Germany’s Young Muslims: Almost HALF Want Islamic Theocracy; Many Accept Violence

By Selwyn Duke

In the past, some German primary schools and daycare centers renamed a traditional Christian festival to avoid “offending” Islamic newcomers. Around the same time, a Protestant German church removed its Christian crosses to accommodate Muslim migrants it was housing. But such concessions won’t be nearly enough to please the “new Germans,” according to a new study. It found, after all, that almost half of young Muslims in Germany prefer Islamic theocracy to constitutional republicanism.

It also discovered that more than a third accept violence used against those who insult Allah or the “prophet” Mohamed.

This isn’t anything new — nor is it confined to Germany. Interviews conducted in “Little Mogadishu” in Minneapolis in 2015 revealed that many respondents believed Sharia law should be preeminent, criticizing Mohamed should be criminalized, and using violence against those slandering him is legitimate.

As for hard data, a 2012 Wenzel Strategies poll found that “40 percent of Muslims in America believe they should not be judged by U.S. law and the Constitution, but by Sharia standards,” reported WND at the time. Moreover, 46 percent believe that Americans criticizing or parodying Islam should be charged with a crime.

Is this why Dr. Mudar Zahran, a Jordanian opposition leader and self-professed practicing Muslim, warned in 2015 that Islamic “refugees” should be kept out of Europe and that we were witnessing “the soft Islamic conquest of the West”?

For sure is that the picture doesn’t seem to have brightened since Zahran sounded his alarm. As Breitbart informs, reporting on the new German research:

A “dark field study” conducted by the Criminological Research Institute of Lower Saxony (KFN) has raised concern over the Islamist beliefs held by young Muslim students in the province, about 300 of whom were surveyed for the study.

According to the research, almost half (45.8 per cent) of grade nine Muslims — with an average age of 15 — said that they believe that Islamic theocracy is the best form of government, the Bild newspaper reports.

More than two-thirds (67.8 per cent) agreed with the idea that the rules of the Qur’an were more important than the laws of Germany, while over a third (35.3 per cent) said that they have an “understanding for violence against people who insult Allah or the Prophet Muhammad.”

Meanwhile, 21.2 per cent of the Muslim students surveyed agreed that the “threat to Islam from the Western world justifies Muslims defending themselves with violence.”

Additionally, Bild tells us that more “than half (51.5 percent) of the Muslim students surveyed believed that only Islam was able to ‘solve the problems of our time.’”

As for time, those supposing that it and assimilation will render this Islamic-chauvinism problem moot should consider studies showing that young Muslims in Europe are actually more radical than their elders.

Additionally, they’re also proving, again, that to the passionate go the victories — and the foot soldiers. That is, “Schoolchildren are converting to Islam in German schools as Christian students feel like outsiders and are desperate to try and fit in,” wrote the Daily Mail Tuesday, also reporting on KFN findings.

“‘More and more parents of German children are turning to counselling centres because the Christian children want to convert so that they are no longer outsiders at school,’ a state security officer told German tabloid Bild,” the Mail continued.

“In several schools in large cities like Berlin or Frankfurt, Muslim children make up more than 80 per cent of the student body, which the expert claims is due to the strong immigration in the last eight years,” the paper later added. This raises a question for the “Diversity strengthens us!” crowd:

Once everyone in a school has converted to Islam and embraces Sharia, how much diversity will there be?

The pressure to conform is profound, too. As an example, the state security officer also pointed out “that the male Muslim students can ‘appear very threatening and sometimes violent’ in their pursuit to ensure girls abide by the rules of the Koran,” the Mail further relates.

And there may be a reason why they “appear violent.” Just consider a comprehensive German study of 45,000 youths that was reported in 2010. It found that while increasing religiosity among the Christian youths made them less violent, increasing religiosity among the Muslim youths actually made them more violent.

This is explained not just by the Koran’s violent injunctions and the far greater number in the Hadiths and Sira (which comprise 84 percent of the Islamic canon), but the example set by Mohamed himself. While considered the “Perfect Man” by believing Muslims, the reality is that he was a slaver, polygamist, and user of torture who ordered 100 military campaigns and violent acts during his lifetime.

This said, the deeper problem isn’t Islamic chauvinism, vibrancy, and antipathy but Western modernism, complacency, and apathy. If someone said all ideologies were morally equal and that, consequently, Nazism and Marxism couldn’t be any better or worse that libertarianism, the average Westerner would call him crazy. Different ideologies espouse different values, of course; hence, not all ideologies could be equal unless all values were equal. It is here that moderns’ characteristic relativism takes a brief intellectual hiatus.

Yet just as with ideologies, different religions also espouse different values, meaning there must also be qualitative differences among them. This, however, is where Westerners’ relativism comes roaring back with a vengeance, as they may call you a bigot for saying that yes, really, some religions are superior to others.

Of course, they’re also forgetting that if all values are equal, bigotry can’t be any worse than liberality. That’s what happens, too, when you cast reason to the winds and make emotion your god.

But it leads to many contradictions. One is that modern Germans will outlaw Nazi symbols and sentiments, but often can’t even imagine why importing vast numbers of Third World Islamic supremacists might be a really, really bad idea.

                 This article was originally published at The New American.