When Europe imported millions of Muslim migrants, it also imported their ancient hatreds and enmities. But if these Syrian Muslims had not been caught, this mosque firebombing would almost certainly have been blamed on “right-wing extremists,” and the establishment media would once again inundate us with lamentations about “Islamophobia.”
“Four Syrians held for Molotov attack on mosque,” AFP, March 30, 2018:
Four Syrians have been arrested in Germany on suspicion of attempted murder and arson for their alleged roles in a Molotov cocktail attack on a mosque frequented by Turkish Muslims, police said on Thursday.
The attack in the southern city of Ulm on March 19 caused only material damage and the eight people inside the building at the time were unharmed, local police said in a joint statement with Stuttgart prosecutors.
The suspects, aged 18 to 27, were arrested on Wednesday. One of the men has already confessed to the crime, according to the statement.
The 3 am (0100 GMT) attack saw several Molotov cocktails lobbed at the building, one of which started a fire that was quickly put out by police.
Prosecutors said they suspect the attack “may have been politically motivated”, but according to DPA news agency they declined to comment on reports that it was an act of retaliation over the Turkish offensive in the Syrian enclave of Afrin.
“The investigation, including into the motive of the Syrians… is ongoing,” the statement read.
Several mosques, cultural centres and shops frequented by Germany’s Turkish community have been targeted in a string of attacks in recent weeks amid tensions over Turkey’s actions against Kurdish militia in Afrin….
b.a. freeman says
i wonder … could this be another fake “islamophobic” attack? in other words, i wonder if they threw the firebombs hoping to implicate “alt-right” folks; after all, both groups are sunnis, and unless the cocktail-throwers are found to be PKK or YPG, both of whom, IIRC, are non-islamic groups, there wouldn’t be any other motive.
gravenimage says
Could be, certainly. I think it was also about Muslims considering other Muslims “insufficiently Islamic”. Despite how much Turkey has appeased ISIS, this is certainly the case.
greyhound fancier says
What were eight people doing in the mosque at 0300?
gravenimage says
Maybe they were involved in some Jihad plotting of their own…
mortimer says
Muslims killing Muslims is no big deal for the media… so … ordinary … so expected.
The fact that the Western media see ISLAM on ISLAM violence as NORMATIVE, speaks volumes. The Western media actually EXPECT MUSLIMS to be violent, thus they TACITLY ACKNOWLEDGE that Islam is HOMICIDAL.
Manos says
To bad the evil mosque wasn’t burnt down
gravenimage says
Germany: Four Muslim migrants from Syria held for Molotov cocktail attack on Turkish mosque
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Muslim-on-Muslim violence in the beautiful city of Ulm, where Einstein was born.
And yes–this almost certainly would have been blamed on “right-wing Islamophobes” if the perpetrators had not been caught.
The European says
Western countries should know by now that Turkey no longer belongs to the western hemisphere. Turkey has become an islamic country, it is not a reliable ally anymore. It is time to force them out of Nato, negotiations relating to EU-membership of Turkey must be terminated once and for all and economic sanctions should be imposed on that islamic rogue state.
It was wrong not to dismember Turkey after its defeat in World War I. When the Ottoman empire was finally crushed, the spoils of war should have been shared out between Greeks, Armenians and Kurds, enabling each of these nations to build a state of their own. Instead of doing this, western leaders have put trust into Ataturk and his pro-western reforms. That was a big mistake and now we have another “unfinished business.” to cope with.
gravenimage says
By the end of WWI, Turkey had already slaughtered much of its Christian population in the Armenian Genocide, which also targeted Christian Assyrians, Greeks, and Levantines.
The European says
You are right about all these genocides, but I would like to focus on the Greek genocide.
Between 1913 and 1922 about 750 000 Greeks from Pontus, Ionia, Cappadocia and Eastern and Western Thrace were slaughtered by the Turks and their allies. These killings of civilians began in the last years of the Ottoman Empire, they went on under the regime of the Young Turks ( Enver Pascha being the mastermind of the Armenian genocide) and they reached its peak when Ataturk came to power..
But this genocide was somehow different. Of course, there were death marches, mass killings, summary executions, rape and murder, but the Greeks were not as defenceless as their Armenian and Assyrian brothers. In the Greek territories which had already been liberated from Turkish-Muslim despotism during the revolution of 1821, an army was raised that fought alongside the Entente Forces and helped defeat the Ottoman Empire, and this army to contnued to fight the Turks in Anatolia and Northern Greece after WWI. But when Eleftherios Venizelos, a great Greek leader, first president of Crete and first prime Minister of Greece, came to Versailles in 1919 to present his maps of Greater Greece ( which, included the coastal regions of western Turkey predominantly inhabited by Greeks) and to expound his “megali idea” ( great idea: a hope, expressed by many Greeks since the revolution of 1821/1827 to restore at least partially the Byzantine Empire),the negotiators of the western powers refused to,listen to him. Nevertheless, the war between Greece and Turkey continued. The Greeks won many battles, drove the Turks out of Western and Eastern Thrace and reconquered the Ionian coast, taking Smyrna, the most important city in that region, and making inroads into Anatolia. But the West did not come to their aid. Hadn’t the war-weary and half-hearted leaders of the allied nations committed themselves to non-interference, the outcome of the conflit would have been different. Of this I am sure. But then, the Greek army suffered defeat after defeat, and the Turks brutally slaughtered Greek civilians as the Greek army was forced to withdraw. In 1922 Turkish Forces marched into Smyrna and their soldiers and irregulars set fire to Greek and Armenian homes and businesses and massacred nearly 100 000 people. Another 100 000 were deported after the massacre, never to be seen again. And the Western powers? Oh, yes, they forced the Greeks to sign the Treaty of Lausanne in 1923. That treaty stipulated that about 1.1 million Greeks had to leave their homes in Anatolia and that Greece was obliged to give back Eastern Thrace, Imbros and Tenedos to the Turks.
Indeed, the Entente powers had the opportunity to uproot turkish imperialism which has always been motivated by islamic supremacism, but they failed to seize that opportunity.
Why they acted like that is still a conundrum to me, since there were plans to partition Turkey, as can be clearly seen, when you take a closer look at the Treaty of Sevres (1920),
gravenimage says
Thanks, The European. I know this history.
I still–with all respect–doubt that there were enough Greeks–or Christians in toto–surviving by 1920 to have held any part of Turkey. God knows, I wish there had been.
G Receiver says
Whenever you see a jihad-like attack by a Muslim on another Muslim, never forget to ask two questions; (1) Is the jihadi was a Sunni or a Shia? ,(2) Is the victim a Sunni or a Shia or a Bahai or an Ahmediya?
You’ll rarely find the jihadi’s and the victim’s cult to be the same.
The case in the article could be a rare exception.
gravenimage says
Muslims of the same sect regulary kill each other, as well–often they consider each other “insufficiently Islamic”.
Brother Charles says
WILL THAT BE ISLAMOPHOBIC OR INFIDELOPHOBIC OR TURKEYOPHOBIC , ??? WHAT WILL THEY BE CALLED ?
Save Europe says
No one needs the Arab vs Turk, Turk vs Kurd, Sunni vs Shia, Sunni vs Ahmadi, Sunni and Shia vs Sufi inter religious and ethnic hatred that has been transported into Europe by idiot politicians.