The complete article is not available at the wayback for the NYTimes, but it is here:
https://web.archive.org/web/20051208043621/http://www.iht.com/articles/2005/12/02/news/islam7.php
Thanks. So thousands celebrating in Germany.
But we are to believe the Muslims in the U.S. somehow reacted differently?
Huffington Post humorously has up a map claiming the ENTIRE MIDDLE EAST celebrated 9/11.
But tolerance of Muslim immigrants began to change in the aftermath of Sept. 11, 2001. Parallel to the declarations of "unconditional solidarity" with Americans by the German majority, rallies of another sort were taking place in Neukölln and Kreuzberg.
Bottle rockets were set off from building courtyards, a poor man's fireworks: two rockets here, three rockets there.
Altogether, hundreds of rockets were shooting skyward in celebration, just as most Berliners were searching for words to express their horror.
For many German residents in Neukölln and Kreuzberg, Vogelsang recalls, that was the first time they stopped to wonder who their neighbors really were.
Vogelsang points to the Imam Reza Mosque, whose home page, until a recent revision, praised the attacks of Sept. 11, designated women as second-class human beings and referred to gays and lesbians as animals.
German immigration policies and liberal multiculturalism are only one side of the problem. The other side is the active refusal of many in the Muslim community to integrate.
"The attacks in London," Ates says, "were in the eyes of many Muslims a successful slap in the face to the Western community. The next perpetrators will be children of the third and fourth immigrant generation, who, under the eyes of well-meaning politicians, will be brought up from birth to hate Western society."