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 <
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> 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.
>
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> 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. It was in this political climate that Marwa El-Shebini
> was murdered
>
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