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Posted on 05/24/2006 7:48:45 AM PDT by FoxyFacts
Study: Germans pessimistic on Islam By GEORGE CONGER
German public opinion believes a clash of civilizations" is under way between Christians and Muslims that will lead to further domestic and international conflict, a report commissioned by the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung finds.
Germany is in the midst of "a conflict spiral," researchers from the Allensbach Institute for Public Opinion Research reported last week. "Conceptions of Islam were already negative" but have hardened "noticeably in recent times," the survey's authors Elisabeth Noelle and Thomas Petersen reported.
"Germans are increasingly of the opinion that a lasting, peaceful coexistence with the Islamic world will not be possible," Noelle and Petersen concluded.
Esteem for Islam in Germany has been falling precipitously since the 9/11 terrorist attacks and has been driven down further by outrage over the 2004 Beslan school attack in Russia and by a recent series of high-profile stories in the German press.
Concerns over an "honor killing" in Berlin, demands that schoolgirls be permitted to wear burkas, a surge in schoolyard violence involving Muslim immigrants, and the failure of Germany's three million Muslim immigrants to assimilate have deepened a "crisis of cultures."
The Allensbach survey of 1,076 German adults in early May found that 83% of the respondents associated Islam with "fanaticism," an increase of 8% from a similar poll in 2004.
Over 71% believed Islam to be "intolerant," a rise from 66% in 2004; 62% saw it as "backward," up from 49%; while 60% saw it as "undemocratic," an increase of 8% since 2004. Only 8% of the survey participants characterized Islam as peaceful. When asked what keyword or phrase they associated with Islam, 91% of respondents stated that Islam implied discrimination against women.
Some 61% of Germans said they believed a "clash of cultures" already existed, while 65% said "they counted on such conflicts" to worsen in the future.
While two-thirds of the survey participants said they blamed religious fanatics, not Islam, for the conflict with the West, 40% of the participants said they would favor curtailing Germany's constitutionally guaranteed right of freedom of religion in order to safeguard national security. Asked if there should be a ban on the building of mosques in Germany as long as Saudi Arabia and other Islamic states banned church construction, 56% agreed, the survey found.
The Muhammad cartoon controversy had also exhausted the average German's willingness to engage in dialogue, Noelle and Peterson noted. "In view of the widespread feeling of being under threat, and the suspected intolerance of Islam, the readiness of Germans to show tolerance to the Muslim faith is sinking."
The survey findings were extraordinary in light of Germany's "special dislike of conflict," Noelle and Peterson noted. "One could even speak of a pronounced need for harmony by Germans," they said.
However, the "ditch has become deeper" between Islam and the West, the survey concluded, as "in most people's minds the Kampf der Kulturer has already begun."
The same as in previous:
° Murder of the NATIVE Jews in Madina.
° The genocide upon 1.5 Million Christian Armenians at the turn of the century.
° Last not least, 15,000,000 Indian Hindus (so they claim)that were massacred in recent history by the "religion of P." (you do with the letter "P" whatever you like).
"Democracy" is simply a codeword for an alternative to the forms of government that the Arab world has seen for the past fifty years. It certainly won't be secular.
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from a translation of an Arab account of the battle from the Medieval Source Book:
"And in the shock of the battle the men of the North seemed like a sea that cannot be moved. Firmly they stood, one close to another, forming as it were a bulwark of ice; and with great blows of their swords they hewed down the Arabs. Drawn up in a band around their chief, the people of the Austrasians carried all before them. Their tireless hands drove their swords down to the breasts of the foe."
We need another Charles Martel.
precisely,
everyone,has,forgotten,this,has,been,going,on,for,1400,years
however,there,is,nothing.new.on.theirfront.
they.will.continue,their,assault,and,hate,for,themselves,and,all,others,until,their,antichrist,cult.dominates.
in.their.eyes.9/11.was.just.another.minor.skirmish.where.they.were.victors.
9/11?just.a.continuation.of.the.antichrists.work
and.there.will.be.more.from.the.supporters.based.in.syria.and.iran.etc.etc.etc
Of course they don't. They don't even believe in Democracy themselves. When the first sign of distress comes about, they go back to their beer and blutenwurst Nazi roots and start shutting down places of worship.
Nazism owed more to Austria than to Germany.
(Bush SPYED, Terrorists DIED!)
Got that in a bumper sticker?
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