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Germany Is a Bad Ally

… President Joe Biden and Secretary of Antony Blinken reversed course, however, and sought to prioritize smooth relations with Berlin. On May 19, 2021, Blinken announced that the United States would wave sanctions on Nord Stream 2 AG, its chief executive officer Matthias Warnig, and its corporate officers even though Blinken insisted the U.S. opposition to the Russian-backed pipeline was “unwavering.” Blinken explained the logical dissonance of the move as an effort to fulfill “the President’s pledge to rebuild relationships with our allies and partners in Europe.”

The logic behind this calculation, however, is tenuous. Put aside the irony that Biden and Blinken have now promoted pipelines for the Taliban and Russia while killing those from which the United States could benefit. If climate change were truly the “greatest threat to America” as Biden told U.S. troops during his visit to Europe, then he would increase his opposition to Nord Stream 2, not green light its completion.

by Blazingcatfur•June 14, 2021June 14, 2021•0•Germany, USA

Germany sees increase of Hezbollah supporters and members – Intel

The Office for the Protection of the Constitution, the domestic intelligence agency for the German state of Lower Saxony, revealed on Thursday in its new report a dramatic increase of the number of members and supporters of the Lebanese terrorist organization Hezbollah.

According to the German language intelligence report reviewed by The Jerusalem Post, the number of supporters and members rose from 1,050 in 2019 to 1,250 in 2020.

by Blazingcatfur•June 4, 2021June 4, 2021•0•"Islamophobia", Germany, Hezbollah, Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West

Danish secret service helped US spy on Germany’s Angela Merkel: report

Denmark’s secret service helped the US National Security Agency (NSA) to spy on European leaders, including German Chancellor Angela Merkel and President Frank-Walter Steinmeier, a European media investigation published on Sunday revealed.

The disclosure that the US had been spying on its allies first started coming to light in 2013, but it is only now that journalists have gained access to reports detailing the support given to the NSA by the Danish Defense Intelligence Service (FE).

by Blazingcatfur•May 30, 2021May 30, 2021•0•Denmark, Espionage, Germany, USA

Hamburg: Curbside Jihadi Stabbing Service Meets A Reluctant Public

Hamburg – Was it the act of a mentally ill person or a terrorist attack?

Major alarm with a fatal outcome on the corner of Hebebrandstrasse and Sengelmannstrasse: a man keeps walking down the road with a knife, threatening motorists.

He damages vehicles with his gun, shouts “Allahu Akbar” several times! Then he goes off on alerted police officers.

A patrol officer shoots. The knife man collapses bleeding on the sidewalk. An emergency doctor and a paramedic take care of him. But despite resuscitation, he dies on site.

by Blazingcatfur•May 28, 2021•0•"Islamophobia", Germany, Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West

Germany agrees to pay Namibia €1.1bn over historical Herero-Nama genocide

Germany has to agreed to pay Namibia €1.1bn (£940m) as it officially recognised the Herero-Nama genocide at the start of the 20th century, in what Angela Merkel’s government says amounts to a gesture of reconciliation but not legally binding reparations.

Tens of thousands of men, women and children were shot, tortured or driven into the Kalahari desert to starve by German troops between 1904 and 1908 after the Herero and Nama tribes rebelled against colonial rule in what was then named German South West Africa and is now Namibia.

by Blazingcatfur•May 28, 2021May 28, 2021•0•Germany

Germany: New Strategy to Combat ‘Political Islamism’

The largest parliamentary group in the German Bundestag, the faction of the ruling Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and its Bavarian sister party, the Christian Social Union (CSU), has approved a wide-ranging strategy to contain the spread of political Islam in Germany.

The plan, outlined in a new policy paper, “Preserving Free Society, Promoting Social Cohesion, Fighting Political Islamism,” warns that a growing number of areas in Germany, where German law is overruled by Sharia law, are in danger of becoming “parallel societies.”

The document also warns that many mosques and Islamic associations in Germany are controlled by foreign governments and that they are producing a generation of German jihadists who extol martyrdom and threaten Germany’s liberal democratic order.

Can anyone think of another “religious” group that has ever required the constant concern of western governments as the Islamic cult?

by Blazingcatfur•May 27, 2021May 27, 2021•0•"Islamophobia", Germany, Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West

German Police Downplaying Antisemitism From Muslim Community, Say Experts, Following Latest Outburst of Jew Hatred

Antisemitic acts committed by Muslims or left-wing activists are under-represented in the records of the German police, Germany’s top antisemitism official has admitted, amid continuing antisemitic demonstrations in German cities sparked by the latest conflict between Israel and Hamas.

“Israel-related antisemitism has penetrated into the middle of society,” Felix Klein — the German federal government’s commissioner tasked with combating antisemitism — said in an interview with German radio on Friday.

“About 40 percent of society agrees with sentences like: ‘With what Israel is doing, I can understand if someone has something against Jews,’” Klein observed. “So an environment has been created that might not have existed in this form seven years ago [during the Israel-Gaza war of 2014].”

But what about all those great restaurants! If you import the adherents of a Bedouin Death Cult then you shouldn’t be at all surprised.

by Blazingcatfur•May 22, 2021May 22, 2021•0•"Islamophobia", Germany, Islam, Islam and hatred of Israel, Islam and hatred of Jews, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West

Germany’s growing extremism problem

Germany clearly has a far-right problem. But there is evidence, too, of a growing far-left and Islamist extremism

On June 2, 2019, a German politician was found lying in a pool of blood outside his home in Hesse. He had been shot in the head at close range with a .38 Rossi revolver. Walter Lübcke, the 65-year-old leader of Kassel city council, who had been a vocal supporter of Germany’s immigration policy, had been assassinated by a German member of the British neo-Nazi group Combat 18. On Tuesday, his killer was sentenced to life in prison.

by Blazingcatfur•May 19, 2021May 19, 2021•0•"extremists", Germany

Germany carries out raids on Hezbollah-linked groups

Germany’s Interior Ministry has outlawed three organizations accused of collecting money for the militant Iran-backed movement Hezbollah in Lebanon.

Bans against German Lebanese Family, People for Peace and Give Peace came into effect on Wednesday, but had already been pronounced in mid-April.

Police also conducted early morning raids at locations across seven German states, including Hamburg, North Rhine-Westphalia, Hesse and Rhineland Palatinate.

by Blazingcatfur•May 19, 2021May 19, 2021•0•"Islamophobia", Germany, Hezbollah, Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West

Erdoğan partially responsible for anti-Semitic protests in Germany- German minister

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan is partially responsible for the anti-Semitic protests taking place in Germany, Joachim Herrmann, the interior minister of the German state of Bavaria said.

“These protests are predominated not by the far right, but rather by those who are Muslim oriented and provoked by the brutal speeches of President Erdoğan and others who believe that clashes must spread to the German streets,” Deutsche Welle cited Herrmann as telling German media on Monday.

by Blazingcatfur•May 18, 2021May 18, 2021•0•"Islamophobia", Erdogan, Germany, Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West

Anti-Israel protests in Germany prompt calls for antisemitism crackdown

Politicians in Germany have called for tougher measures against antisemitism after thousands of people attended what became aggressive protests at the weekend in connection with the escalating violence in the Middle East.

In the most violent protest, in the southern Berlin district of Neukölln, demonstrators who had gathered to show solidarity with Palestinians burned Israeli flags, chanted anti-Israel slogans and flew Hamas banners.

“We are experiencing antisemitic protests and despicable hatred towards Jews in these days, which makes it vital that we take on antisemitism much more decisively,” Paul Ziemiak, the general secretary of the Christian Democrats, told German media.

by Blazingcatfur•May 17, 2021May 17, 2021•0•Anti-Semitism and the Left, Anti-Zionist, Germany, Israeli - Islam Conflict

Germany: Synagogue vandalism condemned by lawmakers, religious leaders

German lawmakers and religious leaders on Wednesday condemned vandalism against Jewish synagogues, and the desecration of a memorial for another synagogue destroyed by the Nazis in 1938.

All three of the incidents occurred on Tuesday night in the cities of Bonn, Düsseldorf and Münster in the western state of North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW).

The incidents were reportedly motivated by the current violence in Israel and Gaza.

by Blazingcatfur•May 13, 2021May 13, 2021•0•"Islamophobia", Anti-Semitism and the Left, Germany, Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West, Israeli - Islam Conflict

Germany outlaws Islamist organization Ansaar International

Interior Minister Horst Seehofer announced on Wednesday that Germany has banned the Islamist organization Ansaar International and several of its sub-organizations.

“The network finances terrorism worldwide with donations,” Seehofer’s spokesman Steve Alter tweeted on Wednesday.

Alter quoted Seehofer as saying: “If you want to fight terror, you have to dry up its sources of money.”

by Blazingcatfur•May 5, 2021May 5, 2021•0•"Islamophobia", Germany, Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West

Finally, Germany is talking about ‘Dexit’

The AfD has taken its most Eurosceptic line yet. That’s good news for democracy.

Could the AfD (Alternative für Deutschland) be about to make history? Before the AfD’s party conference had even ended last Sunday, the term ‘Dexit’ – short for a German exit from the EU – was circulating in the press. The reason is the AfD’s programme for September’s elections: ‘We consider a withdrawal of Germany from the European Union and the establishment of a new European Economic and Interest Community necessary’, it says – a demand which has caused more than a little stir.

by Blazingcatfur•April 20, 2021April 19, 2021•0•European Union, Germany, Germany - AfD party

Syrian refugee ISIS-supporter murdered gay man and injured another for committing ‘grave sin’ of holding hands

A Syrian refugee in Germany who stabbed one man to death and seriously injured his partner because he saw them holding hands has gone on trial today.

The man, identified only as 21-year-old Abdullah AHH due to German privacy laws, is charged with one count of murder for fatally stabbing tourist Thomas L, 55, to death on the streets of Dresden in October last year.

He is also facing one count of attempted murder for attacking Thomas’s partner Oliver L, 53, with a different knife but failing to kill him.

by Blazingcatfur•April 14, 2021April 14, 2021•0•"Islamophobia", Germany, Islam, Islam and homosexuality, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West