Germany's Appeasement of Radical Islam

by Vijeta Uniyal • September 10, 2015 at 5:00 am

German, and possibly European, demographics are being set to change forever.
"No one knows exactly what actually happens in Islamic classes in German primary schools." — Abdel-Hakim Ourghi, head of the Faculty for Islamic Theology and Religious Studies at the Freiburg University of Education.
In Ourghi's assessment, conservative Islam, the one dominant in Germany, is incapable of thinking critically about its past.
According to the report, the textbooks fail to "confront the problematic verses of Koran." The curriculum also fails in its most important purpose -- integrating Muslims into the German society -- as it fails to reconcile the "Islamic faith of the students with the reality of the western society" they are living in.
By legitimizing extremist groups such as DITIB within German Muslim society as the sole legitimate representatives of Islam, the German government has marginalized genuine voices of reform and dissent within its Muslim population.
These courageous dissident Muslim men and women are left to face threats and intimidation on their own, while the government is busy appeasing the self-proclaimed leaders of the faith.

The Cologne Central Mosque is used as a key base in German for Turkey's intelligence agency, where they run a local "thug squad" to mete out "tough punishments" to Turkish dissidents in Germany. (Image source: © Raimond Spekking/CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons)

As Muslim migration is being set to change German, and possibly European, demographics forever, Germany is gearing up for the new challenge -- not by integrating and assimilating young Muslims in a free and democratic Western society, but by handing over the religious education of the next generation of German Muslims to Islamist radicals.

Worse yet, German authorities see no problem in doing that.

With Germany predicted to receive 800,000 migrants -- mostly Muslims -- this year alone, and millions more waiting to cross Europe's unguarded borders, the Muslim population in Germany is seeing a historic rise from the current figure of nearly 6 million. Several German states including Bavaria, Hesse and North Rhine-Westphalia have introduced Islamic Studies in their public schools. The state of Hesse has become the first in Germany to offer Islamic education in public schools, with religious instruction starting as early as the first grade.

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Open Letter on the 'Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action'

by Concerned Iranians • September 10, 2015 at 4:00 am

Honorable members of the US Congress & Obama Administration,

The Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) with its many possible interpretations has provided valid points of argument for all those in favour and against the deal. Fears of war and military action and continuing economic hardship for the Iranian people have prompted a few Iranian scholars and experts to write to you, the honourable members of the Congress, in support of the JCPOA. We, the undersigned, share these most serious and legitimate concerns and condemn any use of force against Iran. However, we do not believe that the JCPOA will realise the desired objectives either for the Iranian people or the global community.

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Turkey's 'Good' and 'Bad' Terrorists

by Burak Bekdil • September 10, 2015 at 3:00 am

"This is jihad tourism, and people do not understand this is a one-way tour. You cannot say 'IS is terrorist but Hamas and Hizballah are not.' Hizballah is the Shia version of IS. Hamas, IS and others are the Sunni branches of the same tree." – High-level foreign diplomat.

Turkish President (then Prime Minister) Recep Tayyip Erdogan, right, meeting with Hamas leaders Khaled Mashaal (center) and Ismail Haniyeh on June 18, 2013, in Ankara, Turkey. (Image source: Turkey Prime Minister's Press Office)

In a high-level meeting about fifteen years ago, a young official accompanied the visiting Turkish land forces commander and his wife. The official, now a high-level foreign diplomat, still recalls the good memories from that visit, including the Turkish coffee cup they brought as a gift -- a fine coffee cup still used every morning. "Daesh [Islamic State] will commit more and more acts of terror against Turkey and the West," the diplomat says today. "Salafist ideology lures people -- people with a worm in their brains. It offers adventures for young people. This is jihad tourism, and people do not understand this is a one-way tour."

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