 Nearly monthly, new studies and books about the problems with the integration of Muslims in Germany and whole Europe are published. In France, Great Britain and the Netherlands the problems seem to be most obviously, but also in small Denmark. In the aftermath of the Mohammed-cartoon crisis, there have been some changes concerning Muslims in politics and public opinion. The German Review of Books talked to Nicolai Sennels, a psychologist who worked for several years with young criminal Muslims in a Copenhagen prison, about recent developments.
Mr. Sennels, since the publishing of your book “Among Criminal Muslims” in 2008 and our last interview, there have been some changes in the Danish integration policy. For instance, the Danish government just announced a tenfold increase in payments to encourage reverse migration. This is one of your main requests: paying Muslims, who are not willing to integrate, to return to their countries of origin.
It is clear that my book had an influence on the debate. Many politicians quoted my book, and it is clear that the book has contributed to a more free debate in Denmark.
My experiences from extensive travelling throughout our continent, my lectures and of course international media, is, that Denmark is Europe’s tip of the spear when it comes to acknowledging the problems with Islam and Muslim immigration. Parties that talk openly about these problems are growing, and parties that don’t are close to extinction. Even the two biggest left wing parties agree – the Social Democracy Party and Socialistic Peoples Party – that they will not change the strict immigration laws that have been made by the Dansk Folkeparti.
Soon we will probably get a law that will kick immigrants out of Denmark if they block or interfere with police work.
This law is crucial to regain secular control of Muslim-dominated areas. While the prospect of imprisonment does not seem to scare immigrants from committing serious and dangerous crimes, it seems that losing the chance to live in our country is the only thing that really scares them. This is also my own experience from working with criminal Muslims: The one thing they fear is being deported.
Unfortunately, the chiefs of the police are very much holding back their efforts in Muslim areas. They claim that they “do not want to throw gasoline on the fire.” In the short run, this may of course be a reasonable strategy, but it also means that Islamic laws and authorities become more powerful in these areas every day.
My experience from working psychologically with Muslims shows that the Muslim culture does not find it easy to be “equal.” Either you are over or you are under: You can be different and unequal, but you cannot be different and equal. The chiefs of the police and many politicians hope for some kind of “mutual acceptance,” but this is not possible in cultures developed under Islam.
Concerning these no-go-areas, even for the police, and the growing influence of the Islamic clerics, you recently wrote in your blog at Jyllands Posten about Muslim imams as a kind of Fourth Branch of Government.
Imams, Islamic priests, have a strong influence on their followers. For many Muslims the words of an imam are law – and for even more Muslims they are guidelines for lifestyle and political views. The power of Islamic authorities among Muslims is very often much more influential and respected than secular laws and norms.
Representatives for secular authorities are very often attacked in Muslim-dominated areas in Denmark and the rest of Europe. The police and politicians are not safe in these areas.
Police get mocked, receive threats and are often attacked physically when entering Muslim areas. We recently had the tragic yet comical experience of seeing one of our most politically correct politicians, the mayor of integration in Copenhagen, Jakob Hougaard, being attacked by Muslims who tried to stone him and a journalist during an interview in the Muslim ghetto, Tingbjerg.
The ironic thing is that Hougaard is “on their side,” claiming that there are no problems with violence in Tingbjerg and that Islam has nothing to do with terror and integration problems. Hougaard even promised in the Islamic magazine “Akhbar” to sponsor religious Islamic festivals if he got re-elected as mayor at the elections on November 17th, 2009 – which, by the way, he did not win.
Policemen and politicians are not the only ones who are attacked, stoned, etc. Ambulance drivers, firemen and even completely normal people who assist the elderly are also attacked. The problem they have with the people assisting the elderly is apparently that these people wear clothes that bear the logo of the state.
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Source: German Review of Books (English), h/t EuropeNews
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 Wearing the burqa — the traditional female covering for Muslim women — is “contrary” to French values, Immigration Minister Eric Besson said in an interview Sunday. The remarks come just under a week after three Afghans were deported from France back to Kabul, and Besson has once again sparked the outrage of French opposition members with his claims that French culture is being lost on immigrants. “I want to launch a major debate over national values and identity,” Besson said in an interview quoted by Radio France Internationale.
Besson asserts that immigrants should have a certain understanding of the French language, the country's history and French culture “to reaffirm the values of identity and the pride of being French,” Besson said. Besson called the burqa “inacceptable” in France, but stopped short of calling for a public ban of the garment. Besson defended the country's decision to deport three undocumented Afghan immigrants last week, and said that he will continue the country's hard-line approach to illegal immigrants to the country. France has already deported 21,000 undocumented immigrants in 2009. 
 By Dan Vara Youssef Megahed, a permanent resident alien of the United States, was in immigration court in Miami last week. According to published reports, Megahed faced deportation based on terrorism charges stemming from his much publicized arrest in South Carolina in 2007 along with his friend Ahmed Mohamed. After a five-day hearing before Immigration Judge Kenneth Hurewitz, however, the deportation case against Mr. Megahed was terminated because Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) failed to prove its case. The question the American public should be asking is "Why?" I don't know if Mr. Megahed is a really a terrorist. I don't know if, given the chance, he would have or will engage in conduct to harm the United States. But what I do know as a former federal immigration prosecutor is that even the publicly available information evidences that this case appears to have involved what could be characterized as a textbook case of terrorists in the making. In fact, and on many levels, this case reminds me very much of the Imran Mandhai case in Miami that I was involved in a few years ago. Both involved a group of young men who, on the surface, seemed to be law abiding residents of this country. Both, however, also involved young men who for a variety of reasons but for the specific reason that they disagree with the policies of this country in relation to the situation in the Middle East, made a decision to proceed into activities that, left unchecked, could have resulted in a lot of Americans being very unpleasantly affected. Read more ...Source: IPT News
 Officials in London and Islamabad said Britain had begun seeking assurances about how the men would be treated if they were returned to Pakistan. "The British wanted to be reassured that if some of these men were deported they would not face torture," an informed source in Pakistan said. One of the 12 men detained, an 18-year-old, has been freed from anti-terrorist detention and is held by immigration officials. Investigators are concerned they have not found any firm evidence linking the men to terrorist plans. A source close to the inquiry said: "There is already talk of coming up empty-handed, and there is terrible in-fighting between the different forces involved." Operation Pathway, the code name for the inquiry, has already led to the resignation of Britain's most senior anti-terrorist officer, Bob Quick, after he accidentally revealed details of the arrest plans to photographers in Downing Street. If the operations results in deportations rather than charges, it will embarrass Prime Minister Gordon Brown, who said the police were dealing with "a very big terrorist plot", and criticised Pakistan for not doing more to tackle Islamist terrorism. The operation in Britain has been running covertly for several weeks and went public last Wednesday within hours of Mr Quick's blunder, with daylight raids in Manchester, Liverpool and Clitheroe, Lancashire. The remaining 11 detainees, 10 of whom are believed to be Pakistani nationals in Britain on student visas, are being questioned at police stations across the north of England. Detectives have been granted a further seven days to detain the suspects, who range in age from 22 to 41. They can be questioned for a maximum of 28 days before they have to be charged or released. The investigation is a joint operation between Scotland Yard's counter-terrorism command, MI5 and the North-West Counter-terrorism Unit. The involvement of so many security services is said to have led to in-fighting and confusion over the command and direction of the inquiry. The latest discussions between London and Islamabad were disclosed as news emerged from Pakistan that its anti-terrorist agencies had been holding a British convert to Islam for two weeks. James McLintock, 44, was detained in Peshawar, from where many of the men arrested in Britain come, and is being questioned about helping British Muslim militants to make contacts in Pakistan. Pakistani and British officials said the arrest of Mr McLintock, from Dundee in Scotland, was not linked to the terrorism investigation in Britain. However, the last time he came to the attention of the British authorities was in late 2003 when he was questioned by anti-terrorist police in Manchester, the city at the heart of the allegations of a terror plot. Meanwhile, the family of a university student said they believed their son had been arrested, and appealed for his release. Relatives of Mohammad Ramzan, from Dera in Pakistan, said they had been unable to contact him since last week. His father, Haji Hazrat Ali, said Mr Ramzan, 25, travelled to Britain in 2006 and was studying for an MBA. "He is a very humble, gentle boy and always concentrates on his studies," he told Associated Press. "I firmly believe he cannot be involved in any negative activity." Source: The Australian
Click image to watch the videoRoohi Tabassum is being deported later this month
to Pakistan, where she says her Muslim extremist
ex husband will be waiting to kill her in an honour
killing to defend his family's reputation.By Tom Godfrey A Mississauga woman says she'll be the victim of an honour killing by her estranged husband, a Muslim extremist, when she's deported to Pakistan at the end of the month. Roohi Tabassum, 44, says Faisal Javed, a businessman and Sunni community leader, will be waiting for her in their native Pakistan when she's sent back on April 28. She has to report to officials at Pearson airport on that date for the trip. Tabassum said she's received written threats from Javed, who's outraged she's employed in a Mississauga beauty salon where she styles the hair of women and men. She said he's furious she touches the hair of men and is suspicious she may have a boyfriend, which she strongly denies. "In three weeks I will be put to my death," she said at her Mississauga home. "There will be bloodshed that will go on and on." Her older brother, Arif, has vowed to retaliate against members of Javed's family if she's attacked, Tabassum said. They in turn will strike back, she said. Tabassum was smuggled into Canada from the U.S. in 2001 and filed an unsuccessful refugee claim. An appeal also was unsuccessful. "He (Javed) believes I have shamed and disgraced his family's name and honour," Tabassum said, sobbing. "He feels he is protecting the honour of his family." Read more ...Source: Toronto Sun
 London, 18 Feb.
Radical Muslim cleric Abu Qatada will be deported from Britain on terrorism charges and could be sent back to his native Jordan, despite fears he may be tortured there. The upper house of the British parliament, sitting as Britain's highest court, unanimously rejected an appeal from Qatada against being repatriated to Jordan, where he faces jail for terrorism.
Qatada had claimed that his conviction in Jordan was based on evidence extracted by torture.
The 48-year-old cleric, once described by a judge as 'Osama Bin Laden's right-hand man in Europe' is currently in London's Belmarsh high security prison.
Britain's interior ministry has long campaigned for Qatada's deportation and interior minister Jacqui Smith said she was "delighted" at the ruling.
Qatada's final removal may not take place until the European Court of Human Rights hears his case.
Campaign group Amnesty International criticised the ruling, saying there was a real risk that Qatada would be tortured.
Human Rights Watch also criticised the ruling, saying it damaged the global ban on torture.
"The Law Lords have given the government a green light to send people back to places where they risk torture and ill-treatment," said HRW's senior counter-terrorism adviser Julia Hall.
"Jordanian military courts are not independent and evidence is obtained by the use of torture," Hall added.
The Law Lords also ruled on Wednesday that two unnamed Algerian terrorism suspects would be deported to Algeria, another country where there is well-documented evidence that prisoners have been tortured.
Qatada was first arrested in the wake of Al-Qaeda's 9/11 attacks on the United States amid allegations that he was one of the most influential Islamist preachers in Europe and played a critical ideological role.
The Jordanian father-of-five, whose real name is Omar Mahmoud Mohammed Othman, claimed asylum when he arrived in Britain in September 1993 on a forged passport.
A Spanish judge investigating the deadly 11 March 2004 Madrid train bombings described him as Osama Bin Laden's right-hand man in Europe.
Qatada issued a 1995 fatwa or religious edict justifying the killing of converts from Islam, their wives and children in Algeria. In a 1999 sermon, he called for the killing of Jews and praised attacks on Americans. The same year, Qatada was convicted in his absence of planning terrorist attacks in Jordan.
Videos of Qatada's sermons were also found in the flats of some of the 9/11 hijackers in Amsterdam. He was arrested by British anti-terror police in February 2008 and found in possession of nearly 200,000 euros in cash, including 1,000 euros in an envelope marked 'for the mujahadeen in Chechnya'.
In 2008 a British appeals court blocked Qatada's removal after accepting his argument that he had not faced a fair trial in his absence.
He was released on bail - but then re-arrested and returned to prison because security officials said they had intelligence that he was considering fleeing the UK.
Qatada's convictions in Jordan relate to an alleged conspiracy to bomb hotels in the capital Amman along with allegedly providing finance and advice for other plots. Source: Adnkronos
 By Stephen Brown It was a watershed moment of capitulation. On Thursday, February 12, visiting Dutch politician Geert Wilders was humiliatingly bundled back on to a plane to his native Holland shortly after arriving in London. Wilders had been invited to show his controversial, 17-minute documentary film, Fitna, in Britain’s House of Lords but was warned in a letter from the British Home Office last Tuesday he would be denied entry to the country. As reasons for his being declared persona non grata, Wilders was told in the letter he would “threaten community harmony and therefore public security.” The directive never stated, however, that the statements Wilders made in Fitna are false or misleading in any way. A Muslim lord, Nazir Ahmed, and other Muslim leaders had vigorously protested Wilders’ visit, causing an initial invitation to be rescinded. It was reported that Ahmed had even threatened to mobilize 10,000 fellow Muslims to block Wilders from entering Westminster, a report Ahmed now denies. A cooler-headed peer, Lord Pearson, appalled at this attack on free speech, reissued the invitation to Wilders. Daring the British government to put him in handcuffs, Wilders defiantly flew to Heathrow airport with the new invitation in his pocket. During the flight, Wilders expressed his opinion of Britain’s Labour government and its attempt to block his entry, telling the TimesOnline that it was now “more Chamberlain than Churchill.” Read more ...Source: FrontPage MagazineBritish Government
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 “Jihad Prevention Act” would deny U.S. visas to advocates of ‘Sharia’ law, expel Islamists already here
WASHINGTON, DC – Amid disturbing revelations that the verdicts of Islamic Sharia courts are now legally binding in civil cases in the United Kingdom, U.S. Representative Tom Tancredo (R-Littleton) moved quickly today to introduce legislation designed to protect the United States from a similar fate.
According to recent news reports, a new network of Sharia courts in a half-dozen major cities in the U.K. have been empowered under British law to adjudicate a wide variety of legal cases ranging from divorces and financial disputes to those involving domestic violence.
“This is a case where truth is truly stranger than fiction,” said Tancredo. “Today the British people are learning a hard lesson about the consequences of massive, unrestricted immigration.”
Sharia law, favored by Muslim extremists around the world, often calls for brutal punishment – such as the stoning of women who are accused of adultery or have children out of wedlock, cutting off the hands of petty thieves and lashings for the casual consumption of alcohol. Under Sharia law, a woman is often required to provide numerous witnesses to prove rape allegations against an assailant – a near impossible task.
“When you have an immigration policy that allows for the importation of millions of radical Muslims, you are also importing their radical ideology – an ideology that is fundamentally hostile to the foundations of western democracy – such as gender equality, pluralism, and individual liberty,” said Tancredo. “The best way to safeguard America against the importation of the destructive effects of this poisonous ideology is to prevent its purveyors from coming here in the first place.”
Tancredo’s bill, dubbed the “Jihad Prevention Act,” would bar the entry of foreign nationals who advocate Sharia law. In addition, the legislation would make the advocacy of Sharia law by radical Muslims already in the United States a deportable offense.
Tancredo pointed to the results of a recent poll conducted by the Centre for Social Cohesion as evidence that the U.S. should act to prevent the situation in Great Britain from replicating itself here in the United States. The poll found that some 40 percent of Muslim students in the United Kingdom support the introduction of Sharia law there, and 33 percent support the imposition of an Islamic Sharia-based government worldwide.
“We need to send a clear message that the only law we recognize here in America is the U.S. Constitution and the laws passed by our democratically elected representatives,” concluded Tancredo. “If you aren’t comfortable with that concept, you aren’t welcome in the United States.” Source: Border Fire ReportH/T: Shariah Finance WatchHon. Tom Tancredo
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 Muslims Against Sharia praise Congressman Tancredo's initiative. We advocated similar measures in the past and fully support "Gihad Prevention Act""Any person from a country where a substantial part of the population is pro-Sharia should not be allowed in the West, not only as an immigrant, but even as a visitor with a few exceptions, i.e., political asylum or as a diplomat etc. ... Every legal immigrant should be allowed to stay only if he/she did not display desire to establish a Sharia state in a host country. Any naturalized citizen who displays a desire to establish a Sharia state in a host country should have his/her citizenship revoked and promptly deported. I think the latter two groups is where the real danger lies." Linda Ahmed, FrontPage Magazine, July 24, 2008"Anyone who proclaims Islamic extremist views should be tried for sedition, since we are at war with radical Islam, or at the very least, promptly deported." Khalim Massoud, FrontPage Magazine, September 9, 2008
NEWARK (AP) -- When he faces an immigration judge in two weeks, a popular Muslim cleric fighting deportation may have to counter claims that he confessed to being a member of a terrorist group. According to Israeli military authorities, Imam Mohammad Qatanani admitted being a member of the militant Hamas organization during interrogation in 1993 in Israel. "Imam Mohammed Katanani was convicted based on his own admission on charges of belonging to an unauthorized association and providing services to an unauthorized association, for being a member of Hamas and acting on its behalf," the Israeli army said in a statement faxed to The Associated Press. Source: APMohammad Qatanani
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