Germany Cracks Down on Salafist Muslims

Too little too late? Remember: None of this would be necessary without the support of a corrupt and hostile state, media, and academia. Nations do not as a normal course of policy inflict suicide upon themselves via mass immigration of disparate peoples/cultures and the accompanying promotion of everything non-indigenous to their own respective indigenous peoples.

Nationwide raids targeting Islamic Salafists have swept Germany, with one Salafi group being banned, as Berlin steps up pressure on the ultra-conservative movement to quell its members’ “anti-democratic behavior.”

­Announcing the crackdown, Interior Minister Hans-Peter Friedrich said the freshly outlawed Millatu Ibrahim group “works against our constitutional order and against understanding between peoples.”

Raids across seven German states, involving searches in about 70 apartments in Berlin, Hamburg, Cologne and other locations, could produce evidence allowing the ban of two more Salafists groups associated with extremism and violence, Friedrich added.

Some 4,000 Salafis are believed to reside in Germany, while not all of them are considered violent, remarks national broadcaster ARD. Despite the group looking insignificantly small in numbers compared to the four million Muslims living in the country, Berlin fears Salafists still manage to fuel militancy among socially alienated Muslims.

“Today’s operation shows we are raising the pressure on the Salafists and are acting with resolve against their anti-democratic behavior,” Ralf Jaeger, the Interior Minister of North-Rhine Westphalia, told Spiegel Online.

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2012-06-14