• IP addresses are NOT logged in this forum so there's no point asking. Please note that this forum is full of homophobes, racists, lunatics, schizophrenics & absolute nut jobs with a smattering of geniuses, Chinese chauvinists, Moderate Muslims and last but not least a couple of "know-it-alls" constantly sprouting their dubious wisdom. If you believe that content generated by unsavory characters might cause you offense PLEASE LEAVE NOW! Sammyboy Admin and Staff are not responsible for your hurt feelings should you choose to read any of the content here.

    The OTHER forum is HERE so please stop asking.

Serious Germany: Muslims declare a Sharia zone and forbid all unbelievers to enter, threaten to kill infidels and cops

duluxe

Alfrescian
Loyal
Declaring enclaves that are free from the law of the land is all the rage these days, and this fad will continue, since government and law enforcement officials do not have the will to put a stop to it.



“Criminal clans threaten the police in Duisburg-Marxloh,” translated from “Kriminelle Clans bedrohen die Polizei in Duisburg-Marxloh,” by Christian Schwerdtfeger, General-Anzeiger, June 13, 2020 (thanks to Medforth):

Kaiser-Friedrich-Strasse in the Marxloh district of Duisburg is one of the streets that are said to be firmly in the hands of Arab clans. The police patrol the pedestrian zone frequently, it is usually peaceful, and the officers sometimes wave to the many children playing. The situation was similar on the evening of May 17: at 6:07 p.m., a uniformed patrol car crew consisting of two officers and a third-year commissioner candidate was noticed by the German-Lebanese S., an 18-year-old frequent offender who is known to police and is a member of a large Lebanese family. This is a momentous encounter that will lead to a public reopening of the conflicts in the north of Duisburg and will make headlines nationwide in the following days.
Against S., born in Duisburg in July 2001, 75 investigations have already been carried out since 2014, mainly for property and violent crime, as stated in an investigative report by the police headquarters in Duisburg about the recent violence in Marxloh. The 13 pages are available to our editors. The report is declared with VS (classified information) – only for official use.
There is a pre-trial detention order against S. for dangerous bodily harm. That is why he escaped that May evening when he saw the officials, accompanied by two people who, according to the police, are said to belong to the support group of the Lebanese-born extended family. He ran into a residential building – dangerous terrain for the police. The blocks, according to the mission report, have a freely accessible system of cellars and backyards, and are inhabited by large Lebanese families. Nevertheless, the police officers decided to persecute S., but they request reinforcement by radio.
Large Arab families in Essen: Criminal clans threaten police officers
In the block of houses, S. wanted to flee into an apartment, but when he rang the doorbell, the door was not opened immediately. The police took advantage of this and caught up with him. They overwhelmed him with an “irritant sprayer” and “with simple physical violence.”
Meanwhile, the candidate for the commissioner blocked the front door of the house so that no supporters of S. could come to his aid. Outside, 25 people were already protesting loudly against the police operation. The reinforcements arrived and cleared the space, but were attacked, and some officers suffered minor injuries. S. threatened the police with death: he said he would kill them all at some point. Everyone knew how big his family was and who the police had just messed with.
Since the arrest of S. “the conflict seems to be boiling again in and around Marxloh,” according to investigators. The police tactic of zero tolerance, which has been used in the field for several years, actually works. Since 2017, with 24 “tumult situations,” the number has been reduced to eleven in 2018 and four in the past year, as stated in the present investigation file. But just in the days after the arrest in the stairwell there were two further tumult situations in the north of Duisburg, on May 19 and May 28.
On May 22, it is stated in the file, the police headquarters in Duisburg received an email with the threat of an attack and a warning to withdraw from Marxloh. “Subject: Allahu Akbar, Duisburg-Marxloh is our district. (…) We prohibit all unbelievers from entering our district. We will drive away or kill all police officers, journalists and other unbelievers by force of arms. For us, only the radical Sharia law applies,” says the letter. “We got 2,000 AK-47 assault rifles from Turkey and Russia with enough ammunition. Allahu Akbar, kill all unbelievers.”
Investigators find that the sender’s email address is part of a platform that disguises email addresses and identities. Investigators appear to be taking the threats seriously. According to the police file, the public prosecutor’s office sees this as an initial suspicion of disturbing public peace through the threat of crime….
 

nightsafari

Alfrescian
Loyal
Declaring enclaves that are free from the law of the land is all the rage these days, and this fad will continue, since government and law enforcement officials do not have the will to put a stop to it.



“Criminal clans threaten the police in Duisburg-Marxloh,” translated from “Kriminelle Clans bedrohen die Polizei in Duisburg-Marxloh,” by Christian Schwerdtfeger, General-Anzeiger, June 13, 2020 (thanks to Medforth):
congratulations to Merkel. While extreme conservatism is a nasty way to live life. Extreme liberalism is a stupid way.
 

JohnTan

Alfrescian (InfP)
Generous Asset
It's the same in Sydney, Australia too. There's little difference between radical islamists and migrant crime families.

1592387877542.png


OCTOBER 6, 2014

SYDNEY (Reuters) - The children of refugees who fled Lebanon’s civil war for peaceful Australia in the 1970s form a majority of Australian militants fighting in the Middle East, according to about a dozen counter-terrorism officials, security experts and Muslim community members.

Of the 160 or so Australian jihadists believed to be in Iraq or Syria, several are in senior leadership positions, they say.

But unlike fighters from Britain, France or Germany, who experts say are mostly jobless and alienated, a number of the Australian fighters grew up in a tight-knit criminal gang culture, dominated by men with family ties to the region around the Lebanese city of Tripoli, near the border with Syria.

Not every gang member becomes an Islamic radical and the vast majority of Lebanese Australians are not involved in crime or in radicalism of any sort. Australian Muslims say they are unfairly targeted by law enforcement, especially after the surge in fighting in Iraq and Syria, and that racial tensions are on the verge of spiraling out of control.

Still, there is a clear nexus between criminals and radicals within the immigrant Lebanese Muslim community, New South Wales Deputy Police Commissioner Nick Kaldas told Reuters.

It is good training,” said Kaldas, himself an immigrant from Egypt and a native Arabic speaker.

The ease with which some hardened criminals from within the community have taken to militant extremism, and the prospect of what they will do when they return home from the Middle East battle-trained, is a major worry for authorities, he said.

Kaldas oversees the state’s Middle Eastern Organized Crime Squad and was the United Nations-appointed chief investigator into the assassination of former Lebanese prime minister Rafic Hariri in a car bomb attack in Beirut in 2005.

In recent years, he said, the divide between criminal gangs and radicals in Lebanese community, who were driven by different motives, had narrowed.

“I do worry about those who may be extremists infecting more people who were just pure criminals,” said Kaldas.

Prime Minister Tony Abbott says that at least 20 of the fighters are believed by authorities to have returned to Australia, and that more than 60 people believed to be planning to go to the Middle East have had their passports canceled.

Last month, the national security agency raised its four-tier threat level to “high” for the first time and about 900 police launched raids on homes in Sydney’s predominantly Muslim western suburbs and in Brisbane.

GRILLED MEAT AND CARDAMOM
Only about half a million people out of Australia’s 23.5 million are Muslims, making them a tiny fraction in a country where the final vestiges of the “White Australia” policy were only abolished in 1973, allowing large scale non-European migration.

At least half of Australia’s Muslims live in Sydney’s western suburbs, which were transformed in the mid-1970s from white working-class enclaves into majority-Muslim outposts by a surge of immigration from Lebanon.

The inhabitants of low-slung suburban villages like Lakemba, which now hosts the Imam Ali Mosque, Australia’s largest, soon replaced the greasy aroma of fish and chips - and beer - with the scent of grilled meat and cardamom, the staples of the Middle East.


A broad sampling of the areas in Sydney most associated with Lebanese ancestry on the 2011 national census - Auburn, Lakemba, Punchbowl, Granville - show them lagging far behind the rest of New South Wales state on indicators such as income and employment.

After the raids and an intense media focus on the community, most Lebanese Australians are wary of public comment. In the western suburbs, outsiders are looked on with suspicion and few were willing to speak to Reuters.

TROUBLED COMMUNITY
“It’s a troubled community as a group,” said Greg Barton, director of the Global Terrorism Research Centre at Monash University. “So they’re over-represented in petty crime, in organized crime, in religious extremism.”

When the civil war erupted in Syria in 2011, the fighting was a draw for many Lebanese Muslim families in Australia. Clannishness and old family networks made it easy for youngsters from the community to slip away and join the fighting.

“You had people from the neighborhood and you flew into Tripoli or flew into Beirut and drove up to Tripoli and were taken across,” Barton said.

“It was a very smooth, easy pathway in.”

Both police and academics, however, struggle to explain what would draw second-generation Australians back to the violence which their parents had fled.

Aftab Malik, a Scholar-in-Residence at Sydney’s Lebanese Muslim Association who has spent years living in western Sydney’s Muslim community, said he believed the convergence between radical Islam and organized crime was unique to Australia.

“I haven’t come across that in the U.S. or in Great Britain. It’s quite specific here and I don’t know why that is,” he said.

“STAND OVER MEN”

The fighters from Australia include a radical using the name Abu Sulayman al-Mujahir, who left for the Middle East with what intelligence officials say was the task of ending an internecine war in Syria between al Qaeda and the Islamic State, and a suicide bomber who killed three people in Baghdad in July. The Islamic State named the bomber as Abu Bakr al-Australi on its Twitter feed.

It also includes two men from Sydney, Khaled Sharrouf and Mohamed Elomar, who have posted images from Syria on Twitter, showing them posing with the heads of executed fighters, holding guns and standing over bloodied bodies.

Australia has issued warrants for their arrests, but police say they are still believed to be in the Middle East. Their social media accounts have been suspended.

Elomar’s brother is serving jail time for assaulting a police officer, while Sharrouf served four years for his involvement in a 2005 plot by Islamist radicals to blow up a nuclear power plant in New South Wales state.

“They were stand over men, any everybody knew it, and that’s it,” Lebanese Muslim Association president Samier Dandan told Reuters during a drive through western Sydney, using an Australian term for an extortionist or violent thug.

For Muhammad, a young man of Lebanese ancestry who grew up in the western suburbs of the city, the evolution from hard man to militant makes perfect sense.

“We tend to live in these clusters, and so when media or government or any outside organization or group of people say ‘look at them’ - we come together,” he said, describing a “siege” mentality within the community.

Although not involved in crime or extremism, Muhammad, who refused to give his surname, said he knew people who were.

A schoolfriend, he said, was involved in criminal gangs as soon as he left high school and was killed in fighting in the Middle East earlier this year.

Over the past year or so, Muhammad said, his cousin, who has been jailed for assault and who used to drink alcohol and never prayed, had shaved his head and grown a long beard. He also began sharing violent jihadist videos on social media.

“The violence stays, it’s just that you’re doing it for a purpose this time,” he said of those who fight alongside Islamic State or other groups in Syria and Iraq.

(This story has been refiled to correct location of nuclear plant in paragraph 27 to New South Wales state, not Victoria state)


https://www.reuters.com/article/us-...alias-islamist-radicals-idUSKCN0HV06D20141006
 
Top