Please, explain this to me!
Radio Commentary, 90.7, 91.7 New Life FM, September 25, 2015 – By Sue Ella Deadwyler
If you’re a patriotic American like I am, you might be just as confused as I am … not about where my next meal is coming from or does my car need new tires. But, you’re probably baffled at what’s happening in the world … not just “over there,” but the world right here at home.
One of the things bothering me is the reason a Christian family packed up and left their native country for asylum in the United States. In 2006, as Mr. and Mrs. Romeike were home-schooling their children, German police appeared on their doorstep to forcibly take their children to public school.
The German court had decided religious or philosophical motivation develops “parallel societies” that must be counteracted. So, to avoid fines and threats for refusing to send their children to a state-approved German school, the Romeike family left their native country in 2008 seeking asylum in the United States, because Christian home education was not tolerated in Germany.So, this is why I’m confused. Four years after the Romeikes left, one of the oldest universities in Germany opened that country’s first taxpayer-funded department of Islamic theology. In fact, it was the first of four German Islamic university centers built to counteract “hate preachers.” Of the seven members on the Islamic university center advisory board, five of them are affiliated with branches of the Turkish government.
Since the term “hate preachers” in this context means citizens who criticize Muslims and Islam, it’s important to know that in 2012 the German domestic intelligence agency was trying to decide whether people critical of Muslims and Islam would be criminally guilty of breaching the German constitution.
All this reminded me of the Romeikes, because Germany announced on August 19 that 800,000 Syrian refugees would enter Germany this year and at least 640,000 (80 percent) are Muslim, and have an annual birth-rate of 1.6 percent.
To accommodate their religion, Saudi Arabia offered to finance and build 200 new mosques in Germany – one for every 100 Muslim refugees Germany takes in. Right about now, Germans may be wondering whether their country’s policy against a “parallel society” has changed, and I’m wondering this: If the Romeikes were Muslim, could they have home-schooled their children and remained in Germany? For Georgia Insight I’m Sue Ella Deadwyler, your Capitol correspondent.