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Germany: Muslims on trial for failed jihad bomb attack at Bonn’s main train station

Sep 9, 2014 10:05 am By Robert Spencer

BonntrainstationWe all know that Islam is a Religion of Peace and that those who think otherwise are misunderstanders of the religion. It is a shame that misunderstanding Islam leads people to commit such violent and reckless acts. One would think that would put a premium on understanding it properly, such that every mosque everywhere would have material designed to help people avoid misunderstanding this most blisteringly complex and hard-to-understand of religions. But they do not. Isn’t that odd?

“Salafists go on trial for Bonn bomb attempt,” The Local, September 8, 2014 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):

UPDATE: The trial of four Salafists accused of a failed bomb attack at Bonn’s main train station began with an hour’s delay on Monday after defence lawyers accused the authorities of bias.

The Salafists on trial at the Düsseldorf Higher Regional Court (OLG), who believe in a strict form of Sunni Islam, are accused of planning the attempted bombing in December 2012. The suspected bomber, Marco G. (27), is accused of having placed the pipe bomb in a sports bag and left it on platform number one at the station.

Police were alerted by passengers to the abandoned luggage and found the device inside. Although the timed detonator had triggered, a fault meant that the bomb itself did not explode.

“He wanted to insidiously kill an indeterminate number of people, using highly dangerous means and with base motives,” prosecutor Horst Salzmann told the packed, high-security courtroom.

Marco’s alleged accomplices Enea B. (44), formerly a member of an Albanian anti-terror police unit, Koray D. (25) and Tayfun S. (24), both of Turkish origin, are also in the dock. With Marco, they are also accused of having planned a separate attack against the leaders of anti-Islamic party Pro NRW.

The alleged bomber himself risks being condemned to life imprisonment on charges of attempted murder, while all four face charges of forming a terror group, conspiracy to murder and possession of weapons, which carry terms of up to 15 years.

Tagesspiegel reported that Marco will be represented by Mutlu Günal, a defence lawyer well-known for his involvement in terrorism cases, who has been the target of personal attacks by Pro NRW. His attempt to bring a charge of bias against the court was rejected by the judges.

Police searched fruitlessly for the bomber for months using images collected from CCTV cameras at the Bonn station, but had a breakthrough when DNA traces were found on parts of the bomb.

The DNA turned out to belong to the wife and two-year-old son of Marco G., who was already in custody after being arrested while spying on the house of Pro NRW chairman Markus Beisicht.

After his arrest, investigators found two pistols and a supply of ammonium nitrate, which was also found in the Bonn pipe bomb, at his home.

Düsseldorf police expect both Salafist and Pro NRW supporters to demonstrate outside the courtroom and attempt to enter the public gallery. Tensions are already running high due to the appearance last week of “Sharia police” in nearby Wuppertal.

The trial is expected to take up to two years with 150 witnesses and 55 hearings scheduled.

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  1. AnneM says

    Sep 9, 2014 at 10:33 am

    Rather as “religion of pieces”.

  2. Emilie Green says

    Sep 9, 2014 at 10:42 am

    Failed attack at Bonn railroad station? Sorry, extra points aren’t awarded in the course called “Learning All About Islam.” Only actual attacks count.

    Actual attacks based on the principles of Islam have a way of focusing attention that foiled ones do not. In truth foiled Muslim plots count for nothing. Nothing in terms of proving to the unknowing world that a 1400-year jihad against the Islamic-named House of War is afoot.

    To the unknowing world, to liberals, and to Muslim apologists, only actual Muslim attacks count for anything. And even then when they do occur, the predictable, super-annealing use of the Muslim EXCUSE Machine, familiar to every JW reader, will be kicked into high gear, with its sole purpose being to invent reasons why an obvious Muslim attack is not a Muslim attack. “Who are you going to believe, us or your lyin’ eyes?”

    That machine will be fully engaged at this trial. Following the Boston Marathon Massacre the left has given this machine a new coat of paint and fresh lubrication. Today, more paint has been ordered up as to why ISIS is not Islamic though as Robert points out we’re never given sura and verse as to why what ISIS is doing is not sanctioned by the Koran.

    The Muslim Excuse Machine was in full operation with Hasan’s 2009 Fort Hood attack. Hasan Allahu Akbar-red his way through his rampage, but the MSM instructs us that Hasan was a lone wolf, having nothing to do with Islam’s principles.

    Nothing grabs one’s attention like being hit on the side of the head with a 2 by 4. And from all appearance it will take more Muslim attacks against infidels with the loss of Western lives before more necessary lessons are learned.

    BTW, this trial is expected to take 2 years!!!

    • Beagle says

      Sep 9, 2014 at 10:54 am

      All good points. I tend to be as negative as anyone on this subject. But the comments sections of newspapers suggest people are wise to Islam in a way I’ve never seen before. UK papers are allowing comments which would have been summarily deleted over the last couple decades. In US papers I used to be a voice in the wilderness talking about Islam and jihad from the primary sources or as an Islamic phenomenon, but now in many cases that’s 70% of the comments or more.

      Some on the hard Left will never abandon their secular multicultural Islamic religion, but those who base their opinions on facts are coming around.

      This comment abrogates some other recent comments I’ve made to the contrary.

      • Emilie Green says

        Sep 9, 2014 at 11:45 am

        Like you I go to Comments. In fact, many times I go directly to Comments since any story in the MSM on J-I-M (jihad, Islam, Muslim), if it appears at all,* will have the same old, same old PC-spewing nonsense, and it makes no sense to read that twaddle time and again. And like you I have noticed the increase in Islam knowledge among posters. Of course that’s encouraging. What I fear is the rate of learning. Is that rate exceeding the rate at which Islam is making its inroads? That’s the race being run at the moment.

        * Obviously most people are grounded with enough common sense to know which side wears the white hat in the battle b/w the House of War (where we live) and the House of Islam. Because of that the MSM uses its most potent weapon; namely, the story that never appears. The MSM does NOT want information about J-I-M getting out there.

      • Salah says

        Sep 9, 2014 at 1:42 pm

        “But the comments sections of newspapers suggest people are wise to Islam in a way I’ve never seen before.”

        I would gladly add:
        “Even Muslims are wise to Islam in a way I’ve never seen before.”

        http://crossmuslims.blogspot.ca/2014/01/egyptian-muslims-tear-up-quran.html

  3. Beagle says

    Sep 9, 2014 at 10:43 am

    Even the NYT has given up on defending Obama’s foreign policy. That’s like Goebbels turning on Hitler. Not saying Obama is like Hitler. Hitler was a vegetarian. Just kidding.
    http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/09/us/politics/a-president-whose-assurances-have-come-back-to-haunt-him.html?_r=0
    Quote:
    WASHINGTON — When President Obama addresses the nation on Wednesday to explain his plan to defeat Islamic extremists in Iraq and Syria, it is a fair bet he will not call them the “JV team.”

    Nor does he seem likely to describe Iraq as “sovereign, stable and self-reliant” with a “representative government.” And presumably he will not assert after more than a decade of conflict that “the tide of war is receding.”
    — —

    Ouch. Obama was just hoisted on his own rhetorical petard, by the NYT no less.

  4. Jay Boo says

    Sep 9, 2014 at 11:29 am

    The Watch Tower

    Germany during and after the attack on the 1972 Munich Olympics.
    Christmas 1972 in a small town near Fulda, Germany was something I still remember fondly despite being in the military. There were no gaudy decorations or noisy Santa sales pitches. There were simple decorations done with care that were in reverence of the season.

    Germany cooperated with Black September after Munich Massacre
    http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4273235,00.html

    There must be some kind of way outta here
    Said the joker to the thief
    There’s too much confusion
    I can’t get no relief
    (Jimi Hendrix)

    German officials should not take down the Cross
    German officials should not allow Muslim prayer Watch Towers in their place.

  5. Angemon says

    Sep 9, 2014 at 2:29 pm

    The alleged bomber himself risks being condemned to life imprisonment

    So the kuffar give him free bed and meal for life for trying to kill kuffar? Not a bad way of collecting jizya…

    I hope he “accidentally” ends in the wing where the neo-nazis are.

  6. John M. Oda says

    Sep 10, 2014 at 2:24 am

    Listen! I am sick and tired of all this bullshit that is happening everyday in U.S.A. and Europe and still have not got a satisfying answer to all the atrocities! I say ENOUGH IS ENOUGH! We have LAWS in our countries and when these IMMIGRANTS, I WAS ONE OF THEM, were asked first of all to pledge allegiance to the country and what it stands for! If they did, then they should abide with everything there is in it! If they did the pledging and went against it, their citizenship should be revoked immediately, taken by a bus and dropped on the border! Trust me, this is the only way you can make these PISSASSES understand. If their allegiance is to their mother country, then let them go back because we did not ask to come in, they begged and kissed asses to get into the country. Please, somebody in power catch this message and start working on it! There is NO OTHER WAY OUT! Either do it or grim and bear it! There is NO SECOND SOLUTION.

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