Islamic extremist arrested in Germany on terror charge

[ericson00]

Source: Associated Press

BERLIN (AP) — Authorities in Germany have arrested one of the country's most prominent Islamic extremists on suspicion of supporting a foreign terror group, prosecutors said Tuesday.

Sven Lau was arrested Tuesday in the western city of Moenchengladbach, federal prosecutors said in a statement.

Lau is suspected of four counts of supporting the group Jaish al-Muhajireen wal-Ansar, or JAMWA, which was designated a terrorist organization by the United States last year. Prosecutors alleged that the 35-year-old was the go-to contact for extremists wanting to fight for JAMWA in Syria and provided financial and material support to the group under the cover of humanitarian aid shipments.

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scary, but more importantly, shows that the discussion about Radical Jihad is NOT a race thing.

[notadmblnd]

1. pic

[ericson00]

3. creepiness at its finest

I don't even wanna imagine the sound of jihad preaching in German.

[840high]

2. We'll see more and more.

[mhatrw]

4. What is scary about this? nt

[ericson00]

6. hmmm maybe that a hateful, bigoted, and violent

and most importantly, widespread ideology is creeping into the West?

[mhatrw]

9. you mean the Tea Party? nt

[ericson00]

10. Tea Party is, but they're not going around the entire world

blowing themselves after yelling "Tea Party Akbar!" Jihadists are. Nor does our and other governments' money spend billions to stop terror plots of theirs like they do with Islamic terrorists.

[DFW]

5. Ever since World ar II ended

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It was frowned upon in Germany to get involved with anything culturally German. Folk music clubs were flooded with musicians from England, Ireland, Scotland, Greece, Israel, Latin America, the USA, ANYTHING but German. It became fashionable to embrace foreign cultures. ONlY in the 1970s did it finally begin to be OK to embrace German culture again that wasn't banal crap ("Schlagermusik&quot . Hannes Wader, Konstantin Wecker, then 20 years later, German rock stars like Westernhagen and Grönemeyer, but even then, they were latecomers. Foreign cultural things were still "in." Islam was the choice of only a few, but Germans rarely do anything halfway. There were bound to be a few who swallowed the whole jihad thing lock, stock and barrel, and when they do, they are as fanatic as any of the ones born in the Middle East.

[ericson00]

7. in many ways, its a shame

because even many Jews I've met, and myself included (tho whether I'm Jewish doesn't matter), believe that the entire European continent and people deserve similar, if not nearly equal blame as Germans for fascism and the Holocaust. Hitler's ideology and beliefs were by no means uniquely German; they were popular across the continent and had millions of collaborationist people/sympathizers and dozens of governments.

[DFW]

8. There were collaborators in almost every country that was occupied

But the Germans at least recognized their role, confronted (at least in the West) and acknowledged it. You'd be hard-pressed to find another nation that teaches about its own evil committed during the Nazi era. French, Norwegians, Dutch, Czechs, Poles, etc.: What, us? No, we were all good guys. My girls went to an elementary school across the street from us in Germany. It is the Anne Frank Elementary School. I wonder how many schools in the Netherlands carry that name, not to mention elsewhere?