Debate Over New Mosque in Cologne Heats Up
* Critics of the mosque are immediately smeared as ‘ radical right wing’
* Death threats against Ralph Gioradano, an 84-year old writer and holocaust surviver, are ignored… “What kind of a state are we in that I can face a fatwa in Germany?” he asked.
* The MSM reports only in in the most euphemistic ways how the new mosque would ‘enrich the multicultural diversity’ of the new Germany…
* Muslims, as usual, are whining and see themselves as victims of ‘Islamophobia:’
“At the moment the situation is terrible,” said Bekir Alboga, who is in charge of inter-religious and inter-cultural co-operation at DITIB. “People pray out here in the car park, even in winter when it’s cold, snowing or raining, because it is a very small prayer room. And where are Muslims meant to pray, while Christians or Jews are in their pretty, representative houses of God? Should our Muslims really pray on tarmac in the blazing summer sun?”
* No mention that there are already some 45 mosques in and around Cologne
Does Germany make life hard for its Muslims?
Another link in German
And if you speak or read German, here is Giordano :
“Ich wehre mich gegen ein Erpresserpotential, das uns unter islamischer Beobachtung halten will.” Ralph Giordano (Foto: blankenese.de)
Ralph Giordano: “Ich will sagen dürfen: Stoppt diese Moschee!”
K ö l n (PRO) – Der Publizist Ralph Giordano hat im Streit um die geplante “Zentralmoschee” in Köln nachgelegt. In Bezug auf Morddrohungen gegen ihn, die offenbar von Islamisten stammten, schrieb er in der Freitagsausgabe der “Frankfurter Allgemeinen Zeitung”: “Ich bin der Traditionen, Sitten und Gebräuche überdrüssig, die jede Kritik in Beleidigungen umfälschen, selbst aber höchst verschwenderisch mit Verbalinjurien gegen Andersgläubige zur Hand sind.”
Angefangen hatte es mit Giordanos Erklärung, gegen den Bau der Großmoschee an der Venloer Straße in Köln Ehrenfeld zu sein. Dort will die “Türkisch-islamische Union der Anstalt für Religion” (Ditib) den knapp 35 Meter hohen Kuppelbau mit zwei 55 Meter aufragenden Minaretten errichten. Der bisherige Sitz der Ditib ist in einem ehemaligen Fabrikgebäude an dieser Stelle. Die Bauarbeiten sollen im Spätsommer dieses Jahres beginnen und 2009 beendet sein. Noch läuft das Planungsverfahren. Die Ditib ist Dachverband für rund 870 Moscheevereine in der Bundesrepublik und wurde in engem Kontakt mit dem Ministerium für religiöse Angelegenheiten in der Türkei gegründet.
Im Internet-Fernsehen des “Kölner Stadtanzeigers” hatte Giordano Mitte Mai heftige Kritik am Islam geübt und sich vehement gegen den Moschee-Bau ausgesprochen. Zur Premiere der Sendung “Streit im Turm” hatte die Zeitung Giordano und Bekir Alboga von der Ditib eingeladen. “Stoppt den Bau dieser Moschee”, sagte Giodano in der Sendung. “Es ist ein falsches Signal. Wahr ist, dass die Integration der muslimischen Minderheit in Deutschland gescheitert ist. (…) Immigranten haben nicht nur Probleme, sie machen auch Probleme. Es gibt eine Kultur hier, die nicht akzeptabel ist, aber mitten unter uns ist.” Die Sendung gibt es hier als Video und hier als Skript zum Nachlesen.
“Ich will auf deutschen Straßen keiner Burkaverhüllten begegnen”
Ihn mache stutzig, dass die Bevölkerung bei einem “solchen Großprojekt” und diesem “Religionsausdruck einer fremden Kultur” mitten in Köln nicht gefragt wurde. “Ich prophezeie, wenn diese Großmoschee gebaut wird, gibt es Unfrieden und Unruhe.” Die Quelle des islamistischen Terrors liege seiner Meinung nach “in den Schwierigkeiten der islamischen Gesellschaft bei der Anpassung an die Moderne”. Auf den Einwand Albogas, dass es selbstverständlich “Kirchen, Synagogen und auch Moscheen” in Deutschland gebe und “Artikel vier und fünf unseres Grundgesetzes, die Religions- und Meinungsfreiheit ohne Wenn und Aber” akzeptiert werden müssten, antwortete Giordano: “Die Argumentation kennt man ja: Sie setzen christlich-jüdisches Traditionsgut gleich mit muslimischem. So geht es nicht. Es ist nicht alles Friede, Freude, Eierkuchen.”
Translation please, any volunteers…?
With thanks to PJ we have a translation, but it still needs some improvement:
June 5th, 2007 at 9:39 am ehttp://www.ksta.de/html/artikel/1179819731442.shtmlWORDING of Ralph Giordano
PROVIDES 01.06.07, 10:59 h
My demand on the political line of the city to stop the plans for the building of a central large mosque in Cologne honour field because they sketch a wrong picture of the true relations between Muslim minority and majority company in view of the failed integration, brought in, unmistakably heavy murder threats for me and in Turkish language (with which I want to place this part of the minority not under general suspicion).
In addition I explain binding: I will turn also further tabooless against all Basic Law-adverse and thus integration-hostile conditions and conditions within the Muslim minority, everything in front against the inakzeptable position of the woman (like her nobody documented more shaking, as the Turkish Soziologin Mrs. Dr. Necla Kelek, in the name of all other entwürdigten and threatened suffering companions). I will also further critically take position against those Imams and federation functionaries, which use the liberal framework and the tolerance of the liberal condition, in order to implement totalitarian opinions of state and religion in its enclaves; those the rules of right-national writingness undermine, with anti-western Indoktrination Scharia oriented instruction give and the standards of the democracy – like Koedukation, Sexualunterricht, sport, class travels, sex equality – refuse.
I will persist also further in my cultural self-determination, in a way of life, which my is and which does not agree in manifold regard with the Muslim. And I want to be allowed to say, undisturbed. I want to be allowed to say that I don’t want to meet Burka or chadorwearing veiled females on German roads neither, nor do I want to hear the call of the Muezzin from huge Minarets near me. Also I want to be allowed to object publicly over the fact that the European Union allowed a Turkish minister of foreign affairs to let his daughters study in Germany, because they can do here, what in Turkey is officially forbidden to go i.e. unhindered with the head cloth into the lecture. Whereby I will please the executive committees of most Muslim federations in Germany, under it the Ditib, not for clearing-up, because I from this side nothing when masking expects.
I will also not adapt my opinion of liberty of opinion to an Ungeist, which lays her out in such a way: “All do not have the right to express their opinion freely in a way those the Scharia contrary-run.” No and three times no! The Scharia, the law Islam, is notoriously Basic Law adverse (unconstitutional), a scandalous anachronism, the fossil of an outdated mankind epoch and a heavy obstacle on the way to the reformation and modernization Islam. It is included by me just as naturally into the critical method as the Koran, the biography Mohammeds and old persons and the new will. And I want to say, write, to think may – official Fatwa threat, unofficial ago.
Where are we that we would have to consider ourselves, whether our doing and acting please radical Muslims or not? Where are we that we could be prescribed in hurrying ahead obedience of religious and other fanatics, what we say may or not? Where are we, dasswir into the knees go before those obviously at any time from any local Imamen callable Islamic anger and indignation collectives between Cairo and ball, how the controversy over the Danish “Mohammed caricatures” demonstrated them us? I am überdrüssig the traditions, habits and habits, each criticism in offenses umfälschen,
even however with insults against Andersgläubige to the hand are most wasteful.
I resist a blackmail-potential, which wants to hold us under Islamic rule and its tentakels from central and interior Asia into the center of Europe ejected: Those who do not submit live dangerously! Am I to now be silent and to betray all my fought for and suffered criteria, because also with murder one threatened to me? What, Germania, ran here wrongly that today must be asked in such a way? Thus I on that professional Multikulti Illusionisten, xenophile lawyers come from the left liberal corner, like Hans Chrisian Str̦bele and Claudia Roth, merciless deniers of justified self-interests of the majority company and large those any realistic estimate of the situation of the immigrant problem Рthey are to be kept in the eye. I stand for this name anyhow at the side all secularized mash lima and Muslime, who want to free the way to an integration with reforms, earned Рa goal, from which we are still far distant. Which does not prevent me to bring it with my molecule more near. Because a peaceful alternative to integration does not exist.