The first appearance of the conquerors of Aleppo left no doubt as to their nature: waving weapons and flags, chanting radical slogans and showing a raised index finger, they revealed themselves to be jihadists and radical Muslims.
So there is great astonishment and shock. But in Düsseldorf, the victory of the ‘Islamists’ seems to be a cause for celebration. Dozens or even hundreds of demonstrators marched through the streets of the North Rhine-Westphalian state capital on Saturday.
Even the faces of killed IS fighters were displayed on flags, according to experts such as exiled Syrian Manaf Hassan. Flags of the Faruq Brigades, which are responsible for the expulsion of Christians – for example against Syrian Orthodox Christians in Homs – were also on display. This was denied by the brigades. However, it can hardly be denied that it is part of the jihadist logic and is well documented by the Christian exodus from the Middle East.
This is bad news for Germany in general and North Rhine-Westphalia in particular. It proves what had long been predicted by many, but was not recognised and implemented by politicians: The indiscriminate admission of ‘Syrian refugees’, no matter how good their ‘escape story’ was, inevitably meant that countless sympathisers of radical jihadists were also admitted to Germany. In addition, there are those immigrants who first became radicalised in exile in Germany and are now more or less clearly opposed to the institutions.
This rejection of our state only takes its most extreme form in terrorism, but it begins much earlier. More and more institutions are now realising this, for example when the police report on the large number of clan crimes in North Rhine-Westphalia or warn against no-Jew zones in Berlin. The general mood has changed since the IS attack in Solingen that left three people dead. But the black-green government in Düsseldorf can still hardly be trusted to react decisively and quickly. For example, telling the demonstrators that they can seek ‘protection’ in Idlib and Aleppo if they like such a conquest.
Now maybe the happy Muslims will leave Germany and return to Aleppo.