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| Al-Ahram Smear of German Who Understands Evil Islam |
| 2004-09-26 |
| Al-Ahram, Cairo, Egypt Most Arabs and Muslims in Germany are all too aware of the record of German Interior Minister Otto Schily. In particular, they know him for the barrage of vitriol he often unleashes against Islam, against Arabs in general, and Palestinians in particular. So for them, Schily's recent statements in Israel will have come as no surprise. The German minister bluntly defended the apartheid wall being built by Ariel Sharon's extreme rightwing government, and proceeded to declare that Islamic terror is now the greatest danger to the "civilised" world. Islam is terror; Muslims are terrorists Schily was in Israel last week to attend a conference on terror marking the third anniversary of 9/11. One could view his remarks as simply a nod to the occasion, but the man's record suggests otherwise. He should have brought a few missles with him, to help the IDF go to town on the Pale-slime. For Schily often goes beyond the official view of his government in defending Israel's violations of international law and its continued aggression against the Palestinian people. Not content with denouncing Islamist terror, he goes on to slander Islam as a religion. But although he seems to live in a black-and-white moral world, there is a little-known puzzle hidden in Schily's past. In his youth, Schily acted as the defence lawyer for a number of major German terrorists, and in particular, for the members of the dreaded Baader-Meinhof group. Smear! Mudsling! Invective! Innuendo! One cannot blame Schily for having been an extreme leftist in his youth. The minister began his political life as a Trotskyite, before moving on to the Green Party. He then left the Greens for the Socialist Party. All of these transitions are quite normal in themselves. One does not necessarily have to see Schily's past career as an extended exercise in opportunism -- people change their minds all the time... ...and his next plans are to move to Orange County, Cal, and wait for Arnold to retire, yada, yada, yada, ad nauseum. NUKE MECCA! |
| Posted by:Anonymous6334 |
| #1 Fred, I nominate that 6334's comments be stricken from the record ... here's my own: GO OTTO SCHILY! |
| Posted by: Edward Yee 2004-09-26 6:37:51 PM |