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A recent post here (Only 74%?)
elaborated on what we already know – France, Britain, and the rest of
the Western world is fed up with the creeping Islamization of their
countries orchestrated by left wing politicians who have forced its
citizens to endure millions of barely civilized immigrants from the
Muslim world, who refuse to assimilate and integrate, but prefer, for
the most part, to live off the state.
OnIslam Giving a shocking image of anti-Islam sentiments in Germany, a new study has revealed that Islamophobia
anti-Islamism has become culturally acceptable in the country and that
the society is shifting its attention from xenophobia to religious bias
against Muslims, The Local newspaper reported.
“It’s no longer ‘the Turks’ but ‘the
Muslims’,” Wilhelm Heitmeyer, head of the institute for research of
interdisciplinary conflict and violence at Bielefeld University, told
the Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung, The Local reported. A research by the Bielefeld University found that Islamophobia
anti-Islamism has become culturally acceptable in Germany. Heitmeyer
said that the general hostility against foreigners had given way to a
growing rejection of Islam in Germany.
This bigotry, moving from the confines
of ethnicity towards religious bias against Muslims, does not exist
only in the far-right, he said. Heitmeyer noted that anti-Muslim
sentiments were also present in more left-leaning and centrist circles,
appearing throughout the country from the highest echelons of society to
the lowest.
The findings of are not new. An
earlier study from Munster University in 2010 found that 66 percent of
western Germans and 74 percent of eastern Germans had a negative
attitude towards Muslims. A more recent study from the Allensbach
Institute suggested that this had not changed over the past two
years. Asking German people about Islam, only 22 percent said they
agreed with Germany’s former president Christian Wulff’s statement that
Islam, like Christianity, was part of Germany.
Germany has between 3.8 and 4.3
million Muslims, making up some 5 percent of the total 82 million
population, according to government-commissioned studies.
Experts notice that the rising
anti-Muslim bias was generally acceptable in German society as freedom
of opinion. “Criticism of Islam or Muslims appear acceptable, because it
is not seen as classically racist,” Alexander Häusler, neo-Nazi expert
from Düsseldorf’s technical university, said. (Maybe because Islam is NOT a race, moron)
German Muslims have also voiced
concern about a growing hostility in their country. Germany has been
recently gripped by a fierce debate on immigration and integration. In
2009, central banker Thilo Sarrazin sparked a debate on integration
after accusing Muslim immigrants of undermining the society which is
becoming less intelligent because of them. Chancellor Merkel weighed in,
saying that multiculturalism has failed in Germany.
WWRN With the growing number of Muslims, distrust of Islam is rising.
The cashier at the supermarket wears a
headscarf, copies of the Koran are handed out on the streets, and
mosques have become part of some cities’ landscapes. Islam appears to be
encroaching on life in Germany and that bothers a lot of people.
“For decades, woman fought for equal
rights, and we have attained something. And now, women are choosing to
wear headscarves. I don’t want that and it scares me,” a
unversity-educated woman from Cologne says. Her attitude is not
uncommon. In the long debate over the new Cologne Central Mosque, which
will be one of Europe’s largest, fear and distrust of Islam have come to
light and are widespread.
Islamism a “real threat.” Christian
Democrat (CDU) politician Wolfgang Bosbach sees a justifiable fear of
Islamists who are ready to commit acts of violence. An estimated 40,000
Islamists live in Germany. A significant number of them are prone to
violence. ”Those [who are ready to be violent] out of religious
motivation, out of religious extremism, are a real threat to security in
Germany,” Bosbach said.
Eight foiled and failed terrorist
attacks have made it clear that the threat is real in Germany, Bosbach
says. Security agents say these people represent a very small group of
people – less than one percent of Muslims are Islamists. But they shape
the obviously negative image of Islam and Muslims, which leads to
widespread prejudice and fear that can lead to anti-Islamism.
Some major events have played a role
in shaping the overwhelmingly negative image of Islam. After the
September 11 attacks, certain stereotypes, opinions about the attitudes
of Muslims, became deeply rooted in society, says Zick.
“Even so many years after the
terrorist attacks (…), many people still associate Islam or Muslims with
terrorism, with Sharia law, with a foreign religion, which doesn’t fit
in Germany,” he adds, noting that that is a problem. ”Since the
terrorist attack, we have new politicial movements, which agitate
against the alleged threat of Islam and Muslims,” he said.
An example of right-wing parties are
“Pro NRW” and “Pro Deutschland,” which have campaigned against the
construction of the mosque in Cologne and elsewhere with aggressive
posters and borderline language. The message between the lines is clear:
Islam is dangerous and there is no place for Muslims in Germany.
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