From Apollo News:
The Hamburg Public Prosecutor’s Office is investigating two Christian YouTubers for criticising Muslim antisemitism and Islam in a video. …
Together, Niko and Tino run the Christian YouTube channel Eternal Life, where they post videos in which they talk with people about Jesus and his message. …
In February 2025, the public prosecutor’s office launched an ex officio investigation into Niko over statements in a video from 2024. … The Protestant newspaper Idea was the first to report on the investigation against Niko. Apollo News has now learned that the second YouTuber, Tino, is also under investigation for the same video.
Tino and Niko have taken down the offending video, entitled Islam is not peace (Der Islam ist kein Frieden), but reporters have seen it. Apparently it was posted in the context of the pro-Palestine protests that were unfolding in Hamburg at the time and features Niko editorialising on what he sees as the dangers of Islam. The video claims that “Palestinians are working towards the extermination of the Jews, according to the dictates of the Hadiths”, among them the Hadith proclaiming that “The time will not come until Muslims will fight the Jews and kill them” – a text which indeed is cited in Article 7 of the Hamas Charter. In the video Niko further claims that “hatred of Jews… is a demonic spirit and does not come from God” and that “Islam and the message behind it bring only hatred, power and murder”, concluding that “this religion is not peace, not joy and not life”.
Prosecutors believe these statements may violate Section 166 of the German Criminal Code, which prohibits the “revilement of religious faiths and religious and ideological communities”. Specifically, StGB §166 makes it illegal to publish content that disparages “the religion or ideology of others” or “a church or other religious or ideological community in Germany… in a manner suited to causing a disturbance of the public peace”. That last clause is the most important. I find it very hard to understand how confessional content like this could even potentially rise to the level of incitement. Since Covid, however, German prosecutors have deployed our speech statutes as maximally as possible in the hopes of proscribing all manner of discourse.
This is another in a long series of cases where we find the German state pursuing small-time content creators for posting the most benign things that would have attracted no attention had there been no criminal investigation. The YouTube channel Eternal Life as of today has only about 1,400 subscribers and 17 videos featuring nothing but bog-standard evangelical Christian content. What is more, the offending video had less than 1,000 views before it was removed. Apparently YouTube classified the video as “dangerous” before the prosecutor’s office came knocking, which probably means some internet censorship NGO was responsible for tipping off both prosecutors and the platform.
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Without looking into what these Youtubers have actually said it is important to point out that if people are not inciting violence, or discriminating against people based on their religion then they should be free to have an opinion. No one wants to offend or criticise religions for the sake of it (Ok some maybe do), but the problem with Islam is that it is not just a religion. It is a Political and Legal system as well, and if something is political than we must all be free to disagree with and be critical of it.
I wonder how many Christians pull stunts like this. And do you think the minority Christians living in countries such as Egypt, Pakistan or Sudan would behave this way towards Muslim children? I’m now of the opinion that many of these migrants who commit crimes do not have legitimate mental health conditions at all. Psychiatrists assessing them are probably under pressure or told directly to diagnose them as such so as to avoid deportation. I think they’re majority low IQ, low impulse control and low-skilled men who couldn’t begin to integrate and respect our laws and culture if they tried. It’s not like the boats are bringing in shed-loads of highly skilled migrants with PhDs, is it? Surely a one-way ticket back to Bangladesh where he allegedly has a wife and kids would’ve been more appropriate and cheaper than god knows how many years bed and board in a psychiatric facility. Services which should be prioritising native people not foreigners, whose own country should be dealing with them.
Bringing in the criminal and uncivilized dregs from the societies of various third world countries has never and will never benefit or enhance our Western countries one iota. There’s masses of evidence… Read more »
A typical socialost jiu-jitsu move aimed at devaluing everything. By definition of that law, all religions and ideologies are the same, no one is better than another, no intrinsic value in anything.
All that is left is the cold, raw, unchallenged power of the bureaucracy. Which of course.means the bureaucrats hold all the power.
Nice bit of free advertising for the Christians. Kontraproduktiv with luck.
This is unsurprising, our political class are bought and paid for and the greens are too stupid to see what’s going on. Here’s a video to scare you.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SQ_S86eo4hE
Prosecutors believe these statements may violate Section 166 of the German Criminal Code, which prohibits the “revilement of religious faiths and religious and ideological communities”.
Presumably that also forbids criticism of Nazi ideology?
And climate change since that is ideological not scientific.
Indeed, many in the EU would like to criminalise those they call “climate change deniers”.
This isn’t surprising. The globalists have been trying to place Islam beyond criticism for a long time. Witness our own Establishment’s adoption of the Islam-fascist concept of “Islamophobia”. The question is, why are the globalists so scared of criticism of Islam? And why are they petrified of, for example, ordinary Christians having their say? Is it because the globalists are using Islam in their war against us? The hope being, presumably, to distract us from the destruction the globalists are wreaking on our societies.
Why are they petrified? Because only one group of adherents to a particular religion contains a significant minority of people willing to murder in the name of their religion.
It’s a sobering thought that in a supposedly free, democratic, modern western nation it is not permitted to engage in full and open discussion of spiritual matters, or for different faiths to express their own particular stance on secular matters, such as the operations of a terrorist organisation.
We’ve become used to the deafening silence from leaders in the various Muslim communities when an atrocity is carried out by fanatical followers of the Islamic faith, but that seems to be OK. What apparently is not OK is when people from other faiths condemn it.
I fear the UK is heading in the same direction, with all the talk of controlling Islamophobia. (Interesting that the Wikipedia definition of the term starts off by describing it as “irrational”.)
It does seem that Muslims have a free hand whilst the non Muslims are censored. Even the King is on their side and our idiotic spiritual leaders are agents of Satan!
Well Germany is the heart of totalitarianism, did anyone think it had changed? No they just banned anyone talking about it and their history, sadly it has changed us in defeat somehow, but that was more the Communist takeover of the institutions.
Is the UK that different?
Included in my statement, yes we are no different, though because of a slightly different root cause.