Comment: ...until a proper and upgraded review of security protocol and procedures were in place. This was never meant to be a permanent ban. Many terror attacks, suspiciously perpetrated to prod the public towards Islamophobia, are suspected of being false flags utilizing compromised individuals or agency actors to further a propagandized agenda and political advantage.
One cannot ignore the possibility of new terrorist attacks being committed in the future, so the fear that most Europeans share these days cannot be discarded as groundless. But those attacks don't represent a major threat either to the EU or the US. It should be remembered that back in 2016 terrorist attacks resulted in in the death of a total of 150 Europeans. However, in the same region a total of 26,000 perished in car accidents, while another 400,000 died from extreme levels of air pollution. Yet, European politicians and media sources are inclined to present the string of terrorist attacks that hit the EU as both evil and as an existential threat.
What's even worse, we are being told now that Islam, a religion unrelated to the actual fanaticism driving terrorism unfortunately referred to as Islamism, represents a major threat to the European way of life and a set of values that most Europeans share. But how does the situation on the ground actually look?
In the European media more often one can see publications with "scarecrows", how Islam will swallow Europe and forever destroy its traditional values. Therefore, it is not superfluous to find out how things are really affected with Islam in the world.
According to a report drafted by the Pew Research Center back in 2015, Muslims make up a majority of the population in 49 countries around the world. It's been noted that there were an estimated 1.6 billion Muslims around the world back in 2010, which makes Islam the world's second-largest religious tradition after Christianity. And although some may be inclined to associate Islam with countries of the Middle East or North Africa, nearly two-thirds (62%) of Muslims live in the Asia-Pacific region, notes the Pew Research Center. In fact, more Muslims live in India and Pakistan (344 million combined) than in the entire Middle East-North Africa region (317 million).If Europe is to be discussed, it's curious how many readers are incapable of answering which European country hosts a total of 16 million Muslims. No, it's not France with its five million, and not Germany with a total Muslim population there barely reaching four million, and it's not the UK for sure with a total of only three million Muslims residing there.
There's yet another curious question that nobody seems to be able to answer: which European city serves as a home for almost 2 million Muslims and, presumably, provides shelter for up two million more Muslim migrants? - No, this is not Paris with a total Muslim population of 1.5 million people and not London with one million Muslim residents.
The answer to both of these questions is pretty simple: the country hosting the largest Muslim population in Europe is Russia. And the city with the largest Muslim population in Europe is Moscow. For sure, this is only true if you don't believe that Istanbul is a European city, and Turkey a European country.
Comment: Russia's largest concentration of population is in the 23% of the country that is part of Europe.
The Pew Research Center believes that by 2050 the number of Muslims worldwide will grow to 2.76 billion, or 29.7% of the world's population. As for the United States, Muslims are projected to double from 0.9% of the population in 2010 to 2.1% by 2050.
There's little doubt that Muslims are going to be the world's fastest-growing major religious group in the decades ahead. In the period between 2010 and 2015, births to Muslims made up an estimated 31% of all babies born around the world.
Additionally, it's been noted that in recent years, Christians have had a disproportionately large share of the world's deaths (37%) - in large part because of the relatively advanced age of Christian populations in some places. This is especially true in Europe, where the number of deaths already is estimated to exceed the number of births among Christians. It's a particularly worrisome trend for Germany, since there, there's been an estimated 1.4 million more Christian deaths than births between 2010 and 2015, a pattern that is expected to continue across much of Europe in the decades ahead.
Unfortunately, one has to admit that a number of European politicians are not ashamed to admit that they adhere to the neo-fascist and white supremacy ideologies. So it comes as no surprise that they are not ashamed to spread Islamophobia to gain cheap and easy popularity. Those steps have been particularly visible in the Baltic states, which have closed their borders completely to Muslim refugees.
The latest security conference that was held in the Latvian capital of Riga gathered experts from different European countries who took time to discuss global risks and public safety, criminal trends and the strategies that law enforcement agencies should adopt. However, one of the leading Latvian lawyers, Aivar Borovkov didn't hesitate to express his Islamophobic views at the conference, urging European leaders to start a fight against Muslims.
Similar views have been repeatedly expressed by a prominent professor of the University of Latvia, Leon Taiwans. Recently, at a meeting with a local Lutheran community in the city of Talsi, he noted that Europeans have no future to look forward to, since European civilization is dying. Therefore, according to his statements, the main enemies of the EU are Islam and refugees from the Middle East.
However, other European politicians have gone very far from such Islamophobic remarks. Thus, during the recent presidential election campaign in France, François Fillon urged local politcal elites to think about establishing strict control over Islam in the Fifth Republic.
However, if, against this background, someone sincerely believes in the victory over Islam using the barbaric cruelty that crusaders would use in a bid to destroy Islam and Muslims, this is certainly a dead-end that will in no way reduce the risk of new terrorist attacks from occurring.
Grete Mautner is an independent researcher and journalist from Germany, exclusively for the online magazine New Eastern Outlook.
Mohammedans are totally obliged to follow the words and example of their Prophet, the Koran demands nothing less than "Total Submission" to the instruction and example it contains. Those doing battle with us in our streets and towns are literally the Mohammedan Army, the so-called "radicalised" ones, they destroy "their" enemy, whilst the goody-goody ones proclaim Islam to be a religion of peace. In all respects they follow their Koran and that includes permission to lie, cheat ,steal and murder all unbelievers. Read the Koran for your-self.
There are only two possible answers that could de-radicalise devout Mohammedans. First, the Koran would, by definition, have to be re-written by the Prophet Mohammad, and we all know he isn't coming back, or, if he does come back, would even be willing, to re-write his book, the Koran, together with the Hadiths. Second, by some miraculous intervention, those Mohammedans who actually are willing to see their leader as "the most perfect human", and to follow his exalted example and exhortations in absolute submission, just as he demands of them in his writings, if they are to be true Mohammedans, and be willing to kill all disbelievers without compunction, or fear of punishment, for that is what "total" submission requires , then the second remedy required to neutralise this threat to the rest of humanity, would have to be, that those deciding to be "true" Mohammedans, and to faithfully keep their "oath" of total and absolute submission, would simply have to, by some miracle, have to drop down dead, the instant they feel "radicalised". Now this would be no bad thing, because the truly, sincerely devout, and all-submissive Mohammedan male, has one overriding intention, that he goes to heaven, especially as a Martyr, collect his share of virgins, and then exercise his "promised super virility" without end. It is hard to say what happens to the lady Mohammedans, because the Koran says that "women have no place in the sight of God", making the presence of virgins somewhat contradictory and problematic , unless they have some place reserved "out of the sight of God?"; Perhaps women are re-conditioned into virgins? because an extraordinary large number of them will be required? These matters are quite readily deduced from a superficial reading of the Koran, and should be recommended and required reading to all those professing true obedience and absolute "Submission" just as the book demands. A true reading of the Koran actually requires that all Mohammedans be terrorist killers (the obvious Western interpretation), since the strongest exhortation made in the Koran is that Mohammedans kill all disbelievers where-ever they are found; this is stated quite unambiguously and explicitly. Therefore, it follows, by the Koran's own definitions and teachings, all Mohammedans are called upon to be true believers, in our language, to be terrorists, there is no alternative allowed. There can be no such thing as a moderate Mohammedan; unless they follow the Koran, in absolute submission, they cannot be true Mohammedans.
Frankly, I just cannot see de-radicalising programmes working, what do you think?. The more humane solution would be that Mohammedans all be confined to live in the Mohammedan Country/Nation of their choice, completely separated from all other willing ethnic and or, religious groups. This is the only way to guarantee a peaceful co-existence for all concerned.
Finally, search as hard as I might, I could not discern in the Koran, any truly peaceful, all love encompassing, love sustaining, spiritual and soul enhancing, forgiving, proclamations, intended to encourage the totality of the human race, to live together in harmony and the spirit of forgiveness. This fact leads us to the final question; what then, induces so many millions, to accept the Koranic teachings? Since the Koran contains an abundance of urging's to "kill", and the Sharia an abundance of penalties dictating physical living cruel and bloody dismemberment and or "stoning to death", then it seems to be directed to all those with psychopathic tendencies, those for whom the concept of universal love has become twisted and malformed; therefore, we may not be surprised when those of us fitting this description are willing to put such practices into effect.
A very large proportion of Mohammedan adherents are "born" into it's belief contracts; they had no choice but to be Mohammedan. Yet, if they wish to change this circumstance, it is a mandatory death sentence, requiring any other Mohammedan to carry it out, including ones own family. Many of those born to be Mohammedan are illiterate, they only know what their local Mullah wants them to know. Those that can, must help these poor unfortunates to understand, and then to decide for themselves, which path promises them beneficial, whole of life, individual, competence, and personal well-being.