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Leaders of Swiss Islamic organization face criminal charges
TheLocal.ch ^ | 21 September 2017 11:01 CEST+02:00 | AFP/The Local

Posted on 09/21/2017 10:50:08 PM PDT by Olog-hai

Swiss federal prosecutors have brought charges against leading members of the country’s largest Islamic organization in a criminal probe into jihadist propaganda.

Swiss media reported on Thursday that the president and two members of the governing board of the Islamic Central Council of Switzerland (ICCS) had been charged with violating the ban on groups including Al-Qaeda and Islamic State (IS). The three were named as Nicolas Blancho, ICCS president, Naim Cherni, and Qaasim Illi.

In a statement, the office of Switzerland’s attorney general accused the ICCS of making videos in Syria between September and October 2015 featuring a leading member of Al-Qaeda. The video material was later used for propaganda purposes, according to the indictment, being shown on video platforms including YouTube. […]

Blancho, who converted to Islam at age 16, has in the past denied being tied to extremism but has staked out positions considered more radical than other Muslim leaders in Switzerland.

The council has previously said that the videos Cherni made in Syria have “nothing to do with Al-Qaeda” and were intended to raise awareness among Muslims about the conflict in the country. …

(Excerpt) Read more at thelocal.ch ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Syria; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: alqaeda; europe; hijrah; iccs; jihad; rop; switzerland

1 posted on 09/21/2017 10:50:08 PM PDT by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai

Nail the jihadist bastards!!!


2 posted on 09/21/2017 10:54:49 PM PDT by Enchante
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In an email to AFP, [Qaasim] Illi said the attorney general was “pushed by an Islamophobic social wave (and) is trying to defame Switzerland’s largest Islamic grassroots organization by its fabricated claim”.

He said the ICCS had nearly 4,000 members, representing about one percent of Muslims in Switzerland. …
Islam is 4.04 percent of Switzerland’s population, if Illi’s claim is true? That is already too high.
3 posted on 09/21/2017 11:01:09 PM PDT by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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How does a country with such strict residency laws go from zero to four percent muslims in less than a generation?

We both know the answer of course.


4 posted on 09/22/2017 1:36:00 AM PDT by Mr Radical (In times of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act)
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To: Olog-hai

*slam is a criminal organization.


6 posted on 09/22/2017 4:47:45 AM PDT by I want the USA back (Constantly doing things in opposition to human nature is insanity.)
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To: Olog-hai

Their Allah allows Muslims to lie in self-defense. The logic is “lie with the tongue not the heart”. Shia are the worst, Sunni are not far behind.


7 posted on 09/22/2017 5:28:26 AM PDT by existentially_kuffer
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Where are all those imaginary moderate Muslims?


8 posted on 09/22/2017 8:49:36 AM PDT by aimhigh (1 John 3:23)
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Hahaha. moozlums are malignancies on civil society everywhere.


9 posted on 09/22/2017 9:31:43 AM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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While in the rest of Western Europe jihadist propagamda is literature.


10 posted on 09/23/2017 9:31:28 AM PDT by arthurus
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