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| Germany considers increased spying on Muslims | |
| 2007-09-08 | |
| Hattip Drudge - which means lots of people will see it. After thwarting what might have become a "massive" attack on American installations, German authorities will review ways to fight homegrown terrorists, including a proposal to allow Internet spying on all German converts to Islam. Germans were shocked to learn that two of the alleged bombers [just arrested] were native-born and had common German names, Fritz and Daniel. Fritz came from an upper middle class background, and German media reported that he converted to Islam about 10 years ago. His mother was a doctor, his father owned a successful business, and he's married and attends a technical college in Ulm. "Daniel", who like Fritz hasn't been further identified, was known for angering his neighbors in Saarbruecken by praying loudly every three hours, but little else is know about him or "Adem", the Turkish-born third suspect. Guenther Beckstein, the interior minister in the German state of Bavaria and a conservative leader of the southern wing of Chancellor Angela Merkel's Christian Democratic Party, has called for a new law authorizing online surveillance of Islamic converts. "Germans converting to Islam should be watched because they tend to show particular fanaticism in order to prove worthy of their new religion," he said Thursday. The number is growing, according to the German Islam archive. In the last decade, only about 300 Germans each year converted to Islam. But in 2005, the number rose to 1,000, and it jumped to 4,000 in 2006. Terrorism experts believe the frequency of attacks in Europe is increasing. Magnus Ranstorp, Chief Scientist for the Center for Asymmetric Threat Studies at the Swedish National Defense College, said that while security forces don't release information on all thwarted attacks, there are known to have been at least 40 and perhaps has many as 50 since Sept. 11, 2001. "This is what we can expect for the future: The attack plots are going to come fast and furious," he said. "And, as is clear in both these attacks, they're operating in new vistas. Terrorism in Europe is a part of life now." Actually, terrorism has been a waxing and waning part of European life since the eruption of the violent anarchists in the 19th century. Islamic jihadism has grafted nicely onto that tradition.
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| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #3 wasn't he on state welfare? Yes. But as a married adult student with no job, presumably he was deemed in need of support. If you were his parents would you pay for his housing and living expenses? |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2007-09-08 23:45 |
| #2 His mother was a doctor, his father owned a successful business, and he's married and attends a technical college in Ulm Why is it that the world never remembered the name of Achmed Gambolali de von Ausfern-harem- schlitter- crasscrenbon- halal- digger- dingle- dangle- dongle- dungle- minaret- von- knacker- thrasher- pomegranate - goat-banger- horowitz- ticolensic- grander- knotty-mit-der-camels- winkletinkle- grandlich- grumbleseether- spelterwasser- kucinich- himbleeisen- bahnwagen- gutenabend- bitte- ein- nürnburger- bratwustle- gerspurten- mitz- weimache- luber- klinton- gumberaber- shönedanker- kalbsfleisch- mittler- aucher von Hautkopft of Ulm? |
| Posted by: Zenster 2007-09-08 23:34 |
| #1 His mother was a doctor, his father owned a successful business, and he's married and attends a technical college in Ulm IIRC, wasn't he on state welfare? Or was it just the other two Islamo-losers? |
| Posted by: Frank G 2007-09-08 15:50 |