Anti-Terrorism Plaque in Berlin Pits the Islamic Government against Germany

radiofarda.com ^ | April 27, 2004

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Anti-Terrorism Plaque in Berlin Pits the Islamic Government against Germany

•The unveiling last week of a small plaque commemorating the 1992 killings of anti-regime Kurdish leaders in Berlin's Mykonos restaurant has created a rift in the otherwise smooth relations between Germany and the Islamic Republic regime. We have information that the Islamic Republic officials tried hard, through meetings with Germany's foreign ministry officials, Berlin's mayor and others, to prevent the installation of the plaque, Berlin-based head of the society of Iranian political refugees Hamid Nowzari, who campaigned for the plaque, tells Radio Farda. The concept of installing a plaque came up two years ago in the ceremony held by the refugees' society to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the Mykonos killings, he adds. Germany's Social Democrat and Green parties offered help, and legal issues were resolved last August, he adds. In response to pressures from Iran, the text on the plaque slightly changed. The plaque, unveiled six days ago in a big ceremony, says: four Kurdish activists, Sharafkandi, Ardalan, Abdali and Nouri-Dehkurdi, who struggled for freedom and democracy, were gunned down by the order of the “former” Iranian authorities, he says. A court in Germany found the Supreme Leader, former President Hashemi Rafsanjani and former intelligence minister Ali Falahian guilty for ordering the killings, which were carried out by intelligence ministry agents with the help of a Lebanese gunman. (Shahram Mirian, Cologne)

•The Islamic Republic foreign ministry protested against the unveiling of the Mykonos plaque, writes Der Spiegel. The plaque disturbed relations between Tehran and Berlin, writes Berliner Morgenpost. Iran closed German language classes of the Goethe Institute, reports Focus. (Shahram Mirian, Cologne)

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one wonders if a similar plaque was placed where the Israeli athletic team was massacred by Islamic terrorists during the 72 Munich olympics.

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one wonders if a similar plaque was placed where the Israeli athletic team was massacred by Islamic terrorists during the 72 Munich olympics.

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"In Munich in 1995, a monument to the Israeli athletes and officials was inaugurated by Walther Troeger, the President of the German National Committee who had been the Mayor of the Olympic village in Munich in 1972.
The victims' names are etched in the stone in German and Hebrew, with the solemn words: "In honour of their memory."

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A year ago, I was at a conference in NJ and a man from Germany spoke. He related how the Muslims were fighting the German government to be allowed to have more than one wife. The Muslims met stiff resistance from the Germans, at one public meeting a Muslim women stood up, fist raised in the air, and shouted at the German council "we will birth you to death."