The following news video from Germany reports that a “Salafist” mosque in Hesse has been closed, and the Islamic association that goes with it has been banned.

I noticed two things when I was editing the transcript and watching the video for this report:

1. There is a “Salafist scene” in the town of Hesse. What exactly is a Salafist scene? I picture a nightclub with loud ululating chants on the speakers, a throbbing strobe, and a crowd of bearded beanie-wearing men who gather to groove on halal-slaughter videos and join in gang-rapes of any infidel women (or men, for that matter) who happen to wander into the scene by mistake. 2. Near the end of the video an “Islam expert and educator” says that we must distinguish between normal believing Muslims and radicals who have been instrumentalized to become terrorists, so that “no impression [is] given that the state was acting against Islam per se.” And how, pray tell, does anyone in authority in Germany have the skill to determine such minute distinctions, unless he is a Muslim himself?



Many thanks to Egri Nök for the translation, and to Vlad Tepes for the subtitling:

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