Cologne Gives In to Violence after Mayor Calls for Intolerance

Brussells Journal ^ | Sat, 2008-09-20 23:02 | Thomas Landen

[fishhound]

Today, 5,000 left-wing demonstrators – self-proclaimed “anti-fascists” – prevented a peaceful gathering on Heumarkt in downtown Cologne of opponents of the Islamisation of Europe. The gathering had been planned by Pro Cologne, a conservative political party which is opposing the building of a giant mosque in the city, the fourth largest town in Germany. The mosque is to have a dome 37 meters high and two minaret stretching up 55 meters. It is being built by the Cologne branch of the department of religious affairs of Turkey, which reports directly to the Prime Minister of Turkey.

Pro Cologne had invited politicians from other European parties that oppose Islamization – namely Filip Dewinter, a leader of the Flemish Vlaams Belang party, Andreas Mölzer, a member of the European Parliament for the Austrian Freedom Party, and Mario Borghezio, a member of the European Parliament for the Italian Northern League – to address the meeting. The German police prevented Dewinter and Mölzer from leaving Cologne airport and prohibited the Pro Cologne meeting after left-wing demonstrators barred people from entering Heumarkt.

In a comment at the Gates of Vienna blog an eyewitness wrote:

I am sitting in my hotel now after a long day in Cologne I was attacked on Eibahnstrasse by Antifa [“anti-fascist”] thugs as I tried to make my way to Heumarkt where we were slated to meet for our conference. My friend Michael Kucherov was beaten up yesterday. I am utterly shocked by the behavior of the police who seem to be acting as a surrogate of Antifa. I am not writing a very coherent post because I am exhausted, in pain and just bewildered by how far gone Europe is at this point.

[fishhound]

Blog with more links.

Elderly Anti-Islamization Activist Beaten Unconscious

http://gatesofvienna.blogspot.com/2008/08/elderly-anti-islamization-activist.html

[HighlyOpinionated]

Welcome to a Preview of the United States if Sen Obama wins this election on 4 November.

[yldstrk]

Tolerance is tyranny. Good for the demonstrator. The criminal who beat up the demonstrator should be charged and tried.

[fishhound]

The post is an excerpt of the larger article sorry.

[ripley]

“the mosque is to have a dome 37 meters high...”

well, they have to build their government offices, don’t they?”

IMHO

[fishhound]

Your post should be a thread ping list title.

[Berlin_Freeper]

[AnotherUnixGeek]

Today, 5,000 left-wing demonstrators – self-proclaimed “anti-fascists” – prevented a peaceful gathering on Heumarkt in downtown Cologne of opponents of the Islamisation of Europe.

This is the essence of the Western Left - self-loathing and an eagerness to fight for avowed enemies of the freedoms and culture that allows the Left to exist in the first place. Leftism is what you get when masochists get interested in politics.

[B4Ranch]

>>Armin Laschet, minister for minorities in North Rhine-Westphalia state, who is also a Christian-Democrat, was equally jubilant. He said it was the first time an entire German city “stood up to protect its Muslims.”<<