Germans concerned about Muslim converts

Fri Sep 7, via WOJ
The village of Oberschledorn, western Germany, Wednesday, Sept. 5, 2007, where three men were  arrested by police on suspicion of terrorism on Tuesday. Three suspected Islamic terrorists from an al-Qaida-influenced group nursing a 'profound hatred of U.S. citizens' were arrested on suspicious of plotting imminent, massive bomb attacks on U.S. facilities in Germany, prosecutors said Wednesday. The three men had some 700 kilograms (1,500 pounds) of hydrogen peroxide — easily enough to make a bomb with the explosive power of 550 kilograms (1,200 pounds) of TNT, prosecutors said at a news conference. (AP Photo/Eckehard Schulz)
This article focuses on the story of Fritz Gelowicz, one of the three arrested earlier this week for plotting a massive and imminent attack on commercial and American military interests in Germany. But it also demonstrates that Gelowicz did not work in a vacuum; rather, there was significant support for "radical Islam" right in the German town of Ulm. And that seemingly unlikely place only underscores the fact that jihadists can plot and potentially wreak havoc wherever they are allowed to operate unchallenged, both by the larger community, and by fellow Muslims who are all too often assumed to be uniformly "moderate." ...

BERLIN - Fritz and Daniel — two of the three militant Islamic suspects arrested in a purported plot to bomb American targets are as German as their names ...

"We had to expect sooner or later that phenomena would become visible here that we had already seen in England, that people who turn to Islam for whatever reason also move to violence," Steinbach said ...