Germany, like all of Western Europe (and the U.S. and Canada) has been blanketed with victimhood propaganda about “Islamophobia,” but it is not enough to overwhelm what people see with their own eyes: increasing jihad violence and Islamic supremacist thuggery. The article sees this understandable suspicion solely in terms of bigotry: “However, a second question asking how people thought Germany should deal with hostility to Muslims found that 53 percent of people believed that it should be treated as seriously as anti-Semitism….But a majority of 57 percent of AfD supporters still thought that hostility to Muslims was as serious as hatred against Jews.” Of course. Opposing jihad terror and Islamic supremacism is not the same thing as racial or ethnic prejudice or hostility to Muslims, despite the best efforts of Leftists and Islamic supremacists to equate the two. What Germany, and all Western states, must do is not allow the growth of a parallel society with its own culture and system of laws, existing within but not paying allegiance to the state. There should be equal justice for all, and one legal system applying to everyone, along with a call to Muslim communities to work for genuine assimilation and genuine reform of the violent and supremacist aspects of Islam.

“Islam ‘does not belong in German society’ – poll,” The Local, August 7, 2014 (thanks to Nicolai):