BY OKTAY EKSI
HURRIYET- According to the recent reports, American and European governments are currently trying to take effective measures to crack down on radical, fundamentalist Islamic organizations and their leaders. These measures may include closing down of such organizations or deporting the leaders of such organizations.
Germany has also taken different measures on this issue: According to the new Migration Law, which became effective on the first day of 2005, the foreigners are obliged to attend adaptation and harmonization courses. The German states are authorized to deport those who do not attend these courses.
Another new measure is that the foreigners who are suspected of organizing acts of terrorism might be taken into security custody.
As we all know, there is no necessity of a claim for a person to be treated like a terrorist in the United States. If you’re a dark skin, a foreign accent and have a Middle eastern outlook, you’re in big trouble. You’d probably have hard times to prove that you’re innocent and have no connection with the terrorists.
Under the Patriot Act, the US government is allowed to detain anyone in connection with a terror investigation, including American citizens, without disclosing their identity until criminal charges are filed. Even death penalty is possible by a military commission if you’re convicted of acts of terrorism according to the undisclosed evidence and in confidential hearings.
The situation is similar in both Britain and Canada. There are still certain laws violating the basic principles of law. However, it is possible to fight with terrorists and fundamentalists on the one hand, and to protect the rule of law ad democracy on the other. The Western countries have always refused to learn lessons from our experience, as a secular country which fought with fundamentalists for a long time.
Whenever we warned them that such Islamic organizations have nothing to do with the freedom of religion and conscious and that they will pose a grave threat to the Western countries in the future, they laughed at us and did not take our warnings seriously. In their view, Turkey’s problem was lack of democracy.
Didn’t Germany overlook the apostles of Cemalettin Kaplan with guns in their hands taking oaths for Sheria?
Now Britain is preparing to deport a Syrian imam. Germans arrested an Iraqi and a Palestinian on the charges that they are connected to the Al-Qaeda. France also deported an imam to his country Algeria. The German police also detained 22 people on January 12 with similar reasons.
As you see, there is nearly no possibility that the radical fundamentalists are not connected with terrorism. This is a fact that we’ve been aware of for a long time, but nobody has ever listened to us…