In the middle of the holiday season, three Düsseldorf airport employees recently posed at a baggage conveyor belt for a scandalous internet photo. They each raised an index finger to the sky – an unmistakable, internationally known sign of sympathy for the IS and its worldwide Islamic terror.
Shortly afterwards, several media reported on this scandal. But almost all of them concealed the identity of the IS supporters. In fact, several newspapers even deceived their readers by writing that the terror sympathisers were “German citizens” who were “born in Germany”.
Of course, this is – if at all – only half the truth.
German broadcaster WDR takes the cake
Westdeutscher Rundfunk (WDR) took the cake. The largest broadcaster in the ARD did not give any details about the IS supporters.
What’s more: WDR, which is specifically responsible for North Rhine-Westphalia, unlike most other media, did not publish a photo of the trio at the airport, although a revealing photo of these “IS friends” ( Bild newspaper) had long since been circulating on the internet.
The behaviour of the public radio and television station in Düsseldorf was obviously a deliberate cover-up – after all, it is easy to recognise from the photo that the three have an oriental background.
Only the tabloid Bild mentions the names of the men
Only the Bild newspaper (headline: “Islamist alarm on the tarmac”) did not shy away from naming the three “German nationals”: They are Mohamed A. R. (19 years), Hamit A. (20) and Serhat I. (20).
Obviously, the group of three comes from Arab families, who presumably once came to the Federal Republic as alleged “refugees” and were soon naturalised as “Germans” – as it has mostly become customary in this country nowadays.