Islamic Organization Banned In Germany After Raids In 60 Cities
GERMANY ON EDGE: 200 homes and mosques RAIDED by anti-terror cops in ISIS crackdown
HUNDREDS of German police have launched coordinated raids this morning in ten of the country’s 16 states hunting for supporters and recruiters of Islamic State among a Salafist group calling itself ‘The True Religion.’
BERLIN — Hundreds of police officers searched about 190 offices, mosques and apartments of members and supporters of the Islamic group “The true religion” as the German government announced a ban of the organization Tuesday.
Police raided places in 60 cities in western Germany and also in Berlin seizing documents and files, German Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere said. Nobody was detained.
The group — also known as “Read!” — has been distributing German-language copies of the Qur’an across the country. The interior minister said that more than 140 youths had travelled to Syria and Iraq to join fighters there after having participated in the group’s campaigns in Germany.
“The translations of the Qur’an are being distributed along with messages of hatred and unconstitutional ideologies,” de Maiziere told reporters in Berlin. “Teenagers are being radicalized with conspiracy theories.”
Police officers walk towards a warehouse of the ‘Lies! Verlag Gesellschaft’ (Read! Publishing Company) that publishes an edition of the Quran in German language and that is backed by a group called The True Religion (Die wahre Religion) in Pulheim, Nov. 15, 2016. (Photo: AFP/Getty Images)
Young men in long robes and bushy beards handing out German copies of the Qur’an has been a common sight in downtown and shopping areas across Germany for several years.
The ban of the group comes a week after security authorities arrested five men who allegedly aided the Islamic State group in Germany by recruiting members and providing financial and logistical help. The recent operations suggest that the German government is trying to clamp down hard on radical Islamists.
The German interior minister stressed that the ban does not restrict the freedom of religion in Germany or the peaceful practice of Islam in any way, but that the group had glorified terrorism and the fight against the German constitution in videos and meetings.
“We don’t want terrorism in Germany … and we don’t want to export terrorism,” de Maiziere said adding that the ban was also a measure to help protect peaceful Islam in the country.
I read today that Merkel plans to run again in 2017. ‘to preserve the liberal world’ I believe was in the statement by her lackey. Can you believe it?
I suppose its not about who votes, its who counts them. Merkel’s background gave me the creeps way back when, and its getting worse by the day.