Posted on 12/28/2005 8:52:42 AM PST by knighthawk
BERLIN (Reuters) - The German state of Bavaria banned a radical Islamist group on Wednesday, saying materials seized from its offices urged Muslims to murder Jews and Christians.
"With today's ban of the Multi-Kultur-Haus (MKH) association, Bavaria is making the limits clear to supporters of foreign extremist organisations," the state's interior minister, Guenther Beckstein, said in a statement.
He said authorities raided the association's offices on Wednesday morning and seized a number of items. As the group is based in Bavaria, the ban effectively shuts it down.
Bavarian authorities had been watching the MHK in the town of Neu-Ulm for some time. Security officials had previously seized textbooks and other publications, materials Beckstein said clearly showed the group's radical nature.
One book seized from the MHK library called on Sunni Muslims to "execute Jews and Christians as infidels," the statement said.
An audio cassette said: "Oh worthy ones, oh friends of love, send us bombs to kill the Jews with. No to the Jews, no to the Jews!"
A confiscated compact disc glorified the death of martyrs and described the rebellion in Chechnya as "a wonderful example of Islamic unity thanks to brother Muslims from all over the world who have joined the Jihad."
Beckstein, who has deported Islamists in the past for what Germany calls "preaching hate," warned of further moves against any similar groups.
"Organisations which are aggressive in nature ... and call for the use of violence will not be tolerated here," he said.
Khaled el-Masri, a German citizen of Lebanese origin who was mistakenly kidnapped by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency and imprisoned for five months in Afghanistan, is from Neu-Ulm.
A German security official told Reuters last week that Masri appeared to be a fringe player on the town's Islamist scene before he was seized by the CIA under its "rendition" policy of moving terrorism suspects from one country to another.
A Hamburg-based cell of al Qaeda has been blamed for the September 11 attacks on America. Since then, Germany has cracked down on Muslim militants living in the country and has had a number of high-profile trials of radical Islamists.
Ping
I feel the love.
They're fed up with the muslems eating all the pretzels.
Or what? "you better not belong to that radical islam group or we'll issue another formal public statement against you!"
A group in Bavaria that advocates violence against Jews. Sounds familiar for some reason.
And how many copies of this "Koran" did they find?
mistakenly??
Or get arrested. Germany's constitution allows for the criminalization of organizations deemed to be against good order and democracy, even if they are political parties.
Why don't they just implement a Final Soultion for islamic hate groups. Wait, the international terrorist Bush is doing that. sarcasm off.
This is a drop in the bucket. The muslim brotherhood openly operates over a dozen large mosques in Germany, including the biggest mosque in Germany located in Munich.
"Germany's constitution allows for the criminalization of organizations deemed to be against good order and democracy, even if they are political parties."
Where we allow you to support them and keep your name out of the public record. Are we designed to fail?
And as you can see in this case, the Muslim brotherhood is very well watched by the "offices for the protection of the constitution" (Bundes-/Landesämter für Verfassungsschutz). We are doing what we can to prevent another Hamburg.
The Final Solution involved importation and extermination. Will we exterminate the terrorists we already have at the risk of looking like Nazis? Perhaps we should, like at Nurenburg. We were not the Nazis there.
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