -- and pulled off an extraordinary coup.</p>
<div id="spArticleBody"><p>Germany's Salafist Muslims are back in the spotlight. Since early May, hardly a week has gone by without another regional or national politician in the country proposing new ways to counter the group's extremist version of Islam or a major German newspaper publishing yet another exposé on the group's insular isolation from the mainstream. Just on Friday, interior ministers from Germany's 16 states, at a regularly scheduled conference with federal Interior Minister Hans-Peter Friedrich, resolved to be increasingly firm in their dealings with the Salafists.</p>
<p>Such hand-wringing in Germany about its Muslim population, extremist or otherwise, is not uncommon. This one, however, is different. Far from being an accidental upheaval of angst resulting from the publication of a book by the likes of <a href="http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/the-man-who-divided-germany-why-sarrazin-s-integration-demagoguery-has-many-followers-a-715876.html" title="The Man Who Divided Germany: Why Sarrazin's Integration Demagoguery Has Many Followers">the anti-immigration treatise by Germany's provocateur-in-chief Thilo Sarrazin</a> or comments from the country's top politicians, its timing and nature was determined far from the country's conventional opinion makers. It is a particularly unique case of the tail wagging the dog -- and in this case, the tail is the tiny, Islamophobic political party Pro-NRW.</p>
<p>"It is always difficult for small parties at election time," Pro-NRW head Markus Beisicht told SPIEGEL ONLINE, reflecting recently on his party's recent turn at the helm of a national debate. "We have a hard time competing with the larger parties. We had to find ways to have an effect with relatively small amounts of resources."</p>
<p>Ahead of mid-May elections in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany's most populous state, Beisicht's stump strategy centered around a breath-taking campaign of provocation. He launched a caricature contest, collecting some 400 cartoons from mostly amateur artists, aimed at finding the most concisely trenchant critique of Islam possible. And the more provocative -- Muslims might say insulting -- the cartoons, the better.</p>
<p><b>A Perfect Campaign</b></p>
<p>Pro-NRW then planned a series of events in the run-up to the election to display the winning drawings in front of mosques and other Muslim facilities in the state. They named the top prize after Kurt Westergaard, the Danish cartoonist who is currently living under heavy police protection due to his authorship of one of the controversial Muhammad caricatures printed in the Danish daily <i>Jyllands-Posten </i>in 2005.</p>
<p>The results, though execrable, were predictable. On May 1 in the town of Solingen, not far from Düsseldorf, Salafists, many of whom had travelled from afar to take place in a counterdemonstration, became violent. Three police officers were injured as was a passerby. Undeterred, Pro-NRW continued its road show, assembling in front of the King Fahd Academy, a Saudi Arabian school in Bonn, on May 5. The Salafists were waiting. By the time the violence finally came to an end, 29 police had been injured, two of them landing in the hospital with stab wounds. The pro-NRW demonstrators that the police had been protecting were unharmed.</p>
<p>The unrestrained violence perpetrated by the Salafists was, of course, ultimately responsible for the flood of journalistic and political attention suddenly focused on the extremist Muslim group. Yet injuries to the police aside, for Pro-NRW and its leader Beisicht, the caricature campaign could not have worked more perfectly.</p>
<p>"Up to that point, the election campaign in the state had been free of content and proposals. We, on the other hand, were able to establish the terms of the debate," Beisicht says. Furthermore, given the violence of the Salafists -- and the May 20 death threat against him issued by a German-speaking extremist in the Pakistani region of Waziristan on the border to Afghanistan -- Beisicht can present himself as the victim.</p>
<p>He does so frequently during an interview at his legal practice in the tiny town of Leverkusen-Opladen, located in the center of the country's former industrial heart of the Ruhr Valley. It seems an unlikely place to find the epicenter of the debate Pro-NRW has triggered. It has the kind of run-down normalcy common to the once-prosperous region, with plenty of retirees lounging at ice-cream cafes in the pedestrian zone, one-euro stores on the side streets and a clutch of restaurants striving to project a hint of big-city cosmopolitanism.</p>
<p><b>'Massively Provoked'</b></p>
<p>"It is shameful that the attempt has been made to transform the victim into the perpetrator.... We have been stigmatized as though we have initiated a civil war," Beisicht says beseechingly. "We really didn't think there would be the kind of violence that erupted."</p>
<p>Given that the vast majority of Germany's 4 million Muslims are moderate -- and that several Muslim organization urged their followers to ignore Beisicht's cartoon campaign -- the claim might not be quite as naïve as it sounds. Still, it doesn't require a prodigious memory to recall the massive violence triggered across the Muslim world in early 2006 once news of the <i>Jyllands-Posten</i> caricatures got out. Ultimately, some 100 people lost their lives.</p>
<p>Furthermore, it seems that Pro-NRW was very much interested in an intense reaction as a way of drawing as much attention as possible. Despite things getting out of hand in Solingen, the party elected to continue its campaign. And according to police spokesman Harry Kolbe, who was present at the incident in Bonn, one Pro-NRW activist climbed onto the shoulders of another to hold a caricature placard above a police vehicle, which had been parked so as to obscure the cartoons from view.</p>
<p>"With the display of Islamophobic caricatures, the Muslims were massively provoked," Kolbe said in a statement, adding that such a provocation in no way justified the violent response. North Rhine-Westphalian Interior Minister Ralf Jäger walked a similar line. While condemning the violence, he said "it makes me furious that police officers, who were there to protect the (right to) freedom of assembly, ended up in the hospital. The malicious provocation of Pro-NRW is to blame for the fact that our officers must suffer. The right-wing radicals of Pro-NRW are intentionally fomenting hate against 4 million Muslims who live peacefully among us here in Germany."</p>
<p>Even some of Beisicht's cartoonists feel that violence was inevitable. Sebastian Nobile, an unemployed Mormon trucker with an Italian father -- and a hobby artist -- submitted several cartoons to the Pro-NRW contest, ultimately winning second and fifth place for his efforts. "I see things a bit differently than Mr. Beisicht," he told SPIEGEL ONLINE. "I expected there to be violence."</p>
<p><b>Brands of Intolerance</b></p>
<p>Götz Wiedenroth, a professional caricaturist who allowed Pro-NRW to display his drawings during its campaign road show but who declined to enter the contest so as to let others have a chance, agrees. "The fact that it got so bad, that police would be injured by fanatic caricature opponents -- I didn't expect that, but it didn't surprise me either," Wiedenroth wrote in an email when contacted by SPIEGEL ONLINE.</p>
<p>Both Nobile and Wiedenroth insist that higher goals were at stake than merely angering Muslims. Indeed, both caricaturists requested that SPIEGEL ONLINE use their full names in this article despite the dangers associated with their drawings.</p>
<p>"I see the common values of freedom and democracy as being of greater value than my life," says Nobile, whose landlord threatened to kick him out upon hearing of his renter's participation in the cartoon contest. "I would also accept it were somebody to kill me as a result because I think that makes sense. It makes sense to risk one's life for something worthwhile."</p>
<p>Beisicht too portrays his caricature campaign as a victory of democracy over the forces of totalitarianism. He points out that Interior Minister Jäger repeatedly attempted to forbid Pro-NRW from showing the cartoons -- only for each of the bans to be lifted by court order.</p>
<p>"Either we have democracy here or we don't. It's a slippery slope," Beisicht says. "We cannot allow intolerance to win out in the end. That is not my understanding of democracy."</p>
<p>Beisicht's own brand of intolerance meanwhile, though it may be effective in triggering a debate and successfully demonizing at least a portion of Germany's Muslims, is not particularly successful when it comes to attracting political support. Pro-NRW only won 1.5 percent of the vote in North Rhine-Westphalia, a mere 0.1 percent more than it received in state elections there two years ago.</p>
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</div> European Court Could Thwart Bid to Ban Far-Right Partytag:4freedoms.com,2012-05-16:3766518:Topic:1018972012-05-16T15:42:50.941ZAlan Lakehttp://4freedoms.com/profile/AlanLake
<blockquote><p>Germany is currently preparing an attempt to ban the far-right NPD party. But a German legal expert has warned that the bid may be blocked by the European Court of Human Rights, which has even higher hurdles to outlawing parties than Germany does.…</p>
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<blockquote><p>Germany is currently preparing an attempt to ban the far-right NPD party. But a German legal expert has warned that the bid may be blocked by the European Court of Human Rights, which has even higher hurdles to outlawing parties than Germany does.</p>
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<p><a href="http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/european-court-could-block-german-bid-to-ban-npd-a-833053.html">http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/european-court-could-block-german-bid-to-ban-npd-a-833053.html</a></p>