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 ...
Allah AckBOOM!
If you did not learn from your Nazi expansion, you never will.
Germany’s citizen’s deserve an atti-boy for this one.
If only the Lutherans and other Protestants would wake up out of their slumber in Germany, the birthplace of Protestantism.
Ding! Ding! Ding! We have a winner!
ARTICLE SNIPPET (from the link at post no. 1):
“Wolfgang Huber, the head of Germany’s Protestant Church and bishop for the states of Berlin and Brandenburg, names what he sees as one important cause for the increasing unease. He says there is an “obviously large-scale initiative” on the part of Islamic organizations to show their presence in as high-profile a way as possible and in as many places as possible. No fewer than 184 new mosques, some with domes and minarets, are currently being built or planned throughout Germany. That’s considerably more than the 163 existing traditional mosques (along with around 2,600 prayer rooms mostly hidden within secular buildings).
And that appears to be only the start of an expected wider European mosque-building boom. One organization alone — Ahmadiyya, a movement seen as an outsider community within Islam that the respected German weekly Die Zeit described as “something like the Jehovah’s Witnesses among Muslims” — has introduced a “100 mosque plan” for Germany. Currently 25 percent of these projects have been completed.
More often than in the past, Muslim communities nowadays are trying to include Middle Eastern style minarets in their building projects. It’s an addition that is rousing greater protest — no matter where the mosque is getting built in Germany. “As soon as the foreignness is cemented in a structure like a mosque, the problems just multiply,” says Christoph Dahling-Sander, the Protestant church’s representative in the city of Hanover for matters concerning Islam.”
Germany is such a beautiful country, I agree why would they want to ruin it with a mosque here and there. The mosques are nothing but fronts for houses of terrorism anyway.
local politics aside (and no country lives its internal political life based on what CNN or FR thinks of them), the europeans have been totally screwed by their governments and this mass-import of muslims thing. Why on earth bring people so culturally aggressive in, with women viewed as something akin to property, etc.??? Chinese and other asians would come in droves, and for the most part don’t make trouble where they settle.
This is a serious question, and I think there is an answer to why this particular religion was imported besides just blaming things on liberals. If Saudi was funding radical wahabbism and exporting it to take-over mosques in other countries, could they have bought pols to encourage muslim immigration into their countries as well?
Here's your basic problem, and it's an intractable one. Demography is destiny.
The Muslims are thanking their Father Below, Allah-fubar, for contraception, sterilization, and abortion --- of soon-to-be-minority Germans.
Oh, and buggery. Enjoy your bungholes, Bruder. While you can.
Ich kann nicht glauben, dass Muslime sind verrückt, ohne Alkohol!
The Germans will LOSE...
They start wars and never finish it.
Send the Muslims to Treblinka. Lassen Sie sie bauen eine Moschee auf, dass vor Ort, wenn sie es wagen.
Sorry - Germany is so enfebled and neutered by the EU and their PC politicians, this protest will be quickly be pushed aside, stamped out, and labelled racist.
Ja, stimme ich vollständig zu.
Cologne is a Catholic region, at least it was historically part of the Rheinland. By now it’s probably well-integrated with all religious groups.
It’ll only be a parallel society for a little while, and then it’ll take over completely...
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.
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