It seems that now the German intelligence services are concerned with a Muslim preacher’s “Koran in every home” campaign. The preacher’s goal is to give out 25 million Korans. The preacher has been passing out Korans and this is now a “concern” for German intelligence. (http://www.thelocal.de/article.php?ID=41865#comment2730370)

Now – German intelligence admits that there should be nothing wrong with the passing out of religious texts – but why should German intelligence and the German State now make religious activity a “security problem?”

We need to only be reminded that this is the same national intelligence service that failed (or overlooked), the “Doner” murders of Turkish shopkeepers and bomb attacks of the National Socialist Underground. There are whole regions of Germany that have been taken over by neo-Nazis and have ethnically cleansed of immigrants and Muslims – and German intelligence is concerned with a single Muslim preacher?

We need to be reminded that the Nazis and the European radical right have exterminated far more people over the last 100 years of European history than so-called “Islamist jihadists.” We need to remove the anti-Muslim bias from security and intelligence and refocus on real threats and stop trampling on the human rights of Muslim minorities!

Muslims are treated in a more discriminatory manner in the US and by European governments. Legally protected religious faith and political viewpoints are use as “markers of radicalization.” Being described as “radicalized” for legally protected religious and political activity can have serious ramifications for the individual – and being described as “radicalized” according to some “models” has nothing to do with violence. The use of the term “radicalization” when describing legally protected activity serves to demonizes and criminalize Islamic faith and political viewpoints, such as the Middle East conflict.

We need to be concerned about the human rights in terms of religious freedom, freedom of expression, and other individual freedoms – and either drop the term “radicalization” or return the term to only violent radicalization. I have studied this manner in which Western “counter-terrorism” operates, the policies now being imposed are a threat to human rights – and Western counter-terrorism agencies are now a threat to the human rights and there is a need to speak out against this oppression!