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Muslims and Jews in Germany condemn "scarf" murder

Jul 6, 2009, 17:40 GMT

   Berlin - Both Muslims and Jews in Germany condemned Monday the horrifying knife murder of a scarved Muslim woman in a Dresden courthouse last week.

Aiman Mazyek, secretary of the Central Council of Muslims in Germany, said such violence was no wonder when Islam was constantly mentioned in the same breath as extremism and terrorism, but he warned against revenge.

'German Muslims must not be infected by the spark of hate that caused this crime,' he said. 'Let's prove now that the Germans have no cause to be afraid of us.'

The secretary of Germany's Central Council of Jews, Stephan Kramer, said he was appalled by the attack.

'All those people who have in the past belittled our concern about a phobia against Islam in Germany are seeing after this awful act how wrong they were,' he told a newspaper, the Tagesspiegel.

He said the German neo-Nazis had been rousing up a climate of xenophobia in Germany for years.

Marwa al-Shirbini, 31, who regularly wore a scarf, was stabbed 18 times by a German man of Russian descent as she was about to give evidence against him in a civil suit between them in Dresden.



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inkyJul 6th, 2009 - 19:27:46

'Let's prove now that the Germans have no cause to be afraid of us.'

Any German cartoonists willing to take him up on that?

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ValJul 6th, 2009 - 22:49:23

Thank you for writing this story,unlike all other media which is silent, you understand the meaning of true reporting. Yesterday a muslim woman was murdered by her husband in Malmoe, Sweden. He is now , 1 day after, realesed. Where is the muslim protest?..Is it because the murderer is a muslim? Islam is a death cult.. and some had enough..

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saqJul 7th, 2009 - 03:33:42

The person who wrote the last comment has no humanity. Imagine trying to justify this crime

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ADEL SARNAGAWY (EGYPT)Jul 7th, 2009 - 13:37:54

NOW, THE ALL PEOPLE IN THE WORLD HAVE TO THINK
1- HOW THE ATTACKER HAS THE TIME TO STAB THE WOMAN 18 TIMES IN THE
PRESENCE OF POLICE AND INSID THE COURT ROOM ?
2- HOW THE ATTACKER HAS THE TIME ALSO TO STAB THE HUSBAND IN THE SAME
TIME AND INSIDE THE COURT ROOM ?
3- HOW THE GERMAN POLICE MAN FIRED THE HUSBAND INSTEAD OF THE ATTACKER ?
4- ARE THE TERRORISTS THE MOSLEM WIFE AND HER HUSBAND ?
5- ARE THE TERRORISTS THE GERMAN PEOPLE ? ABSOLUTLY NO & NO
6- ARE THE RELIGION OF THE GERMAN PEOPLE ADVICE THEM TO KILL THE OTHERS ?
ABSOLUTLY NO & NO
7- ARE THE ISLAM & ALL MOSLEMS STILL THE TERRORISTS IN THIS WORLD ?
8- IS THE JUSTICE IN THE WORLD FOR THE WESTERN PEOPLE ONLY ?
9- IS THE FREEDOME IN THE WEST FOR THE WESTERN PEOPLE ONLY ?
10- WHAT IS THE TERRORISTS COUNTRY & RELIGION ? NO COUNTRY & NO RELIGION
FOR THE TERRORISTS
THE ALL PEOPLE IN THE WORLD HAVE TO THINK AND HAVE TO RESPECT THE JUSTICE.
THINK..... THINK..... THINK.....THINK....THINK....THINK....THINK....THINK

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thinkagainJul 8th, 2009 - 13:35:08

no doubt, hatemongers like val and goose are the perfect example of german and european racism towards muslims.
and like all racists they are incredibly dumb.
@val
why than did the swedish court let the murderer free?
if a swedish man kills his wife, what i assume happens once in a while, are there protests of swedish people, if this man isnt brought to account for the murder?

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ThinkerJul 8th, 2009 - 17:38:11

Let's rely on facts.
The attacker clearly was biased against muslims, and seen the insults he shouted and his unexpected attack he was ill-tempered.
A despiteful incident, but it should not be seen as common for the German people (the attacker was Russian btw.) or for the 'unbelievers'.
Muslims and their 'political-correct' friends soon used this isolated event to claim martyrship, another (1) victim of the poor mistreated muslims. No word though about the hundreds of incidents that are commited daily by muslims, including violence, mutilation, murder, theft etc.
Islamophobia is just when muslims are taught that they non-believers aren't worth a thing, so stealing from them or hurting them doesn't really matter. Islam is fighting a war in Europe, not openly, not by the sword (as opposed to Sudan for example), but by ever increasing the number of believers through import, marriage and the 'blessing' with a numerous offspring. Moreover, they jump to every occasion to make noise in the media, shouting 'rascism' when one of them is being attacked, spoken to, or accused of crime. The media in fear of all that do no longer mention the ethnic decent of criminals but call them 'youth'. Especially north-africans have no respect whatsoever for the laws of the land they live in, because that's not considered as part of 'their' people and the only law for them is sharia. But when they are extradited after criminal facts to their country of origin, human-rights organisations protest because of the intolerable and inhumane conditions in that country's prisons.

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NewvistaserJul 8th, 2009 - 18:58:39

Sure, it's an isolated incident and it's not common of Germany or other European countries but it's worth to be taken seriously and without prejudice as that scarfed woman was ,in effect, a human being and had the right to perform the practice of her religion and at the same time what the native ethics of huamnity and religion call for which is 'virtue' and 'women traffic' has to be taken into consideration.Dears, we are all human and should ineract not conflict with each other.I as a muslim believe that some day the truth will be disclosed and all the biased,fanatic and racist people will regret what they thought and did when they burn in hell eternally.

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ValJul 14th, 2009 - 15:18:59

Yes, a murder is always a terrible offence. But I am tired of the PC that politicians are trying to shovel into our throats. Is it a lesser crime if a woman is killed by a fellow muslim? Obvious so, but if the murderer is released in wait of a trial, just to disappear..Isnt that just to much to digest.. No stronger retrograde force exists in the world than Islam. Far from being moribund, Mohammedanism is a militant and proselytizing faith. It has already spread throughout Central Africa, raising fearless warriors at every step; and were it not that Christianity is sheltered in the strong arms of science, the science against which it had vainly struggled, the civilization of modern Europe might fall, as fell the civilization of ancient Rome. Churchill words, not mine.. But by God he is right. Again we have to fight the ugly face of fascism..now in the clothes of a religion.. In Sweden several muslim women have felled from balconies, their husbands are often released. If you dont believe me, brainwashed by the PC media, look at these 'dn.se/sthlm/kvinna-foll-fran-fonster-1.907061' Islam doesn´t fit in the western society..Why does my child has to fight this new fascism..because of our cowardliness.



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