Study: 2/3 of Germans fear becoming victim of terrorism

Foto: Police stand outside the Bilal mosque in Griesheim district following anti-terror raids across the state of Hesse on February 1, 2017 in Frankfurt, Germany / Getty

Two out of three Germans are afraid of becoming a victim of a terrorist attack. Ten percent perceive an “acute threat” to their safety. These are results of a survey which was recently published by the German legal expenses insurance group ROLAND as part of its „Law Report 2017“. The poll was conducted among 1458 citizens over 16 years of age. The authors state:

“A large part of the population doesn’t feel safe anymore when visiting crowded places. The fear of becoming the victim of a terrorist attack with a high number of casualties is considerable. A total of 45 percent of respondents feel uneasy when visiting crowded locations like stations, festivals or even in the downtowns. Three percent of the population feel permanently unsafe when visiting a public place along with many other people.”

There is an even bigger fear among women, the study finds. 74 percent of the female respondents sometimes feel unsafe at crowded places, and a staggering nine percent feels permanently threatened and scared.

It’s important to note that this survey was conducted in October, prior to the jihadist terrorist attack against the Berlin Christmas market in which a Muslim migrant from Tunisia murdered 12 people.

The population, it seems, is smarter than the politicians, pundits and journalists who have always tried to downplay the threat of jihadist attacks in Germany.
In other news, the intelligence agency Office for the Protection of the Constitution (Verfassungsschutz) in Saxony warns that the radical Muslim Brotherhood is spreading rapidly in that East German state.

“Currently they are buying buildings on a massive scale and turn them into mosques or meeting places for Muslims,” said the agency’s president Gordian Meyer-Plath.

“This has happened in the cities of Leipzig, Riesa, Meissen, Pirna, Dresden, Bautzen and Görlitz, among others.” He went on to explain that the Islamist organisation is awash in cash: “They travel with heaps of money and buy up real estate.“ Their goal, according to Meyer-Plath: “The establishment of Sharia in Germany“.

For many, this must come as a big surprise. Since its inception in October 2014, the German grassroots anti-Islamization movement known as PEGIDA, which has its stronghold in Dresden, Saxony, has been ridiculed. The people of Saxony should feel pretty safe, they were told. In a state in which “only 0.1 percent of the population are Muslims” — as politicians and journalists relentlessly explained — the fear of Islamization was “totally baseless“. A journalist once quipped: “Given that there are 15,000 protesters, there are four angry citizens for every Muslim. Now, who should be afraid of whom?“

Unlike PEGIDA, the Muslim Brotherhood’s activities in Germany rarely come under scrutiny. Representatives of the Central Council of Muslims in Germany (Zentralrat der Muslime in Deutschland) – of which the Muslim Brotherhood is part — are often invited to talk shows and even to the Federal Government’s “German Islam Conference” whose goal, according to an official paper, is “to promote harmonisation between the German state and Muslims.“

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