Demo on Steindamm: Now Hamburg needs to actively counter the Islamists | EUROtoday

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In Hamburg has referred to as on a broad alliance across the Kurdish neighborhood in addition to the “Kulturbrücke” and “Secular Islam” associations for an illustration towards Islamism on Saturday (May 4th). The rally will happen on the Steindamm in St. Georg from 1 p.m. to three p.m., wherein the SPD and CDU can even participate, as each events introduced on Thursday. On April twenty seventh, the “Muslim Interaktiv” community, which was categorised as extremist, demonstrated for a caliphate and Sharia regulation on Steindamm, making headlines throughout the nation.

“Extremists and enemies of the constitution have no place in our society,” clarify the Hamburg SPD chairmen Melanie Leonhard and Nils Weiland. With the rally on May 4th, Democrats would give a transparent response to the novel Islamist actions within the metropolis heart final Saturday, it was stated.

The CDU, which had already signaled its participation firstly of the week, can be calling on all Democrats to hitch the demonstration towards Islamism and for the rule of regulation, democracy and freedom. The hatred and calls for for a caliphate and Sharia regulation displayed on Hamburg's streets final week have been “unbearable and unacceptable for democrats,” the CDU stated.

The organizers, which additionally embrace the Kulturbrücke Hamburg, justified their registration as follows: “We call on politicians and all citizens to take a stand against this religiously motivated, anti-democratic attitude and threat to our diverse culture of equality, tolerance and unrestricted press freedom to put.”

The calls for that unite all forces concerned on this rally are a transparent ban on teams like “Muslim Interactive” and “their anti-democratic marches. Anyone who rejects basic democratic principles such as women's rights, secularity and freedom of expression and freedom of the press and seeks to destroy the existing free social order should be deprived of their right to demonstrate!”

Islamic society speaks out

The Council of Islamic Communities in Hamburg (Schura) has in the meantime warned towards division and hostility to democracy in view of the demonstration organized by Islamists final weekend. “We are watching the slogans, demeanor and unsettling effects of this demonstration with concern,” Shura Chairman Fatih Yildiz stated on Thursday. “We reject any anti-democratic ideas and warn of the danger that such an approach ends in a systematic rejection of democratic processes.”