Germany Jihadi in Videos
The German newspaper the Spiegel reports that ‘[t]wo short films have appeared on the Internet featuring the German Islamist Eric B. in which he calls his “brothers” to join the jihad. The authorities have been hunting him for weeks, fearful that he could be preparing a terrorist attack in Kabul. The video messages are fanning those fears.’
The news spread like wildfire through the offices of Germany’s intelligence agencies. Two new terrorist videos had turned up on the Turkish-language Web site “Time for Martyrdom,” which has become an important mouthpiece for Islamist propaganda. And once again there were was a clear connection to Germany.
German terrorist investigators are alarmed at the new videos. After an initial assessment, it was clear that the two short films feature the German Islamist Eric B. from Neuenkirchen in Saarland. For the past few weeks, a publicity campaign in Kabul
(more…) has focused on finding him and his presumed accomplice Houssain al-M.The new images are militaristic. The 20-year-old German convert is seen in the first film standing in front of a mountain, with a machine gun thrown over his shoulder and wearing an ammunition belt. Abdul al-Gaffar, B.’s nom de guerre, addresses his audience in barely audible and unusually halting German. First of all he praises the suicide attack carried out by Cüneyt Ciftci
(more…) , the 28-year-old German-born Turk who blew himself up in the Afghan province of Khost at the beginning of March. B. describes this as a “good deed” which sent many infidels “to hell.”A masked man next to him asks him to send a message to his “brothers in Germany.” B., who only converted to Islam in 2007, tells the camera: “When you love God and his messengers, then join the jihad, because that is the way to paradise.” Those who aren’t able to come and fight are asked to help with money or to support the jihadists at the front with prayers. No Muslim should stand by and watch while the “infidels shame our women in our countries and jail and torment our brothers,” he says.
When one wants to talk about “chickens coming home to roost,” one automatically has to think about Germany. Germans were so afraid of being called racists and intolerant that they accepted everything from their immigrants. Instead of forcing those immigrants to integrate and to modernize, they allowed Islamists to come into the country, and to radicalize Muslim youths and to convert native Germans to an extreme version of Islam.
We’re now seeing the results of this policy. Islamists have had free play in Germany for years, possibly decades. They have radicalized Muslim youths, and they have been able to convert native Germans to their radical interpretation of Islam. And those radicals are now preparing to commit terrorist attacks against Germany and its allies.
One of the readers of this blog is a Muslim, from Turkey, living in Germany. He has said on many occasions that Germany has a major Islamist problem. They’ve infiltrated many, if not all, mosques, and they’re constantly trying to indoctrinate young Muslims living in Turkey.
Eric B. is a result of Germany’s failed policy. He’s an extremist, he should know better - yes, all true - but he’s also a product of a policy that was tolerant towards intolerance. It offered peace to an ideology of hate and war.
Lets hope the German government will be able to arrest B. and his friends. Although the German government made a tragic mistake, normal Germans shouldn’t have to pay the price for the failures of their government.
