Germany Bracing for Islamic Terror

In this mailing: Soeren Kern: Germany Bracing for Islamic Terror Burak Bekdil: How Turkey Fights Extremism: "Do Not Keep Pet Dogs at Home!" Germany Bracing for Islamic Terror Paris "Just the First Shot" by Soeren Kern  •  January 13, 2015 at 5:00 am German police have evidence "that key European cities could be attacked at any time." — Der Spiegel. "This is a serious situation." — German Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere. "You will pay the price as you walk on your streets, turning right and left, fearing the Muslims. We will conquer your Rome, break your crosses, and enslave your women, by the permission of Allah." — Jihadist video threatening Italy. "The Islamists... showed France that they are incapable of democracy and rather look to violence and death as an answer! Our politicians want us to believe the opposite. Must such a tragedy happen here in Germany first???" — Patriotic Europeans against the Islamization of the West [PEGIDA]. Firefighters work at the offices of the Hamburger Morgenpost newspaper in Hamburg, Germany, which was attacked by arsonists on January 11. (Image source: Tagesschau video screenshot) The offices of a German newspaper that republished satirical cartoons from Charlie Hebdo, a French magazine known for lampooning Islam, have been hit by arsonists. No one was hurt in the attack on the Hamburger Morgenpost, which occurred in the early morning hours of January 11 and caused only minor damage. Although police arrested two individuals in connection with the incident, their identities have not yet been released to the public. But German police said they are "working under the assumption" that the attack was connected to the decision by the paper, also known as MOPO, to republish cartoons spoofing Mohammed on its front page on January 8, as an act of solidarity with the attack on the journalists of Charlie Hebdo. Continue Reading Article How Turkey Fights Extremism: "Do Not Keep Pet Dogs at Home!" by Burak Bekdil  •  January 13, 2015 at 4:00 am This is Turkey's fight against radical, Islamist terror, which it claims does not exist. The Religious Affairs Directorate [Diyanet] enjoys a huge budget to eradicate misunderstandings and false knowledge about Islam. It recently issued a fatwa that urges Muslims who have tattoos to repent if they are unable to erase them. Turkish MP Ali Sahin (left) claims the attack on Charlie Hebdo in Paris was "staged like a movie scene." Turkey's top Muslim cleric, Professor Mehmet Gormez (right), thinks someone else carried out the Paris attacks and put the blame on Muslims. Turkey cannot be serious about fighting Islamist extremism. In the first place, Turkey's leader, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, does not believe "Islamic terror" exists. More recently, Erdogan even fabricated an acronym for the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant [ISIL]: "Deas." He simply took the terror organization's Arabic acronym, Daesh, took out the word "Islamic" from, it and created "Deas." Last week, the Turkish military HQ and Foreign Ministry started to refer to ISIL as "Deas" on their web pages. Continue Reading Article

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