Translation:
Essen’s mayor Thomas Kufen (CDU) reacts with horror to a demonstration in his city on Friday evening. 3,000 people, including many Islamists, marched through the Ruhr metropolis.
Essen’s mayor Thomas Kufen (CDU) reacted with outrage and incomprehension to an anti-Israel demonstration that marched through the Ruhr metropolis on Friday evening. Several of the approximately 3,000 participants chanted slogans and held up posters calling for a “Khilafah” (caliphate) in Germany. The three-hour procession on the edge of the city center was accompanied by 450 police officers and observed by state security.
According to the Essen police, the demonstration was registered by a private individual. However, the main organizer was apparently the “Generation Islam” group, which security experts consider to be part of the pan-Islamist movement “Hizb ut-Tahrir” (HuT) . HuT has been banned in Germany since 2003. The main speaker at the final rally in Essen was the activist Ahmad Tamim, the head of “Generation Islam.” The Islamic scholar Ahmad Omeirate told WAZ that Tamim was “using the Middle East conflict for mobilization and radicalization.”
Mayor Kufen regretted on Saturday morning that “Islamists, anti-democrats and Jew-haters” were allowed to parade through Essen protected by the freedom of assembly guaranteed by the Basic Law: “That is difficult to bear.” The CDU politician, who was the North Rhine-Westphalia state government’s integration officer from 2005 to 2010, called for consequences: “The Office for the Protection of the Constitution must take a closer look at Hizb ut-Tahrir’s splinter and successor groups. Bans must be an option.”
The demonstrators shouted slogans in Arabic and German on Friday evening. Posters condemned the Israeli military operation in Gaza (“Stop the genocide”) after the terrorist attack by the Palestinian Hamas, and one sign read: “German raison d’état calls for the killing of children.” The organizers initially used loudspeakers to remind people of the police requirement that no participant should question Israel’s right to exist. The tip-off was met with loud boos from the crowd.
At the beginning of the march, participants were also asked over loudspeakers to separate men and women. So it happened that most of the female demonstrators marched through the city behind the male participants. They repeatedly shouted “Allahu akbar” (“God is great”) and held up signs calling for the unity of all Muslim believers and the establishment of a caliphate in Germany. Individual demonstrators stuck their right index fingers in the air; This gesture is intended to symbolize belief in the “one God”, but is also seen as a symbol of the terrorist organization “Islamic State”. The design of several black and white banners and flags also resembled depictions of IS.
The Essen police announced on Saturday that they would subsequently analyze the Friday demonstration and examine its “criminal relevance”. It turned out that the motive for a pro-Palestine meeting was only a pretext. Instead, the organizers held a religious event.
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Neither OP nor you want a degradation of the rule of law and human rights in Germany. To achieve that, it is necessary to have a significant majority of people on board with democracy, especially in religious communities. Deporting people without democratic values would mean, in a republic with rule of law, that also Christians without democratic values have to be deported (I assure you there are many in Germany). Where to? Rome? Greece? Israel?
The idea is to deport foreigners without democratic values. You obviously can’t deport people who don’t have a foreign citizenship, but you can and should deport people without German citizenship when they show to be enemies of democracy.
Only some 47% (excluding converts) of Muslims in Germany are German citizens and the group of citizens is mostly of Turkish or Balkan origin. I.e. from a group where religious extremism is a lot less widespread than in MENA.
It’s crazy that this is even a controversial opinion.
Because it can only be one or the other? Why not both?
Yes…it literally can’t be a democracy and a caliphate at the same time.
There are no shortage of Islamic jihadists who openly say they intend on overtaking democratic countries via immigration and birth rates in order to change the laws.
An issue Europe is struggling with is the lack of societal integration from the refugees that have been absorbed over the past couple of decades. You can see the frustration in this very thread.
You don’t see the irony in asking for deportations for the people that are protesting being deported from their homes?
They are german. None of them are being deported or face deportation. They enjoy all freedoms of a democracy and the protection of free speech in germany while trying to destroy it.