Germany's Islamist Tide

"As a society we must ask ourselves: how can it be that people who live in Germany and in large part are born and raised here, are supporters of a brutal, inhuman and fundamentalist terror group such as the IS and attack peaceful protestors with knives, sticks and machetes. Here in Germany, the IS threatens to become a refuge for frustrated young people who lack future prospects." -- Claudia Roth, German Green Party

Well she has it part right. But as is typical of a leftist whose major concern is that immigrants must be coddled and if they don't succeed in the society to which they have migrated it must be because of innate prejudice on the part of the indigenous population whose hateful attitudes keep "young people" from reaching their aspirations in "future prospects", and this is why they are turned to becoming willing recruits for violent jihad, making common cause with the destiny of their heritage, and wreaking havoc on the deserving Western interests that have failed them.

Violent: Police walk through the mist of a water cannon during clashes in Hamburg, northern Germany, between Kurdish protesters and alleged Islamists after demonstrations outside a mosque turned violent

Other German politicians, on the other hand, who are alarmed at the clear and frightening signals that Muslim immigration to Germany has been fraught with danger that is now becoming increasingly obvious and make no excuses for the proclivity of Muslim second-generation recruits to violent jihad, are increasingly facing death threats from their own citizens. Tobias Huch of the Free Democratic Party was more than once threatened with beheading in response to his having led a fundraising campaign for humanitarian aid provisioning to Kurds in northern Iraq. "I am not afraid, but I have become more careful", he stated, forced to make lifestyle changes in hopes of being less vulnerable to attack.

Ismail Tipi of the ruling CDU has criticized the rise of militant Salafism in Germany and he notes: "I receive threats almost every day. The death threats against me have no limits. The Salafists want to behead me, shoot me, stone me, execute me and they have many other death wishes for me." None of them to be considered the least bit salubrious for his future well-being as a token of regard for his concern for the public weal and rejection of religious fascism. He no doubt finds small comfort in the words of his political colleague Wolfgang Bosbach whose opinion it is that: "Under no circumstances should they [politicians who receive death threats] give in and change their stance, otherwise the extremists will have achieved their objectives."

Crackdown: Police forces march in front of water cannons as they move in to stop the clashes in Hamburg

The German domestic intelligence agency, Bundesamt fur Ferfassungsschutz [BfV] revealed in their 2013 annual report (published June 2014) that Germany is blessed with 30 active Islamist groups, and 43,000 Islamists, including 950 members of the Lebanese terrorist group Hezbollah beloved of the Republic of Iran, along with 1,300 members of the Muslim Brotherhoo9d, and 5,500 Salafists. ISIS-approving German-Muslims groups have been making their presence very obvious of late in Germany, in reaction to events taking place in Munich, Berlin, Bremen, Gottingen, Hamm, Hanover, Kiel, Oldenburg and Stuttgart in the face of "Solidarity with Kobani", demonstrations led by Kurdish citizens of Germany.

Protesters waving Kurdish flags in support of the embattled and beleaguered Syrian Kurds desperately fighting to keep the Islamic State groups from taking full possession of Kobani, have been met by Salafists armed with baseball bats, brass knuckles, knives, machetes and metal rods. One of these brawls took place on October 7 when 400 Kurds assembled outside the Al-Nour mosque in Hamburg's St.George district. Their peaceful protest attracted a rival group of like-numbered Salafists. Over a thousand police officers responded, using batons and water cannons. Hundreds of weapons were seized and violent offenders arrested.

Police expressed shock at the level of violence. The chairman of the German Police Union, Rainer Wendt, reported the police had "experienced life-threatening brute force", that attacking Islamists were armed "to the teeth", warning that the IS-Kurdish conflict has the potential to "threaten to unleash a proxy war on German soil." That same day dozens of Chechen Muslim immigrants fought with Kurdish Yazidis, the sect persecuted in Iraq by Islamic State, in a town in Lower Saxony where over 7,000 Yazidis live, injuring their victims in a conflict fuelled when radical Muslim preachers sent a call over social media to Islamists to confront the Yazidis.

The radically anti-Western Salafism with which the Middle East itself is grappling -- and which has its comfortable home in the Wahhabism practised in Saudi Arabia and exported abroad, along with their Shiite-Islamist purist counterpart that engulfed Iran with the Iranian Revolution brought the Islamic Republic of Iran into being with the return from exile of Grand Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini in 1979 after the fall of Shah Reza Pahlavi's moderate Islamic regime -- seeks, where it exists in the West, to replace democracy with an Sharia-law-based Islamic government.

Through the general migration of Muslims to European soil, an influx of varied tribal, ethnic, sectarian and historical animosities has taken root. While those adhering faithfully and dangerously (to the West) to Salafism; political-ideological Islam, are purported to represent a minority of Muslims, they have realized success in impressing young European-based Muslims, susceptible to the persuasion that it is their religious duty to be taken up with appropriate zeal, to perpetrate terrorist acts in the name of jihad, which Islam imposes upon the faithful.

Police confront protesting Kurds: Police in the northern German city say 14 people were injured overnight in the violence involving hundreds of demonstrators wielding machetes and iron bars