Germany is reeling after a week of jihad attacks, four to be exact: the Wuerzburg axe jihad aboard a train, Munich shooting spree jihad, the machete jihad in Reutlingen, and the suicide bomber jihad in Ansbach. Of course, there couldn’t be a better occasion for the Washington Post to publish an editorial entitled “In Germany, anti-Muslim extremists may pose as big a threat as Islamist militants”. It’s almost too much, as if this were an Onion article.
DRESDEN, Germany — When an 18-year old German Iranian killed nine people and then shot himself on Friday in Munich, speculation that it was an Islamist attack circulated for hours.
But doubts arose when a video was uploaded in which the attacker can be heard shouting: “I am German.”
These same ‘journalists’ always doubt if a jihadist screaming ‘Allahu Akbar’ is a true Muslim, even if they read the Quran before beheading someone.
On Wednesday, German media cited police sources as saying that they now had credible information that the attacker was a right-wing extremist who hated Arabs and Turks. Although he was not thought to have been associated with any right-wing groups, according to those media reports, the sources called him a “racist.” His victims were mostly foreigners.
It would not be the first time an anti-Muslim attacker has been mistaken for an Islamist extremist in Germany.
Ali Somboly is an Iranian Muslim who screamed ‘Allahu Akbar’ while shooting at children. German authorities arrested an Afghan friend of his several days later. So when a Muslim attacks another Muslim, it becomes “right-wing extremism”?
Germany is still wrestling with the anti-Muslim terror group National Socialist Underground (NSU), which killed 10 people — most of them Turks — between 2000 and 2007. Investigators had initially blamed Germany’s immigrant community for most of the deaths, characterizing them as the result of infighting and organized-gang activity.
Two of the NSU suspects later killed themselves; a third, Beate Zschäpe, is on trial in Munich. The attacks have fostered deep mistrust between Germany’s large immigrant community and authorities: The country’s intelligence services stand accused of having deliberately ignored clues that right-wing extremists had carried out the killings.
Author Rick Noack resorts to bringing up ten deaths that occurred ten years prior. If he were trying to actually be convincing, he would cite incidents where right-wingers rape elderly women in cemeteries, molest children in swimming pools, or murder pregnant women with machetes…oh wait, those are all crimes from the last few months that were committed by Muslims.
Ten deaths from a previous decade are supposed to balance out years of sexual abuse, violent crime and homicide, theft, and female genital mutilation. The Washington Post clearly demonstrates the bigotry of low expectations when it comes to Muslims.
…There are concerns that tensions are on the rise. Germans, like many other Europeans, are increasingly opposed to the rising number of immigrants seeking asylum in their country.
Other countries also have dealt with attacks on Muslims, although the extent to which they could be categorized as terrorism remains a matter of dispute. In July 2013, for instance, a nail bomb exploded in front of a mosque in Tipton in the West Midlands, England. Nobody was injured, but the BBC quoted police official Gary Cann as describing the incident as an “act of terrorism.” Last year, The Washington Post reported that French Muslim leaders had counted more than 50 anti-Muslim attacks within the week after the attacks on the editorial offices of Charlie Hebdo and a Jewish supermarket in Paris.
In Germany, right-wing extremists seem to be especially well connected.
The attacker on Friday is thought to have operated alone, according to German media reports.
But in many other cases, investigators say, German right-wing extremists rely on a network that has grown over decades. German intelligence services are believed to have hired some of the extremists as double agents, creating its own set of complications….”
Germany sounds like a really intolerant, unsafe country for Muslim immigrants. Perhaps this article will encourage them to move to a more tolerant, diverse place. This editorial is only one of many that try to downplay the deadly nature of Islamic jihad.

jihad3tracker says
ABOUT 80% OF COMMENTERS FOR THIS WASHINGTON POST ITEM ARE SHREDDING THE STUPIDITY OF IT — CLICK ON THE FIRST RED HOTLINK TO READ THEIR REMARKS.
The other 20% are the usual trolls who post one sentence of irrelevance — or they bring up the Crusades for the 1,000,000th time, as if it was EUROPE who went on an expansionist offensive. Of course, it was Islam, actually, expanding to create an early caliphate.
Jay Boo says
I predicted this would happen.
When fully OPEN_DOOR Merkel was groveling at full speed, BBC had no trouble finding (FRENEMIE) Muslims in Germany who would say how nice Germans were (in comparison) to all those less accommodating and racist other EU countries.
Now Muslims are behaving more like Muslims.
Who knew?
DFD says
Hi Jay,
nice to see you again. That article was involuntarily funny. Think about it, those NSU people killed ten, in about ten years. A single Muslim in Munich kills nine and wounds dozens of others with a couple of hours.
But the media and the ‘authorities’ declare that those right wing bla bla are far more dangerous….
What do you think, are we still on earth?
Gea says
Washington Post is a rag for politically correct cultural relativist morons, who do not see or hear reality. They engage in promotion of Islam and defaming those who tell the truth about Islam,. as Trump does. fortunately, Americans are waking up and perhaps with Donald Trump we can also help Europe as we did after Nazis invaded it, just as now Muslims are invading Europe with the help of European politicians, including the Pope who is a dope.
WorkingClassPost says
I do remember when there were occasional news items about the growth of Germany’s far right, particularly after reunification as I recall (they were big in the East).
But I don’t remember any pussying about under achievers and disenfranchised innocents forced by circumstances to be right wing extremists.
They were shown in all their bigoted anger, and their nazi ideology was acknowledged and held up as their primary inspiration.
So they faded away and, even with the present daily horrors, they are hardly a major force, not yet, at least.
Wonder if there are any lessons to be learned there…
andra says
It is true that there were stories about far right crimes in Eastern Germany after the reunification. But several ov them were later proven as not to be true. But that bit of Information only came up in the local newspapers.
Referring to Munich massacre. Referring to the Süddeutsche Zeitung the Munic prosecuter does not believe in a right wing attacker.
Referring to the NSU. Most witnesses in this case are dying one after the other. There are quite a few oeople in Germany who don´t believe in this NSU story. There are quite a lot of strange Information about this case that it is hard to look through. The courtsuit is running for four or five years by now and nothing happens.
I believe it is just another bit in the German guilt cult. We had an comparable story in 2000, there was an attack on the Wuppertal synagouge. All politicians were shouting that we need to unite in the fight against right. That the traitors were from Gaza and wanted to harm Israel by this attack was hardly mentioned afterwards. But since then Germany has a very expensive and organized figtht against right, beginning with social dangers for AfD-members and ending with the streef fightes from the AntiFa, combined with indoctrination of self-hatred in school and the media..
Westman says
I seems obvious now that the trend toward increasing jihad violence in France and Germany is irrefutable. The enemedia would have us believe that this is the spread of mental illness brought on by exposure to “Islamophobia” instead of exposure to the Quran, Hadith, and Saudi-funded, purveyers-of-death, clerics.
As I mused on why the media would sell out America, while also watching the DNC, there was an insight moment where I realized that the Democratic platform and the media share the same goal: creating change based on ideology with little reference to measured reality.
The phrase, “Inside Every Liberal is a Totalitarian Screaming to Get Out.”, is very apt. Liberalism and Sharia have a common goal – prescription for all the details of YOUR life.
It seems the group of very educated people most likely to insist that you join them in the attempt to change a myriad of social “injustices” are the least likely to fund those efforts; instead, calling on the government to pass laws and intervene.
Accurate reporting of Jihad gets in the way of selling the liberal prescriptions of “social warriors” to the public. The liberal mindset is usually one of privilege through education with little appreciation for the historical cost paid by patriots to create and preserve the environment that allows their liberalism. They will not be signing up for military service or be doing much manual labor.
Santa Voorhees says
What idiots…
How could they compare 10 killed between 2000 and 2007 by “right wing extremists” with hundreds (if not thousands..) killed between 2015 and 2016 alone by islamic jihadists (and that is outside Syria and Iraq)?
I really have no words!
Michael Copeland says
“Muslims in Germany: 3 million violent Muslim attacks and 7,500 Germans killed” since 1990.
Posted on June 9, 2013
https://themuslimissue.wordpress.com/2013/06/09/muslims-in-germany-3-million-violent-muslim-attacks-and-7500-germans-killed/
Nigel GFF says
“This editorial is only one of many that try to downplay the deadly nature of Islamic jihad.”
Ok, the article was primarily about Germany but it is truly despicable to ignore the international/global dimension of this conflict. The singular nature of this global ideology, Islam, should never be deemed comparable to some nebulous ‘right-wing extremism’ – ill defined, if ever.
Luke says
Jihad clearly has three parts. The violent element which is obvious, the political element, which is being fought by our own governments, and the propaganda element, which is being fought by our own media.
Mo says
“Anti-Islam extremists just as bad as Islamic jihadists”
We’ve known how the Left things about this for a long time. I’m glad they are finally being honest and open about it.
Blangwort says
Body counts aside, do the “anti-Islam extremists” advocate death to non-believers? Do they discuss Women as second class citizens? Do they profess extremist views in line with avowed enemies?
No. They simply want to end the importation of those who DO think this way. They advocate for an end to immigration and work visas from countries where the predominant religion is Islam.
Furthermore, those who advocate for Islam should be watched in much the same way as we watch the Westboro Baptist Church, The Neo-Nazis, or any other hate group.
I’m sorry if people don’t like this. I don’t either. But I prefer safety for our country and survival of our culture over this diseased cult.
Angemon says
Perhaps Mr. Noack is chronologically disabled – he does not experience time as we do, in a linear fashion, with past, present and future. Perhaps for him there’s no difference between past and present – he experiences things that happened years ago as if they are happening right away. I hope he was never involved in a traffic accident or the victim of abuse.
occupant 9 says
I would like clarification from The Guardian in that since “anti-Muslim extremists are just as bad as Islamic jihadists,” does that mean the “anti-Muslim extremists” have the same latitude of action afforded to the Mohammedans?
Or, by doing the same, are we therefore worse?
Yorkshire Kufir says
The german authorities are floundering and throwing mud at the old reliable bogiemen, It is a good distraction from their incompetence on so many levels for a few days.
Any interpretation of what eyewitnesses saw and heard (not a terribly reliable source of information on what happened) Is being twisted to the old roght-wing threat. I personally have my theory as to why the Munich McDonalds shooter had all that material on Lone shooter mass murderers, It was his study material for his favoured way of doing jihad. He’d decided that Jihad was what he wanted to do and then with german thoroughness researched the methodology. Shouting “I am a german” may have been a distraction to buy more time. We’ll never know, Thankfully he was shot before he could pile up the body count.
dumbledoresarmy says
You wrote – ” I personally have my theory as to why the Munich McDonalds shooter had all that material on Lone shooter mass murderers, It was his study material for his favoured way of doing jihad. He’d decided that Jihad was what he wanted to do and then with german thoroughness researched the methodology.”
Yes. That’s what *I’ve* been thinking. Study material. Muslims have *always* copied and borrowed from the Infidels, in the area of “more efficient ways of killing lots of people”. This bloke saw how effective a bunch of kuffar mass murderers had been – more effective, in brute terms, than many lone jihadists – and he wanted to find out *how they did it*. So he could use those techniques when waging jihad.
duh swami says
Disgusting kuffar who seek to protect the image of Islam, are worse than criminal…they are vile…