May 17, 2012
Published: 24 Jan 10 13:08 CET
Online: http://www.thelocal.de/society/20100124-24791.html
Swedish far-right businessman Patrik Brinkmann has announced he will pour €5 million into the coffers of Pro NRW, an anti-Islam populist party based in Cologne.
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baaaaa, seriously dude?!
I'm probably more militantly confrontational than everyone that posts on here (save one possible exception: HerrDB, lol)
...but it ought to be readily apparent to any thinking/rational human that the US justifications for Vietnam were nothing more than pathetic equivocations. Domino theory??!! What a joke. By contrast, the threat of Islamofascism represents an imminent threat and clear/present danger to everything we hold dear (any assumptions to the contrary are inherently self-destructive...at best [!])
You a bleeding liberals who think Islam should coexist here is the west will be sorely disappointed once it happens. Just look at what model citizens Islam has sent to Germany. And you want more??????
You would like to "get rid of Islam in the West," and to accomplish this you propose supporting more neo-nazis? Hmmm.... How did that nazi thing work out for you the last time around? I guess the terrorists have won after all, if the sentiments expressed in your post are representative of the beliefs of anyone other than a lunatic right wing fringe that's every bit as crazy and dangerous as the jihadists.
By the way, one doesn't have to be "liberal" to respect the rule of law and constitutional principles.
Whats a model islamic citizen btw? Who agrees with everything you say? Do we have to eat pork and drink beer to please you ..master.. ?
2 days ago when you wrote something like "When I was stationed there in 1972, the place was already filthy with them (Muslims)"... entire comments where deleted when I reported the abuse....
My question is: upon fair conclusion that you are/where a us soldier stationed in Germany, was the above statement product of what they teach you there, or you are just an old redneck, neo-conservative, fascist???
Either way, I'll report the abuse again in few minutes (for comparing second-largest religion in the world to Nazis), giving you the time to read this...
Contemporary German society has built-in safe-guards that prevent something like that from happening again (its called "collective guilt").
Modern Germany has the opposite problem: reluctance to use violence as an instrument of foreign policy under any circumstances...(foolish)
While there certainly was a connection of a common hatred of jews on the upper level (For instance between Heinrich Himmler and Mohammed Amin al-Husseini) the men of the muslim SS battalions had rather simple and pragmatic reasons for joining up with the Waffen SS.
Just as today the region of Yugoslavia was divided along ethnic and nationalistic lines with raising tensions that were a logical consequence of the german occupation and destabilisation of the region.
Divided by religion, divided by ethnicity ,devided along the pro-german - pro-soviet lines. Pro- fascism , pro-communism. What happened in the 1990's was nothing less than the continuation of this conflict after a long post ww2 pause.
The bosnian men of the 13. Volunteer Mountain Division "Handschar" for instance were mislead into believing their unit would be formed to guard and protect their local towns and villages but instead they were sent to southern France and later to Silesia in Poland.
The members of "Legion Free Arabia" which also included African nationals of cristian and muslim religion, joined up with Germany with the goal of freeing their home countries of british colonial influence or rule.
It was the same with the members of "Legion Free India" which were of course made up of hindus and sikhs.
Ha! That would be at least be a start.
@fredfelman: meh...thats called "takfiri" methodology of anti-western warfare tactics ("blending in" for the supposed "greater good")
@franz: you think Islam is "brutal"? have you ever read anything in the Christian Old Testament or the Jewish Talmud??!! (religion [all of them] ought to be abolished!!). But you're absolutely right, it IS time for the truth to be spoken: (no offense to any ausies out there, but I say we take all these religious types and put them in Australia...let them fight it out, then we'll simply nuke the left-overs....) ;-)
I admit, I don't have a particular sympathy towards them, but I'm not afraid of them. I ignore them, they are just a bunch of backward machos. Surely they don't fit, so why do we import more?
The Crusades were enough. But I really believe that most us know, at least sub-consciously, that Europe is headed for something just as tragic or probably worse.
As I have said before, humans have struggled since the very beginning, simply because there has never been enough ntelligent people. High self-esteem would literally solve all of the world's problems. A new form of psychology is the key.
If there are so many people just on this forum alone in support of this, how many regular germans are sitting at home silently agreeing.
All I have heard from Germans since moving here are complaints about the turkish and the muslims. They have learnt nothing from their history and that leaves them open to repeat it.
How about just getting to know these people and developing a common ground. Yes there are some nutter islamist, but from what I have seen there are just as many if not more nutter germans....
Had I how ever tried to raise money for a church in Iran or in Saudi Arabia I would have been instantly put to death/caning/amputation or life in jail.
After living in the middle east a few years I would say that you have to accept the custom where you live, I lived there because I made money, same reason as most immigrants we have are here... I did for obvious reasons not question my Arabian masters and I left the whole region after awhile after my neighbourhgs wife was raped in front of her daughter and the investigation was closed by the police since the attacker was a highly valued citizen of the country.
However most of the normal working people I met in the middle east, disregarding religion, were all carrying about the same values as me, and all were in my opinion normal, hence we should not have any problems to live in harmony after getting rid of all extremists and after getting rid of this stupid political correctness that prevents us to persecute extremis views from both left/right and religous sources.
The Swedish guy is not funding a catholic church, he is funding an anti-islam hate party. Why doesnt he use the money and fund a swedish school instead? that would be better spent.
The middle east countries are not democracies, they do not follow the same guidelines ours do so you cant even compare, living there to living here. I don't expect them to follow our rules, that is where the problem is. No tolerance for anything different.
For example, who are we to tell people how to dress? We are walking around thinking take some clothes off you look hot, they are thinking, put some on, you look like a tart!!!! Live and let live I say!!!
I agree with you about curbing the extremists, that is what needs to be done, so we can all live our very fleeting lives happy and healthy!!! :-) I thought in Germany especially they would be more harsh on racism, I guess I was wrong.
A question I like to ask to the people protesting against democracy in the UK is: Why do you move from one part of the world to another and try to convince the people in your new country that you are right and should rule by gods-right???
I think that the muslims that move to europe have to be as humble and law obedient as the christians/westerners that move to the muslims countries are, thats not too much to ask.
We have to compare us to them even if the laws are completely different, if we try to be too nice it is like to try to cuddle a mad wolf in yo submission, it will not work, and you will be eaten.
We are all living in the year 2010 not 1010 so all this Jihad bullshit has to be put to an end, there is noone that will ever complain about any religous beliefs in Europe, but when people that we have granted asylum and relief from persecution, hatred, political violence, war and disaster strucken countries are telling us that we have to obey by their rules we cant stay silent but have react.
I suggest that the people who are demonstrating against our democratic system and values move to a country which have religous laws and ask them to take care of them.
Last time I looked the middle eastern countries were among the richest in the world, so I cannot understand why they cannot take care of their own therfore I suggest that the Jihadists ask their muslim brothers in Arabia to take care of them instead of us Europeans, they have more money than us and are currently doing nothing to assist their brothers and sisters! Actually the poor refugees are living in Europe and are being taken care of due to our Christian/Democratric heritage and traditions.
By the way, Pls look how much country by country have given to the victims in Haiti... Not Saudi, UAE or Iran havce given more than the poorest African countries..