Hundreds of Muslims broke the fast together on the Hanau market
square last Easter weekend... For around 20 years, a large joint
breaking of the fast has been held there on the last weekend of the
Islamic fasting month of Ramadan, organized by the “Islamic Association
of Hanau”.
But there are currently several videos going around on social media from the Lent-breaking festival in Hanau, Hesse, which are causing a lot of discussion.
NIUS documents the
footage. It shows little girls standing on stage with an imam. The girls
- most of whom are still of primary school age, some of whom are also
of preschool age - almost all wear the Islamic headscarf, the so-called
hijab (Arabic for "curtain, veil, headscarf"), which covers the hair,
neck and sometimes also the chest. One girl is wearing a long robe that
reaches to the floor, most of them are wearing opaque tights. The
audience smiles happily at the children - several spectators filmed the
performance with their cell phone cameras.
As the girls dance and
sing, they make a gesture known as the Islamist salute: the children
hold up the extended index finger of their right hand.
The greeting is the so-called Tawheed sign in Islam, which is considered a gesture of faith (“There is no god but Allah”).
The
same gesture is also used by Islamist extremists such as Salafists and
the Islamic State (ISIS). When ISIS terrorists killed people, carried
out beheadings and declared the caliphate, they gave this greeting again
and again. The gesture has been known and feared worldwide since the
horrors of the ISIS butchers. The Islamist behind the Berlin
Breitscheidplatz attack, Anis Amri, also posed in front of a
surveillance camera with his index finger outstretched shortly after his
bloody act.
Source: NIUS
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