Nancy Faeser’s Federal Ministry of the Interior tersely announced last week that, as of October 1, 475 people had been classified as ‘politically motivated criminals’ (PMK) in the sub-category ‘religious ideology’. Of these, 155 were German nationals and 122 were German nationals plus at least one other nationality or several nationalities. Of the 475 people, 423 were male and 52 female (‘diverse’ or ‘non-binary’ were – unsurprisingly – not found among them). As it is the responsibility of the federal states to enforce the right of residence, only they can make a statement on whether a person is obliged to leave the country. 475 seems comparatively straightforward and appears to confirm the notorious tendency to deceptively play down an Islamist threat, which is widespread in this federal government.
Unfortunately, as is almost always the case with this government, this is only a fraction, not to say even the smallest amount, of the real threat – as a parliamentary question from AfD member of parliament Nicole Höchst last Monday brought to light. Höchst wanted to know how many Islamic terrorists and Islamists the Federal Government’s intelligence service is currently monitoring and how many of them are German citizens. And this was promptly followed by the real bombshell: the potential number of Islamists/ Islamist terrorists identified in the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution’s report for the year 2023 comprises ‘around 27,200 people’ – as the government succinctly stated without any further comment. Well, well: The actual number of Islamist terrorists and suspected terrorists is almost sixty times (!) the figure of 475 Islamist terrorists announced by the minister personally and to great publicity.
You have to visualise this in all its outrageous absurdity: The Office for the Protection of the Constitution – which has long had nothing else to do but to act as the left-wing state’s opinion police in complete disregard of its mandate and, above all, to fight the AfD – laconically admits that there is a de facto underground army of over 27,000 fighters and potential Muslim terrorists in the country. However, instead of addressing this scandal in more detail in the German Parliament, Parliamentary State Secretary Rita Schwarzelühr-Sutter (SPD), who had written the parliamentary response on Faeser’s behalf, boredly and patronisingly informed the understandably dismayed questioner Höchst that ‘the terminology used in the question should first be clarified’: the term ‘Islamic’ refers to the religion of Islam and should therefore be distinguished from the ‘political ideology of Islamism’.
Blustering and quibbling over terms instead of relentless disclosure and clarification of the (in)security situation: this is how we have come to realise this federal government. Schwarzelühr-Sutter did not say how the state intends to take action against a mass of violent Muslim fanatics that it has brought into the country itself and with whom you could now fill a football stadium. She preferred to indulge in pretentious verbiage. The subtle distinction between Islam and Islamism is pure window-dressing in order to protect Islam from criticism – although the so-called ‘Islamists’ do nothing other than implement the Quran’s teachings, which are in principle binding for all Muslims, verbatim – namely to kill or suppress everything that is not Islamic. Schwarzelühr-Sutter did not say what they intend to do about these terrorists in the size of small towns and why they are still at large and in Germany at all. Apparently neither the Office for the Protection of the Constitution nor Faeser’s Ministry of the Interior see any need for action here; presumably they are so busy with their fight against imaginary Nazis that there is no capacity left for real threats.