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Germany: Critical research results on Islam banned
and criminalized at universities
MAR 18, 2022 5:00 PM
BY ROBERT SPENCER
The situation is the same in the U.S. Honest discussion of the motivating ideology behind jihad terrorism just does not happen in universities. If anyone tries to initiate such a discussion, he or she will be shouted down as an “Islamophobe.”
“No criticism of Islam at German universities,”
translated from “Keine Islamkritik an deutschen Universitäten,”
by Michael Stürzenberger, PI News, March 13, 2022
On March 1, the groups of professors “Universitas” and “Ratio” active at Goethe University Frankfurt invited to an online event. It was discussed whether some topics are now taboo for research and teaching.
Professor Susanne Schröter, the head of the Frankfurt Research Centre Global Islam and professor at the Institute of Ethnology, reported, according to the newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, that the political stance of a young researcher now plays a major role in his or her career.
She herself is defamed by some leftists at universities as an alleged “racist” because she speaks critically about the Muslim headscarf and examines connections between integration and cultural imprinting. Professor Schröter denounced the excesses of “cancel culture”, which seeks to ban politically or morally unpalatable positions from universities.
She reported on doctoral students whose dissertations were not accepted because they had dealt with the “wrong” topics. For example, “honour killings”. She also knew of students who had not been able to realise the projects they had chosen for their Bachelor’s or Master’s thesis: The supervisors found the projects too “hot”. This is true for her own subject:
“If an anthropologist deals with Islamism, his career is over.”
Professor Schröter sees such tendencies, regardless of which political direction they come from, as a threat to academic freedom.
The political scientist and publicist Hamed Abdel-Samad already reported in 2016 that the universities in Augsburg and the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich did not allow him to hold a discussion event on Political Islam and present his research results on the Quran. Hamed Abdel-Samad said:
“The University of Augsburg, which once honoured me with prizes as a role model Muslim, now refuses to allow me to discuss the Koran critically. The University of Munich, which once trusted me to teach German and foreign students about Islamic history, now refuses to let me discuss the results of my research on the Quran in an open dialogue with students and citizens of the city.”
Since these research results are critical of Islam, and that is quite obviously undesirable at German universities. Hamed Abdel-Samad also sees a worrying development in freedom of expression in Germany:
“Universities, intellectuals, Islam functionaries and politicians of the centre parties refuse to face an honest and open debate about Islam. And then they all whine that this debate is being conducted on the right-wing fringe!”
Criticism of Islam is not only fought at universities. Mainstream media are self-censoring, it is taboo for the traditional political parties to criticize Islam, in society one is ostracized and excluded if one expresses one’s opinion openly, and the judiciary threatens to throw one into prison even if one limits public criticism to political Islam.
Greater Manchester Police endorse ‘community event’
at mosque attended by jihad mass murderer
“Public inquiry into Arena bombing hears Greater Manchester Police
turned ‘blind eye’ to extremism,”
by Darren Boyle,
MailOnline,
March 16, 2022:
Didsbury Mosque in south Manchester came under severe criticism on Monday at the Manchester Arena public inquiry into the terror attack, with calls for its status as a charity to be ‘reviewed’ by regulators.
Dr Paul Stott, Head of Policy Exchange’s Security and Counter Extremism Unit, said:
‘The Greater Manchester Police should as a matter of urgency review their endorsement of this event. But they also need to be upfront and have a proper, unflinching look at wider issues, outside of this single event.
‘The GMP– and indeed the local authority, its representatives, and anyone in public life – must think more carefully about “choosing their friends wisely” when they are looking at which community groups to engage with.’
Policy Exchange said it has been urging caution since 2009 in applying criteria for engagement with Muslim groups.
Lawyers for the families of the 22 people murdered in the Manchester Arena attack said it was accepted the mosque was in no way linked to the bombing or the radicalisation of suicide bomber Salman Abedi, who carried out the outrage on May 22, 2017.
But it was claimed the mosque had hosted extreme Islamist sermons, failed to condemn violence and ‘buried its head in the sand’ over radicals in its congregation.
Salman Abedi was said to have attended the mosque and his father Ramadan and brother Ismail were also involved in positions at the mosque.
‘Where pockets of extremism and violent ideology exist, it is imperative that those who seek community leadership confront and combat that extremism without hesitation or equivocation.’
Mr Cooper described the evidence to the inquiry from Fawzi Haffar, the current chair of trustees of Didsbury Mosque, also known as Manchester Islamic Centre, as ‘frankly implausible’.
Mr Haffar claimed the mosque’s Islamic orientation was not extreme but ‘middle of the road’, and he said he was not aware of any links to Libya or knowledge of worshippers going abroad to fight in Syria or Libya.
However, Mr Cooper suggested he downplayed any issues and was more concerned with protecting the mosque’s reputation than putting things right.
He said it was ‘concerning’ and ‘troubling’ that the mosque failed to make any condemnation of violence on its own website and had hosted speeches talking about giving money for ‘jihad’.
An Imam at the mosque, Mohammed El-Saeiti, had delivered a sermon in October 2014 in which he explicitly condemned some terrorist groups.
But Mr El Saeiti said the trustees believed speaking up against terrorists would ‘provoke’ its sympathisers and supporters.
The mosque then failed to support him when he faced a petition for his removal signed by, among others, Ramadan Abedi.
He said after the bombing the mosque’s solicitor, a Mr Hafezi, pressured him to not mention the Abedis’ links to the mosque.
Mr Cooper said it showed the mosque was aware of the presence of extremist and violent sentiment among parts of the congregation, and the south Manchester Muslim community more generally, but adopted a ‘passive’ attitude and preferred to ‘turn a blind eye’.
This approach amounted to a ‘dereliction of duty’ to the community by Didsbury Mosque, Mr Cooper said….
Didsbury, Manchester
Muslim mob screaming ‘Allahu akbar’ attacks
and robs Hindu temple ahead of Holi
MAR 18, 2022 11:00 AM
BY ASHLYN DAVIS
After unleashing mammoth violence on the Hindus during the Hindu festival of Durga Puja in October 2021, some Muslims in Bangladesh are at it again; this time, the Hindu festival of Holi stands sacrificed at the altar of their frenzied jihad violence. While the Muslims targeted the International Society of Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON) temple in Noakhali, Chittagong during the Durga Pujas, it was now time for the association’s Dhaka temple to pay the penalty for standing on Islamic soil.
On the evening of Thursday, March 17, a riotous mob of around 200 Muslims launched a violent attack on the ISKCON temple situated on the Lalmohan Saha Street at Wari, Old Dhaka, Bangladesh. The Hindu American Foundation (HAF) reports that a 62-year-old Muslim, vicious attack; under his supervision, the mob of enraged Muslims carrying rods, sticks, hammers, sickles and other makeshift rustic weapons stormed into the Hindu religious establishment. They took down the southern wall of the temple, demolished several old structures, vandalized the premises, desecrated the idols of Hindu deities that had been placed in the temple, and robbed the temple of cash and other expensive articles. Hindu devotees in the temple were not spared, either.
India Today confirms that three men, Nihar Halder, Sumantra Chandra Shravan, and Rajiv Bhadra, sustained serious injuries during the mayhem. The extent of damage caused by the mob attack can be seen in the images and videos that have been shared across social media, going viral in the early hours of March 18. When the Hindu community across the world was preparing for Holi celebrations, the festival of colors, disturbing video of the chaos at the Sri Sri Radhakanta Jiu Mandir not only shocked the Hindu community, but left damaging and terrorizing effects on its collective psychology.
Hindus from Bangladesh took to Twitter to share their agony, alleging that although the Hindus called the local police, they took no action to curb on contain the bedlam. The violent mob continued to tear down the temple while screaming the slogan “Allahu akbar.”
The Muslim mob abducted a Hindu youth, Nihar, with the intention of murder, but the police were reluctant to rescue him. In a video that Hindu activist Pandit Pradip Chandra shared on social media, an injured ISKCON devotee recounted the appalling details of the attack: “They (the Muslim mob) forcibly took Nihar with them. I informed the police, but they did not believe me. Initially, the police had completely denied the possibility of anyone being abducted. Only after I pleaded with the police multiple times did they start the search for Nihar. We were finally able to find him.”
But the trauma didn’t end.
“While I was returning, they ambushed me and pounced on me. They kicked me, punched me, snatched my phone, injured my back,” he added, showing the fresh wound on his elbow.
The complaint lodged with the police reads that the Muslim mob looted valuables worth 500,000 Bangladeshi taka ($5,800) from the temple. Complainant Sumantra Chandra emphasized that the mobs also hurled stones at the temple and threatened to bury alive the Hindu devotees who were present there.
Sending that this incident would get little to no media attention, an Indian media house reached out to the administration of the destroyed temple. Those officials revealed the plot of Land Jihad behind the attack. Muslims have been eyeing this property for quite some time, and had made attempts to encroach upon it earlier. Though the temple authorities lodged a case against the miscreants, the virulence of the attack on the eve of Holi only demonstrates the inefficiency and insincerity of Bangladesh police; their shameful indifference towards the safety, security and suffering of the Hindu citizens of the Islamic country stands exposed.
Land Jihad is a common occurrence in Bangladesh; this criminal practice is gradually becoming commonplace in several Indian towns that Muslims dominate. Add to that the occasion of a Hindu festival which incidentally falls on same the day of the Islamic Shab-e-Barat. This provided a seamless combination to incite a Muslim mob to start unrest, eventually destroying properties that belong to “kafirs” and injure some of them, if not kill them. A lame and futile administration worked to encourage the violent ambitions of these mobs. This is an emerging trend in Bangladesh. As a result, no Hindu festival has passed without bloodshed in recent years.
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