German converts who somehow got the Peaceful Message of their new religion completely wrong. “Germany Indicts ‘Home Grown’ Islamists for Terrorist Bomb Plot,” from Deutsche Welle, September 2 (thanks to the Constantinopolitan Irredentist):
German federal prosecutors have indicted three men, two of them Germans who had converted to Islam, for a plot to explode half a ton of explosives at places frequented by US nationals.
German federal prosecutors have indicted three men, two of them Germans who had converted to Islam, for a plot to explode half a ton of explosives at places frequented by US nationals.
Police, who had eavesdropped on the plotters’ communications and intervened to surreptitiously confiscate the main ingredient in the explosives, arrested the men a year ago.
If the bombing had succeeded, it would have been Germany’s bloodiest experience by far of Islamist terrorism.
Fritz Gelowicz, 29, Daniel Schneider, 22, both Germans, and Adem Yilmaz, 29, a Turkish national, are to be tried by a state superior court in the western city of Düsseldorf, a spokesman for the prosecutors in Karlsruhe said.
Police say home-grown terrorists a big threat
Many Germans are shocked that the men had ordinary German upbringings, unlike the radicals who were born in Arab countries and moved to Germany to plot the Sept. 11, 2001 suicide attacks on New York and Washington using hijacked airliners.
And they should be shocked, because the government and media in Germany and elsewhere have been telling them for years that this threat results from “racism” — and yet here are two Germans who have never experienced racism nevertheless plotting jihad terror.
Police around Europe say home-grown terrorism has become as big a threat as that from radical immigrants.
Gelowicz, said to have led the plot, converted to Islam and allegedly resolved five years ago to join the “jihad” or holy war against the West.
The precise allegations against the men were not disclosed, but the indictment accuses them of membership in a terrorist organization on German soil and abroad, which are two separate charges….