Germany To Monitor Religious Converts To Islam?

Many have commented that if and when Europe begins to push back against radical Islamic terrorists, homegrown and otherwise, it might not be softly. While this new effort may or may not come to pass right now, consider it a harbinger of things to come if the threat continues to escalate. Deutschland uber alles?

BERLIN — 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.

The search for seven other suspected members of a German cell of the Pakistan-based Islamic Jihad Union continued into Thursday night, with investigators saying only that they knew who they were seeking.

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.

As shocked as they were by the arrests, the idea of spying on other Germans unnerves many in civil-rights minded Germany, where government surveillance recalls memories of Adolf Hitler.

Gisela Piltz, a Liberal Party member of parliament, said she thinks it unwise to infringe on civil liberties so soon. She noted that while it was a shock to hear of a suspected Islamic terrorist named Fritz, it also was a shock this summer to hear of alleged terrorist doctors in England and Scotland.

Comments

[Draegn]

Germany would be better off with the NPD in charge.

[southdakotaboy]

As I have said time and time again when the wheels start to come off it is going to happen fast and it will be very, very unpleasent for the muslims and the lefties who covered for them. If you look at the former Yugoslavia and Rhwanda these things go down hill fast.

[mensablonde]

The Islamists are quickly getting out of hand - gaining power and becoming bolder, all over the world. This is no less than a battle for our lives, and for our entire way of life for those left standing at the end. Desperate times call for desperate measures. They've completely abused the rights we have given them - rights they would certainly not give to us if the tables were turned. Their right to privacy is no longer deserved. Spy away.

[seekeronos]

"--- Many have commented that if and when Europe begins to push back against radical Islamic terrorists, homegrown and otherwise, it might not be softly. ---"

And it's about time, if not too late already. Islam is a very poison in the veins of Western Civilization, and must be stopped at any cost, even if we must place stricter limits upon the civil liberty of Muslims who plot the overthrow of established governments, and the destruction of those who would refuse to submit to Sharia Law.

[MarkJ]

In 1937 the German government monitored certain elements of its populace in order to crush "dissent."

In 2007 the German government may have to monitor certain elements of its populace in order to SAVE "dissent."

Welche Ironie!

[Fred Beloit]

In 1937 the German government monitored certain elements of its populace in order to crush "dissent."

In 2007 the German government may have to monitor certain elements of its populace in order to SAVE "dissent."

In 2007 a commenter calling him/her self MarkJ drew an illogical analogy. Cutting peoples' heads off and bombing school buses and restaurants is NOT "dissent".

[Fred Beloit]

MarkJ. In my ardor and urgency, I sometimes misunderstand a comment. Fear that may be the case with yours. If so, I apologize.

[Micah]

So Germany turns out to be a bonified ally in the War on Terror?

Who knew??

THANK YOU, and Welcome aboard!!