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By Patrick Donahue Jan 7, 2015 12:34 PM ET
The killing of at least 12 people at a French magazine that received threats because of its depiction of Islam stands to exacerbate already burgeoning anti-Muslim sentiment in Europe.
The shooting by masked gunmen at the satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo in eastern Paris adds to a tense environment, with an anti-immigrant party dominating in France, mosque burnings in Sweden and thousands marching in Germany decrying the Islamization of the west.
Any incident like the one in Paris will only be fuel to the fire, Joerg Forbrig, the senior program director at the German Marshall Fund of the U.S., said by phone from Berlin. It will be welcomed as a told-you-so episode by radical movements saying Islam is a threat to our countries.
The attackers -- at least one of whom shouted Allahu Akbar, or God is great in Arabic -- are at large and no motive has been confirmed. Charlie Hebdos offices were firebombed in 2011 when it featured the Prophet Mohammed as a guest editor. The magazine sparked worldwide outrage among Muslims in 2012 after publishing cartoons mocking the prophet.
The leader of the anti-Islam Freedom Party in the Netherlands, Geert Wilders, took aim at the Dutch and European political establishments and Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte.
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uppityperson
(115,674 posts)Recursion
(56,582 posts)tblue
(16,350 posts)The circle of hate has got to stop. So far we know there were 2 perpetrators. They are the ones who should pay for this crime, not the Muslim community.
Jesus Malverde
(10,274 posts)To integrate into Dutch society.
HE WAS MURDERED.
Possible that those that are willing to sacrifice their freedoms to accommodate fundamentalists have been cowed by events.
Coventina
(26,874 posts)That's some real investigative journalism there, Bloomberg!!
Octafish
(55,745 posts)Naturally the common people dont want war. But after all, it is the leaders of a country who determine the policy, and its always a simple matter to drag people along whether it is a democracy or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. This is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and for exposing the country to danger. It works the same in every country.
Reichsmarschall Hermann Göring in conversation with prison psychologist and U.S. Army Captain Gustave M. Gilbert.
SOURCE: http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview/id/235519.html
Göring would commit suicide by cyanide tablet a short time later to avoid the noose.
Tierra_y_Libertad
(50,414 posts)Maybe Bush could give them some pointers on how to handle the situation and how to start new wars to lose.
Hutzpa
(11,461 posts)of some mindless idiots. This helps no one, it instead fuels the fire between all sides.
These perpetrators are doing the dirty work for some shadow players.
KittyWampus
(55,894 posts)In Germany, some racist murderers targeted Turks and the police just blamed the victims claiming they were part of a Turkish mafia despite zero evidence any were while not investigating AND TRASHING EVIDENCE leading to the rightwing neo-nazis.
Even now, right-wingers there make apologies for the police collaboration.
And the trial was moved to Munich
the German version of a deep Red State.
AND they tried to prevent media agencies access:
The case has attracted widespread attention abroad. Its opening was delayed by nearly three weeks after a Turkish newspaper filed a petition with Germanys highest court to be allowed in the courtroom after it failed to secure one of the 50 seats reserved for reporters. The high court ordered the Munich judges to grant access to news media outlets from Turkey and Greece, leading to a new accreditation process.
That delay was only the latest in a case that has been plagued by mistakes that have damaged the reputation of Germanys security apparatus. The head of the domestic intelligence agency resigned in July because an official in his office had shredded documents that may have contained evidence from paid informants about members of the group.
State domestic intelligence chiefs in Thuringia, Saxony and Saxony-Anhalt also stepped down as a result of the case, and critics and relatives of the victims charge that the government indirectly supported the neo-Nazis through payments to confidential informants associated with the far right, several of whom had connections to the group over the years.
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/07/world/europe/trial-of-neo-nazi-beate-zschape-in-germany.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/05/06/us-germany-neonazi-idUSBRE9440ER20130506
MisterP
(23,730 posts)very quickly
Fortuyn and Wilders are *not* friends of liberal democracy, and ISIS is *not* the only representative of Islam, and until we come to grips with both these two groups are going to feed into each other and the rest of us will still be floundering about wondering why
Rhinodawg
(2,219 posts)Germany
Sweden
Denmark
Switzerland
Norway
Spain
UK