A wave of alarmed awareness seems to be sweeping over European media, after the brutal terrorist murder of Dutch filmmaker Theo Van Gogh. A German TV station went undercover in a Berlin mosque and filmed the imam ranting against Germany, Europe, and democracy: Religious violence in Netherlands alarms Germany. (Hat tip: Davids Medienkritik.)

German opposition conservatives are demanding a ban on preaching in mosques in any language other than German.

Calls for such a move were fuelled by a dramatic TV film secretly made last week in a Berlin mosque.

“These Germans, these atheists, these Europeans don’t shave under their arms and their sweat collects under their hair with a revolting smell and they stink,” said the preacher at the Mevlana Mosque in Berlin’s Kreuzberg district, in the film made by Germany’s ZDF public TV, adding: “Hell lives for the infidels! Down with all democracies and all democrats!”