Creep, creep. via The Islamization of Germany in 2012 :: Gatestone Institute.
Opinion polls consistently show that growing numbers of ordinary German citizens are worried about the consequences of decades of multicultural policies, as well the emergence of a parallel legal system based on Islamic Sharia law.
Post-Christian Europe became noticeably more Islamized during 2012.
As the rapidly growing Muslim population
makes its presence felt in towns and cities across the continent, Islam
is transforming the European way of life in ways unimaginable only a few
years ago.
Some of the more notable Islam-related
controversies during 2012 occurred in Germany, where the Muslim
population has jumped from around 50,000 in the early 1980s to more than
4.5 million today.
What follows is a brief chronological review of some of the main stories involving the rise of Islam in Germany during 2012.
In January, German authorities welcomed
the start of the New Year by officially confirming that they are
monitoring German-language Internet websites that are critical of Muslim
immigration and the Islamization of Europe.
In a January 4, 2012 interview with the Berliner Zeitung and the Frankfurter Rundschau,
Manfred Murck, the director of the Hamburg branch of the German
domestic intelligence agency (the Bundesamt für Verfassungsschutz
(BfV)), said his organization was studying whether German citizens who
criticize Muslims and Islam on the Internet are fomenting hate and are
thus criminally guilty of “breaching” the German constitution.
The BfV’s move marked a significant setback for the exercise of free speech in Germany and came amid a months-long smear campaign
led by a triple alliance of left-wing German multicultural elites,
sundry Muslim groups and members of the mainstream media, who have been
relentless in their efforts to discredit the so-called counter-jihad
movement (also known as the “Islamophobes”) in Germany.
In a country stifled by decades of
political correctness, the counter-jihad activists and bloggers have
been giving a voice to millions of frustrated Germans who see the harm
being wrought by the cult of multiculturalism.
Opinion polls consistently show
that growing numbers of ordinary German citizens are worried about the
consequences of decades of multicultural policies that have encouraged
mass immigration from Muslim countries. Germans are especially concerned
about the refusal of millions of Muslim immigrants to integrate into
German society, as well as the emergence of a parallel legal system in
Germany based on Islamic Sharia law.
Also in January, Muslims in Duisburg, one of the most Islamized cities in Germany, clamored for the right to turn empty churches into mosques.
All of the churches are located in the gritty Hamborn and Marxloh
districts in northern Duisburg where Islam has already replaced
Christianity as the dominant religion, and where several Catholic
churches have been abandoned.
In Germany as a whole, more than 400 Roman Catholic churches and more than 100 Protestant churches have been closed since 2000, according to one estimate. Another 700 Roman Catholic churches are slated to be closed over the next several years.
By contrast, Germany is now home to more
than 200 mosques (including more than 40 mega-mosques), 2,600 Muslim
prayer halls and a countless number unofficial mosques. Another 128
mosques are currently under construction, according to the Zentralinstitut Islam-Archiv, a Muslim organization based in Germany.
Meanwhile, on January 16 one of the oldest
universities in Germany inaugurated the country’s first taxpayer-funded
department of Islamic theology. The Center for Islamic Theology at the University of Tübingen is the first of four planned Islamic university centers in Germany.
The German government claims that by
controlling the curriculum, the school, which is to train Muslim imams
and Islamic religion teachers, will function as an antidote to “hate
preachers.” (Most imams currently in Germany are from Turkey and many of
them do not speak German.)
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