A Brutal and Most Dangerous Enemy

A German writer named Jürgen Todenhöfer paid a visit to the Islamic state — under the official protection of the Caliph, of course. When he returned from Mosul, he spoke to the BBC about his experiences.

Many thanks to Vlad Tepes for uploading this video:

Below are excerpts from the accompanying article about Mr. Todenhöfer’s harrowing journey:

Rare Islamic State visit reveals ‘brutal and strong’ force

By Caroline Hawley and James Longman

A German author given rare access to territory run by Islamic State has told the BBC that the group is stronger, more brutal and harder to confront than he had expected.

Juergen Todenhoefer spent six days in the IS city of Mosul in Iraq, travelling there via Raqqa, in Syria.

Mr Todenhoefer said he found IS followers highly motivated and supportive of the group’s brutality.

He said the spread of fighters meant they were hard targets for air strikes.

A former German politician, Juergen Todenhoefer is the only outsider to have travelled deep into IS territory and back. And, considering that several Westerners have recently been beheaded, he did so at terrifying risk.

In Mosul, captured with lightning speed by IS in June, Mr Todenhoefer saw how the group imposes its extreme version of Sunni Islam.

Posters instruct men on the right positions in which to pray and tell women how to fully cover themselves.

They must not, for example, wear clothes that “resemble those worn by infidel women or men”.

Images on advertising hoardings have been blacked out, and a bookshop displays pamphlets and tomes on religious rulings, including how to treat slaves.

He met child fighters bearing arms for the “caliphate,” and encountered recruits from around the world, including the UK, US, Sweden and Trinidad and Tobago.

Rule by fear

Mr Todenhoefer said he was struck by their brutal zeal, and the scale of their ambition to carry out “religious cleansing” and to expand their territory.

“There is an enthusiasm that I’ve never seen before in warzones,” he said.

“They are so confident, so sure of themselves. At the beginning of this year, few people knew of IS. But now they have conquered an area the size of the UK. This is a one per cent movement with the power of a nuclear bomb or a tsunami.”

[…]

On the surface, life — he said — looks more normal than he had expected. But all the city’s Christians and Shia Muslims had already fled in terror, after IS militants took over.

The jihadists now have their own justice system — with IS flags hanging in courtrooms — and their own police enforcing strict Islamic law, although the local police chief told him that he no longer needed to administer violent punishments.

Fear, said Mr Todenhoefer, appeared to be an extremely powerful deterrent.

‘Very pessimistic’

It was the conversations that he had with the militants who were escorting him, more than what he actually saw, that were most disturbing for Mr Todenhoefer.

He said he reminded the fighters that most chapters of the Koran began with the words “Allah… most merciful”.

“I asked: Where is the mercy? I never got the real answer.”

[…]

Safely back in Munich, Mr Todenhoefer told us: “They are the most brutal and most dangerous enemy I have ever seen in my life.”

“I don’t see anyone who has a real chance to stop them,” he said. “Only Arabs can stop IS. I came back very pessimistic.”

Mr Todenhoefer was lucky to come back at all, even though he had negotiated access to the territory, via a German jihadist, for many months and carried permission issued from the “office of the Caliphate” — which protected him on several occasions.

“I was concerned at some points that they could change their mind,” he said.

In the end, unsure whether they had indeed changed their minds and decided to take him and his son hostage, he had to run across the border into Turkey.

“I had to run 1,000 metres [half a mile] with our bags and all the things we had with us,” he said.

“When we arrived, I had such an incredible feeling of happiness. I realised then that I had had tonnes on my shoulders. I called my family. And in this moment I realised it was not very easy what I had done.”

22 thoughts on “A Brutal and Most Dangerous Enemy

  1. QUOTE== He said he reminded the fighters that most chapters of the Koran began with the words “Allah… most merciful”. ==UNQUOTE

    Mr. Todenhoefer’s assertion is that the majority of the Quran’s 114 chapters begin with the words “Allah… most merciful”. Is this assertion true? If so, it’s easily verified. http://quran.com/ gives a nice index of all 114 chapters, and we can look at the first verse of each one and make a count of how many of these 114 first verses refer to Allah’s mercy.

    Not having the patience for that, I did a spot check of five random chapters, generated by my scientific calculator’s random number function randInt(1,114), which produced the list {108, 104, 17, 59, 47}. In chapters 108, 104, and 17, the first verse does not refer to Allah at all. In chapter 59, the first verse says that Allah is exalted in might and wisdom. And in chapter 47, the first verse calls Allah a “deed waster” (whatever that is). But none of these five randomly chosen Quran chapters refers in its first verse to Allah’s mercy.

    Conclusion: The probability that Mr. Todenhoefer’s assertion is true is very, very low.

  2. I think FEAR is a major weapon used historically by Islam to promote their domination of mankind and this report does its job. We do not need more of this. WE need to wake up and stand up. Other than generate that fear I do not know how this gentleman has helped us.

  3. “They must not, for example, wear clothes that “resemble those worn by infidel women or men”.”

    What about their ‘infidel-style’ military fatigues?

    • And infidel machine guns. And infidel internal combustion engines. And infidel electricity. And infidel aeronautics. And infidel medicine. And infidel toilet paper. And infidel toilets. Pretty much, infidel (every inanimate object in the dictionary). Without our ‘stuff’, they would be powerless against us. Our very existence would be unknown. Beyond the next village, all would be a void.

      • Yes but the Muslims tell themselves that the infidels stole all this stuff from them. The only thing these fagile psychos agree on is….no that’s it.

  4. Having been brought up in the pre-PC era , I was never in any doubt that Islam was sane at rational. Exotic maybe, but Insane and irrational. PC/MC with its forces assumptions of ‘equality’ hides this insanity from us.

    Yes there is a point where a whole nation (or religion) can go insane, whether through fear, or zeal or brainwashing, or combinations thereof.

    This insanity then becomes a magnet for those who have a streak of brutal-ism in their psyche, those who want to gain power bu inflicting pain and fear on others.

    This is Khartoum/Omdurman and the Mahdi (but both sides now have the machine guns) all over again.

    • Yes there is a point where a whole nation (or religion) can go insane,

      —you might be talking about Germany between the Wars!

  5. Safely back in Munich, Mr Todenhoefer told us: “They are the most brutal and most dangerous enemy I have ever seen in my life.”

    Mr Todenhoefer is obviously the type that has to have his hand roasted by the fire before he learns not to play with the tinder. The tinder is in every major European city and town there is no need to travel to the Levant to comprehend the brutal firestorm that could engulf Europe.

    Safely back in Munich, …

  6. Such was and is the pernicious effect on the American people that we could have elected such a man as Barack Obama. His irresponsible or perhaps purposeful work will last for 20 years, or until the next big attack on American soil. Hopefully either ISIS or the Iranians won’t bring a radioactive bomb into our country.

    I only wish someone in the Republican Party will stand up and start raising that point now. Repeatedly. Secure the border!!

    I really wish Newt Gingrich would get up, state he is not running for President and then repeatedly challenges Obama to debate him so that the American people who haven’t been paying attention can see what this horrible human being has done to this country.

    Newt’s got the skills to wipe the smile off that base person’s face.

  7. ISIS is already in Europe and “incidents” will daily increase until a state of war exists acrios the Continent. The moronic politicians will go to their beheading denying it has anything to do with Islam.

    In any Moslem tiwn like nearby Slough they are already declaring local “emirates”.

    For a decade we warned and were mocked and still are and they will go on denying it so it’s down to the more responsible of us to deal with this evolving disaster. The multicultural idiots have created a Biblical disaster.

    or “Pleas come in and dump in my living room because I am so full of self hate!”

    Liberals “progressives”?

    [Intemperate recommendation redacted].

  8. Obama represents the Revenge of the Third World. The silly sheep of the USA were too seduced by the opportunity to demonstrate they were NOT racist, to see who they were really electing.

    But to be fair to Obama, most of the West’s political elites are not very different – except those in Eastern Europe. The others, having been indoctrinated since birth in existential guilt, are nothing but quislings and traitors to their nations.

  9. In Europe “everyone” seems frozen with fear. In London the pasty white blank complexion of what looks like shock on the faces. The man in the seventh century costume just stands there in the middle of the path hands in his knickers pockets staring angrily at the effete frightened pretending not to notice as they robot by.

  10. Going into this lion’s den requires balls of steel, which Mr Todenhoefer does definitely have but saying that it’s only ‘a one per cent movement’ is a bit of an understatement.

    Oh! I have watched another excerpt, in which some german convert would brag about how they are going to conquer Europe even if they would have to kill 500 millions of people with a smile smeared all over his nasty face … Surreal nutjobs :|.

    • Perhpas this “German convert’s” grandfather had some experience of killing millions of people… and now his grandson is thinking something similar, but represented by a slightly different symbol. A crescent moon instead of a swastika.

  11. Going into this lion’s den requires balls of steel, which Mr Todenhoefer does definitely have but saying that it’s only ‘a one per cent movement’ is a bit of an understatement.

    Oh! I have watched another excerpt, in which some german convert would brag about how they are going to conquer Europe even if they would have to kill 500 millions of people with a smile smeared all over his nasty face … Surreal nutjobs :|.

  12. I am dumbfounded. However, I still believe that until the Europeans find something that resembles the principles of Christianity, they will not defeat Islam. The Gates of Vienna were defended by men who believed in Christianity and rightly saw islam as their enemy.

    Today, there is so much multi-culti PC that it may be impossible to defeat to Islam in Europe.

    People who do not see child murder, enslavement and murder of women, and other atrocities because they are too “understanding” or some such idiocy, are not ever going to find the (pardon me) balls to fight this terroristic entity.

    Ave, Western Civilization if the balls do not appear anytime soon.

    I tell you with all sincerity, that Communist Russia, Communist China and all the other Communists, did not constitute a threat this strong and big and overwhelming to Western Civilization. If we do not defeat Islamism and drive them back to their desert countries, which is where they belong, we are toast and so our children and grandchildren. In fact, to protect western civilization I would advocating [intemperate recommendation redacted], just to wake them up to the fact that we do still have balls left.

    I apologize for being so brutal but this is a war to the death. I do not want my grandchildren living under these barbarians and I am sure that neither do you!

  13. Toedenhoefer was let in by ISIS because he is a known Critic of the coalitions strategy…in other words: a [performer of indecent acts for] the Islamists.

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