Posted on 09/19/2008 3:03:19 PM PDT by WesternCulture
Cologne is bracing for violence this weekend as far-right supporters from all over Europe gather for an "anti-Islamification congress" and rally defending the continent against an "immigrant invasion."
Those attending the event starting Friday in the west German city include Filip Dewinter, head of Belgium's far-right Vlaams Belang party, and Andreas Mölzer, the Euro MP once ejected from Austria's Freedom Party for being too extreme.
Also adding his support to what organisers call Europe's "shared, thousand-year history", identity and "Western values and Christian traditions" will be Mario Borghezio from Italy's anti-immigration Northern League. Jean-Marie Le Pen, the veteran head of France's financially stricken Front National who has several past convictions for racist and anti-Semitic outbursts, has declined an invitation to attend, however.
The rally is being organised by the far-right Pro-Köln (For Cologne), which says it on its website that "half a dozen" coaches have been hired to bring supporters from Belgium. A "high-ranking delegation" is also expected from Austria, as are supporters from Italy, Spain and Britain, it says.
Pro-Köln hopes 1,500 people will attend the high point of the two-day congress, a rally in the city centre starting at noon on Saturday, and police say they expect several hundred. But their numbers will be dwarfed by 40,000 to 60,000 people that Cologne's mayor hopes will gather for one of the 20 or so planned counter-demos that are also expected to attract supporters from other European countries.
Mayor Fritz Schramma, whose city council recently gave the green light for the construction in Cologne of what will be one of Europe's biggest mosques, has called on the city's inhabitants to show the far-right "the cold shoulder."
"Shut your windows and doors, lower your shutters ... Make it clear to Pro-Köln and its camarilla: you are not welcome in Cologne," Schramma said in a statement.
"Cologne is a city for Christians and Muslims, for people with and without religion. Our city is renowned for its variety and its tolerance ... Populist right-wing rat catchers openly in favour of exclusion and who stir up fear are not welcome here," he said.
He also called for demonstrators to refrain from violence - but police are taking no chances. They plan to deploy around 3,000 officers to prevent and break up any clashes in the city centre's narrow cobbled streets and alleyways.
"We have prepared very well for this ... We will not tolerate any violence," police chief Michael Temme said, admitting however that the mission will be "very difficult."
The US Embassy issued a statement advising Americans to "defer non-essential travel to Cologne at this time."
Those attending the conference may find it hard to get a glass of Cologne's famous Kölsch beer, with 150 of Cologne's bars putting up banners promising "No Kölsch for Nazis." Some 200,000 beer mats have also been printed with the same message.
Judging by the headline above, wishing Europe to remain a Christian part of the world equals racism and neo-nazism.
I am European (Swedish).
Believe me, this is not an issue of race, it’s a matter of Europe.
So, Duncan Hunter, Sr. and Tom Tancredo are not invited along with Canadian author Mark Steyn? Oh well.
Hey there Her. Schramma a little historical perspective and dose of reality.
Historically where the Muslims colonize it goes from,
"...a city for Christians and Muslims, for people with and without religion."
to,
"a city for Muslims"
Now, don't get me wrong I don't like the Nazis...if these people really are Nazis, but if they are just trying to resist an invasion by a brutal and backward cultural force (Islam), then I am with them.
You need to translate from Libtard Eurospeak: “Nazi” anyone who does not agree with our liberal positions of open borders, gay love and America bashing.
Good to hear this is taking place — about time.
- I hate Nazism too and I'm not getting you wrong. Nazism is alien to true European as well as true American culture.
The PC Westerners who today are making excuses for Islamism are the spiritual heirs to the ignorant European morons who 70 years back in time believed Hitler could be dealt with by verbal reprimands.
Great. It’s time to fight back.
I’m tired of their crap.
- Being European, I have to admit this to be true - in terms of media language.
European journalism is detestable, but I wouldn't say its American counterpart is more worthy of praise.
I don't blame average Americans who actually believe 99% of us Europeans to be spineless Socialists, pampered by both our respective nannystates as well as the Super Nannystate of the EU, as long as the very same Americans understand that they, by mainstream European media, are being portrayed as ignorant, gun-crazy rednecks who can't point out their own trailer park on a globe.
I am European and I am proud of what my continent has accomplished throughout history, but Nazism, Communism and the journalism of our Europe are major exceptions.
Believe me; many Europeans of today are not easy prey for PC ideology and PC media.
Long live American as well as European Freedom!
Greetings from Gothenburg, Sweden!
“Great. It’s time to fight back.”
- Cheers to that!!
You need to translate from Libtard Eurospeak: “Nazi” anyone who does not agree with our liberal positions of open borders, gay love homodeviance, and America bashing.
Notice that people who oppose losing their culture and country to the Islamic invasion are always identified as the “extreme right” and “far-right.”
Sorry if my comment came off as Euro-bashing. Yep, our press is just as bad, maybe worse I agree.
Still the jargon is slightly different. Our Amero LibTard Press uses other terms: "right wing extremist" "white supremecist" and of course every Ivy League freshman's favorite "fascist". But "Nazi" not so much. Here you pretty much have really be a Nazi to have the label applied.
I am a regular reader of both Brussels Journal and Gates of Vienna and have the utmost respect for the European Conservatives who are far ahead of us here in the USA in electing some individuaals who understand the importance of "borders, language and culture" to use Michael Savage's phrase.
Long Live the Free and Independent People of Europe and their many Nations!! All Things Good to Our Cousins! European-American friendship and solidarity forever!!
- Either:
A) Well educated people like “leading” journalists and PC politicians etc actually can't distinguish, intellectually, between simply things like “race” and “culture”
or
B) They don't esteem their respective audiences enough to be entirely sincere and honest regarding these issues..
I disagree with you a bit on the Nazi label.....
The left loves to call conservatives “Nazis,” when in reality, it’s the left who most resembles the storm troopers of the Third Reich.
That nutjob congressman Wexler of Florida called Sarah Palin a “Nazi sympathizer.” Her “offense?” She wore, for one day, a Pat Buchanan button when Mr. Buchanan paid a visit to Alaska. Oh, the horror! s/
“Cologne is a city for Christians and Muslims, for people with and without religion. Our city is renowned for its variety and its tolerance.”
Give it a couple years honey. The muslims will see to it that your utpoia becomes extinct.
We should do something like that.
- Well, sorry if I gave you the impression I read it that way.
I didn't.
In any case, there are plenty of decent people in the game of journalism on both sides of the pond.
However, one of the major problems in this context is that many media “consumers” - although being well educated, hard working, moral Westerners - don't wish to choke on reality first thing they do watching their morning show.
To someone living in, for instance, Munich, Bavaria, Germany (just as a matter of example, I've lived and worked there - love the place) it would only be thrilling to find out 300 innocent commuters died some 20 minutes ago in Vienna, Milan, Lyon or Frankfurt am Main etc because of some Al-Qaeda bombing first thing you do in the morning, but a documentary clip concerning the spread of Islamism in the Munich area simply isn't good journalism from a Bavarian media perspective.
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