Posted on 07/17/2008 6:43:46 PM PDT by DeaconBenjamin
The planned construction of over 180 mosques in Germany is mobilizing right-wing xenophobes but also an increasing number of leftist critics. They fear the Muslim places of worship will facilitate the establishment of a completely parallel society.
... the media reported "turmoil" and an "enraged" audience in a school auditorium in Ehrenfeld, a district of the German city of Cologne. The mood was almost comparable to that of the protest gatherings once held against nuclear missiles or reactors.
Instead the outrage was directed at a huge mosque planned for the area. Still, the words used by the project's opponents called to mind the protests of earlier times. "The minarets even look like missiles," railed one woman. A man said the mosque's dome reminded him "of a nuclear plant."
Ill will over mosques like the one being built in Cologne is spreading rapidly throughout Germany, often to the surprise of local politicians. For a long time the establishment of Muslim prayer rooms provoked little protest.... Recently, though, there has been an increasing number of acts of protest, some violent. Molotov cocktails were thrown through mosque windows in the Bavarian town of Lauingen; Christians set protest crosses inscribed with "Terra christiana est," or this is Christian land, on the grounds of a mosque in Hanover; and construction trailers went up in flames in the Berlin district of Pankow.
The anti-Islam protest movement has also begun to spill over into city politics. In Cologne, for example, the extreme right anti-mosque initiative Pro Cologne captured five local government seats in recent elections. Now the group is aspiring to enter the national scene as Pro Germany, together with other like-minded organizations, some from the far-right fringe.
(Excerpt) Read more at spiegel.de ...
Good!!! NO mosques in anyone’s back yard!
Good!!! NO mosques in anyone’s back yard!
The xenophobes don’t like throat-cutters? They must need more diversity education.
A female leftist feminist German friend lives across from a mosque here in Paris. Wow! So, now there are burqua/veil shops, Islamic book shops, all up and down the street. Surly looking guys stand, just watching at the corner. Watching me. So, I ask her about it, the shops, surly guys, etc.. She says, “Oh, it’s ok. When they know you live here, they leave you alone, but they don’t like it if you dress sexy, so I dress modestly”.
She didn’t see the irony.
Funny stuff. Goebbel’s progeny at Speigel disapprove of xenophobes.
Whatever brewed up in 1932 to trigger the Jewish “problem” and the “solution”...is still there. That brew only needs a couple of simple ingredients to trigger a Muslim “problem” and “solution”. It won’t happen this year or next year.....but as unemployment starts to occur and folks have to blame something....they’ll be the natural target. If I were a Muslim in Germany...I’d review my exit possibilities and how’d I take my personal property with me. The Jews in 1932 through 1936...had a chance to sense the direction change and leave...some did...the rest fell into the “solutions” package.
Having lived in Germany for almost fifteen years....I really don’t see a totally different society here today. There are the same basic German culture that existed in the early 1930s. Political turmoil is the key for any shift...and they have the same ingredients today existing.
but mostly, they’re worried about global warming.
Countries Missing Kyoto Targets, Taxpayers to Foot the Bill
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Posted on 12/02/2007 7:19:07 PM PST by ricks_place
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