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Wednesday, 29 August 2012

'Humiliating!' Anti-radicalism campaign causes outrage among German Muslims

From Russia Today and Deutche Welle  

A German ad campaign aimed at fighting Islamist radicalism has provoked an insensed response from offended Muslims. Thought up by an anti-radicalization center set up earlier this year at the behest of German Interior Minister Hans-Peter Friedrich, the campaign features photos of four different Muslims, under the caption “MISSING.”

"This is our son Ahmad. We miss him, because we don't recognize him anymore. He is withdrawing more and more, becoming more radical every day. We are afraid of losing him altogether – to religious fanatics and terrorist groups," reads the text underneath the photo.

That campaign includes posters, postcards and these fake missing person notices - with four different models - three young men, and one young woman wearing a headscarf. The posters will be put up almost exclusively in the immigrant areas in Germany’s large cities, and will feature text in German, Turkish and Arabic. . . the campaign has provoked a fierce backlash from German Muslims.

"In my opinion, this is a humiliation for the Muslims who live in Berlin and Germany," Bekir Yilmaz, president of a Turkish community organization in Berlin, told Deutche Welle “It's the assumption that all Muslims could be radicalized.”

"What's dangerous about the poster campaign is that the people pictured could be a work colleagues, a friend from the sports club, or a neighbor," echoed Birol Kocaman, editor of the online magazine MiGAZIN. "They could be anyone who looks like a Muslim. They are all made subject to a general suspicion that they could be dangerous."

One of the comments at Russia Today refers to the report (mentioned here in the Jewish Press) that half the Turks living in Germany hold the hope that one day Islam will be in the majority; the commentator believes that there is indeed 'a problem brewing'.

Posted on 08/29/2012 1:18 AM by Esmerelda Weatherwax
Comments
29 Aug 2012
Send an emailSue R

Get over it guys.  This is the Wesdt, none of your silly 'honour' stuff here.



29 Aug 2012
Alix

From a poem on the Watts riots of 1965: :They said I throwed a brick and I never - but I might".  That is the problem with muslims - because of their revealed religion/law, at any time a brick (or nuclear bomb) can be thrown, and probably will be.  Islam has been a violent problem to everyone else since its inception.



29 Aug 2012
Christina McIntosh

 Seconding Alix.  The Ummah, or Mohammedan Mob, is the sheltering sea within which the sharia-pushers, the jihad terror raiders, swim and from which, ceaselessly, they emerge; and the larger that Mob becomes in any given location, and the stronger it becomes and perceives itself to be, the more (and faster) some among it will Go Jihad.

From the article, "what's dangerous about the poster campaign is that the people pictured could be a work colleague, a friend from the sports club, or a neighbour"...

No: not what's 'dangerous', but, 'what's chillingly realistic...'.

Because seemingly nice, smiling Muslims-next-door have Gone Jihad, all over the West: and they have been 'work colleagues', or neighbours, though less commonly 'a "friend" from the sports club'. Let us reflect on non-Muslim NHS doctors, at hospitals in London, who must now wonder which of their Muslim colleagues is currently toting a gun in Syria.

More: "They could be anyone who looks like a Muslim".  

Exactly: Any Muslim can, and sometimes does, Go Jihad upon the unsuspecting Infidels whom he or she has managed to lull into a false sense of security.  Even more dangerous are the ones who don't 'look like Muslims': who adopt non-Islamic dress, demeanour, and some behaviours, and perhaps even a non-Muslim name, all the better to infiltrate, subvert and, as opportunity presents, destroy.

"They are all made subject to a general suspicion that they could be dangerous".

Because they could.  Some - an unknown but not insignificant number - are already dangerous (but not necessarily signalling it by outward dress or demeanour); some will become dangerous, and won't always show it when they do.  The bearded and robed ranters on street corners - because openly honest in their boasting and threats - are less dangerous than sly, smiling, besuited, clean-shaven or (in the case of women) elegantly coiffed and non-veiled apologists and infiltrators.  Any non-Muslim who has even begun to get a handle on the concepts of Taqiyya, Kitman and Muruna, on Islam's carefully and elaborately thought-out doctrines of Deception, all the myriad ways of defrauding and deceiving and generally getting the drop on the dirty kuffar, in order to advance the Cause of Islam, will never be able to trust any identifiable and/ or professing Muslim from that day forward.






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