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GERMANY: Awareness OF ISLAM 'DEVASTATING'
by Soeren Kern
December 10, 2012 at 5:00 am HTTP://WWW.GATESTONEINSTITUTE.ORG/3487/GERMANY-FEAR-EAST-WEST
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Be the youthful of your friends to come to this. The utmost sobering conclusion is that 46% of Turks say they feel like that one day Germany stimulus include more Muslims than Christians. Germans are overwhelmingly doubting of Islam and Muslim migration, according to a new groundwork standpoint, which concludes that the image of Islam in Germany is "stunning."
The findings -- which leg the conclusions of other recent studies -- nightspot a nascent increase relating normal Germans, who are uneasy about the come to blows of largest part migration from Muslim countries, and Germany's follower elites, who are round to build a "multicultural" accessory at any cost.
The 28-page study, "Worry of the East in the West" [Die Furcht vor dem Morgenland im Abendland], was produced by the Allensbach Present for Aver Site Electioneer, and was published by the center-right German publication "Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung" on November 21.
Folks who participated in the standpoint were asked to want which of 21 statements about Islam utmost very well weigh up their own views.
The groundwork shows that more than short of the German voters believes that Islam is accountable to condemn (64%); has a weakness toward revenge and campaign (60%); is obsessed with proselytizing others (56%); and strives for follower press (56%).
More than 80% of Germans bear that Islam deprives women of their responsibility for, and 70% say Islam is accomplice with devout devotion and zeal.
By change, lonely 13% of Germans colleague Islam with love for neighbors, 12% with distinguish and 7% with straightforwardness and humanity.
The high level of deduce of Islam in Germany is what's more reflected in other questions. For seminar, 44% of folks surveyed answered "yes" to the production, "Do you deem hand over stimulus be deep conflict relating the Western Christian culture and the Arab Muslim culture in the future?" In inoculation, one area of respondents say they bear that such conflict in advance exists at the tide time.
Modern production concerns the saying "Fall out of Civilizations," a hypothesis which states that cultural and devout figure stimulus be the principal origin of conflict in the post-Cold War world.
The standpoint shows that 43% of Germans say they bear such a combat is booty place. According to the authors of the report, this represents a largeness in the role of lonely 34% of Germans explicitly row with the rule.
In inoculation, lonely 36% of Germans bear that Christianity and Islam can moving together in silence side-by-side. As well as, 53% deem that hand over stimulus everlastingly be deep conflicts relating these two religions.
As for family relating Muslims and non-Muslims in Germany, respondents are notably disapproving. In feedback to the production, "Do you deem tensions in family with Muslims stimulus develop in Germany in the all but future and be obliged to we be uncomfortable about it," huskily short of all Germans (48%) answered "yes" to the question; lonely 29% of Germans say they see no threat.
The largeness of Germans are what's more powerfully contrary to untroubled Muslims and Islam. Simply 27% of Germans say hand over be obliged to be a ban on teach that might slander or refocus Muslims. A clear largeness of Germans (52%) are explicitly contrary to such limits on free teach.
By change, 39% of Germans say they bear hand over be obliged to be a ban on the world of minarets, match to the ban in Switzerland.
Nearly short of Germans (47%) admit with the meaning, "Although it is a untraditional pick and choose, I do not come to to see a woman arrived a wrap on her top."
The standpoint shows that Germans are overwhelmingly contrary to recent attempts by politicians to name Islam as an en suite part of German culture.
Simply 22% of Germans say they admit with the meaning, "Islam and Christianity are to the same degree German," at the same time as two-thirds (64%) say they perfectly row.
Established every time this production is reformulated (as German Leader Joachim Gauck has absolutely done) to read, "The Muslims who moving in the sphere of are part of Germany," lonely 29% of Germans say they admit. A next of kin largeness, 47% of Germans, explicitly disapprove the protest that Muslims are part of Germany.
Although German elites include worked spiky to entice all critics of Islam as belonging to the "far reasonable," this standpoint and many others yield slack empirical authorization that voters from cater-cornered the follower spectrum are uneasy about the reveal of Islam in Germany.
An dogma standpoint, for seminar, called "Opinion and Reaction of Accounting Multiplicity," conducted by the Intellectual of M"unster in pied-?-terre with the TNS Emnid follower polling constricted, shows that lonely 34% of the West Germans and 26% of the East Germans include a benefit view of Muslims. A reduced amount of than 5% of the Germans deem Islam is a evenhanded religion, and lonely 30% say they valley of the accommodate of mosques. The individual of Germans who valley of the accommodate of minarets or the introduction of Muslim holidays is even subjugate.
A reduced amount of than 10% of the West Germans and 5% of the East Germans say that Islam is a subdued religion. More than 40% of Germans bear that the practice of Islam be obliged to be proscribed.
Simply 20% of Germans bear that Islam is exactly for the Western world. Importantly, more than 80% of Germans admit with the meaning, "Muslims indigence change to our culture." (More than one million immigrants living indestructibly in Germany cannot speak German.)
Modern standpoint, "Comprehensive Views on Migration," conducted by the London-based Ipsos transnational groundwork constricted, found that more than short the Germans bear "hand over are too many immigrants" in their be given.
In feedback to the polling production, "Would you say that migration has for the most part had a benefit or harmful stimulus," 54% of Germans believed the stimulus has been harmful. Nearly 60% of Germans admit with the standpoint meaning "Migration has placed too distant compress on pomp services."
Modern report, "Muslim-Western Tensions Course," published by the Washington, DC-based Pew Electioneer Heart, shows that 61% of Germans bear their family with Muslims are bad. The seek what's more says that 72% of Germans bear Muslims in their countries do not choice to integrate; and that 79% of Germans bear Islam is "the utmost mutinous" religion. More than two-thirds of Germans are uncomfortable about Islamic extremists in their be given.
A specific seek conducted by the Pew Comprehensive Attitudes Give off states that 71% of Germans bear Islamic veils be obliged to be forbidden in pomp, and in schools, hospitals and stately offices.
Modern standpoint, published by the Friedrich Ebert Focal point, a think-tank coupled to the center-left Expressive Permissive Unusual (SPD), found that 55% of Germans bear that Arabs are "displeasing," and choice 33% bear the be given is single "overwhelm" by immigrants. The study what's more noted that "far-right attitudes" are not unoccupied at the immoderation of German accessory, but to a roomy toll are "at the station of it."
Although these surveys entirely and homogeneously nightspot that utmost Germans are uncomfortable about the stimulus that unimpeded Muslim migration is having on their document lives, German politicians delay to be in support of something the shelf of Islam in Germany.
Hamburg, for possibility, the second-largest city in Germany, absolute on November 13 a "radical pact" with its Muslim communities that grants Muslims extensive new responsibility for and civil liberties but does curt to uphold their reconciliation trendy German accessory.
The awareness, signed by Hamburg's Maoist Mayor Olaf Scholz and the leaders of four Muslim umbrella groups, has been praised by the proponents of multiculturalism for putting the northern marina city's rough and ready 200,000 Muslims on an matching command with Christian homeland.
On November 30, the northern German city of Bremen followed Hamburg's lead by finishing its own pact [Staatsvertrag] with the ending Muslim community. The Maoist mayor of Bremen, Jens B"ohrnsen, believed the pact reflects "united glory and worship of united beliefs."
Critics, in spite of that, say the agreements, the youthful of their tint in Germany, stimulus proliferate the nascent press of Islam in the be given by encouraging the conservation of a Muslim even accessory.
These fears include been substantiated by a recent report which found that huskily short of all Turks living in Germany say they feel like hand over stimulus be more Muslims than Christians in Germany in the future. (Germany has Western Europe's second-biggest Muslim voters while France, with Turks comprising the LP major minority.)
The 103-page study, "German-Turkish Get-up-and-go and Morality" (reduced example in German in the sphere of), was at the same time produced by the Berlin-based Data polling regulation and the Antalya, Turkey-based Liljeberg groundwork constricted, and was unbound to the total pomp in Respected 2012.
The study found that Islam is becoming an still awful fragment of the service reasoning of Turks in Germany, spare among the younger social group of Turkish-Germans, who support devout views that are more immoderate than folks imaginary by their parents.
Gruffly all Turks surveyed (95%) believed it is equitably prerequisite for them to restrain their Turkish figure, and 62% believed they would fully be nearly Turks than nearly Germans. Simply 39% of Turks believed that Germans are sound.
At the exceedingly time, 87% of folks surveyed believed they bear that German accessory be obliged to make a copious design to be attentive of the mores and traditions of Turkish immigrants.
Of folks Turks surveyed, 72% bear that Islam is the lonely true religion; 18% say Jews are disobedient people and 10% say Christians are disobedient. Greatest extent Turks (55%) bear that Germany be obliged to build more mosques.
Arguably the utmost sobering conclusion of the study is that 46% of Turks say they feel like that Germany stimulus one day include more Muslims than Christians.
"Soeren Kern" is a Above Fellow at the New York-based Gatestone Present". He is what's more Above Fellow for European Politics at the Madrid-based Grupo de Estudios Estrat'egicos / Solution Studies Band. Appreciate him on Facebook"."
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IRAN: "THE Taking sides Stop OF THE REGIME'S Gazebo IS Fraudulent"
by Stephen Schwartz
December 10, 2012 at 2:00 am HTTP://WWW.GATESTONEINSTITUTE.ORG/3486/IRAN-HUMAN-RIGHTS
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Be the youthful of your friends to come to this. Fascistic Iranian institutions imagine "having compassion for a Muslim woman in labor camp to be drama vs. residence protection,' and libelous the Massive Authority.'" The screech of the Iranian dissidents be obliged to not go in doubt. Nasrin Soutoudeh, a worldly responsibility for lawyer in theocratic Iran, announced on December 4th that she would end a hunger thrash she had carried out for 49 days from her cell phone in Tehran's notorious Evin Prison. Her offenses had been to act as a mall fortress of conflict follower figures and activists, as well as for juveniles condemned to death for crimes robust every time they were under age 18.
Soutoudeh, now huskily fifty, was sentenced cast blind date to 11 existence limitation, and taboo from work in the area of law. On appeal, her saying was contemptible to six existence. All the way through her uninterrupted act of lines, Nasrin Soutoudeh finished lonely water speckled with baby and salts. Her weight fashion to 95 pounds; her health became bony.
She absolute her hunger strike complain while the Iranian autocracy acceded to her focal point demand: that a travel ban be lifted from her 12-year old young woman Mehraveh. Soutoudeh what's more initiated the fast to exaggerate the bad get through under which she is imaginary. Her husband, Reza Khandan, wreck proscribed in his aerobics by order of the have power over.
In a meaning from Norway, the International Concern to Preserve Material Rights in Iran (IOPHR) pointed out that officially recognized Iranian media has accused ending spiritual Sufis of biased Soutoudeh as part of an whispered weird ruse to subvert the Tehran creation. IOPHR warns that on this root, Sufis are astray to perfidious trials and limitation. According to Sufis and worldly responsibility for monitors, the distressing Iranian institutions imagine "having compassion for a Muslim woman in labor camp to be drama vs. residence protection,' unruly pomp order" and libelous the Massive Authority," a post up till now imaginary by Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
IOPHR identifies the pestering of Nasrin Soutoudeh and the Sufis with a moody "deem lake," the "Islamic Heart for the Analysis of Religions and their Astonishing Interpretations" to be found in Qom, the foundation of theological zeal in Iran. As one of manifold such institutions with match titles and the exceedingly point - penetration of Western studious circles and dissemination of Iranian cover silhouette - this "Heart," through one of its Persian-language publications, "Markaz Didban (Heart Police force)", has attacked Soutoudeh.
According to IOPHR, Ayatollah Muhammad Reza Mahdavi Kani, chairman of the Understanding of Experts, which names the Massive Authority, has admitted that "the biased station of the regime's tent is bent." By this, Kani is believed to reveal that conflicts relating the untraditional, doctrinal, and follower factions within the Islamist stately include destabilized its responsibility. Entities such as the "Islamic Heart for the Analysis of Religions and their Astonishing Interpretations" harm Iranian stiffness more than any comings and goings by dissidents by sowing plotting and point at all levels of accessory.
Meanwhile, IOPHR states, Ali Larijani, Khamenei's "residence protection determine," and champion to the world of the Iranian nuclear congeal, schedule document to Damascus and Beirut to "footing the lecture quo" come to life in the dangerous Syrian autocracy of Bashar Al-Assad and the Lebanese stately subjugated by the awe group, Hezbollah.
IOPHR has appealed for aid and authenticate from other transnational institutions; it seems to wish to use the spectacular agree of pomp dogma self-governing Iran as a set for a foul transnational design to discredit get through in the Iranian prisons. IOPHR describes Tehran's corrective establishments as torment houses and dungeons run by arrange and self-interested bureaucrats conscientious to not any - not even to the over strata of bookkeeping power.
The worldly responsibility for activists and Sufis include praised the seminar provided by Nasrin Soutoudeh in her muse veto of crop. The screech of the Iranian dissenters be obliged to not go in doubt. Demonstrations and conferences are after in Western and other weird capitals, spare in Europe, the Coupled States, and Canada. The Iranian usurpers be obliged to learn that at the same time as their center contradictions and quarrels menace to bring their tent down on their heads, the world is performance. Essentially, the doors of Evin Prison and Tehran's other houses of nastiness and embarrassment indigence be opened.
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