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In Germany, A Man Who Was Stabbed by a Jihadi Has Been Fined for Criticizing Islam.<\/a><\/p>\n

Here is a story that neatly encapsulates the threat that the West faces, and the weakness of its response to that threat. In Germany, a vociferous critic of jihad violence and Sharia oppression of women and others, Michael St\u00fcrzenberger, was stabbed several months ago by a jihadi precisely because of his opposition to those evils. Now, a German court has added insult to injury, convicting St\u00fcrzenberger of \u201cincitement to hatred\u201d and fining him \u20ac3,600 ($3,800). So it has come to this: what the jihadi began, the German government is now continuing. What will be the effects of this on the freedom of speech in Germany? That\u2019s obvious: if this continues, Germany is dead as a free society.<\/p>\n

In Spiked Wednesday, the publication\u2019s Germany correspondent Sabine Beppler-Spahl was generally sympathetic to St\u00fcrzenberger, but added a significant and telling caveat. She\u00a0asserted<\/a>\u00a0that \u201cthere\u2019s little doubt that St\u00fcrzenberger can be offensive. He claims that his criticism only applies to \u2018political Islam\u2019, calling it a threat to democracy and an ideology that oppresses women. But he has also compared parts of the Koran with Hitler\u2019s\u00a0Mein Kampf<\/em>, and \u2013 while saying that not all Muslims are rapists \u2013 has talked of \u2018thousands of women\u2019 who have been sexually assaulted by Muslims from Northern Africa and Arabia.\u201d<\/p>\n

Here yet again we see how unpopular and unwelcome truths are stigmatized as \u201coffensive\u201d even among people who should know better; but does that make them any less true? Sabine Beppler-Spahl appears to be unaware of the fact that the Qur\u2019an contains numerous passages (not just one or two) that are profoundly and disturbingly antisemitic.<\/p>\n

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The Jews in the Qur\u2019an are called the strongest of all people in enmity toward the Muslims (5:82). They are accused of hiding the truth and misleading people (2:109; 3:78); staging rebellion against the prophets and rejecting their guidance (2:55); being hypocritical (2:14, 2:44); giving preference to their own interests over the teachings of Muhammad (2:87); and being arrogant about their being Allah\u2019s beloved people (5:18). They are depicted as slandering the true religion (Islam) (4:46); killing the prophets (2:61); being merciless and heartless (2:74); and never keeping their promises or fulfilling their words (2:100). Allah transforms the disobedient Jews into apes and pigs for breaking the Sabbath (2:63-65; 5:59-60; 7:166). They are under Allah\u2019s curse (9:30), and Muslims should wage war against them and subjugate them under Islamic hegemony (9:29). And there is much more of this, making\u00a0Mein Kampf<\/em>\u00a0look practically benign by comparison.<\/strong><\/p>\n

And as for \u201c\u2018thousands of women\u2019 who have been sexually assaulted by Muslims from Northern Africa and Arabia,\u201d take just one British city as an example. The BBC\u00a0reported<\/a>\u00a0in 2014 that \u201cat least 1,400 children were subjected to appalling sexual exploitation in Rotherham between 1997 and 2013,\u201d and British officials did nothing; they \u201cdescribed their nervousness about identifying the ethnic origins of perpetrators for fear of being thought as racist; others remembered clear direction from their managers not to do so.\u201d Those perpetrators were largely Pakistani, not North African or Arab, but they shared with many North African and Arab rapists the same understanding of the Qur\u2019an\u2019s permission for the sexual abuse of infidel women (4:3, 4:24, 23:1-6, 33:50, 70:30).<\/p>\n

The fact that even a friendly observer would think St\u00fcrzenberger had gone too far in making these statements is an indication of the depth of ignorance regarding this problem in Germany and all over Europe and North America. Even among patriots in the U.S., there are all too many who still wear rose-colored glasses regarding the teachings of the Qur’an, the likelihood of “moderate Muslims” saving the day, and so on. So it\u2019s no wonder that the German government, when faced with the jihad stabbing of this critic of Islam, thought it best to clamp down on him, rather than try to ensure that the new arrivals to Germany shared Western values of pluralism, tolerance, and the respect for the freedom of speech.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is difficult to escape the impression,\u201d writes Beppler-Spahl, \u201cthat he has been targeted by German political and media elites because of their fear of right-wing populism. That is, they fear his criticism of Islam will further fuel the rise of the populist right. After all, St\u00fcrzenberger gives voice to many Germans\u2019 scepticism and rejection of mass migration from majority Muslim countries.\u201d Indeed. And that\u2019s ultimately what his legal persecution is all about.<\/p>\n

St\u00fcrzenberger is not a politician and is not running for office, but in many ways his legal woes resemble those of Donald Trump. Leftist elites have targeted both men on the flimsiest of charges, essentially for the crime of threatening their hegemony. If they prevail over either one, it could mean the end of their country as a free society. The stakes couldn\u2019t be higher. And right now, it looks as if the German elites are succeeding in taking their country into darkness.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In Germany, A Man Who Was Stabbed by a Jihadi Has Been Fined for Criticizing Islam. Here is a story that neatly encapsulates the threat that the West faces, and the weakness of its response to that threat. In Germany, a vociferous critic of jihad violence and Sharia oppression of women and others, Michael St\u00fcrzenberger, … Continue reading “”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[97,34,80],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-106040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-international","category-moslems-jihadis","category-you-cant-make-this-up"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106040","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=106040"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106040\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":106041,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106040\/revisions\/106041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=106040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=106040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=106040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}