What could they possibly be afraid of?

(AINA) — Germany’s Interior Ministry Sunday banned the entry into the country of internationally-known Koran burner Terry Jones upon the invitation of the “fringe right-wing party” (Deutsche Welle) Bürgerbewegung Pro Deutschland (Civil Movement Pro Germany), as against the “interest in maintaining public order.” Jones was to travel to Germany in conjunction with a Berlin screening by Pro Deutschland of the film promoted by Jones, Innocence of Muslims, whose trailer on the internet has caused an international uproar in recent days in conjunction with often violent Islamic unrest around the world.

German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle, whose ministry had proposed the entry ban to the Interior Ministry, commented that “preachers of hate have nothing to seek in Germany.” Interior Minister Hans-Peter Friedrich in turn condemned the screening intention of Pro Deutschland as a provocation of Islamist groups in Germany akin to “pouring oil into the fire with gross negligence” and announced a determination to stop this screening with “all legally permissible means.”

While much attention in recent days has gone to Muslim demonstrations at American diplomatic facilities, Germans have their own particular reasons to be concerned about Islamist violence, for Muslim protesters ransacked the German embassy in Khartoum, Sudan, on September 14, 2012. For this particular attack local Khartoum imams had in the preceding days urged their congregations to protest before the embassy due to German acceptance of groups like Pro Deutschland publicly demonstrating before German mosques with copies of the 2005 Danish Muhammad cartoons. Indeed, the Sudanese foreign ministry called upon the German government on September 13, 2012, to prohibit such public use of these caricatures.