Publicly confronting Muslims historically in Germany makes for great theater! Watch!

While in Berlin, we decided to go to a large Muslim area, the Kotbusser Tol, situated close to two of the largest mosques in Berlin. We chose a Friday afternoon, their holy day, in order to try and see how Polemics would work there. This meeting turned out to be quite a contrast to the previous day at the Alexander Platz, where mostly Germans walked by mostly blank stares and with nothing good to say. Here, surrounded by Muslims, we were able to get many more responses by those who stood around and reacted to what we were saying. I can imagine that this was the first time that they had heard of the historical problems with their Qur'an and their prophet, and they didn't like what they were hearing. At one point Jay was pushed off the ladder, and a little later a Muslim man came and spat on him. But at no time did Jay or Grace feel threatened, and these encounters led to quite a few Muslims staying around and talking to the few Christians in the crowd who were there to engage face-to-face with them. What was interesting was the reaction that we received from the police on both occasions. We had to get permission from them to even do the 'open airs' with loud speakers, and to use Polemics in public. So, they had a police car stationed both times around 50 feet away in case of any problems. When we finished both days, they came to thank us, as they felt that no one was helping them with their "Muslim Problem" which they had to face on a daily basis. You will note that when Jay was pushed off the ladder a policeman immediately came and arrested the man. Jay had never had that kind of help or backing in all of his 25 years of doing the same thing in Speaker's Corner, in London. In fact, the Police in the UK always supported the Muslims and often blamed the Christians for being pushed off the ladder or being punched, at Speaker's Corner. Such a contrast to what we experienced in Germany. Jay purposely began his talks with the need for the 'Freedom of speech' especially in Europe, where it is quickly being taken away, and replaced with a "Two-Tier policing system", one for Muslims and another for anyone else. For the German Christian street preachers, these new examples of using Historical Polemics when engaging Muslims was a 'paradigm shift' for them, as they realized that in Germany, their country, they had all the right to confront Islam historically, just as was done in Germany so many centuries ago when it was created to do the same for Christianity. It's appropriate that what was first invented and then introduced in Germany for Christianity should now be likewise employed for Islam, a similar religion which makes similar historical claims. © Pfander Centre for Apologetics & Polemics - US, April 14, 2026 (129,040)