Translated by me from this article in the Kölner Stadtanzeiger:
http://www.ksta.de/html/artikel/1281431710357.shtml
The West in the Angst-trap
The mere announcement of a provincial preacher to burn a Quran, is enough to make the West massively afraid of Islamic retaliation. So we already apologize in advance - that reveals features of a deep psychosis.
In May 2009, bibles were burning in Afghanistan, set aflame by US soldiers. A church community had send them to Afghanistan, translated into the two dominant languages of the country, in order to missionise. A US officer explained that since this could put soldiers and civilians at risk, all pieces of the holy scripture got burned. The episode was just a small news message. Protests are not known, nobody ever came to harm. One and a half year later, in September 2010, no books were burning in Florida. The gone-nuts pastor did not set aflame a single Quran. He just threatened to do it. Over this episode, half the world held it's breath, tens of thousands were protesting, in Afghanistan one person got shot to death.
On the surface both events seem to have nothing to do with each other. But they show: in the era post-9/11 the reaction to burning books depends on what books get burned by whom - and who could feel offended by that. surely it is a dusgusting gesture when a priest wants to burn the Quran. But is it a reason to go totally cuckoo? Must the Vatican, the UN, and on the other side of the Atlantic the german chancellor, the central committee of the Jews , the protestant church distance themselves from it in public? It seems as if the whole Wetsern world (to which several million muslims belong) felt a craving to make it clear that they have nothing to do with the plan of Terry Jones. Like a suspect who swears to have been brought to court unjustified.
And this although everybody with reason and reasonability knew that nobody else than just this unimportant provincial preacher Terry Jones was behind it. That the US, the Vatican, yes, even the protestant church are innocent. and yet there were many days of violent protests and hate preachings in the Islamic world. The sentence already had been decided on, hate does not need any evidence. So why this hysteric self-defencem then? Because of fear. After the attacks in London 2005, thousands of people in all the world published photos in the internet, with the message saying "We are not afraid". what'S left of that, when the american commander-in-chief in Afghanistan due to threats over a planned burning of the Quran in Florida warns in public over dangers for his soldiers? Attack by attack, video by video, murder by murder the West seems to lose its courage. The West is paralysed by fear.
More and more poeple seriously believe that Islamic murder gangs would save us if we would whistle especially kind and friendly during our walk in the woods - or shut our mouths completely. Instead of being happy that we have free media and an uncensored internet, we debate over Terry Jones if maybe it wouldn't be better if we make a bit less use of that freedom. If the next time one could not deal more descreetly with a story like this, although it is a good story. The guilt and responsibility for this escalation - we search in us - as if it were us who threaten others with terror and violence. Self-criticism turns into a psychosis. We even apologise while we are getting beaten. But nothing, absolutely nothing justifies an ideology that motivates people to blow themselves up in the middle of a crowd of innocents.
Not even Terry Jones can be held responsible, when from Teheran to Kandahar zero scientifc Nobel prize winners get educated, because the youth gets trained in burning flags and dying as martyrs. BTW: i the next days, in Teheran another woman could be stoned to death. For claimed adultry. From the central committeee of Muslims in Germany, from the muslim coordination council, even from the protestant church there is not a signle public statement toi be found where they distance themselves from this . They are way too busy to react calm and thoughtfully to Terry Jones.