Shari’a in Germany: “It’s Not a Fringe Phenomenon”
16th March 2026
I posted yesterday about a German ethnologist named Susanne Schröter and a study by the BKA (Bundeskriminalamt, the German federal investigative police agency) showing that almost half of young Muslims in Germany support “Islamism”, i.e. the full, devout expression of their religion.
The video below is a follow-up to yesterday’s translated article. Inge Bell is a German human rights activist, business consultant and entrepreneur, and in this clip she talks about the BKA study and the work of Dr. Schröter. She’s less timid in her terminology than the author of last night’s article, and doesn’t refer to “Islamism”. However, she still pulls her punches a bit by talking about “political Islam”, which is tougher, but still tiptoes around the ghastly truth.
It’s very difficult for people to refer to what menaces us as simply “Islam”. To identify Islam without any obfuscating modifiers as the source of what threatens us — to say that Islamic doctrine commands that we unbelievers must be killed or enslaved — is to risk losing one’s job, or being cancelled, or, in certain jurisdictions, even being prosecuted for “hate speech”.
Additionally, it’s devastating to one’s inner equilibrium to realize that the entirety of Islam — however many billions of people the Muslims claim to have nowadays — is a mortal danger to us. It’s a horrible fact to contemplate, as I know from my own experience. I would really have preferred to combat “Islamism”, or “radical Islam”, or “political Islam”, rather than Islam itself. Unfortunately, once you see the reality of it, there’s no going back.
Back in 2007, when confronted with the phrase “moderate Islam”, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan famously responded: “These descriptions are very ugly, it is offensive and an insult to our religion. There is no moderate or immoderate Islam. Islam is Islam and that’s it.”