2023-11-16 10:25:32
The police in Germany searched properties in seven federal states as part of investigations once morest the “Islamic Center Hamburg” (IZH). The IZH is suspected of going once morest the constitutional order, the German Interior Ministry announced on Thursday. The security authorities also investigated the suspicion that the club supported the activities of the terrorist organization Hezbollah. The investigation might result in a ban.
Interior Minister Nancy Faeser (SPD) said that the IZH had been monitored by the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution for a long time and was classified as Islamist. She emphasized: “Especially now, at a time when many Jews feel particularly threatened, the following applies: We generally do not tolerate Islamist propaganda or anti-Semitic and anti-Israel incitement.”
The center is seen as an extension of the Iranian regime, which congratulated the Islamist Hamas on its attack on Israel and described it as a “turning point in the continuation of armed resistance.”
According to the information, objects in Hamburg, Lower Saxony, Hesse, Baden-Württemberg, Bavaria, Berlin and North Rhine-Westphalia were searched in the morning. In a statement from the ministry it was said that the activities of the IZH, which is responsible for the Imam Ali Mosque in Hamburg, were “aimed at spreading the revolutionary concept of the supreme (Iranian) leaders, which is suspected of being once morest the constitutional order in Germany and the idea of international understanding”. The investigators are also reportedly looking at accounts. Since there is currently no ban on associations, no money has been confiscated.
According to the ministry, the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution not only keeps an eye on the activities in the Hamburg facility, also known as the Blue Mosque, but also assumes that the IZH “exercises great influence on certain mosques and clubs, up to complete control.” An anti-Semitic and anti-Israel attitude is often evident within these circles, the statement said. An eyewitness said that more than 30 personnel carriers drove up to the Blue Mosque on the Alster in the darkness early on Thursday morning. In Frankfurt am Main, the police went to the “Center for Islamic Culture Frankfurt”.
The American Jewish Committee Berlin welcomed the measures once morest the IZH and its environment. “The mullah regime spreads its anti-Semitic, Islamist, homophobic and misogynistic ideology through its propaganda institutions and structures in Germany and represents a real danger to the Jewish community as well as opposition members, Kurds and other minorities in this country,” it said Notice.
A week ago, Faeser said in the Bundestag that bans on the Islamist Hamas movement and the Samidoun network had recently come into force. She dissolved the German branch of Samidoun. She then added: “We are already working on further bans.” Some opposition domestic politicians had criticized the fact that there were no searches of suspected supporters of these associations parallel to the ban.
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