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NAIL BOMB hits turkish community in Cologne

German lad who was in Camden branch | 10.06.2004 10:18 | Analysis | Anti-racism | World

Yesterday evening a nail bomb ripped through a busy shopping street in a turkish working class district of Cologne, Germany. Shop windows and cars smashed. 22 injured. Officials and media quick to claim: "no racist attack, but gang war!" Anyone remember the London nail bombs in 1999?



remember the london mail bomb campaign in 1999?
remember the london mail bomb campaign in 1999?



Nazi party election campaign whishing Turkish community a speedy return home
Nazi party election campaign whishing Turkish community a speedy return home


Yesterday a nail bomb ripped through a turkish working class area of Cologne, injuring 22. The officials were quick to declare it was an result of gangland warfare among the turkish community. "It was not a terrorist or extremist attack", the Berlin interior ministry claimed. So a nail bomb on turkish immigrants is no terror? The media incorporated the bomb story promptly into the current hate campaign against muslim immigrants. "See how far we got?" There isn´t a day without a scare story about dangerous islamist preachers who should be expelled from the country, about to many mosques being constructed, possible bombing campaigns by islamists cells, about the threat of world wide islamofascism on the rise. Laws are tightened, civil rights are being undermined. Unfortuntely, some on the left join in the "islamofascism" slander, claiming "antisemitism is rising among muslim", claiming all palestinians and muslim are nazis, alleging links to German nazism. This bellicist left also claims there is a "united front of nazis, islamists, altermondialist and the anti-war movement". In turn, this slander is echoed by some media and pro-war politicians.

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  1. More evidence of a Euro-wide rising tide of Islamophobia!! — Andy S
  2. very strange — Captain Wardrobe