Literally a few weeks after the riots in Stuttgart, police chief Frank Lutz is considering publishing the suspects’ family trees, according to a media report. The chief of staff of the Stuttgart police announced that investigators would also find out the exact origin of the suspect from a German passport through the district office,Stuttgart newspaper“Thursday night at the local council.

At the request of the CDU, Lutz reported on the current state of unrest on June 21.

Clashes broke out again in the capital of Baden-Württemberg on Saturday night. Several people were temporarily arrested. More than 200 officers were also stationed in central Stuttgart.

Among other things, a 16-year-old drunk boy resisted after a check and suffered minor injuries to four police officers. Another man was seriously injured in another fight.

In mid-June, heavy riots in Stuttgart made headlines across the country. Hundreds of people were outraged in the city center and attacked police officers. Forces were thrown at them with bottles and stones, and a number of businesses were looted. On Sunday night, Stuttgart remained calm.

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Friday noon, at 1:30 pm sharp: When the muezzin calls for prayer in the Ditib Mosque, Marcel Bauersfeld is standing on the sidewalk of Bielefelder Strasse in Herford – once again. He hammers on a cooking pot with a spoon without ceasing. Shortly afterwards the police come and demand that he leave.Is this freedom of expression or is the 37-year-old’s action disturbing the freedom of religion? “Two basic rights collide,” says police spokeswoman Simone Lah-Schnier. However, as soon as there is suspicion of a crime, the police may – as in this case – issue a sending-off order. According to the spokeswoman, the man who has never been reported to the police, has already been charged with violating religious freedom.On July 3, Marcel Bauersfeld had also made a lot of noise in front of the mosque. But a week ago he used a cowbell. “It was confiscated by the police. That’s why I’m here with the pot today,” he says. The case is currently with the Bielefeld public prosecutor’s office. There, Simone Lah-Schnier says, it is being examined whether it is a crime. In the meantime, the cowbell that has been seized will be held by the authorities.For the third time in a row the 37-year-old protests this Friday against the Islamic call to prayer that Mayor Tim Kähler had permitted the Turkish community in mid-June. Since then the decision of the head of administration has caused controversial discussions.The Christian Democratic Union (CDU) around mayoral candidate Anke Theisen had criticized the decision. A majority of the council, however, considers the call to prayer a basic right.Marcel Bauersfeld makes it clear in an interview with this newspaper: “I am neither left nor right-wing extremist. I have nothing against other cultural customs either. The only thing that bothers me is the muezzin call, which in my eyes is nothing more than a call to the caliphate. I don’t want any Sharia here.”The protester says he has studied the Koran in depth. With the permission of the muezzin call, Pandora’s box was opened. “Other Turkish communities could claim the same right.” He is demanding that the city of Herford revoke its muezzin call permit.

The 37-year-old announces that he will be back next Friday. “I am curious to see if I will be prosecuted for a cowbell or a cooking pot,” he says.

The Ditib community could prevent this by obtaining a temporary injunction with a prohibition of approach from the district court. This means: Marcel Bauersfeld would only be allowed to approach the mosque up to a certain, fixed distance.

https://m.westfalen-blatt.de/OWL/Kreis-Herford/Herford/4233018-Weshalb-Marcel-Bauersfeld-vor-der-Herforder-Moschee-beim-Freitagsgebet-Laerm-macht-Mit-Loeffel-und-Topf-gegen-Muezzin-Ruf?fbclid=IwAR0GglOlN3cgbaq_K8aLNmheEtqiJjxsSGVwYCReDrbCSsT5N0HeETetuPs

On Thursday, German spy chief Thomas Haldenwang – an adherent of Chancellor Merkel’s CDU party – and Interior Minister Seehofer presented the domestic intelligence report for 2019. Their key message was that the greatest danger comes from the right-wing.

In order to be able to prove this statistically, a ruse was used and, without closer inspection, 7000 members of “the wing” were included and 1 600 members of the AfD’s youth movement Junge Alternativen were declared blanket right-wing extremists.

Der Flügel [German for “the wing”] is a dissolved faction within Germany’s Alternative for Germany, the largest opposition party. The group was led by Björn Höcke and Andreas Kalbitz. Following the request by the AfD executive board the faction was dissolved by the end of April 2020, and the group’s online presence went offline.

The fact remains that radical Islam actually poses a far greater danger: last year the Federal Attorney General initiated more than 60 percent of all investigative proceedings against this threat; there are 15 times more threats from radical Islamic than from conservatives.

The danger that Islam poses is deliberately being minimized so that government parties do not have to answer for their policies of mass immigration and the associated dangers to domestic security.

The AfD, which has denounced these abuses, is being discredited by the assessment of the domestic spy agency, and the government is thus protected from criticism.

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“The city that Constantine had protected for more than a thousand years… has now undergone, in this unfortunate year, the destruction by the Turks. I suffer at the thought that the temple of Saint Sophia, famous all over the world, has been destroyed or desecrated. This is a second death for Homer, a second passing for Plato”. These words by the great humanist, Enea Silvio Piccolomini, who became Pope Pius II, were written five centuries ago, after the great Christian city of Constantinople fell to the Ottomans.

Last week, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan issued an unprecedented decree converting Hagia Sophia once again into a mosque. Erdogan’s decree is a gesture of immense symbolism and historic meaning. “A threat against Hagia Sophia,” said the Russian Orthodox Patriarch Kirill, “is a threat for the whole of Christian civilization”.

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo stated:

“We urge the Government of Turkey to continue to maintain the Hagia Sophia as a museum, as an exemplar of its commitment to respect the faith traditions and diverse history that contributed to the Republic of Turkey, and to ensure it remains accessible to all”.

For 916 years, Hagia Sophia had been the “world’s largest basilica” and the main seat of the Eastern Orthodox church where, for centuries, emperors were crowned.

On May 29, 1453, Sultan Mehmet II, riding a white horse, arrived at the Hagia Sophia, the cathedral of “Divine Wisdom” built a thousand years earlier by the Byzantine Emperor Justinian I. Sultan Mehmet II, after bringing an end to the great Christian Byzantine empire, prayed to Allah in the largest church of Eastern Christianity.

“It’s like if Saint Peter’s had been turned into a mosque,” said Michael Talbot, a lecturer of history at the University of Greenwich. “It’s the fact that the seat of that church is no longer operating as a church and is in the hands of a rival religion”.

Under the Ottomans, the Hagia Sophia was converted into a mosque and remained so until 1934, when the secularist Turkish leader, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, turnedit into a museum. It was to have been the emblem of a new Turkey, capable of blending the features of the East and the West.

Last week, after Erdogan’s new decree, Islamists, shouting “Allahu Akbar”, converged on the former cathedral. The site will be reopen for Muslim prayers as a mosque on July 24. It is believed that during the Muslim prayers, Hagia Sophia’s world famous Byzantine mosaics will be covered.

Turkey did not, strictly speaking, need another mosque: in recent years Erdogan has built 17,000 mosques in the country. According to Ertugrul Özkök, writing in the Turkish newspaper Hurriyet:

“A country where every day calls to prayer are recited from its 80,000 mosques, where prayers are performed five times a day, will now go and re-conquer one of the biggest symbols of the Orthodox world. Is that so?… Would you have enjoyed it so much if a mosque at the center of Europe were converted into a church?”

By appropriating the building, the defenders of political Islam seem to be trying to “erase Turkey’s Christian past“. A century ago, Christians made up 20% of Turkey’s population, while now the figure is just 0.2%. According to Benny Morris and Dror Ze’evi, in their book, The Thirty-Year Genocide: Turkey’s Destruction of Its Christian Minorities, 1894–1924:

“Turkey’s Armenian, Greek and Assyrian (or Syriac) communities disappeared as a result of a staggered campaign of genocide beginning in 1894, perpetrated against them by their Muslim neighbors… By 1924, the Christian communities of Turkey and its adjacent territories had been destroyed”.

Turkey has more Biblical sites in it than any other region in the Middle East except Israel. Turks in occupied northern Cyprus since 1974 have already wiped out its Christian past.

Inside Turkey, Erdogan has similarly escalated his war on the Syriac Church by seizing 50 churches, monasteries, and religious properties.

He also evidently wanted to inflict humiliation on the West. The day before his announcement, he expelled Christian missionaries. By turning Hagia Sophia into a mosque, Erdogan has been able to embarrass Washington, mock Brussels and defy Moscow.

For Erdogan and the Islamists, Hagia Sophia is the prime symbol of Christianity’s subjugation to Islam. “Hagia Sophia is the symbol of conquest”, said Yunus Genç, who heads the Istanbul branch of the Anatolian Youth Association. “It belongs to us”.

Four popes have visited the former cathedral: St. Paul VI, St. John Paul II, Benedict XVI and Francis I. Yet, 24 hours after its conversion to a mosque, no major Christian leader or scholar has denounced Turkey’s religious assault on the Hagia Sophia.

Its current change of identity appears part of a long, deliberate project of re-Islamization. In 2016, for the first time in 81 years, Hagia Sophia got its own imam. Earlier, in 2012, in Iznik, another Hagia Sophia was converted into a mosque. The location was significant: Iznik, the ancient Nicaea, is where bishops from all over the Roman Empire had gathered in 325 to craft the Christian creed. A year later, in Trabzon, another famous Hagia Sophia, a museum since 1961, was also turned into a mosque and its Byzantine mosaics “covered with curtains and carpets”.

When Erdogan was campaigning to become the mayor of Istanbul in 1994, he was already talking about “the second conquest of Istanbul” and even then had set his sights on taking back Hagia Sophia.

“Celebrating a conquest that took place more than five centuries ago may seem anachronistic, I would even say absurd, to European leaders”, wrote the Turkish novelist Nedim Gürsel. “For Erdogan, the capture of Constantinople is another pretext for challenging the West”.

According to Tugba Tanyeri Erdemir, a research associate at the University of Pittsburgh, the transformation of Hagia Sophia might also “embolden extremists to intensify their campaign of forced conversion and destruction of minority heritage sites”.

“To convert it back to a mosque,” said Turkey’s Nobel Laureate Orhan Pamuk, “is to say to the rest of the world unfortunately we are not secular anymore”.

Political Islam is on the offensive on many fronts. Its advocates have been flooding Europe with mosques. The “largest mosque in Europe” will be a Turkish one in Strasbourg. In Germany, Turkey controls 900 mosques out of a total of 2,400. Extremists have also been imposing on Europe a new ideological crime, “Islamophobia“, and have been financing and witnessing the “extinction” of all that remains of the splendor of Eastern Christianity that used to glorify these lands six centuries before Islam. Now, Islamists are converting Hagia Sophia into a mosque. They are not doing it only in their countries. In France, they have also asked for churches to be converted into mosques.

In Turkey, meanwhile, Erdogan keeps refusing to give permission to build any new churches. In fairness, in 2015, Turkey finally did approve a plan to build its first new church in 90 years.

Erdogan, according to a French scholar of religions, Jean-Francois Colosimo, expecting “a civilizational Munich” — a reference to the 1938 pact in which France and Britain surrendered Czechoslovakia to Hitler. Erdogan could not have chosen a better moment. For weeks, politicians and elites in the West have been tearing down monuments — either doing it themselves or silently watching the barbaric armies of Western self-hatred.

Double-standards now seem to be the norm as well. When cartoons of Mohammed appeared in Danish and French newspapers in 2005, the Muslim world erupted in violence. The same year, when Newsweek reported an alleged desecration of a Koran in Guantanamo Bay, the Muslim world, before the magazine quickly retracted the article, flew into a rage. ‘When Pope Benedict XVI in Regensburg asked Islam to renounce fanaticism and intolerance in 2014, the Muslim world again erupted in violence. When Israel, in 2017, installed metal detectors in a compound to protect sites holy to Muslims and Jews, Erdogan accused Israel of destroying the Islamic character of Jerusalem. Now, however, that Turkey is turning its most important formerly Christian monument into a mosque, there is no protest, only silence and mumbling, which are nothing but the soundtrack of the West’s submission to Islam.

“An apathy reminiscent of the absence of solidarity when the Byzantine Christian civilization sank with the fall of Constantinople in May 1453”, Ivan Rioufol wrotein Le Figaro. “Neither Venice, France, nor England has come to the aid of this resplendent part of their culture. The story repeats itself”.

https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/16221/turkey-hagia-sophia-mosque

The outcome was inevitable.

The fake Reichstag coup that so many western nations fell for closed the door on any kind of independent authority in Turkey. All that remains is Erdogan, its insane Islamist tyrant, and his fantasies of rebuilding the Ottoman Empire. 

The reconquest of the Hagia Sophia was a crucial step in that direction. 

The process was meaningless because Erdogan now wholly controls the courts. Judicial decisions are Erdogan’s decisions. And Erdogan made it clear that the hijacking of the historic church is just one step in a larger plan for Islamist expansionism targeting other Islamic “holy” sites that had once been under Ottoman control.

Like Jerusalem.

“The revival of Hagia Sophia is the harbinger of freedom of Al-Aqsa and the footsteps of Muslims emerging from the era of interregnum,” the Turkish president said late Friday, referring to the mosque in Jerusalem that many Muslims consider under occupation.

Al-Aqsa is the Islamic occupation mosque in Jerusalem that had been planted as a symbol of the Islamic conquest over the holiest site in Judaism. The similarity to what Erdogan had just done was obvious.

For Turkey’s religious conservatives, “converting the Hagia Sophia is the ultimate moment,” said Mustafa Akyol, a senior fellow specializing in Islam and modernity at the Cato Institute, a Washington think tank.

“They believe in what they call the right of the sword, the right of the Ottomans to convert the church into a mosque as a result of conquest,” Akyol said. “Turkey has the sovereign right to do what it wants. But I ask them: What will you say if Israel does something to Al Aqsa? Will that also be the right of the sword?”

Obviously that misses the point.

Erdogan, like other Islamist tyrants, is setting himself up as a protector of Islam. The “right of the sword” only applies to Muslims.

A conquest made by Muslims has been sanctified by Allah. That’s why the holy sites of other religions, such as Christianity and Judaism, must be converted into mosques. The right of the sword means converting the Hagia Sophia into a mosque, it means going after Israel over Jerusalem, and pursuing Erdogan’s imaginary mosque that he believes Columbus saw in Cuba.

https://www.frontpagemag.com/point/2020/07/after-turning-hagia-sophia-mosque-turkeys-islamist-daniel-greenfield/

In Neuburg on the river Danube in Bavaria, three Nigerian asylum seekers were sentenced today to two years’ suspended sentences for arson and physical injury resulting from negligence – despite their previous convictions. The judge is convinced that the three men set a fire in their accommodation in Feilenmoos last August. According to the regional newspaper Donaukurier, the fire caused property damage of approximately 20,000 euros. Four people were injured.The female judge considered a confession of the three accused from Africa as mitigating. In her opinion, it is a first step towards reform. In addition, the judge said that the remand in custody had left a lasting impression on the three men, who have already been convicted of theft, attempted fraud and assault – but only to fines.According to the defense attorney, the motive for the act was that one of the arsonists wanted to ” send a signal” against the transfer to the asylum center.

Not all perpetrators who set fire to asylum shelters can expect such lenient sentences, as the three Nigerians living in Bavaria did. For example, in 2017, in the trial of the arson attack on a refugee shelter in Nauen, Brandenburg, NPD local politician Maik Schneider was sentenced to eight years in prison, an accomplice to seven years. In the appeal proceedings, the main perpetrator received seven years and nine months in prison. It is interesting that in many reports about this crime there is not a word about possible injured persons.You have to search thoroughly to find information about it: Schneider set fire to a sports hall in Nauen, Brandenburg, where refugees were to be accommodated – so there were none at the time of the arson. Quite different from the three Africans in Bavaria – where the accommodation was occupied and four people were injured.

In the case of the arson attack in Nauen, presiding judge Theodor Horstkötter established “xenophobic and right-wing extremist motives” in the first trial and said: “A shelter for refugees should offer protection for people who have fled from war and terror – they wanted the opposite”, Horstkötter stated. The judgement was guided by the idea of general prevention. In various other cases, xenophobic perpetrators were also sentenced to long prison terms for arson in asylum accommodations.Such harshness may well be appropriate to discourage imitators. But the question arises as to why this general prevention seems to play a much smaller role when inmates deliberately set fire to hostels that are already occupied in order to send a signal, and then a larger one when xenophobes set fire to an empty gymnasium where refugees are later to be housed. Both acts are shocking to condemn the motives in both cases in the strongest terms. Although the Penal Code was amended in 2015 in such a way that “racist, xenophobic or other inhuman” motives or goals of the perpetrator are “particularly” to be taken into account when sentencing.Here the question arises why extremism of any kind, whether right-wing, left-wing or religious, is not mentioned? Is the new regulation an ideologization of the penal code? Isn’t every setting fire to an inhabited accommodation a contempt for human beings? And don’t other factors also play a role according to the law – such as the degree of “breach of duty”? Is a suspended sentence for serious arson with injured persons really still deterrent enough for offenders with a criminal record? To sum up, it remains to be said: It is strange that the sentences are not only different, but almost diametrically opposed. And provides arguments to those who talk about a two-tier justice system in Germany.

https://www.reitschuster.de/post/brandstiftungen-in-asylheimen-zweierlei-ma%C3%9F-vor-gericht?fbclid=IwAR2jdy2fbqq7j3PrVTEI0s8mLPH5cetitMlHVuNglFNvP0C6ZEwgC3EgEjs

The news programme Tagesschau of the German public television takes on Islamic thinking.
It is created the impression that the Haghia Sophia would come AGAIN ( =BACK!) to Islam. Consequently, the name of the church is not mentioned.
The method is not new. Tagesschau also agrees with the “Palestinians” who want “their” land BACK.

An increasingly popular idea is that whenever races clash, only minorities can be victims. The notion is hardly limited to the recent riots in America. Elements of such thinking often appear in other contexts.

British women, for instance, including rape victims who drew attention to “Asian” (Pakistani and South Asian) sex grooming gangs, are also being attacked by the “woke” establishment.

Earlier this month in the UK, Sarah Champion, a Labor politician and MP for Rotherham (the epicenter of sex grooming), was accused of “fanning the flames of racial hatred” and “acting like a neo-fascist murderer.” Her crime? She had dared to assert that “Britain has a problem with British Pakistani men raping and exploiting white girls.”

The same elements accusing Champion of being a “murderer” also characterizedthe UK’s anti-extremism program, Prevent, as being “built upon a foundation of Islamophobia and racism.”

A few weeks earlier, an article titled, “I was raped by Rotherham grooming gang—now I still face racist abuse online,” appeared. In it, a British woman (alias, “Ella”) revealed that her Muslim rapists called her “a white whore, a white b***h,” during the more than 100 times she was raped in her youth by the Pakistani grooming gang.

“We need to understand racially and religiously aggravated crime if we are going to prevent it and protect people from it and if we are going to prosecute correctly for it,” Champion said in a recent interview.

“Prevention, protection and prosecution—all of them are being hindered because we are neglecting to properly address the religious and racist aspects of grooming gang crimes…. It’s telling them that it’s OK to hate white people.”

Ella’s attempts to highlight the “religious and racist aspects” of her and many other girls’ similar abuse led only to “a lot of abuse from far-left extremists, and radical feminist academics,” she said. Such groups “go online and they try to resist anyone they consider to be a Nazi, racist, fascist or white supremacist”.

“They don’t care about anti-white racism, because they appear to believe that it doesn’t exist. They have tried to floor me and criticise me continually and this has been going on for a couple of months. They tried to shut me down, shut me up … I’ve never experienced such hate online in my life. They accuse me of ‘advocating for white paedophiles’ and being a ‘sinister demonic entity.'”

Placing the blame — or at least responsibility — on the victim is not limited to the UK. According to an August 9, 2019 report, “in the Swedish city of Uppsala … four women were raped in as many days.” Although police failed to issue descriptions of the rapists — usually a sure sign of their origins — they did issue warnings for women to “think how they behave,” to “think ahead,” and not “go out alone.”

Advice against alcohol, drugs, and reckless behavior would be more compelling if it were not made under duress.

After mobs of Muslim migrants sexually assaulted as many as a thousand womenon New Year’s Eve 2016 in Cologne, Germany, the city’s mayor, Henriette Reker, called on women to “be better prepared, especially with the Cologne carnival coming up. For this, we will publish online guidelines that these young women can read through to prepare themselves.”

In Austria, after a 20-year-old woman waiting at a bus stop in Vienna was attacked, beaten and robbed by four Muslim men — including one who “started [by] putting his hands through my hair and made it clear that in his cultural background there were hardly any blonde women” — police responded by telling the victim to dye her hair.

“At first I was scared, but now I’m more angry than anything. After the attack they told me that women shouldn’t be alone on the streets after 8pm. And they also gave me other advice, telling me I should dye my hair dark and also not dress in such a provocative way. Indirectly that means I was partly to blame for what happened to me. That is a massive insult.”

In Norway, Unni Wikan, a female professor of social anthropology at the University of Oslo, insists that “Norwegian women must take their share of responsibility for these rapes,” because Muslim men found their manner of dress provocative. So much for the feminist claim that women are free to dress as seductively as they want — and woe to the man who misinterprets this, unless he is from a racial or religious minority group.

Professor Wikan’s conclusion was not that Muslim men living in the West need to adjust to Western norms, but the exact opposite: “Norwegian women must realize that we live in a Multicultural society and adapt themselves to it.”

Even when it comes to rape, then, if the victim is white and the rapist is not, she is no victim at all; worse, she is a “racist” and “hater” who, if anything, apparently deserves what she got and more. “Blame the victim” is back with a vengeance and gaining ground throughout the West.

https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/16179/rape-victims-racism