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It looks like more and more Germans are finally beginning to realize that tolerating the very ideology that inspired Hitler and the “Final Solution” is a bad idea after all …

By Soeren Kern, Gatestone Institute – “More than half of all Germans view Islam as a threat to their country and believe it does not belong in the Western world, according to a major new study on religious attitudes in Germany.

The findings confirm the results of dozens of other surveys, and reflect a growing divide between the views of ordinary Germans and those of Europe’s multicultural elites, who, in the quest for ‘diversity,’ have been promoting mass immigration from Muslim countries for decades.

The study, entitled, Religion Monitor 2013: Religiousness and Cohesion in Germany (currently available only in German) was produced by the Bertelsmann Foundation, one of the most influential think tanks and lobbying groups in Europe, and a strong proponent of ‘progressive’ causes such as multiculturalism and global governance.

According to the survey — designed to measure the ‘most important forms and intensity of the religiosity’ of German citizens — the majority of Germans view Islam as ‘foreign, different and threatening.’

More specifically, 51% of Germans believe Islam poses a threat to their way of life. In East Germany that figure rises to 57%, while in West Germany it reaches 49%. (The survey also shows that one in five Germans believe Judaism poses a threat to the German way of life.)

Only 25% of Germans believe that Islam has a positive influence on German society.

Although 85% Germans say that society should be open to all religions, and 67% believe that ‘every religion has a core of truth,’ fully 50% of Germans believe that Islam does not belong to Germany.

The survey also shows that Muslims possess the strongest religious identity in Germany. Some 90% of Muslims believe that religion is somewhat or very important, 40% rate themselves as very religious, and 30% of Muslims visit the mosque on a regular basis. By contrast, only 18% of Protestant Christians attend church on a regular basis.” Read more.

• Flashback: Germany: Christian Cross Removed From German Court To Appease Muslims
• Flashback: Achtung! The Islamization Of Germany In 2012
• Flashback: University Professor Under Criminal Investigation For ‘Insulting Mohammed’ … In Germany
• Flashback: ‘Christian On The Outside, Muslim On The Inside’: Germany’s Islamization Continues As Churches Nationwide Become Mosques
• Flashback: ‘We Look Forward To A European Summer’: Islamist Threatens To Attack Germany, Kill Chancellor Angela Merkel
• Flashback: Downfall Part 2: German Politicians Welcome Introduction Of Sharia Law In Germany, ‘Good For Integration’
• Flashback: Germany: Hundreds Of Radical Islamists Riot In Bonn, 29 Police Officers Injured, 2 Stabbed
• Flashback: Germany: Hamburg Mosque Violates Anti-Hate Contract, Calls For The Destruction Of Israel
• Flashback: Germany: Muslims Assault Jews In Berlin, Jews Cautioned To No Longer Dress Like Jews
• Flashback: Germany: Islamist Calls Upon Muslims To Murder All Members Of Far-Right Anti-Sharia Party

Qur’an 9:112, “The [Muslim] Believers fight in Allah’s Cause, they slay and are slain, kill and are killed.”

Spokesman of PA Security Forces on Palestine Live TV, 3/25/2013: “All the honorable [events] take place in March, starting with the Al-Karameh Day through Mother’s Day, Dalal Mughrabi’s day and ending with Abu Jihad Khalil Al-Wazir [Founder of Fatah and deputy to Yasser Arafat. He headed the PLO terror organization’s military wing and planned many deadly Fatah terror attacks, including the most lethal in Israel history, the hijacking of a bus and killing of 37 civilians, 12 of them children]. All these, brave brothers in the Palestinian Security Forces, this is their day, which we celebrate today.” Watch video below.

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas: Palestinians Who Kill Jews Cannot Be Punished – “Because to punish Palestinians for killing Jews would, in their mind, be punishing someone simply for following the commands of their ‘prophet’ Mohammed. He was, after all, a ‘perfect example for mankind‘ to follow whose teachings are ‘the fire with which’ they ‘harvest the skulls of the Jews.’ It is therefore an act of worship to kill Jews, and an act that draws them closer to ‘Allah’ is an act that must be revered, not punished …” Read more.

Hadith, Bukhari 52:177, “Allah’s Apostle said, ‘The Hour will not be established until you fight with the Jews, and the stone behind which a Jew will be hiding will say. ‘O Muslim! There is a Jew hiding behind me, so kill him.'”

PA TV (Fatah), 4/16/2013: “The Eilabun tunnel operation in 1965 (bombing of Israel’s National Water Carrier), the shelling of the northern settlements (i.e., northern Israel) in 1981, in between the Savoy Hotel operation in Tel Aviv in 1975 (11 killed), the blowing up of a truck bomb that same year (15 killed in Jerusalem), and the birth of Dalal’s Republic in 1978 on the Haifa-Tel Aviv road (37 killed in a bus hijacking) – these are the prominent operations planned and supervised by Abu Jihad, the most noble of men.”

By Terry Heinrichs, American Thinker – “The so-called ‘Global War on Terror’ is as far removed from previous wars we’ve fought as football is from hide-and-seek. In the 20^th century, wars were generally fought by countries with clearly defined uniformed combatants bearing military insignia, carrying arms openly, and targeting military personnel rather than civilians. Where civilians were casualties, they were mainly collateral rather than targeted damage.  By contrast, our war with Islamic jihadists is not against any country but against religiously inspired zealots, who wear no uniforms, display no insignias, conceal their armaments, and who hide among, as well as target, civilians.

True, spies, saboteurs, and fifth columnists operated in previous wars outside regular defined battlefields and, thus, also violated the laws of war, but, by contrast, their activities did comparatively little damage. Today, however, terrorist attacks are the preferred method of jihadist warfare, and, as a result, gathering information necessary to prevent them is more important than it was for any previous war. Indeed, acquiring the necessary information is even more important now than in 2001 because Obama has adopted a kill first drone strategy rather than a capture and interrogate policy.

That terrorists are active today on the home front means it is especially necessary to find out who they are, where they are, how many there are, who or what they are targeting, as well as how, where, and when they plan to strike. Moreover, given the destructiveness of weapons today (biological, chemical, and radiological), along with their relative ease of concealment and the difficulties of tracing responsibility, the task for us is close to herculean.

Gagging the Terrorist

Hence, the extraordinary, almost bizarre, nature of the administration’s handling of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev given that it is clear he has information we need to know. Indeed, he was apparently talking to the FBI in the hospital for 16 hours before a magistrate judge, likely acting on orders from higher-ups, went out of her way to Mirandize him, something judges are not constitutionally empowered to do. As a result, Tsarnaev apparently shut up altogether. He is now being held as an ordinary domestic criminal free to talk when he, not we, want, when he could have been held as an enemy combatant and interrogated for at least 30 days, had Obama chosen, without ever getting a glimpse of a lawyer.

However, given the administration’s choice, and given that they decided to try him as they might an ordinary shoplifter, was it necessary to Mirandize him to protect his constitutional right not to incriminate himself? Read more…