Wuppertal is well known. With around 350,000 inhabitants, the city is the economic, educational and cultural centre of the Bergisch district, which is located in the federal state of North Rhine-Westphalia and is the seventeenth largest city in Germany. It is best known for its suspension railway – the only one of its kind in a major German city. That could soon change. In a few years, Wuppertal may be the first city in Germany to have its own Turkish district. Will non-Muslims be allowed to enter it then?
This is really new in Germany: the Turkish-controlled Islamic cultural association DITIB – specifically the Turkish-Islamic Union of the Institute for Religion e.V. – wants to build a whole new district in Wuppertal-Elberfeld. The new quarter is to cost around 30 million euros, which is to come from unknown “sponsors”. DITIB has been working on a feasibility study for about ten years, which has now become public. On 6,000 square metres, architect Cengiz Müjde is planning bars, grocery shops, nursing homes and, of course, a mosque with a large minaret and cupola visible from afar.
“In addition, we want to offer a kindergarten. For the elderly, we offer assisted living. But the business will also create new jobs,” the architect reveals his plans and tries to make the project attractive to the local population with jobs that are urgently needed in the region.
Almost all the land needed already belongs to the association. Where the association got the money for the plots of land, the planners of the district do not say. And not a word is said about where the investors will come from. It is well known that the Turkish state controls DITIB. Whether it will finance the project directly or indirectly is a matter of speculation. But would the immigration-friendly German government seriously oppose a foreign state interfering in the construction of city districts?
How such a district fits in with the government’s propaganda that it supports the integration of immigrants remains a mystery, because the project would further segregate the population. On the other hand, such a district would further promote the formation of parallel societies, and other speculators could also detect a business model for other cities. Is this really what is intended? Because in Wuppertal, two more mosques are already being planned or built elsewhere, which the city – as expected – willingly supports. These are a mosque of the Moroccan community and a mosque of the Kurdish cultural association. </div>How such a district fits in with the government’s propaganda that it supports the integration of immigrants remains a mystery, because the project would further segregate the population. On the other hand, such a district would further promote the formation of parallel societies, and other speculators could also detect a business model for other cities. Is this really what is intended? Because in Wuppertal, two more mosques are already being planned or built elsewhere, which the city – as expected – willingly supports. These are a mosque of the Moroccan community and a mosque of the Kurdish cultural association.
Only the announcement that the city’s Antifa Centre, a meeting place for numerous left-wing extremists, which is located on the planned site, would have to make way for it, caused a lot of scorn and ridicule, because the left-wing extremists, who should actually welcome the project, suddenly have a critical attitude towards it. But of course the city of Wuppertal can be relied on to find a new home for the extremists.
The mainstream media and the old parties have so far been conspicuously reticent with criticism or applause. Only the AfD has commented on the ambitious plan: “It is to be feared that the construction of a ‘Ditib’ quarter will lead to existing parallel societies moving even further away from the majority society and that people will eventually live there according to their own rules and values – which will ultimately be dictated by Erdogan and fundamentalists close to him. Tomorrow, ‘Ditib’ could claim to want to live there as autonomously as possible,” says AfD board member Joachim Paul, criticising the plan. But Islamisation is not happening at all, is it?
https://www.wochenblick.at/politik/ditib-will-tuerken-stadtteil-in-wuppertal-errichten/
Sketchy plans . Expansionism on foreign soil for Islamic sharia .