September 03, 2007
Germany's problem is our problem, too
Experts have warned that the next major Islamist attack against the United States will likely be planned and organized in Western Europe. Depending on whose numbers you believe, Europe is home to 15 to 20 million Muslims. Most are first- and second-generation immigrants from Pakistan, North Africa, and elsewhere in the Middle East.
Attention in this area has mostly focused on Great Britain, following the 2005 attacks on the London transportation system, and the Islamist terror plot that British authorities foiled earlier this year. Germany, however, may be even more of a powder keg. British authorities have increasingly become more assertive when cracking down on radical Islamist groups. But Germany is still hampered by a reactionary sense of political correctness. After the Nazi depredations of World War II, German lawmakers passed legislation that implemented a militant policy of multiculturalism-at-all-costs. As a result, it is extremely difficult for German authorities to rein in radical activities at German mosques.
Today we see a case of astute police work in Germany:
German police arrested three suspected Islamic militants who were planning "massive" and "imminent" attacks on American targets in Germany, authorities said Wednesday.
"The main motivation of the group in Germany is hatred against American citizens, and therefore they had as main targets the American military installations," said Jorg Ziercke, president of Germany's Federal Criminal Investigation Office.
"This could also of course have affected German citizens in restaurants and other places." ---CNN.com
(It is worth noting that two of the suspects were German converts to Islam.)
We owe the German police our sincere thanks for this bust; let us hope that their efforts do not come to naught when Germany’s leftwing judiciary gets ahold of the suspects. Most German judges and legislators are more concerned about the distant spectre of German facism---now dead for over sixty years--- than they are about the Islamist facism that is growing within the country in 2007.
