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Thursday, March 09, 2006

Did the Koran get reported to the german police?

I received this e-mail yesterday, and I was wondering if any of my Danish or German readers could provide me a link to confirm it. Berlin. Monday morning the prosecution authorities in Hamburg found a letter containing a highly unusual police report, which had been filed during the weekend. The police report is an indictment against the Koran, according to the filing organisation because the Koran is incompatible with the German constitution. Therefore, the proclamation of its words must be stopped, it said. The police report has for certain been filed in Hamburg, Niedersachsen, Nordrhein-Westfalen and Bayern, and most likely also in more German state unions. Lately, in a number of TV talk shows, some politicians have stated that the Koran is incompatible with the German constitution. On the 29th of January the Turkish born author Serap Cileli said that “the Koran must be historicized, it is incompatible with our constitution and human rights”. Now the Bundesverband der Bürgerbewegungen (BVB, union citizen movement), which filed the police reports, wants to bring the question to the court. Jutta Stark, who filed the police report in Hamburg, says that the Koran also was reported to the police two or tree years ago, but at that time the case was dismissed. The decision then was based on the view, that the Koran was to be seen as a historic book. “The many events in the past months have made it clear, that the Koran not only is a historic book, but in the highest degree a potent political book, which we proves very detailed in the police report” Jutta Stark said. Source: Jyllands Posten (DK) Link, anyone?

5 Comments:

At 3/09/2006 01:53:00 AM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

Hi Sandmonkey.
This is the homepage of the Buergebewegungen.

http://www.buergerbewegungen.de/

 
At 3/09/2006 09:41:00 AM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

"the koran is incompatible with the German constitution." This is going to end well.

 
At 3/09/2006 09:54:00 AM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

I can't confirm the information. It's not on JP website or the website of Buergebewegungen.

I'm danish and I don't watch german TV so maybe a german reader have more information.

 
At 3/09/2006 10:36:00 AM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

http://www.jp.dk/indland/artikel:aid=3599524:fid=11364/
this is the page with the article in Jyllandsposten, but it's in Danish of course.
The Egyptian "preacher" Amr Khaled is in Denmark to discuss cultural and religious dialogue. The meeting will take place Friday, the fun thing is that the now famous imam Abu Laban does not
want to participate - as he has not been invited and he doesn't want to play second fiddle, he also states that Amr Khaled should have contacted him, because only that would give him the true background to the cartoon business
(http://www.berlingske.dk/indland/artikel:aid=707056/ )
Ulla

 
At 3/10/2006 02:10:00 AM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

Here is a link: http://buergerbewegungen.de/bedrohtefreiheit.pdf

As has already been said, this is NOT an organisation that should be taken serious. It claims to be important with its name - but it is not. It is a small group that is not in a position to speak for all German NGOs/ the whole citizen movement.

 

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