Diedre Berger Quotes
It will take more initiatives, both from within and beyond immigrant circles, to prevent Salafists and other Islamists from achieving the upper hand with their anti-democratic authoritarianism.
In most of the concentrations or Muslim refugees in the 2010 to 2020 period, Islamists attempted to organize and dominate the refugees and promote their anti democratic views.
He wrote this in the midst of the Salmon Rushdie affair where some Muslim clerics had issued a fatwa calling for the murder of the author because in this view his writings offended Islam.
This statement was made 20 years before the Arab Spring of 2011.
Slogans taken from posters listing 10 people targeted by Muslim extremists. Most were people who had said or published material that some fundamentalist Muslims had decided were offensive to Islam. One was Charlie Hebdo, the French Publisher who Islamic terrorists murdered later. Note the Americanisms that the terrorist propagandists adopted. The Wanted Dead or Alive was taken from the posters of the American West of the 19th century. The "Yes we can" was lifted from the Barack Obama 2008 campaign slogan. The "Bullet A Day Keeps the Infidel Away" is a takeoff on the American saying "An apple a day keeps the Doctor away." One of the reasons for these Americanisms was that the founding editor was Samir Khan, self-described American traitor.
Islam is a religion, like many Christian sects, where conversion of non-believers is a religious duty. When many of the European day-to-day customs, conflict with Islamic custom or prescription, decadence and the desire to change it becomes a very predictable result.
This statement was made before the violent Islamic reaction to the Danish private newspaper publication of anti-Muslim cartoons depicting the Islamic Prophet—which most Islamic tradition forbids although there is no prohibition against it in the Islamic holy texts.
Half the population of Amsterdam was at the time non Western in origin including many Muslims. Cohen was one of the few major Dutch leaders who worked to make multiculturalism work. However, there were so many religious Muslim extremists already active in the Netherlands, that it was very difficult. The Dutch had elected a Muslim as a member of Parliament and whole many Muslims were very proud of this, the religious extremists were furious. She was a woman, and she did not believe or advocate that Holland adopt Sharia (Islamic) law. She was an Islamic reformer who was opposed to Sharia even in Muslim states. The most successful Islamic nation, Turkey, does not allow Sharia law, and Indonesia, the largest of the Muslim nations also does not follow it.
In September of 2005 a Rose’s newspaper published some political cartoons showing the hypocrisy of some Muslims who use Islam to justify murder of innocents and terrorism. Months later, in January of 2006 many in the Middle East protested vehemently and Muslim riots broke out because the Prophet Muhammad's visage was depicted against Islamic tradition. Many Muslim nations started a boycott against Denmark. Many Muslim leaders claimed that insulting religion was an “abuse” of freedom of speech including those from nations which regularly publish material that is virulent against Christians and Jews. Apologies were demanded from Rose.
Tragically, at the time, reasonable, moderate Muslims who did stand up at that time ran the personal risk of social, religious ostracism to physical attack and killing of them and their families.
The "we" referred to the Tunisian Ennahda Party of which he was the founder.
Director of the AJC (American Jewish Committee, Berlin Office Director, Lawrence and Lee Ramer Institute for German-Jewish Relations Ms. Berger is a frequent lecturer in Germany and the U.S. on European security affairs, German-Jewish relations, issues of extremism and the promotion of democracy. Ms. Berger is a member of the boards of Action Reconciliation/Service for Peace; the International Youth Center in Oswiecem; House of the Wannsee Conference in Berlin; and the Society for Christian-Jewish Cooperation. Prior to joining AJC in 1999, Ms. Berger worked for 15 years as a foreign correspondent based in Germany, reporting for the Washington, D.C. - based public radio network, National Public Radio. She reported on German and European affairs for Deutsche Welle, the German international radio and television service. She also reported for print and broadcast media including Monitor Radio, the Jewish Telegraphic Agency, and the Christian Science Monitor newspaper. Ms. Berger earned her master's degree in journalism at the University of Missouri at Columbia and her bachelor's degree in art history at Bryn Mawr College.
