Protection of the Constitution.
THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC: Open-minded - however endangers.
The Federal Republic of Germany is an open-minded country in the middle of Europe. We drive trades with almost all states of the earth. We take care of cultural exchange. Business people and a considerable number from tourists visit us - and also we Germans travel gladly and much in foreign countries. The boundaries in the united Europe have fallen, and one enjoys „free excursion " -, almost without each control. Germany is no island, that can not be we and we do not want it also.
Because of his geographical situation, his prosperity and his unrestricted social order Germany exercises a high attractiveness also on such foreigners, who search passing at us refuge or want to remain and work for always here. To the time 7 millions person live here about from next to all parts of the world. To on some incorrigibles, hostile to foreigners right-wing extremists, have get useded we to the coexistence with persons from other countries and cultures, estimate their presence even as enrichment. At the „Italian " - or „Greeks " - eat to go, is long since completely normal, Turkish shops have many German customers, even in smallest cities gives it Asiatic restaurants. Foreign employees provide an inalienable contribution for our economy; without she/it remained many work ungetan.
The most foreigners at us pay attention the laws. Who here long lives, quite at us is born, does not become for instance more frequently punishable as Germans. Problems prepare indeed such foreigners, the conflicts from their homelands at us carry out. So committed foreigner since 1984 in the Federal Republic round 638 politically motivated terror - and other heavy acts of violence, at which 40 persons were killed.
The protection of the Constitution has to collect not only information about such political activities of foreigners, which conform at our liberal democratic constitution - if they allies themselves e.g. with German extremist. He/it has to observe also foreign groups, which carry out their political disputes with power on German soil and endanger thereby the security of the league or a country. That equal counts for foreigner groups, which accomplish from the territory of the federal republic from power drives in other states or prepare and hurt thereby the foreign importance of Germany.
Conflicts of other countries are carried out here.
With the decay of the Soviet empire a stabilitätssichernde ended also Machtbalance. Widely nationalistic efforts break open and explode along with extremist - religious movements in numerous conflicts. Almost each conflict region of the earth is represented here with residential population. It is understandable, that these persons remain also at us at the fate of their country and their there living relatives interest. Many can be activated for the one or other conflict party in their homeland. These political activities of foreigners in Germany - them with our understanding can calculate, as long as they serve themselves of peaceful means - can be led back essentially to five conflict characters:
1. quarrels around boundaries:
The process of state reconstitutions leads to numerous, partially bloody carried out conflicts around territorial claims. The potential is around so explosive, as many drawings the line result without regard to ethnic, cultural or religious structures.
2. The independence aspiration of people, ethnic groups:
People, which lost against their will once their statehood and were forced in the association of an other state, as well as inhibited minorities strive for independence.
3. The fight against ruling elites:
Minorities sit against the unjust, undemokratische dominion more ethnically or more religiously groups, social classes, traditional elites to the defense.
4. Growing economic impoverishment:
Where conventional economic structures decay, economic misery the routine of the person stamps, to amend increase also despair and the standby, with power things.
5. Cultural page make-ups, changes of world views:
An example for this conflict type is the islamische Extremismus or also Islamismus, which tries, religious values the Koran to the absolute scale of all things and to make so that to the absolute political practice.
The dangers for us are concrete.
With awful impacts in all world the international terrorism in the last decades demanded countless sacrifices. Us all in memory are still it
- Crash the PAN TM 103 over Lockerbie in the December 1988 or it
- Bomb impact on the World Trade cents at that 16. February 1993 in New York as well as
- the impact series in Paris in the summer 1995.
Shock nicely we experienced in the year 1972 the terrorism of foreigners, also in the Federal Republic. During the Olympic games in Munich attacked a Palestinian command the quarter of the Israeli team and took hostages. The attempt of the deliverance ended in a disaster. Terrorists and Israeli hostages found the death. Since these days we know, what it can mean, if international conflicts are carried out on German soil.
Many terrorist atrocities in Germany were steered by states.
For murders at political adversaries became the Yugoslav, Syrian, libyschen, Iranian and Iraqi governments held responsible. A staatsterroristischen background had also the explosion of a bomb in the spring 1986 in the Berlin discotheque „La Bark " -, which was visited by many American soldiers. Two persons died, over 200 were hurt to the part with difficulty. The manipulators were supposed in Libya. The government of the USA led therefore a retaliation: The libyschen cities of Bengasi and Tripolis were bombed. Also in the case of the assassination of four Iranian Oppositionspolitikern at that 17. Septembers 1992 in the Berlin restaurant „Mykonos " - has affirmed the Berlin chamber court in the April 1997 in a criminal proceeding a staatsterroristischen background.
Such atrocities in the order of foreign states are not only criminal act, they represent also an attack on the sovereignty of the Federal Republic of Germany.
The terror knows no boundaries.
Only the minute minority of 57.300, that are approx. 0,7 percent of the foreigners living at us, are members in extremist organizations. This proves, that the most of our foreign fellow-citizens refuse extremist political goals. Nevertheless has become the threat of the internal security through foreign atrocities and terrorist in the last years large. So the number of the atrocities of foreign extremists has versechsfacht itself in the Federal Republic of 1990 (44) to 1995 (283) more than; first in the last year has gone back them/it/her again negligibly (269).
Special occasion to the care gave in the last years them in the November 1993 forbidden Communist Arbeiterpartei Kurdistans , which PKK. These in the guerilla war against the Turkish state experienced and their matter with fixed determination pursuing grouping has in the territory of the federal republic almost 10.000 followers. To police measures in the Turkey the PKK reacted in the territory of the federal republic not only with peaceful protest but also with numerous milianten drives. The threshold to the terrorism overstepped them/it/her at that 4. November 1993, as she/it committed more than 50 burning impacts against Turkish arrangements in Germany and in the adjacent Europe, at which a person came to deaths. With it was an activity prohibition at everything understanding for kurdische autonomy efforts unavoidable. Nevertheless continues them/it/her their activities in the area of the Federal Republic first of all. Since middle 1996 the activities keep indeed the PKK completely predominantly at it by their Secretary-General Öcalan decreed non-aggression. Öcalan hopes, that his good conduct will lead to a suspension of the prohibition in Germany. Whether it remains indeed at the non-aggression, if these expectations do not come true soon, will show itself.
For impacts on Turkish arrangements in the territory of the federal republic since middle 1995 were completely predominantly linksextremistische Turkish groups like them since 1993 forbidden „Devrimci Sol " -, which „Turkishs Communist party (Marxist - Leninisten) " - (TKP(ML) as well as them „Marxist - Leninistische Communist party " - (MLKP) responsible, which protested with it against domestic events and conditions in the Turkey.
As always unpredictable are Palestinian organizations, which refuse it - after the change of government in Israel in the stick gotten - Friedensprozess in the near east. You/They are for numerous impacts in the region - with many deads - responsible. It is to be dreaded, that also Germany spares does not remain by the consequences of the conflict.
Islamischer Extremismus: The largest danger of tomorrow?
About a fifth of the mankind listened to the islamischen religion. Alone in Germany 2,5 millions Moslems form almost the drittgrösste religious sect. Of course they enjoy, like other religions also, the reason legal protection of the religious freedom. This does not cover however all manifestations the Islam: Increasingly islamische win extremists at meaning. You/They raise the Islam almost to a political ideology, which each state trade the islamischen law the shari`a subjects and strives for the introduction of a God state. The with it joined claim to absolute right justifies in the eyes of these extremists, who are called also Islamisten, the fight against the „unbelievers " -, which is to be led with the means of the political and social revolution - the „saints war " - and terrorism included. Disconcerted perceived we from the „death sentence " -, which assuming the meanwhile late Iranian head of state Ajatollah Chomeini in the name Allahs against the British author of the „satanics verses " -, salmon At Rushdie, expressed. And angers reacted the public, as the Berlin chamber court in the Mykonos - process revealed the staatsterroristischen background of the impact on Iranian members of the opposition. The current by Islamisten in Algeria exercised terror is part of a civil war between the Algerian government and the extremist Islamischen welfare front (FIS), in which up to now over 30.000 persons around the life have come. As originators by two bomb impacts in the summer 1995 in Paris - with many deads and injured - become the „armed Islamischen groups " - (GIA), militanteste fraction the Algerian Islamisten supposes. The terrorist attack on the New Yorks World Trade cents with five deads and round 1,000 injures went likewise on the account of Islamisten.
The largest threat of our freedom could become The Re-Islamisierungsbestrebungen fanatical Fundamentalisten in the next century. The protection of the Constitution has here an important task.
The constitution protect - for a peaceful cooperation.
Extremismus and terrorism of foreigners offend against our criminal laws, conform at the idea of the international understanding and at foreign policy interests of the Federal Republic, endanger the internal security and the public order. Foreign atrocities are have a danger for body and lives of persons, who claim on protection through our state law. You/They threaten the liberal democratic constitution and the internal security. Also an ideology like the religiously motivated claim to absolute right the islamistischen fanatics, who guaranteed with it at us person - and civil rights does not endure and fights that at us verfassungsrechtlich guaranteed multi-party system, stands against our view of a liberal democracy.
We must protect ourselves from these threats. But with the means of the constitutional state. Neither can we our boundaries „dichtmachen " -, nor gives it a justification for hostile to foreigners prejudices, which are personally injustice. It is also no occasion, to meet in this connection the hostile to foreigners slogans of the right-wing extremists with understanding to say nothing of consent. Already because the extremists under the foreign fellow-citizens are a small minority, lump sum mistrust would be absurd.
Nevertheless:
Also minorities can cause large mischief. Power on German soil or here prepared atrocities can not be accepted. Our constitutional state can not tolerate, that Germany becomes to the scene of political gang wars and the tracing of dissidents. Germany may be no quiet space for terrorists. It is not admitted, that conflicts are carried out from the countries of origin of foreign fellow-citizens by a violent minority in Germany. Therefore the protection of the Constitution observes these groups, and therefore have been imposed with the help of the protection of the Constitution already various prohibitions of foreign organizations.
Also in future we must be further watchful. It is essential that the protection of the Constitution is active against Extremismus and terrorism - also from foreigners.