Cologne Gives In to Violence after Mayor Calls for Intolerance       Â
 
Update, Â just in from Cologne:
I am the “eyewitness” you quoted in the story. I would like you to know that two Jews were beaten up. I am leaving Cologne with a broken rib. I was readily identifiable as Jewish from my Kippa. As they were attacking me, they were yelling “Nazi”. How odd is that? Two jews beaten on the streets of Germany, by Germans who were calling us Nazis. All of this in reposne to us out there in the streets trying to protect their cultural heritage and right to exist.
From Jewish Member Of Pro-Cologne Beaten Up By Pro-Islam Thugs, 2008/09/21 at 7:47 AM
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*  From the desk of Thomas Landen,  Brussels Journal
Today, 5,000 left-wing demonstrators – self-proclaimed “anti-fascists” – prevented a peaceful gathering on Heumarkt in downtown Cologne of opponents of the Islamisation of Europe. The gathering had been planned by Pro Cologne, a conservative political party which is opposing the building of a giant mosque in the city, the fourth largest town in Germany. The mosque is to have a dome 37 meters high and two minaret stretching up 55 meters. It is being built by the Cologne branch of the department of religious affairs of Turkey, which reports directly to the Prime Minister of Turkey.
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* Take a look and see who the ‘anti-fascists’ are:
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Pro Cologne had invited politicians from other European parties that oppose Islamization – namely Filip Dewinter, a leader of the Flemish Vlaams Belang party, Andreas Mölzer, a member of the European Parliament for the Austrian Freedom Party, and Mario Borghezio, a member of the European Parliament for the Italian Northern League – to address the meeting. The German police prevented Dewinter and Mölzer from leaving Cologne airport and prohibited the Pro Cologne meeting after left-wing demonstrators barred people from entering Heumarkt.
In a comment at the Gates of Vienna blog an eyewitness wrote:
I am sitting in my hotel now after a long day in Cologne I was attacked on Eibahnstrasse by Antifa [“anti-fascist”] thugs as I tried to make my way to Heumarkt where we were slated to meet for our conference. My friend Michael Kucherov was beaten up yesterday. I am utterly shocked by the behavior of the police who seem to be acting as a surrogate of Antifa. I am not writing a very coherent post because I am exhausted, in pain and just bewildered by how far gone Europe is at this point.
Michael Kucherov is a Jewish member of Pro Cologne. The police decided to prohibit the Pro Cologne meeting because they could not guarantee the safety of people going to attend the gathering. “We can’t allow a few hundred people to deliberately enter a battleground,” a police spokesman told the press. Only some 50 opponents of Islamisation managed to reach Heumarkt, including Mario Borghezio who held an impromptu speech – in Italian.
At the airport, Filip Dewinter criticised Fritz Schramma, the Christian-Democrat mayor of Cologne and a proponent of the mosque, who had exhorted his townsmen to demonstrate against the Pro Cologne gathering and to display their “intolerance” towards Pro Cologne. Dewinter compared Schramma to Freddy Thielemans, the Socialist mayor of Brussels, who for two consecutive yearshas banned demonstrations commemorating the 2001 9/11 terror victims in Manhattan because he does not want to upset the Brussels Muslims. “Brussels and Cologne have mayors who kneel and submit to Islamisation,” he said.
 Mayor Schramma said today’s events were “a victory for the city of Cologne and a victory by the democratic forces in this city.” Armin Laschet, minister for minorities in North Rhine-Westphalia state, who is also a Christian-Democrat, was equally jubilant. He said it was the first time an entire German city “stood up to protect its Muslims.”Â
  See also:
Cologne: A Tale of Two Mayors, 20 September 2008
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Cologne mayor on Anti-Islamization Conference: “We’re here to show racism the red card”
* So instead of this:
we get this:
Cologne, Nazi-free city, says yes to Islamization / death to the joozzz, death to America!
The anti-Islamization conference in Cologne that I wrote about here has been effectively thwarted by German authorities. They banned the conference and sent out the police, and then came a huge counter-demonstration, at which the photo above was taken.
The authorities and counter-protesters were focused on fighting “racism” and “Nazism,” as the photo above shows. And as I explained here, there were legitimate questions about some of the participants — although this story says that the most problematic figure, Jean-Marie LePen, who has been accused of antisemitism and Holocaust denial, never had plans to be there.
In any case, the “Nazism,” if it was present among the anti-Islamization ralliers, was not of a very obvious kind: no brown shirts, no swastikas, no sieg heils, no goose-stepping hordes. Even if there were problems with some of the speakers, the issue is real — and the speakers have a right to be heard if there is to be a free society in Cologne. Many Muslims, including the internationally renowned Sheikh Qaradawi, have stated openly their intention to Islamize Europe.
Moreover, Spiegel reported this in July about the group behind the Cologne mosque:
Even DITIB, the comparatively moderate organization behind the mosque project in Cologne, arouses mistrust. DITIB is the long arm of a religious institution in secular Turkey. “What will most likely happen,” ask the residents of Cologne who take part in the protests, “if the feared Islamization of Turkey happens? Will DITIB bring it over here?”Cologne’s Archbishop Joachim Meisner is already warning people about of areas in Germany “where sharia law is increasingly spreading.” In the case of DITIB, this warning might be premature or simply inaccurate. At the same time, however, the association is remotely controlled from Ankara and has a reputation for being more concerned with helping to maintain the identity of Turkish immigrants than with helping them integrate in their new homes.
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Yet in Cologne the counter-protesters seemed to be equating opposition to Islamization with Nazism — as the sign above shows. With signs such as “Temples, synagogues, churches and mosques — everything’s okay” and statements praising the city for standing up “to protect its Muslims,” the city authorities and counter-protesters don’t seem to have any awareness of the Islamization program, or how mosques have been used to foster jihadism and Islamic supremacism, or any understanding of the need to counter it. They just think of it as “racism,” as if it is “racist” and “Nazi” to oppose the institutionalized discrimination against women and non-Muslims, stonings, amputations, the denial of freedom of speech and freedom of conscience, and all the other features of Islamic law.
Well, it isn’t. If any of the anti-Islamization protesters in Cologne really were neo-Nazis, and at this point I have no way of finding out for sure, that would be unfortunate, but it doesn’t make the problem of Islamization go away. In a sane and healthy Europe interested in protecting and preserving European civilization, the huge numbers of counter-protesters would actually have been protesting against Islamization, and the mainstream parties of Europe would have been represented at the rally. Anti-jihadists in Europe should work to avoid all taint of neofascism and race supremacism — and this is particularly in Europe, where fascism and race supremacism led to the mass murder of millions within recent memory. But to label all and anyopposition to Islamization as “Nazism” and “racism,” as the Cologne authorities and counter-protesters seem to be doing, is simply a ticket to national and civilizational suicide. If anyone here is behaving like a fascist, it is not the anti-Islamization demonstrators, but the city authorities who are violently clamping down on debate and dissent.
Both terms — Islam and Nazism — are slippery. “Nazism” is because it is a term of abuse that is hurled at any conservative, and this makes it harder to recognize real Nazis when they come along. “Islam” is also confusing to many, because people assume one is speaking about Muslim individuals when one is speaking about the ideology, and the ideology is not known or held with equal awareness and fervor by everyone who calls himself a Muslim. The term also confuses people because it makes them assume that Islam can be understood and dealt with in exactly the same way and on the same terms as Christianity or Judaism or anything else that is classified as a “religion.” But Islam is not simply a religion in those terms, as I have pointed out many, many times. It is a political and social system as well, and that political system ought to be subject to scrutiny, criticism, and rejection like any other. To say that to do so is inherently “racist” or “xenophobic” is to confuse the issue (and often those who do this do it willfully). There is nothing wrong with wanting to limit immigration — particularly of those with an avowed goal of replacing one’s society and culture with their own, rather than assimilating.
La Yijad en Europa (thanks to Paul) has an illuminating set of pictures establishing the strong pro-jihad, anti-Israel, hard-Left (hammer-and-sickle, Che Guevara, etc.) character of the groups protesting against the anti-Islamization group. Note also the Iranian dissidents, who were no doubt on the side of the anti-Islamization protesters.
“Germans Thwart Anti-Islam Rally,” from IslamOnline, September 21:
COLOGNE, Germany — Tens of thousands of Germans took to the streets of the western city of Cologne on Saturday, September 20, to protest an anti-Islam conference of European far-rightists.”We’re here to show racism the red card,” Cologne Mayor Fritz Schramma told the cheering crowd, reported Reuters.
He slammed the local far-right group Pro-Koeln, which is organizing an “Anti- Islamisation Congress,” as “arsonists and racists” hiding under the cloak of a citizens’ movement.
Carrying banners saying: “We are Cologne — Get rid of the Nazis!,” protesters gathered outside the city’s cathedral to demonstrate against the congress.
Some of the protesters carried placards reading “Nazis out of Cologne” and “Temples, synagogues, churches and mosques — everything’s okay”.
Most of the protests, called by trade unions, churches and anti-racist movements, saw thousands of students, families and local businessmen and women carry signs with slogans including “No to Racism” and “Cologne is rebelling!”
They disrupted the Pro-Koeln congress, ensuring less than 50 delegates were able to return to the meeting on Saturday morning.
The two-day congress, opened on Friday, brought together 150 far-right politicians and publicists from across Europe to protest Muslim presence in Europe.
Victory
Around 150 bars in Cologne stopped selling Pro-Koeln members the local Kolsch beer.
Many taxi and bus drivers were refusing to transport delegates to the congress.
One hotel even cancelled bookings made by “undesirables.”
“Racists and extremists aren’t welcome,” stressed Mayor Schramma.
A far-right rally to protest the construction of a mosque in Cologne was also cancelled by police Saturday after clashes with opponents.
“The rally has been cancelled,” said a police spokesman.
Police said 40,000 people protested against the rally, which had been expected to attract 1,500 people but only dozens showed up.
Many protestors cheered the rally ban.
“It’s a victory for the city of Cologne and a victory by the democratic forces in this city,” Mayor Schramma told the DPA news agency.
On Friday, several hundred opponents of the congress formed a human chain around a mosque in solidarity with the Muslim minority.
Though Islam is Europe’s second religion, European Muslims are facing campaigns from far-right groups to have stately mosques on claims that they are signs of the “Islamization” of Europe.
Armin Laschet, minister for minorities in North Rhine-Westphalia state, told the Tagesspiegel newspaper it was the first time an entire German city “stood up to protect its Muslims.”…
 Cologne mayor on Anti-Islamization Conference: “We’re here to show racism the red card”
Cologne mayor on Anti-Islamization Conference: “We’re here to show racism the red card”
Cologne, Nazi-free city, says yes to Islamization
* Â “Nazi-frei’ Â has a different meaning. What they really mean is ‘Judenrein’
The anti-Islamization conference in Cologne that I wrote about here has been effectively thwarted by German authorities. They banned the conference and sent out the police, and then came a huge counter-demonstration, at which the photo above was taken.
The authorities and counter-protesters were focused on fighting “racism” and “Nazism,” as the photo above shows. And as I explained here, there were legitimate questions about some of the participants — although this story says that the most problematic figure, Jean-Marie LePen, who has been accused of antisemitism and Holocaust denial, never had plans to be there.
In any case, the “Nazism,” if it was present among the anti-Islamization ralliers, was not of a very obvious kind: no brown shirts, no swastikas, no sieg heils, no goose-stepping hordes. Even if there were problems with some of the speakers, the issue is real — and the speakers have a right to be heard if there is to be a free society in Cologne. Many Muslims, including the internationally renowned Sheikh Qaradawi, have stated openly their intention to Islamize Europe.
Moreover, Spiegel reported this in July about the group behind the Cologne mosque:
Even DITIB, the comparatively moderate organization behind the mosque project in Cologne, arouses mistrust. DITIB is the long arm of a religious institution in secular Turkey. “What will most likely happen,” ask the residents of Cologne who take part in the protests, “if the feared Islamization of Turkey happens? Will DITIB bring it over here?”Cologne’s Archbishop Joachim Meisner is already warning people about of areas in Germany “where sharia law is increasingly spreading.” In the case of DITIB, this warning might be premature or simply inaccurate. At the same time, however, the association is remotely controlled from Ankara and has a reputation for being more concerned with helping to maintain the identity of Turkish immigrants than with helping them integrate in their new homes.
Â
Yet in Cologne the counter-protesters seemed to be equating opposition to Islamization with Nazism — as the sign above shows. With signs such as “Temples, synagogues, churches and mosques — everything’s okay” and statements praising the city for standing up “to protect its Muslims,” the city authorities and counter-protesters don’t seem to have any awareness of the Islamization program, or how mosques have been used to foster jihadism and Islamic supremacism, or any understanding of the need to counter it. They just think of it as “racism,” as if it is “racist” and “Nazi” to oppose the institutionalized discrimination against women and non-Muslims, stonings, amputations, the denial of freedom of speech and freedom of conscience, and all the other features of Islamic law.
Well, it isn’t. If any of the anti-Islamization protesters in Cologne really were neo-Nazis, and at this point I have no way of finding out for sure, that would be unfortunate, but it doesn’t make the problem of Islamization go away. In a sane and healthy Europe interested in protecting and preserving European civilization, the huge numbers of counter-protesters would actually have been protesting against Islamization, and the mainstream parties of Europe would have been represented at the rally. Anti-jihadists in Europe should work to avoid all taint of neofascism and race supremacism — and this is particularly in Europe, where fascism and race supremacism led to the mass murder of millions within recent memory. But to label all and anyopposition to Islamization as “Nazism” and “racism,” as the Cologne authorities and counter-protesters seem to be doing, is simply a ticket to national and civilizational suicide. If anyone here is behaving like a fascist, it is not the anti-Islamization demonstrators, but the city authorities who are violently clamping down on debate and dissent.
Both terms — Islam and Nazism — are slippery. “Nazism” is because it is a term of abuse that is hurled at any conservative, and this makes it harder to recognize real Nazis when they come along. “Islam” is also confusing to many, because people assume one is speaking about Muslim individuals when one is speaking about the ideology, and the ideology is not known or held with equal awareness and fervor by everyone who calls himself a Muslim. The term also confuses people because it makes them assume that Islam can be understood and dealt with in exactly the same way and on the same terms as Christianity or Judaism or anything else that is classified as a “religion.” But Islam is not simply a religion in those terms, as I have pointed out many, many times. It is a political and social system as well, and that political system ought to be subject to scrutiny, criticism, and rejection like any other. To say that to do so is inherently “racist” or “xenophobic” is to confuse the issue (and often those who do this do it willfully). There is nothing wrong with wanting to limit immigration — particularly of those with an avowed goal of replacing one’s society and culture with their own, rather than assimilating.
La Yijad en Europa (thanks to Paul) has an illuminating set of pictures establishing the strong pro-jihad, anti-Israel, hard-Left (hammer-and-sickle, Che Guevara, etc.) character of the groups protesting against the anti-Islamization group. Note also the Iranian dissidents, who were no doubt on the side of the anti-Islamization protesters.
“Germans Thwart Anti-Islam Rally,” from IslamOnline, September 21:
COLOGNE, Germany — Tens of thousands of Germans took to the streets of the western city of Cologne on Saturday, September 20, to protest an anti-Islam conference of European far-rightists.”We’re here to show racism the red card,” Cologne Mayor Fritz Schramma told the cheering crowd, reported Reuters.
He slammed the local far-right group Pro-Koeln, which is organizing an “Anti- Islamisation Congress,” as “arsonists and racists” hiding under the cloak of a citizens’ movement.
Carrying banners saying: “We are Cologne — Get rid of the Nazis!,” protesters gathered outside the city’s cathedral to demonstrate against the congress.
Some of the protesters carried placards reading “Nazis out of Cologne” and “Temples, synagogues, churches and mosques — everything’s okay”.
Most of the protests, called by trade unions, churches and anti-racist movements, saw thousands of students, families and local businessmen and women carry signs with slogans including “No to Racism” and “Cologne is rebelling!”
They disrupted the Pro-Koeln congress, ensuring less than 50 delegates were able to return to the meeting on Saturday morning.
The two-day congress, opened on Friday, brought together 150 far-right politicians and publicists from across Europe to protest Muslim presence in Europe.
Victory
Around 150 bars in Cologne stopped selling Pro-Koeln members the local Kolsch beer.
Many taxi and bus drivers were refusing to transport delegates to the congress.
One hotel even cancelled bookings made by “undesirables.”
“Racists and extremists aren’t welcome,” stressed Mayor Schramma.
A far-right rally to protest the construction of a mosque in Cologne was also cancelled by police Saturday after clashes with opponents.
“The rally has been cancelled,” said a police spokesman.
Police said 40,000 people protested against the rally, which had been expected to attract 1,500 people but only dozens showed up.
Many protestors cheered the rally ban.
“It’s a victory for the city of Cologne and a victory by the democratic forces in this city,” Mayor Schramma told the DPA news agency.
On Friday, several hundred opponents of the congress formed a human chain around a mosque in solidarity with the Muslim minority.
Though Islam is Europe’s second religion, European Muslims are facing campaigns from far-right groups to have stately mosques on claims that they are signs of the “Islamization” of Europe.
Armin Laschet, minister for minorities in North Rhine-Westphalia state, told the Tagesspiegel newspaper it was the first time an entire German city “stood up to protect its Muslims.”…
I am the “eyewitness” you quoted in the story. I would like you to know that two Jews were beaten up. I am leaving Cologne with a broken rib. I was readily identifiable as Jewish from my Kippa. As they were attacking me, they were yelling “Nazi”. How odd is that? Two jews beaten on the streets of Germany, by Germans who were calling us Nazis. All of this in reposne to us out there in the streets trying to protect their cultural heritage and right to exist.
Europe is doomed, it seems. It’s surreal how closely events mirror the fictional “The camp of the saints”. Life really does imitate art.
This is supposed to be religious. Horrible evil people. I want nothing to do with such people and I think they should be thrown in prison for insighting hatred and deported if they weren’t born in that country.
He said it was the first time an entire German city “stood up to protect its Muslims.â€
And gave up protecting the rest of its citizens.
Criticism of the intolerant Islamic Imperialistic movement is verboten!
They are the New Jews!
They must be protected from all scrutiny so that they can then “peacefully” infiltrate, undermine, replace, and destroy the West’s liberty from within.
What the 1930’s Nazis fallaciously said the Jews planned to do (control and enslave Europeans), the smiling Islamicists are doing openly, and with the blessings of the Koran-ignorant useful idiots on the Continent.
He said it was the first time an entire German city “stood up to protect its Muslims.â€
And then beat up some Jews.
Germans are good in following orders. This is generally good, for it leads to a law abiding, industrious and efficient nation. The reverse is that they can so easily lead into disastrous situations.
In this case, Germans do not realise, that in their effort to prove that they are more tolerant then everyone else, they are protecting the Nazi, fascist, Mafia, and totalitarian ideology that has ever inflicted humanity.
So if there are any Germans reading this, take note what Churchill stated about Islam. Churchill could identify a totalitarian ideology long before any one notoced.
Churchill:
“How dreadful are the curses which Mohammedanism lays on its votaries! Besides the fanatical frenzy, which is as dangerous in a man as hydrophobia in a dog, there is this fearful fatalistic apathy. The effects are apparent in many countries. Improvident habits, slovenly systems of agriculture, sluggish methods of commerce, and insecurity of property exist wherever the followers of the Prophet rule or live. A degraded sensualism deprives this life of its grace and refinement; the next of its dignity and sanctity. The fact that in Mohammedan law every woman must belong to some man as his absolute property, either as a child, a wife, or a concubine, must delay the final extinction of slavery until the faith of Islam has ceased to be a great power among men. Individual Moslems may show splendid qualities – but the influence of the religion paralyses the social development of those who follow it. No stronger retrograde force exists in the world. Far from being moribund, Mohammedanism is a militant and proselytizing faith. It has already spread throughout Central Africa, raising fearless warriors at every step; and were it not that Christianity is sheltered in the strong arms of science, the science against which it had vainly struggled, the civilisation of modern Europe might fall, as fell the civilisation of ancient Rome.â€
—Sir Winston Churchill, from The River War, first edition, Vol. II, pages 248-50 (London: Longmans, Green & Co., 1899).
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Apologies to regular readers/commentators at WoJ for reposting the above, as they know it already.
He said it was the first time an entire German city “stood up to protect its Muslims.â€
And then beat up some Jews.
Germans are good in following orders. This is generally good, for it leads to a law abiding, industrious and efficient nation. The reverse is that they can so easily be lead into disastrous situations.
In this case, Germans do not realise, that in their effort to prove that they are more tolerant then everyone else, they are protecting the Nazi, fascist, Mafia, and totalitarian ideology that has ever inflicted humanity.
So if there are any Germans reading this, take note what Churchill stated about Islam. Churchill could identify a totalitarian ideology long before any one notoced.
Churchill:
“How dreadful are the curses which Mohammedanism lays on its votaries! Besides the fanatical frenzy, which is as dangerous in a man as hydrophobia in a dog, there is this fearful fatalistic apathy. The effects are apparent in many countries. Improvident habits, slovenly systems of agriculture, sluggish methods of commerce, and insecurity of property exist wherever the followers of the Prophet rule or live. A degraded sensualism deprives this life of its grace and refinement; the next of its dignity and sanctity. The fact that in Mohammedan law every woman must belong to some man as his absolute property, either as a child, a wife, or a concubine, must delay the final extinction of slavery until the faith of Islam has ceased to be a great power among men. Individual Moslems may show splendid qualities – but the influence of the religion paralyses the social development of those who follow it. No stronger retrograde force exists in the world. Far from being moribund, Mohammedanism is a militant and proselytizing faith. It has already spread throughout Central Africa, raising fearless warriors at every step; and were it not that Christianity is sheltered in the strong arms of science, the science against which it had vainly struggled, the civilisation of modern Europe might fall, as fell the civilisation of ancient Rome.â€
—Sir Winston Churchill, from The River War, first edition, Vol. II, pages 248-50 (London: Longmans, Green & Co., 1899).
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Apologies to regular readers/commentators at WoJ for reposting the above, as they know it already.
It is very very difficult to educate those that already think they know. Every body wants to feel good about themselves and unfortunately bad choices are made by those that follow the throng without actually educating themselves. Given the bias of the media (in the main) and the culpability of our education systems to have actually produced the idiots that govern these countries (and mine) no wonder they follow the Pied Piper to doom.
The sad news is a lot of violence will eventually come and although denied by these sheep they will be directly responsible and no doubt still in denial when it eventuates.