Karim East germany is one of the worst part of the federation,infact it was a secured place for the minorities during the communist era but not since the unification of the german poeple from the cold war.Have a nice weekend. Respect On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 3:53 PM, abdoukarim sanneh < [log in to unmask]> wrote: > Faye > This incident is sickening and would belief that can happen in a court > without security intervention. In an open court in Dresden in Former East > Germany. Gambian in Germany told me about racist incidents in that country > more this one is more sickening. Thanks for sahring the piace. > > ------------------------------ > Date: Fri, 24 Jul 2009 13:42:54 +0200 > From: [log in to unmask] > Subject: Arab woman stabbed to death in German courtroom > To: [log in to unmask] > > > Why should this happen in Germany or perhaps nazism is rising again with > institutional racism against muslims. Niamorkono. Arab woman stabbed to > death in German courtroom By Justus Leicht > 24 July 2009 > On July 1, the 31-year-old pregnant Egyptian Marwa El-Sherbini was > slaughtered with a knife in open court in Dresden. Her killer was the > Russian-German Alexander W., a racist who had been found guilty of > defamation against El-Sherbini. A police officer in attendance did nothing > to aid the stricken women, instead shooting down her husband, causing him > serious injury. > Unlike when Islamic fundamentalists carry out or merely threaten to commit > a terrorist act, there was no outcry in the media or on the part of the > political establishment. On the contrary, both the popular press and as well > as supposedly respectable media outlets did everything possible to play down > the importance of what had occurred and deny the event had any political or > social significance. > At the end of last year, El-Sherbini, who worked in a pharmacy, asked > Alexander W., 28 years old and unemployed, to let her small son play on the > swing in the local playground. He immediately insulted the woman, who wore a > headscarf, as a “slut, terrorist and an Islamic fundamentalist.” He was > charged and found guilty of defamation, and was fined. An appeal was > subsequently lodged; however, it is unclear whether it was Alexander W. > himself or the public prosecutor who had lodged it. > *Tagesspiegel* reported as follows on the events in the courtroom where > the appeal was being heard: “The examination of the witnesses was concluded, > when the Russian-German asked to address the court. He asked to be allowed > to ask a question, to which the court did not object. Alex W. turned to > Marwa El-Sherbini: ‘Do you have any right at all to be in Germany?’ There > was silence in the room. ‘You have no reason to be here.’ Alex W. became > louder. And he threatened, ‘If the NPD [the far-right German National Party] > comes to power there will be an end to all that. I voted for the NPD.’” He > then threw himself on the defenceless woman and began to stab her with a > knife. Her defence counsel is said to have thrown a chair at him, but this > did not stop him. > El-Sherbini’s 32-year-old husband, Elwi Ali Okaz, came to his wife’s aid > and the court sounded the alarm. A court official and two police officers > who were in the building stormed into the courtroom. Without warning, one of > the officers immediately began shooting Ali Okaz, also an Egyptian. Okaz, > who had already been seriously injured in the knife attack, was shot in the > leg. A little later, Marwa El-Sherbini succumbed to her injuries, having > been stabbed 18 times. The couple’s three-year-old son witnessed the entire > proceedings. > Just for a moment, consider if the crime had been committed in reverse. A > Muslim insults a German-Russian as a “Christian dog” and a “Crusader,” then > in court admits support for an Islamic fundamentalist organisation and > afterward stabs the victim. Could there be any doubt about the reaction in > media and the political establishment? The chancellor and every minister > would have immediately rushed before the cameras to condemn the crime in > particular and Islamic fundamentalism in general. Over the following weeks, > countless “experts” would warn of the radicalisation among Muslims and their > refusal to integrate and the formation of a parallel society. Islamic > organisations would be called upon to dissociate themselves from such > crimes; the mosques would be told they should cooperate more closely with > the German police. And Interior Minister Wolfgang Schäuble would repeat his > demand for the deployment of the Armed Forces on the streets of Germany. > Anyone who considers this (still) hypothetical scenario to be exaggerated > should recall the reaction to the murder of Dutch film producer Theo van > Gogh, the defence of the “Anti-Prophet Mohammed cartoons” in Germany, the > Regensburg speech by Pope Benedict XVI, or the cancellation of a performance > of Mozart’s opera Idomeneo three years ago in Berlin. > What has been the reaction in Germany to the murder of Marwa El-Sherbini? > Practically none, initially. The political establishment at first said > nothing at all, and the popular press merely reported it in the margins, > talking about “a growing controversy over a swing.” Saxony’s Justice > Minister Gert Mackenroth said that in future the principle of “open justice” > would no longer be possible, meaning that comprehensive security checks > would be introduced in all courts. > Beside various Islamic groups, one of the first organizations to condemn > the murder was the Zentralrat der Juden (Central Council of Jews). > Secretary-General Stephan Kramer said, “Those who have so far dismissed > concerns about Islamophobia in Germany as a phantom debate have been proved > so wrong by this terrible event.” Kramer criticized the reaction of the > federal government, who kept quiet for days, and commented later: “It seems > that German society did not recognize the consequences of the Dresden > attack. The realization is lacking that the murder of Marwa Al-Sherbini is > quite obviously the result of the fact that the almost unhindered hate > propaganda against Muslims has seeped from the extremist edges of society > right into its core.” > A demonstration in Dresden to commemorate the victim and against right-wing > violence drew approximately 500, the majority of whom were non-Muslim > Germans who had been honestly shaken and angered by this bloody racist deed. > Following popular protests in Egypt, and the appearance of articles highly > critical of Germany in the Arabic and Egyptian press, foreign minister > Frank-Walter Steinmeier finally wrote a letter on July 10 to his Egyptian > counterpart, in which he offered his condolences and said that “xenophobia > and Islamophobia” had “no place” in Germany. Chancellor Angela Merkel’s > press spokesman said that she had “personally” expressed her sympathy to > Egypt’s President Hosni Mubarak during the G-8 summit. Since then, however, > neither Merkel nor any other federal minister has spoken out publicly. > Meanwhile, German newspapers have hardly expressed any indignation about > the murder, but have filled their pages with reports of anti-German protests > in Egypt and Iran, where president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad accused the German > state of being in part responsible for the bloody deed. > The liberal media, like the *S*ü*ddeutsche Zeitung* and the *Die Zeit*, > maintain aggressive debates as to whether there is any hostility to Islam in > Germany. *Spiegel Online* has not expressed an opinion in a single > editorial, although the site has reported the reaction to the murder. And > this is no wonder: Their house columnist on Islamic questions is Henryk M. > Broder, a man who for many years has systematically agitated and written > provocatively against Muslims. In a comment on July 16 on the web site > headlined “The axis of the good,” he mocked the fact that the federal > government does not reject every criticism from abroad as an interference in > Germany’s internal affairs. He deplored the “general suspicions” that are > supposedly now being expressed, without saying against whom these are > allegedly are being levelled. He closed his outpouring with a cynical > remark—one that could easily have come from the NPD—about the nearly > simultaneous killing of a German by a Turk, saying that “neither the > chancellor nor the Turkish Prime Minister” had made any statement on it. > However, last weekend’s online edition of the conservative *Welt *newspaper > already carried articles about a “thrust to radicalize [Islamic] women.” In > an article quoting the Hamburg state secret service, it wrote, “In extreme > cases, this development leads to the complete abandonment of self and > isolation—or to a terrorist camp. Partly convinced, partly pressured, these > women become both victims and supporters of jihadist efforts.” The reason > for this “radicalization thrust” is, according to the newspaper, that these > women regard the solution to be “a pious life, subordinated to a man.” The > wearing of a headscarf and the reading of the Koran lead thus “in extreme > cases” directly to terrorist camps, they argued, and both the newspapers and > secret service agree. 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