Martin Hess
Islamism
German Bundestag,
February 13, 2020, Plenarprotokoll 19/146, pp. 18219-18220
[Martin Hess is an Alternative für
Deutschland Bundestag member from the southwestern German state of
Baden-Württemberg. He is a police officer. He here introduces an AfD motion
directed against Islamism in Germany.]
Right honorable Herr President. Honorable
colleagues.
Islamist terror is the greatest danger for
our citizens’ security. The frustrated Rizin attack in Cologne has drawn our
attention to the terrifying dimension of this threat. Had not our security
forces intervened in time, according to the opinion of the Robert Koch
Institute, possibly 13,500 dead and even as many wounded might have been lost – 27,000
potential victims of just one Islamist attack. That shows everyone in all
clarity that our state must fight this terror with all consistency and severity
[aller Konsequenz und Härte].
Yet the Federal government does exactly the
opposite. You asseverate to be doing all that is humanly possible against
terror, yet you are quite obviously unwilling to effectively defend our
citizens against Islamist terrorists. For one, this is seen in in your
destructive migration policy which has led to ever more potential terrorists
flowing into our country. For another, it is also very clear how you are
dealing with with fundamentalist Islam, the fertile soil of Islamist barbarians.
Instead of fighting this with all severity, you allow them to go about their
business in our country nearly unhindered. Precisely that must and will be
corrected by our motion.
First: The Islamist Moslem Bortherhood.
Burkhard Freier’s evaluation for the Nordrhein-Westphalen Constitution Defense
Office states that the Moslem Brothers are a greater danger than the Salafists
and even the “Islamic State”. Concerning the cover organization of the Moslem
Brothers, Herr Freier states the following:
The IGD and the network
of cooperating organizations pursue, despite assertions to the contrary, primarily one thing: The establishment of an Islamic theological state, even
ultimately in Germany.
Nevertheless, you allow the Moslem
Brotherhood to spread ever further throughout Germany. Before all in Saxony is
this Moslem Brotherhood acquiring strategic real estate. It is reaching the
point – and this is the official finding of your ministries – of a dangerous
alliance between the Moslem Brothers and the Salafists. Moslem Brothers are
thus copying concepts for the recruitment and radicalization of young people.
All of the facts without any doubt testify to
the enmity of the Moslem Brothers and their organizations against the state and
therefore they must be immediately banned.
Second: The DITIB mosque association. The
DITIB is without a doubt directed by Erdogan who, during a visit to Germany,
without inhibition gave the greeting sign of the Moslem Brothers. DITIB allows
children in our country to pray for the victory of the Turkish army in its
illegal mission in Syria, has permitted its imams in our country to engage in
large scale spying upon opponents of Erdogan, consistently rejects cooperation
with de-radicalization initiatives and permits into its mosques the entry of
central figures of the Moslem Brothers.
Despite all of this, the SPD’s Berlin
Interior Senator in all earnestness demands that organizations like the DITIB
or the Moslem Brothers should concern themselves with returning terrorists.
You thereby assist Islamist despots to spread Islamism in our country. Enough
of that!
You must finally awake from your lethargy and
draw a clear borderline against the greatest danger to our security. The policy
in Germany must be finally and unequivocally oriented and an unmistakable
message directed at the Islamists: Political Islam does not belong to Germany. Who does not share the values and rules of
our country or who actively struggles against our society, he must leave our
country.
And naturally it cannot be according to
denomination. We must finally begin with complete severity and consistency to
fight Islamism. Islamist organizations are clearly, without ifs and buts,
anti-constitutional. We therefore cannot further, as you
have done, naively and helplessly witness
their activity in our country, but must now take all necessary measures to
defend our country and our citizens against such enemies of the state.
It is precisely here that our motion is an
important, first step. To reject this motion would be to leave our free society
nearly defenseless against its enemies. That we cannot and will not allow.
[Translated
by Todd Martin]
