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The German government has on Wednesday banned a Muslim group over accusations of violating human rights and the country’s democratic values.
The Canadian Press reports that raids were also conducted against two other Muslim groups.
According to the Interior Ministry, Muslim Interaktiv represented a threat to the country’s constitutional order by promoting antisemitism and discrimination against women and sexual minorities.
Several hundred police officers searched seven premises in Hamburg. Hamburg is linked to Muslim Interaktiv. 12 other premises in Berlin and the central German state of Hesse were also searched in connection with two Muslim groups – Generation Islam and Reality Islam.
In Hamburg, assets like cash, data stored on computers, and handwritten notes were confiscated. Muslim Interaktiv’s websites were also shut down, and the group is banned from continuing its activities and from actively displaying any symbols of Muslim Interaktiv. The group is known for a savvy online presence used to appeal especially to young Muslims who may feel alienated or discriminated against in Germany’s Christian majority society.
The government argued the group was a particular threat because it promoted Islam as the sole model for the social order and maintained that Islamic law should take precedence over German law in regulating life in the Muslim community, including in areas such as the treatment of women.
The Interior Minister, Alexander Dobrindt, said, “We will respond with the full force of the law to anyone who aggressively calls for a caliphate on our streets, incites hatred against the state of Israel and Jews in an intolerable manner, and despises the rights of women and minorities
“We will not allow organizations such as Muslim Interaktiv to undermine our free society with their hatred, despise our democracy, and attack our country from within.”
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