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On December 20, 2016, a truck rammed into a crowded Christmas market in [[Berlin]], killing at least 12 people and injuring at least 48 others.<ref>[https://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/police-truck-attack-killed-12-berlin-intentional]</ref> ISIS claimed responsibility for the attack.<ref>Hjelmgaard, Kim (December 20, 2016). [https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2016/12/20/berlin-truck-crash/95644498/ ISIL calls Berlin attacker a 'soldier' as manhunt for killer resumes]. ''USA Today''. Retrieved December 20, 2016.</ref>

On December 20, 2016, a truck rammed into a crowded Christmas market in [[Berlin]], killing at least 12 people and injuring at least 48 others.<ref>[https://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/police-truck-attack-killed-12-berlin-intentional]</ref> ISIS claimed responsibility for the attack.<ref>Hjelmgaard, Kim (December 20, 2016). [https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2016/12/20/berlin-truck-crash/95644498/ ISIL calls Berlin attacker a 'soldier' as manhunt for killer resumes]. ''USA Today''. Retrieved December 20, 2016.</ref>

In recent decades [[Salafism]] has become the dominant mainstream thought among adherents of [[Sunni]] Islam of the [[Middle East]] and [[North Africa]].<ref>[https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=http://www.icanpeacework.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/Women-Religious-Extremism.pdf&ved=0ahUKEwjKucW3grPRAhVN2WMKHazSAVgQFghgMA4&usg=AFQjCNEnVHXBmLSE6TuP32LaKC5X3HdXPw&sig2=jejyvnsVXWGKVLM0h5noFQ Extremism as Mainstream: Implications for Women, Development & Security in the MENA/Asia Region], Brief 11, Spring 2014. International Civil Society Action Network.  icanpeacework.org</ref> These regions, along with Central Africa, are the countries of origin of most of the Muslims who have entered Europe and Germany since the [[Obama administration|Obama regime's]] failed "[[Arab Spring]]" uprisings which have left in excess of 300,000 dead and at least 11 million homeless and displaced globally.<ref>[https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/campaigns/2016/01/arab-spring-five-years-on/ THE 'ARAB SPRING': FIVE YEARS ON]. [[Amnesty International]]. amnesty.org</ref><ref>[http://www.carnegiecouncil.org/en_US/studio/multimedia/20160322/index.html/_view/lang=en_US Blood Year: The Unraveling of Western Counterterrorism], DAVID KILCULLEN, DAVID SHIPLEY, JOANNE J. MYERS, Carnegie Council Global Ethics Forum, MARCH 22, 2016</ref><ref>[http://www.onlinecolumnist.com/2016/11/29/obamas-failed-syrian-policy/ OBAMA’S FAILED SYRIAN POLICY], BY JOHN M. CURTIS, NOVEMBER 29, 2016. onlinecolmnist.com</ref><ref>[https://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/26/magazine/is-this-the-end-of-christianity-in-the-middle-east.html Is this the End of Christianity in the Middle East?], Eliza Griswold, ''[[New York Times]]'', 22 July 2015</ref><ref>[http://www.newsweek.com/middle-east-saudi-arabia-iran-nimr-execution-cleric-obama-king-salman-tehran-413680 THE LOSER OF THE COLD WAR BETWEEN IRAN AND SAUDI ARABIA MAY BE OBAMA], BY JONATHAN BRODER, ''[[Newsweek]]'',  1/11/16</ref><ref>[https://socialistworker.org/2016/06/07/the-untold-toll-of-obamas-war-on-isis The untold toll of Obama's war on ISIS], Ashley Smith, June 7, 2016. socialistworker.org</ref><ref>While these horrors unfolded for five years by either design or incompetence, most American mainstream journalists cowered in sycophancy before Barack Obama for fear of being called "[[racist]]", even though Islam is not a "race".</ref> Salafism rejects [[democracy]] as disobedient to Allah and [[idolatry|idolatrous]], and advocates a civil regime under [[shariah]] law.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=MLE68zW_7LUC&pg=PA170&lpg=PA170&dq=al+wala+wal+bara+democracy&source=bl&ots=aZTtjWVHiV&sig=-XSHBkJqJ3BiaTKzRc4UgvMO_nk&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjd-965irPRAhXqiFQKHVo_CKAQ6AEISzAM#v=onepage&q=al%20wala%20wal%20bara%20democracy&f=false Fault Lines in Global Jihad: Organizational, Strategic, and Ideological Fissures], Assaf Moghadam & Brian Fishman, Taylor & Francis, May 10, 2011, pp. 170-171</ref> A Muslim who migrates for [[economic]] opportunity or to escape [[tyranny]] (in the Western sense of the word) is a [[traitor]] to Islam. He is deemed a radical and worse than an [[infidel]] to Sunni-Salafi society; he has betrayed his nation and his people (''[[takfir]]''). Those bringing ''shariah'' law to non-Muslim lands - the dominant mainstream legal system among Sunnis - are on a "civilizing" mission to the "ignorant" (''jahiliyyah'') disbelieving "infidels".<ref>[http://www.freedomhouse.org/report/special-reports/saudi-publications-hate-ideology-invade-american-mosques Saudi Publications on Hate Ideology] January 2006</ref><ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=5QE3AgAAQBAJ&pg=PT15&lpg=PT15&dq=qaradawi+austrian+text&source=bl&ots=CQddhGpFZ_&sig=XGcgu4Qo5_QlpzQUNIjcsQWYJOY&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiondPvxb7RAhXGslQKHc2BA_YQ6AEIQDAO#v=onepage&q=qaradawi%20austrian%20text&f=false Islamism and the West: From "Cultural Attack" to "Missionary Migrant"], Uriya Shavit, Routledge, Nov 26, 2013</ref>

In recent decades [[Salafism]] has become the dominant mainstream thought among adherents of [[Sunni]] Islam of the [[Middle East]] and [[North Africa]].<ref>[https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=http://www.icanpeacework.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/Women-Religious-Extremism.pdf&ved=0ahUKEwjKucW3grPRAhVN2WMKHazSAVgQFghgMA4&usg=AFQjCNEnVHXBmLSE6TuP32LaKC5X3HdXPw&sig2=jejyvnsVXWGKVLM0h5noFQ Extremism as Mainstream: Implications for Women, Development & Security in the MENA/Asia Region], Brief 11, Spring 2014. International Civil Society Action Network.  icanpeacework.org</ref> These regions, along with Central Africa, are the countries of origin of most of the Muslims who have entered Europe and Germany since the [[Obama administration|Obama regime's]] failed "[[Arab Spring]]" uprisings which have left in excess of 300,000 dead and at least 11 million homeless and displaced globally.<ref>[https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/campaigns/2016/01/arab-spring-five-years-on/ THE 'ARAB SPRING': FIVE YEARS ON]. [[Amnesty International]]. amnesty.org</ref><ref>[http://www.carnegiecouncil.org/en_US/studio/multimedia/20160322/index.html/_view/lang=en_US Blood Year: The Unraveling of Western Counterterrorism], DAVID KILCULLEN, DAVID SHIPLEY, JOANNE J. MYERS, Carnegie Council Global Ethics Forum, MARCH 22, 2016</ref><ref>[http://www.onlinecolumnist.com/2016/11/29/obamas-failed-syrian-policy/ OBAMA’S FAILED SYRIAN POLICY], BY JOHN M. CURTIS, NOVEMBER 29, 2016. onlinecolmnist.com</ref><ref>[https://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/26/magazine/is-this-the-end-of-christianity-in-the-middle-east.html Is this the End of Christianity in the Middle East?], Eliza Griswold, ''[[New York Times]]'', 22 July 2015</ref><ref>[http://www.newsweek.com/middle-east-saudi-arabia-iran-nimr-execution-cleric-obama-king-salman-tehran-413680 THE LOSER OF THE COLD WAR BETWEEN IRAN AND SAUDI ARABIA MAY BE OBAMA], BY JONATHAN BRODER, ''[[Newsweek]]'',  1/11/16</ref><ref>[https://socialistworker.org/2016/06/07/the-untold-toll-of-obamas-war-on-isis The untold toll of Obama's war on ISIS], Ashley Smith, June 7, 2016. socialistworker.org</ref><ref>While these horrors unfolded for five years by either design or incompetence, most American mainstream journalists cowered in sycophancy before Barack Obama for fear of being called "[[racist]]", even though Islam is not a "race".</ref> Salafism rejects [[democracy]] as disobedient to Allah and [[idolatry|idolatrous]], and advocates a civil regime under [[shariah]] law.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=MLE68zW_7LUC&pg=PA170&lpg=PA170&dq=al+wala+wal+bara+democracy&source=bl&ots=aZTtjWVHiV&sig=-XSHBkJqJ3BiaTKzRc4UgvMO_nk&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjd-965irPRAhXqiFQKHVo_CKAQ6AEISzAM#v=onepage&q=al%20wala%20wal%20bara%20democracy&f=false Fault Lines in Global Jihad: Organizational, Strategic, and Ideological Fissures], Assaf Moghadam & Brian Fishman, Taylor & Francis, May 10, 2011, pp. 170-171</ref> A Muslim who migrates for [[economic]] opportunity or to escape [[tyranny]] (in the Western sense of the word) is a [[traitor]] to Islam. He is deemed a radical and worse than an [[infidel]] to Sunni-Salafi society; he has betrayed his nation and his people (''[[takfir]]''). Those bringing ''shariah'' law to non-Muslim lands - the dominant mainstream legal system among Sunnis - are on a "civilizing" mission to the "ignorant" (''jahiliyyah'') disbelieving "infidels".<ref>[http://www.freedomhouse.org/report/special-reports/saudi-publications-hate-ideology-invade-american-mosques Saudi Publications on Hate Ideology] January 2006</ref><ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=5QE3AgAAQBAJ&pg=PT15&lpg=PT15&dq=qaradawi+austrian+text&source=bl&ots=CQddhGpFZ_&sig=XGcgu4Qo5_QlpzQUNIjcsQWYJOY&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiondPvxb7RAhXGslQKHc2BA_YQ6AEIQDAO#v=onepage&q=qaradawi%20austrian%20text&f=false Islamism and the West: From "Cultural Attack" to "Missionary Migrant"], Uriya Shavit, Routledge, Nov 26, 2013</ref>