GERMAN MUSLIMS.

The Radical Muslims of Germany

Dr. Sami Alabraa
January 31, 2009

"Jews are the enemy of Allah," declared Ismael Gharaballi during a
service in a mosque in Bielefeld, Germany. "This is not only my
belief, but also Allah's conviction," the Palestinian imam and Hamas
activist declared, waving his Koran in the air. The congregation of
about 200 thundered, "Allahu Akbar!"

Then Gharaballi turned to another page in the Koran and read,

"… and kill them [he explained this to mean unbelievers, especially
the Jews] wherever you overtake them and expel them from wherever they
have expelled you" (Surah 2, verse 191). "What are you waiting for?"
he cried. "Allah Himself is telling us kill them. No peace can be made
with the Jews."

After the prayers, I approached Gharaballi in the cafeteria of the
mosque and asked him if he was serious about what he had preached. "Of
course, I am. This is not any book. This is the word of Allah." Then I
asked if he would kill a Jew here in Germany. He answered: "Yes,
especially those Israelis who are occupying Arab land." I reminded him
that this would be murder and for that he would land up behind bars.
Ismael retorted angrily: "I don't care. The Koran is our law and
constitution and anything else is just rubbish." Referring to Hitler,
Ismael told me: "The man was a hero, almost a Muslim. I'm one of his
fans."

Gharaballi is not unique in Germany's 3 million-strong Muslim
community. Ibrahim el-Zayat, the head of an extremist Munich-based
organization called The Islamic Community of Germany, told a meeting
of fellow Muslims last month: "It is still premature to strike against
the Jews and infidels in this country. However, at the lecture at a
community center in Neukoeln, Berlin, which I attended, but where no
media reporters were allowed access, he went on to assert: "But sooner
or later we will strike against the enemies of Allah and Islam. We
have to wait. Many Germans are converting to Islam, especially friends
from the NPD [a neo-Nazi party]." When I asked a German reporter to
verify this by calling el-Zayat, the latter denied having ever said
such a thing.

El-Zayat was born in 1968 in Marburg, Germany, to an Egyptian imam and
a German mother. He owns a construction company and receives huge sums
of money from the Saudis to build mosques in Germany and in other
European countries. He is an aggressive Muslim fundamentalist and has
connections to various Islamists and terrorist organizations across
the world. He is currently being prosecuted in Germany for supporting
radical organizations.

El-Zayat is typical of most Muslim activists in Germany. In their
schools and community centers, Muslim organizations incite hatred and
violence against Jews and Christians. In public, however, and before
the media, they deny preaching violence. El-Zayat, Gharaballi and the
majority of radical Islamist imams, and officials of Muslim
organizations receive big honorariums from the Saudis.

According to a study by Bielefeld University, over 30% of the Muslims
living in Germany are radicalized. They reject the German Constitution
and hope to establish Sharia Islamic law.

Many German politicians, in particular in the Green Party, often
attribute radicalism among Muslims to social problems and lack of
integration in German society. For all these problems they blame the
German side. Former foreign minister Joschka Fischer stated, in an
interview with German radio station WDR earlier this year that Muslims
should be left alone to believe and act the way they please. "Other
religions are not more liberal than Islam."

The German Home Minister Wolfgang Schäuble has met with heads of
Muslim organizations and Islam experts several times over the last two
years. I attended all these meetings. The heads of Muslim umbrella
organizations tell the German government that they and their members
accept the German Constitution. Back in their communities they preach
hatred and violence. In mid-April 2008, the German police raided the
properties of a dozen Muslim extremists and arrested nine of them. But
this is only the tip of the iceberg. The German media and the public
appear to be wary of antagonizing Muslim radicals. Very few media
reproduced the Mohammad cartoons published in Denmark and they
downplayed the recent anti-Islam Fitna film by Dutch politician Geert
Wilders.

Radical Islam inculcates in impressionable young minds verses from the
Koran that are incompatible with modern values and human rights, such
as inciting hatred towards Jews and Christians. Dalal, a 15-year-old
girl who attends a Muslim school in Ulm, was proud to tell me that her
teacher told her not to greet non-Muslims. It is haram (forbidden),
she said. The radical Muslims also emphasize those passages that
discriminate against women and incite violence against those who
practice freedom of religion and speech.

Christianity and Judaism also have passages in their holy scripts that
are incompatible with human rights. But most Christians and Jews
simply ignore these passages, consider them archaic, and instead apply
more humane and rational ones. Most Muslims ignore the more liberal
passages that do exist in the Koran.

The majority of Muslims in Germany are peaceful people. Radical
Muslims are a minority. But this minority dominates. They are in key
positions in the community and control mosques and organizations.
There is no hate-crime law in Germany. The German government should
enact such a law, like the one against Holocaust denial, making it an
offense to incite to hatred and the violation of human rights.

FamilySecurityMatters.org Contributing Editor Dr. Sami Alrabaa, an ex-
Muslim, is a professor of Sociology and an Arab-Muslim culture
specialist. Before moving to Germany he taught at Kuwait University,
King Saud University, and Michigan State University. He also
contributes to the Jerusalem Post.

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