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The German Federal Ministry of the Interior has banned the Islamist group Muslim Interaktiv. The association “addresses itself with its purpose and its activities against the constitutional order and against the idea of international understanding», said the ministry on Wednesday.
«The club is being dissolved. Muslim Interactive’s assets will be confiscated.”
Since early morning, searches have been taking place in seven properties in Hamburg based on court orders.
“Anyone who aggressively calls for the caliphate on our streets, agitates against the state of Israel and Jews in an intolerable manner and despises the rights of women and minorities will be dealt with with the utmost rigor under the rule of law,” explained Federal Interior Minister Alexander Dobrindt (CSU).
“We will not allow organizations like ‘Muslim Interaktiv’ to destroy our free society with their hatred, despise our democracy and attack our country from within.”
According to the Interior Ministry, twelve properties in Berlin and Hesse were also searched on Wednesday. The basis is investigations against the Generation Islam and Reality Islam associations. The organizations are strongly suspected of “implementing the same reasons for prohibition as ‘Muslim Interactive’ or being sub-organizations of ‘Muslim Interactive’.”
An Islamist demo in Hamburg was apparently registered by a member.Image: DPA
In April 2024, a rally in Hamburg caused outragewhich had apparently been registered by a member of Muslim Interactive. More than 1,200 people demonstrated against Germany’s allegedly anti-Islamic policies. Signs read, among other things, “Caliphate is the solution.” Since then, there have been calls to ban organizations like Muslim Interaktiv.
Regarding the reasons for the ban, the Ministry of the Interior said that according to the group’s wishes, Islam should serve as the sole model of social order. Muslim Interaktiv also disregards human rights, for example because the group is against gender equality and freedom with regard to sexual orientation. In addition, Muslim Interactive violates the idea of international understanding in which Israel’s right to exist is disputed become.
Hamburg’s Interior Senator Andy Grote (SPD) welcomed the ban. In doing so, the security authorities had eliminated a “dangerous and very active Islamist group,” he said.
The head of the Hamburg Office for the Protection of the Constitution, Torsten Voss, spoke of a strong sign of the rule of law against Islamism in Hamburg. “We will continue to fight the enemies of our democracy using all constitutional means”explained Voss. “The ban also protects religion because it is expressly directed at it not against Muslims, but against enemies of the constitutionwho abuse Islam for their ideological purposes.” (rbu/sda/afp)