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Germany: Muslim teens arrested over bomb attack on Sikh temple

Apr 21, 2016 2:09 pm By Robert Spencer

Islamic supremacists in the U.S. make a great show of “solidarity” with Sikhs, claiming that both Muslims and Sikhs are victims of “racism.” In reality, Islamic jihadists are just as hostile to Sikhs as they are to all non-Muslims, and persecute them wherever and whenever possible.

Essen Sikh temple

“Teen ‘Salafists’ arrested over bomb attack on Sikh temple,” The Local, April 21, 2016:

Police said on Thursday that two teenagers they have arrested in connection with a bomb attack on a Sikh temple in the western German city of Essen are linked to the Islamic fundamentalist scene there.

Officers received large numbers of tip-offs during their investigation that allowed them to identify the two 16-year-olds believed to behind the attack, the Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung (WAZ) reported.

“The accused have clear links to the terrorist scene,” Essen police chief Frank Richter told journalists at a press conference, saying that both teenagers had made partial confessions.

Richter added that there was no evidence so far of a link to the Isis terrorist group, but said police expect to make further arrests in the coming days.

ARD public television reported that the two youths arrested were well-known to the police for their links to the Salafist scene in the densely populated Rhine-Ruhr region of North Rhine-Westphalia, something Richter refused to confirm at the press conference.

The bomb exploded at a temple belonging to the Sikh Gurdwara Nanaksar congregation on Saturday at around 7 pm, wounding three people – one of them, a Sikh priest, seriously.

Hundreds of worshippers regularly visit the temple at weekends to pray and meet other members of the community, and a wedding with dozens of guests had taken place earlier that same day.

Fortunately, only a few people were in the hall at the time of the explosion. Windowpanes shattered with the force of the blast and the door was ripped from its hinges, while parts of the slate facade were also torn away….

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  1. ICH says

    Apr 21, 2016 at 2:17 pm

    equal opportunity murderers

    IDIOTS !

    • Con Ken says

      May 5, 2016 at 4:51 pm

      Every time I go to Walmart and they keep the freezer of halah meat away from the pork, I throw sausage and pork chop packages on top of it, stand back and watch.
      It’s all in plastic so there is no cross contamination, but u should see the Muslims faces, priceless!

  2. Angemon says

    Apr 21, 2016 at 2:20 pm

    ARD public television reported that the two youths arrested were well-known to the police for their links to the Salafist scene in the densely populated Rhine-Ruhr region of North Rhine-Westphalia, something Richter refused to confirm at the press conference.

    “Salafis”, eh? Meanwhile..

    https://www.jihadwatch.org/2016/04/brookings-touts-study-claiming-that-even-a-basic-knowledge-of-islam-can-dampen-support-for-islamist-militant-groups

    • DFD says

      Apr 22, 2016 at 2:16 pm

      To Angemon,

      What is interesting here is the following: Given that a Sikh temple is concerned, and NOT A CHURCH, will they be persecuted to the full extent of the law?

      I am going to search for, and to follow this, on PI (Political Incorrect) and Junge Freiheit.

      That is a very, very intriguing question.

      • Angemon says

        Apr 23, 2016 at 6:33 am

        Indeed it is, DFD.

  3. Alarmed Pig Farmer says

    Apr 21, 2016 at 2:23 pm

    With each blast, Prez Dubya’s fictive tiny minority of extremists gets harder to believe in. Yet, the fiction holds. Still not a single politician has proclaimed that mass murder of Infidels is normative to Islam, despite the 1,400 years of rich history to the contrary. Still nobody in the news entertainment industry has called the Tiny Minority of Extremists presumption into question. Extreme or normal? There are so many new normals nowadays, but for some reason not about the Moslems. How much more proof can they provide us?

    • PRCS says

      Apr 21, 2016 at 3:50 pm

      Ya gotta wonder what concept dances through the minds of those who use, see, or hear the phrase “tiny minority of extremists”?

      How can any rational person not understand it as an individual’s attempt to fully comply–amputations and all–with Islam’s written texts?

      Why do so many still conclude, to this day, that these “extremists” are “perverting” Islam?

      I watched Ralph Peters toe the Fox News approved “radical Islamic terrorism” line this morning.

      Well, maybe I’m answering my own questions.

      • Alarmed Pig Farmer says

        Apr 21, 2016 at 5:26 pm

        The general culture in the West is to prefer the preferable over the true. When truths become uncomfortable to the point that they are made unmarketable, one doesn’t tell a lie so much as simply ignore the truth. I could write an essay on the label radical Islamist terrorists but… actually I couldn’t do that. The term is stuffed with so many contradictions and falsehoods that the essay would stop halfway through its writing, crushed under the weight of mass confusion, wholesale willful ignorance and the ability to raise massive risk taking over common sense. It sickens me to see Ted Cruz bark label radical Islamist terrorism as if he’s got it straight and others are being stupid. Meanwhile, in the vein of rays of hope, both Dr Ben Carson MD and The Donald have dabbled with the truth, so not all is lost. Yet.

        • Con Ken says

          May 5, 2016 at 4:26 pm

          Agreed, because trump called it, Cruz lost the USA vote, cause he is for illegal Mex and South America immigration, and would, just like Texas governor crush down, and take in massive muslims

  4. nicu says

    Apr 21, 2016 at 2:45 pm

    ONLY 1 TV station in germany admitted that they are TURKS –the others pretend they don’t know who it was 🙁

    • Con Ken says

      May 5, 2016 at 4:34 pm

      Germany media is govt owned, merkle just arrested two of her citizens one pegida, one an x military man guest speaker for pegida.
      Also arrested a comedian that said the truth about erogoden, he is not even in the EU, yet because of merkle and Cameron dealof 7.2 billion Euro dollars, erogoden was able to put pressure on merkle and arrest the comedian about a poem that was very truthful about erogoden!
      Europe is lost

  5. nicu says

    Apr 21, 2016 at 2:46 pm

    North Rhine westphalia sucks – it’s crowded with Muslims ! and they are still protected !

  6. linnte says

    Apr 21, 2016 at 2:54 pm

    So because they are “teens”, they will probably get limited sentences. It disgusts me! They should be deported along with their families, if they have any.

    • Charli Main says

      Apr 22, 2016 at 1:36 am

      The Germans will probably send them on a FREE trip to Mecca, so they can learn about the ” real, peaceful, moderate islam “

  7. Jaladhi says

    Apr 21, 2016 at 3:27 pm

    >”Teen ‘Salafists’ arrested over bomb attack on Sikh temple,” The Local, April 21, 2016:”<

    This stupid identification of this Muslim as a "Salafist" is only meant to hide the fact that he is a Muslim and the attack was nothing terror inflicted my a Muslim on Sikhs as Muslims have done for centuries. I just marvel at the media who go to such lengths not to write "Muslim" in the head line. Total morons, liars and traitors!

  8. jimmi says

    Apr 21, 2016 at 4:35 pm

    This is obviously because of the Sikh foreign policy and Sikh imperialism against Muslims.

    • Hindu American says

      Apr 22, 2016 at 12:06 pm

      Sikh imperialism?

  9. dumbledoresarmy says

    Apr 21, 2016 at 5:58 pm

    I hope that all Sikhs resident in Germany now march down to PEGIDA and join up. At the next PEGIDA rally and march in Germany there should be a large contingent of no-nonsense Sikhs in traditional garb, marching right alongside the native non-Muslim Germans.

    Pan-Infidel solidarity!

    • Dan J. says

      Apr 21, 2016 at 9:22 pm

      Sikhs in the UK join the EDL in droves, especially after the Rotherham child sex abuse scandal where the Muslim child rapists specifically targeted Sikh girls.

      • dumbledoresarmy says

        Apr 22, 2016 at 9:40 am

        I have a picture in my head.

        I see a lot of new members in the ‘Society of Creative Anachronism’.

        I see a lawn with grimly-determined Englishmen practising the longbow and the quarterstaff… and there are Sikhs with them, learning traditional English martial arts.

        And then I see the Sikhs in the courtyard of the gurdwaras, or some other suitable location, teaching the Englishmen *their* traditional skills.

        (though I understand that there were legendary bowmen among the Sikhs, so I would expect some Sikhs in Britain to greatly enjoy mastering one of England’s legendary and iconic weapons).

        Cultural exchange.

        Because you need to know each other’s histories and ways of fighting, so that as and when necessary, you can fight side-by-side.

        And there’s nothing to stop young Sikhs and young infidel Englishmen who have become newly aware of the Meaning and Menace of Islam, from joining the Territorial Army and getting some practice with and access to *modern* weaponry, too. Just in case.

      • Con Ken says

        May 5, 2016 at 4:46 pm

        Very interesting

  10. mortimer says

    Apr 21, 2016 at 7:31 pm

    Would our Sikh members of JW possibly know the approximate figure of Sikhs killed by jihad?

    • Hindu American says

      Apr 22, 2016 at 12:09 pm

      80 million Hindus and Sikhs. It’s well documented. Largely by muslim historiographers who kept track of their monarchs’ acts of genocide to later gloat over the infidels.

  11. mortimer says

    Apr 21, 2016 at 7:32 pm

    In the 1946-47 Partition of India massacre, Sikh women in Western Punjab were subjected to Islamic gang rape, followed by kicking iron/pointy bamboo rods up their vaginas, chopping off their breasts, noses and ears, writing “Allah-u-Akbar” on their chests, and then brutally killing them. Little children were tossed up landing on spikes, pregnant women had their stomachs slit open and unborn infidels taken out and ripped apart. A million Sikhs and Hindus were murdered in cold blood at the hands of Muslims during the partition of India.

    What triggered this chain reaction of partition violence? In August 1946, on the 18th of Ramadan (the Muslim holy day when Muhammad himself slaughtered the infidels of Arabia in the Battle of Badr), Muslims responded to Jinnah’s (Jinnah was the Father of Pakistan) call for Direct Action Day to slaughter Hindus and Sikhs and terrorize them to accept Pakistan just like their Prophet in the Battle of Badr. Based on the historical timeline of events leading to Partition, it is clear that it was the Muslims who first started killing the Sikh and Hindu infidels to terrorize them into accepting Pakistan.

    In the backdrop of the British leaving India, Muslims suddenly realized that cohabitation with kuffars is ‘haram’ by Islamic standards, hence Muslims should fight to get their own dar-ul-Islam of Pakistan because living with Hindu and Sikh kuffars counts as ‘persecution of Muslims’ and hence killing kuffars to force them to accept Pakistan is morally justified in Islam.

    http://chersonandmolschky.com/2014/07/11/direct-action-day-1946-muslim-slaughter-hindus-sikhs/

    • Cecilia Ellis says

      Apr 21, 2016 at 7:50 pm

      Mortimer, here is a very revealing website that addresses Musiim atrocities against Sikhs:

      https://www.facebook.com/SikhsAgainstIslamicOppression/

      The information on this site provides accounts of horrific atrocities.

    • Sick & Tired Bacon Eater says

      Apr 21, 2016 at 9:36 pm

      Pakistan was 40% Hindu/Sikh/Buddhist before the partition of India. The Muslims ethnically cleansed them by killing them or driving them off to India in order to create a Muslim country.

      Now the Hindu/Buddhist/Buddhist population in Pakistan is below 1% and the Christian population just a tad higher.

      After running out of ‘infidels’ to kill, the Pakistani Muslims have turned against one another now. Keep hearing about Sunnis suicide-bombing Shia mosques all the time!

    • Singh the Sikh says

      Apr 22, 2016 at 12:18 am

      Now you know why I hate islam with a passion.

      • Hindu American says

        Apr 22, 2016 at 12:11 pm

        You are not the only one.

      • Custos Custodum says

        Apr 22, 2016 at 6:13 pm

        Now you know why I hate islam with a passion.

        Then you must LOVE SINOs like the ostentatious “Sonny” Singh who makes this appeal on a leftist website:

        blockquote We Are All Muslims: A Sikh Response to Islamophobia in the NYPD and Beyond

        http://www.huffingtonpost.com/sonny-singh/sikh-response-to-nypd-surveillance-and-islamophobia_b_1336722.html

  12. Dan J. says

    Apr 21, 2016 at 9:16 pm

    It is not well known but the Sikh religion, while permitting meat eating, explicitly forbids the consumption of Halal meat as it is especially cruel to slaughter animals. However, in UK public schools in minority dominated areas, where there are almost EQUAL numbers of Muslims and Sikhs, the school lunchroom specifically serves only hHalal meats!

    • sencit says

      Apr 22, 2016 at 3:09 am

      Christians are not supposed to eat meat sacrificed to idols such as the evil Allah. The pandering to these people is sickening. I can’t help wondering how many political palms are being greased by Mecca land.

      • Con Ken says

        May 5, 2016 at 4:48 pm

        Wow, guess what walmarts in Florida is doing the same, what happened to PETA? Crickets, that’s what

    • Charli Main says

      Apr 22, 2016 at 5:43 am

      As a Christian ( not turn the other cheek kind), I deeply resent having to eat food that has had Muslim mumbo jumbo shyte muttered over it.
      I´m sure Sikhs feel the same way. ALL Muslim mumbo jumbo defiled meat, should be clearly marked as such. I´m not Muslim, so why should I be subjected to their dietary restrictions.?????’

  13. citycat says

    Apr 22, 2016 at 6:09 am

    @ Singh the Sikh
    just a small point.
    i don’t know where you are but there is not an apologistic word from the Sikhs and Hindus i know in Engeland. Far from it when they do speak.
    There seems to be more apologism from the non religious, strangely enough, in general, but awareness is spreading and people keep it to themselves till they trust who they talk to.

  14. Prospero says

    Apr 23, 2016 at 1:11 am

    Also in Germany, a court has ordered publication stop for a book.

    Sorry no English translation.

    http://www.welt.de/kultur/literarischewelt/article154576209/Erdogan-Anwalt-erwirkt-Buchschwaerzung.html

  15. Con Ken says

    May 5, 2016 at 4:46 pm

    Obama gone Jan 15 2017, pray he doesn’t damage USA further

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