Meanwhile in Germany…

[Sean Hayden]

Anti-Muslim incidents double in Germany but overlooked by authorities, NGO says The incidents recorded, likely only a fraction of the total given a fear of coming forward and a lack of monitoring institutions, included 90 attacks on Islamic religious...

Berlin: Attempted arson on a mosque in Bochum that had been marked with a swastika, the door of a Muslim family in Saxony shot at by a right-wing extremist neighbour, a woman pushed onto train tracks in Berlin after being asked if she belonged to Hamas.

These are some of the record 1,926 anti-Muslim incidents registered in Germany last year by the CLAIM network of NGOs monitoring Islamophobia and anti-Muslim hatred.

https://www.deccanherald.com/world/anti ... ys-3079096


I read elsewhere that over half of Germans believe they live in a racist country. The same people claimed to recognize systemic racism in their institutions. Of course I’ve heard stories of racism in Germany, and it tends to be everywhere we look. But I don’t normally associate Germans with racism, with assholism -yes, but not racism. They did recently let in over a million refugees after all.

[pErvinalia]

Lots of Turks in Germany. For a long time. You'd think they'd be used to them.

[Strontium Dog]

I don’t normally associate Germans with racism

I mean, there was that business in the 1930s and 40s.

[NineBerry]

It's everywhere. The same percentage that is willing to vote "Reform" in the UK is willing to vote "AfD" in Germany. Both far-right and racist parties.

[JimC]

Don't mention the war...

[pErvinalia]

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[NineBerry]

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Looks suspiciously like Telegram

[pErvinalia]

Nah, X.

[Strontium Dog]

It's like they're trying to keep out Islamist extremists, do they not want the cultural enrichment of suicide bombings and Quran-related lynchings or something?

[Svartalf]

Given my clear antizionist stance, I'll never have German citizenship then, I'll have to flee to Denmark or the Czech republic if the fascists win the elections

[Sean Hayden]

Germany slows arms exports to Israel — without admitting it

The German government appears to have quietly stopped, or at least paused, arms exports to Israel since the start of 2024, while officially denying any change of policy — and insisting that arms exports would continue in the near future.

Government figures revealed in an official answer to a parliamentary question from September 10 showed that while approvals of arms exports to Israel rose immediately after the Hamas attack of October 7, 2023, they then dropped at the turn of the year.

The parliamentary answers, issued by the German Economy Ministry, which is responsible for approving arms export licenses, stated that there have been no exports of "weapons of war" from January to June 2024. Meanwhile, export licenses for weapons components or technology — which fall under a different category — have continued this year, though at a significantly reduced scale.

To take one example from the parliamentary answer, the Economy Ministry said that just over €3 million ($3.35 million) worth of military parts and technology were approved in October 2023, while in July 2024, only around €35,000 worth of military equipment was sent.

https://www.dw.com/en/germany-slows-arm ... a-70347570

[Brian Peacock]

Doesn't seem to be holding the IDF back at all.