Germany’s leading Muslim organization has urged the government to appoint a Federal Commissioner to counter anti-Muslim attitudes in the country. “Such a Commissioner is needed more than ever because we have a latent anti-Muslim sentiment in Germany,” president of the country’s Central Council of Muslims, Aiman Mazyek, said.
Mazyek’s demand was supported by leading German political parties, including Chancellor Angela Merkel’s coalition partner, the Social Democratic Party. The right-wing Alternative for Germany (AfD) was the only party to oppose the call.
The proposal comes at a time when crimes against Muslims are on decline in Germany. “In 2018, 813 attacks against Muslims and mosques were registered, compared to 950 such crimes in the previous year,” German newspaper Die Welt reported earlier this week. “These recorded crimes include hatred against Muslims or Muslim refugees on the internet (so-called hate comments), threatening letters, attacks of women wearing headscarf and on Muslim men on the streets, as well as property damage and Nazi-graffitis on houses and mosques,” German daily the Neuen Osnabrücker Zeitung commented.
The head of the Muslim umbrella group also called for more ‘sensitivity training’ for Germany’s police and judiciary.
Die Welt reported the broad political support for the demands made by Germany’s Central Council of Muslims:
The head of Germany’s Central Council of Muslims calls for a Federal Commissioner to combat hate against people of Islamic faith. He received support from the leader of the Left Party [successor of the East German Communist Party]. The suggestion received mixed reaction in the parliament.
The Left Party backed the demand made by the head of Central Council of Muslims, Aiman Mazyek, to appoint a Federal Commissioner to fight hostility towards Muslims. “Because Islam is part of Germany, there should be a Commissioner to counter anti-Muslim hostility,” head of the Left Party, Katja Kipping, told Die Welt. “It is an expression of our basic Liberal order, that not only people who reside here can practice their faith, but also that we protect the faithful against hate and defamation.”
Kipping was reacting to Mazyek’s demand. Talking to the Neuen Osnabrücker Zeitung, he had called the appointment of such a Commissioner “necessary than ever before” because there is a “latent anti-Muslim sentiment in Germany.” (…)
The SPD [Merkel’s junior coalition partner] and the Green Party are open to the idea. “Hostility towards Muslims is a theme that we must keep a watchful eye on,” SPD’s interior affairs spokesperson Lars Castellucci said. “We will seek dialogue with the Central Council [of Muslims] to look at which measures are best suited, and join forces to push them. Filiz Polat, Green Party’s spokesperson for Islam, described the demand made by the Central Council [of Muslims] as “more than understandable.” “Generally speaking,” Anti-Muslim racism gets “less than sufficient attention despite growing Islamophobia and hostility towards Muslims in Germany.” There is an urgent need for “a debate and solidarity against Islamophobia spanning across the society.”
The AfD party described the demand for a Commissioner to fight hostility towards Muslim as “not meaningful.” Although, attacks and violence against any ethnic or religious group must be decisively countered, said, Volker Münz, spokesman for Church related matters. “However, it doesn’t help if every group gets a commissioner from the Federal Government.” [Translated by the author]
While hate crimes against Muslims are on decline, violence against Jews is on the rise. In 2018, Germany witnessed a ten percent surge in anti-Semitic hate crimes. last year “there were 1,646 incidents recorded nationwide, compared to 1,504 in 2017,” German broadcaster Deutsche Welle reported. Many of the perpetrators are clearly identified as individuals with Muslim backgrounds.
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medforth says
Germany: Hate campaign against female expert on Islamism+++
After her revelations about the so-called “Kita-Imam” (Kita=abbreviation for day nursery, Ed.), the expert on Islamism Sigrid Herrmann-Marschall is facing a smear campaign on the Internet. She has to endure countless insults, the accusation of “AfD party closeness” and other untruths. The member of the Social Democratic Party (SPD), Herrmann-Marschall, made public in mid-March that the day-care center imam Asmer U. shared radical fundamentalist and anti-Semitic contents on Facebook.On the 14th of March the expert on Islamism Sigrid Herrmann-Marschall made public that Asmer U., known as “Kita-Imam”, shared radical fundamentalist and anti-Semitic contents on his Facebook page. To this end, she published a post on her blog ” Vorwärts und nicht vergessen – Islamismus und Gesellschaft”. She also sent a press release to a number of media in the Rhineland, particularly in the Düsseldorf area.The Bosnian Imam Asmer U. is to educate children about Islam in a Protestant day care center in Düsseldorf-Reisholz. The Protestant-Muslim community project was initiated by the Diakonie Düsseldorf as the sponsor of the Steubenstraße daycare centre in the Reisholz district together with the Circle of Düsseldorf Muslims (KDDM).Neither the Diakonie nor the KDDM reacted to the revelations of Sigrid Herrmann-Marschall, which are documented by numerous screenshots. Asmer U., however, deleted all corresponding contributions from his Facebook profile on the same day. Shortly afterwards, he published an article in which he accused Herrmann-Marschall of having published a “denouncing” and “inflammatory” blog post about him. He explained the extremist contributions on his Facebook page by saying that he “also had to deal with the content and theology of the content”.Then he attacked the Islamism expert head-on and also did not avoid insinuations: “She is obviously to be located in the area of right-wing populist forces like the AfD and can hardly hide this”, he wrote among other things. He also called Herrmann-Marschall a “well-known AfD expert”. Among the few people who marked the Facebook entry of Asmer U. with “Like” was Dirk Sauerborn. The well-known policeman also represents the Salafism prevention program “Wegweiser” in Düsseldorf. An appropriate Screenshot is present to our editorship.What was striking about Asmer U.’s Facebook contribution was that, in addition to an article in the weekly Der Spiegel, he had linked two contributions to the blog ” Wehrt dem Hass “. What was striking about Asmer U.’s Facebook contribution was that, in addition to an article in Der Spiegel, he had linked two contributions to the blog ” Wehrt dem Hass “. This blog was launched in 2016 and is mainly used to denigrate Herrmann-Marschall. Thus the long-standing SPD member Herrmann-Marschall is accused of stereotypically being close to the AfD.[…]
However, left-wing and especially Islamist circles immediately eagerly took up the blog post on Sunday and Monday and shared it countless times on Facebook.However, left-wing and especially Islamist circles immediately eagerly took up the blog post on Sunday and Monday and shared it countless times on Facebook. In the comments it led to personal insults and abuse against Herrmann-Marschall. Thus Ferid Heider, a nationwide acting Imam of an institution under the observation of the Office for the Protection of the Constitution, described the Islamism expert as “Islamophobic and disguised right-wing agitator”.[…]
What was striking was that many of these disparaging comments were written by people who had been named on her blog by Sigrid Herrmann-Marschall in the past because of documented Islamist activities or contacts to Islamists, as well as people who had made themselves known as Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat members in previous attacks on her. The Düsseldorf “Kita-Imam” Asmer U. also immediately shared the inflammatory post on his Facebook page.This time, however, there was no “like” from Dirk Sauerborn – who had possibly been forewarned by Herrmann-Marschall’s article published by the Ruhr Barone blog.On inquiry of our editorship with the Düsseldorf police, how the latter evaluates that an coworker of the police executive board had marked a defamation of Herrmann Marschall, which contained wrong representations, in the week before with “Like”, said a spokesman on Monday, Sauerborn made this as private person. “So, of course, we will not comment on this in any way,” said the police spokesman. Dirk Sauerborn is a police contact officer for intercultural affairs. That includes in particular the contact of the police to the Muslim municipalities of the city.
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https://searchlight-germany.blogspot.com/2019/04/germany-hate-campaign-against-female.html
mortimer says
Thank you, medforth, for bringing Sigrid Herrmann-Marschall to our attention. This is amazing that such a person is on site in Germany and bringing the truth about Islamic supremacism to light.
(original German article following:)
http://nrw-direkt.net/hetzkampagne-gegen-islamismus-expertin/
Only an obscurantist or someone who is morally bankrupt can endorse Islam. Islam is unhistorical, amoral and counter-rational and hence, there is no argument with which to defend Islam.
Look at this as well if you can read some German … the Germans are holding journalists accountable for their lies about counterjihad.
https://www.journalistenwatch.com/2019/03/18/lautes-schweigen-kita/
CogitoErgoSum says
Who is the Islamic Czar in charge of fighting hate crimes against Jews, Christians and other “infidels?” So that is what Quran 9:29 means?
Savvy Kafir says
Brace yourself, Mr. Mazyek — The anti-Islam sentiment is just getting started! — in Germany and elsewhere in the West. And you can do nothing to stop it.
mortimer says
Savvy Kafir is correct. The opposition to misogynistic, supremacist Islam will only increase in Germany as in the surrounding countries. Soon the same anti-Islam politics will prevail in Germany and then France and then UK. Denmark now shows signs of having had enough. The pushback to Islamic supremacism is going to become formidable.
Ole Pederson says
None of these persons ever question themselves why their religion has such a bad reputation.
mortimer says
Disagree, somewhat, Muslims often come across as overconfident. This is for show. Many Muslims are actually asking themselves why Islam is disliked around the world. Many are experiencing severe cognitive dissonance … this is our opportunity to deprogram them.
jayell says
Such a (Anti-Muslim) Commissioner is needed more than ever because we have a latent anti-Muslim sentiment in Germany”…….
Now, why would Germany have a ‘latent anti-muslim sentiment’ in the first place? Funny that it hasn’t occurred to this person to ask that particular question, because if someone gave him the honest answer, Germany could avoid the need for for an ‘Anti-Muslim Commissioner’ – but that might mean organising a compulsory programme of re-education for muslims on the delicate subject of behaving in a respectful, civilised and law-abiding fashion – and that, of course, entails learning to respect the German people. their laws and customs, and contributing positively to their lives rather than being an obnoxious criminal burden to the German taxpayer and a menace to German life and limb. Then all the ‘latent anti-muslim sentiment’ might magically disappear! Do we think Aiman Mazyek might go along with that?
K WAGNER says
Why do you need one..you have Merkel
Peter says
An
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Tsar would be better suited to the real problem.
perceptor1 says
Yep … exactly … Islam has an OFFICIAL, COMPULSORY teaching called AL WALAA WAL BARAA that requires Muslims to HATE ALL NON-MUSLIMS.
TKF says
Victim mongering Muslims don’t belong in the West. They ALL need to go back to their Islamic turd-piles where they can be insane fanatics together.
Savvy Kafir says
I agree, TKF. That has to be our goal, if the West is to avoid being Islamized — zero Muslims in the Western world.
gravenimage says
Germany’s Top Muslim Organization Calls for ‘Islamophobia’ Czar
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I hope Germany does not cave to this demand.
David M says
They are basically calling for sharia blasphemy laws to be introduced into Germany.
gravenimage says
Yes.
Kilauea says
The Germans need a Czar to organize their resistance to Islamization.
eduardo odraude says
Video: Germans comment on Merkel’s immigration policy: they don’t like it at all:
https://bit.tube/play?hash=QmbrZHgPWcUWqCbjNL432Pw7Pq3RaWKsHNWFryGN8A3WZG&channel=251530
James Whitney says
I assume that if their is a Islamophobia Czar there will also be a Christianophobia Czar and a Jewophobia Czar. After all, there should be equality. What nonsense!