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Germany: Police crack down on “Shariah Police” patrols enforcing Islamic law in Wuppertal

Sep 5, 2014 3:24 pm By Robert Spencer

ShariahPoliceGermanyWe have also seen Sharia vigilantes in Britain. In both Britain and Germany, authorities cracked down on them. But time is on the side of the Sharia patrols. In a few years, they will be able to start up operations again, with non-Muslim authorities too weak and compromised to do anything to stop them.

“Police throw book at Shariah vigilantes,” The Local, September 5, 2014 (thanks to Nicole):

Authorities in Wuppertal are cracking down on conservative young Islamists who have mounted ‘police’ patrols by drinking and gambling venues in the Ruhr city, officials said on Friday.

Charges of unlawful assembly and use of uniform in public were brought against 11 members of a group trying to enforce aspects of strict Islamic Sharia law in the North Rhine-Westphalia city, a spokeswoman for the Wuppertal police told The Local.

Officers stopped the 11-man group on the street on Wednesday. Some were wearing orange vests bearing the words ‘Shariah Police’, in violation of federal German law, the spokeswoman said.

The group has been stopping young people at local drinking and gambling establishments and urging them to abstain from activities deemed to be ungodly according to Islam.

The Wednesday incident was the first time they had directly violated the law, and no formal complaints had been made against them.

“There is no evidence that they have intimated anybody,” the spokeswoman said, adding that talks were under way between integration authorities and local mosque leaders to address the situation.
Wednesday was also the day the group created its Facebook account, which by Friday had been ‘Liked’ by more than 1,500 visitors.

“Can a vest and a name really cause so much headache?” the group posted on its page after the encounter with police.

“What have all the grumblers now coming out of the woodwork done for wayward youth?” it also asked. “Do you realize how many are buying and consuming drugs? If you are so honest and good, where is your shrieking and outrage?”

Don’t cross the line, warn police

Meanwhile, the Wuppertal police on Friday released a statement pledging to crack down on anyone seeking to take the law into their own hands, especially with any use of intimidation or force.

“The state has an exclusive monopoly on the use of force,” reminded local police chief Birgitta Radermacher. “Any conduct that intimidates, provokes or makes people insecure will not be tolerated. These ‘Sharia Police’ have no legitimacy,” she added.

There had been repeated attempts, especially at night time, by members of the Salafi Islamist community to influence and recruit young people, the statement said.

Police presence in the city centre had been strengthened and citizens were urged to report sightings of the group, which has said it will expand its activities in other towns.

The group reportedly identifies itself with the Salafi movement, an ultra-conservative sub-group within Islam with a strong following in the Middle East. Most of the world’s Salafis are from Qatar, UAE and Saudi Arabia.
Authorities in North Rhine-Westphalia have expressed concern at the implications of ad hoc community ‘patrols’ by its members here.

“In this way they are demonstrating that they do not recognized our law-based state,” an interior ministry spokesperson told the Rheinischer Post newspaper.

The head of the local CDU branch and security expert for the Christian Democrats in the state, Peter Biesenbach, described the situation as an “alarm signal”.

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  1. Beagle says

    Sep 5, 2014 at 3:38 pm

    “conservative young Islamists”
    — —
    Dictionary.com “conservative”:
    1. Favoring traditional views and values; tending to oppose change.
    2. Traditional or restrained in style.
    a conservative dark suit.
    3. Moderate; cautious.
    a conservative estimate.
    — —
    Either the MSM is admitting what they term “radical” Islam is the traditional view, or they are saying Germany is already a sharia state.

    I don’t think they know that’s what they are saying. Obviously they use “conservative” as a catch-all term for things they don’t like.

    Such labeling of jihadis and Islamic supremacists is so annoying to me I actually could not read past that one word without typing this post. OK, I guess I feel a little better.

    • Debbie C. says

      Sep 8, 2014 at 12:38 pm

      Yes, the orange vest and a name can cause terror in the heart of many when it represents a violent, savage, barbaric group who treat their captives by beheading and who are even worse than the nazis were. Germany and Germans along with the rest of the world should have some idea of what this kind of thing represents to the world. It’s not exactly the same, but the nazis must have struck terror in the people who they governed and the rest of the world at the time.

  2. Jovial Joe says

    Sep 5, 2014 at 3:41 pm

    ‘Integration authorities’ – kind of undermined by the very existence of this group, unless it is the German population who are to be subsumed within Islam and yes, I can see that happening.

  3. Champ says

    Sep 5, 2014 at 3:45 pm

    ahaha! ..well, they won’t be hard to spot in those orange neon vests 😀

    “Officers stopped the 11-man group on the street on Wednesday. Some were wearing orange vests bearing the words ‘Shariah Police’, in violation of federal German law, the spokeswoman said.”

    But pious mohammedans think that sharia law trumps all other laws …ironically, mohammedans are nothing but criminals and law breakers themselves, so I will also issue a *Double Standard Alert* on these evil perps. And ship these clowns back to the ME somewhere, where they can practice their evil “religion” to their hearts content ’cause Freedom Lovers don’t want, or need, this evil sharia ‘filth’ that’s unfit for the civilized world.

    • john spielman says

      Sep 5, 2014 at 4:14 pm

      so how come the words “shariah police” are in ENGLISH and not in German?

      • john spielman says

        Sep 5, 2014 at 4:17 pm

        also, how come these ubber masculine islamists wear Capri pants that ride above their ankles. They look like a group of DORKS

        • Michael Copeland says

          Sep 5, 2014 at 5:55 pm

          Shorter pants are part of their Taliban Salafi religious identity. John Walker Lindh in prison is suing to have his “religious rights” to shorter pants recognized.
          http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/dgreenfield/aclu-sues-prison-for-making-american-taliban-traitor-wear-pants/

      • will knutsen says

        Sep 6, 2014 at 6:45 am

        “One size fits all”? And probably the contract for the vests was farmed out to China. By the way, I watched a documentary about such idiot patrols in England, and it really had my blood boiling. But at the end it was revealed that those sharia fools (I am a writer, and know longer words for describing them, but” fools” works just as well!) had been busted by the police, new laws enacted, and so on. And while we must stay vigilant, Sharia freaks are few in number. Remember: Bullies back down when threatened. Keep up the good work, Great Britain!

        • gravenimage says

          Sep 6, 2014 at 2:51 pm

          will knutsen wrote:

          And while we must stay vigilant, Sharia freaks are few in number…
          ……………………….

          I wouldn’t count on that lasting. As the Muslim population grows, there will be more and more who “enjoin what is good and forbid what is wrong”—that is, enforce Shari’ah.

          Many Muslim states—including Saudi Arabia, Iran, and the “Islamic State” have official “Religious Police” who can arrest and flog victims.

          And there is lots of “semi-official” Shari’ah enforcement from groups like Boko Haram and the Taliban, which have even stoned their victims to death.

          I would not assume that we have seen the worst of Shar’ah “enforcement” here—I think what we have sen is just the beginning unless we stop it.

        • Jerry says

          Sep 7, 2014 at 1:15 am

          Cancerous cells may start few in number, but then they multiply an kill you.

          When you deal with a malignant tumour it is sometimes unavoidably necessary to cut out or destroy chemically or by radiation some non-malignant cells.

          Failing to do the necessary is fatal.

  4. Beagle says

    Sep 5, 2014 at 3:50 pm

    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2744620/Dozens-British-jihadis-want-return-home-Intermediary-claims-30-British-men-requests-disillusioned-conflict.html

    Quote:
    A man representing a group of 30 militants reportedly contacted King’s College London’s International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation and Political Violence (ICSR), telling them his group want to come back.
    The men, who went to the region in the hope of toppling President Assad, are reportedly unhappy at having to fight against other rebel factions.
    According to The Times, the man told researchers: ‘We came to fight the regime and instead we are involved in gang warfare. It’s not what we came for but if we go back [to Britain] we will go to jail.’
    — —
    Note first, their complaint is fighting other Sunni jihadis. Killing non-Muslims like Yazidis, Shia (in their mind rafidah), and Christians is still A-OK. Not that anyone in power will notice that. Just noting for my own edification.

    Thank goodness there are no such things as taqiyya, kitman, or tawriyah. I am sure the UK will welcome their ‘native sons’ home with open arms.

    Luckily, nobody ever changes his mind, especially one who allegedly just did.

  5. Bamaguje says

    Sep 5, 2014 at 4:37 pm

    They are testing the waters… pushing the buttons of infidel Germans, to see how far they (Jihadists) can go.
    Sooner or later they will escalate to full blown no-go Sharia zones as in Malmo, Sweden.

    • bernie says

      Sep 5, 2014 at 9:10 pm

      I wouldn’t push the Germans too much….France and other countries have tried that, and have bitten off more than they could chew at times. The jihadists may end up doing that as well.

  6. Spiritf1683 says

    Sep 5, 2014 at 5:49 pm

    Its long past time to round up those ‘sharia police’ and their families and deport them. Sharia shouldn’t be the law of the land. They belong in Saudi Arabia or Pakistan.

  7. Thomas Wells says

    Sep 5, 2014 at 7:29 pm

    So, red is the new brown in Germany?

  8. Max Publius says

    Sep 5, 2014 at 7:43 pm

    These police and politicians are doing nothing serious to mitigate the Islamic supremacist threat. In fact, they are giving it more an opportunity to succeed, by stamping out the worst excesses, while letting the stealth element spread.

    People are always saying they’d rather be attacked head on so they have a chance to defend themselves, rather than be stabbed in the back. Well then, let the jihadists, bring it on. Better to end this war now than be slow boiled by stealth Islamists in league with our political quislings.

  9. Jay Boo says

    Sep 5, 2014 at 8:52 pm

    Pick out the prayer mat thug in the perp. line up.

  10. gravenimage says

    Sep 5, 2014 at 11:11 pm

    Germany: Police crack down on “Shariah Police” patrols enforcing Islamic law in Wuppertal
    ………………………..

    And we’ve also seen this not just in Britain, but in Sweden as well.

    Wuppertal is one of the places where the industrial revolution first began; now it is infested with supremacist Mohammedans who want to return us to the Dark Ages.

    More:

    Officers stopped the 11-man group on the street on Wednesday. Some were wearing orange vests bearing the words ‘Shariah Police’
    ………………………..

    *Very* disturbing. There are bound to be at least a few people who assume these thugs have authority.

    More:

    “Can a vest and a name really cause so much headache?” the group posted on its page after the encounter with police.

    “What have all the grumblers now coming out of the woodwork done for wayward youth?” it also asked. “Do you realize how many are buying and consuming drugs? If you are so honest and good, where is your shrieking and outrage?”
    ………………………..

    What utter crap. They may *start* with drug use, but they’ll soon be on to those who are drinking legally, to anyone who looks as though they might be gay, to unveiled and “immodestly” dressed women, and any couples daring to so much as hold hands.

    As well as establishments that openly sell alcohol, pork, and anything else deemed “Haram”, like music and movies.

    And where does this end? We see that the “Religious Police” in places like Iran and Saudi Arabia can arrest, imprison, flog and even execute their victims.

    We’ve also seen it in places like Nigeria, Kenya, and the Islamic State, where Infidels or even the “wrong” kind of Muslim—lax or “other sect” Muslims—have been stopped at roadblocks and either seized as sex slaves or murdered.

    Pretending that they are acting “morally” here and that Infidels *should approve* is just grimly laughable.

    • Colonel Clink says

      Sep 6, 2014 at 8:06 am

      So can we assume if the local youths were killing, torturing, and raping people in the name of Allah’s jihad, these self appointed Sharia police would heartily approve? What a sick and twisted religion.

  11. pumbar says

    Sep 6, 2014 at 1:21 am

    I was expecting to see loads of comments on how Germany is finished and the German people deserve it because they are lazy cowards. Odd that I didn’t see any. Must be reserved for one country only…

    • Myxlplik says

      Sep 6, 2014 at 2:34 am

      You are right, it is interesting…

      Personally I don’t think any part of western civilization is dispensable. I would like to see a strong independent Western Europe, with economic and cultural ties to the US, but you don’t have to be a “melting pot” and that doesn’t make you racist to want a home for your culture.

      I think most Americans would like to see Europeans take their future by the balls and demand respect for their borders, language and culture. This might drive a bit if a wedge between us, but I think you need to distance yourselves from us a bit to survive, I think if people don’t respect that they aren’t your friends in the first place.

  12. cyriel.delannoit says

    Sep 6, 2014 at 3:44 am

    Wath out everybody, this is a not in the media publiced document probably spread by people supporting ISIS. So they intoduce “shariah laws” to spread them all over the word. (also to the people who went to Iraq and Syria to join the ISIS army) !
    Read their Sharia-laws (some examples of the Sharia law introduced by the IS) :
    1. Offensive, military jihad against non-Muslims is a communal, religious obligation; 2. A person who is ignorant about Islamic legal opinion must follow the legal opinion of a scholar; 3. The penalty for a Muslim apostate (someone who no longer believes in or no longer follows the tenets of Islam) is death; 4. When slaughtering animals for food, a knife must be used to cut the windpipe and gullet; 5. A woman is only eligible to receive half the inheritance of a man; 6. Marriage may be forced on virgins by their father or father’s father; 7. A non-Arab man may not marry an Arab woman; 8. A woman must seek permission from her husband to leave the house; 9. A Muslim man cannot marry a woman who is a Zoroastrian, an idol worshipper, an apostate from Islam or a woman with one parent who is Jewish or Christian, with the other being Zoroastrian; a Muslim woman cannot marry anyone but a Muslim; 10. A free Muslim man may marry up to four women; 11. Retaliation is obligatory in most cases when someone is deliberately murdered except when a Muslim kills a non-Muslim, a Jew or a Christian kills a Muslim apostate or a father or mother kill their offspring; 12. Non-Muslim subjects (Ahl al-Dhimma) of a Muslim state are subject to a series of discriminatory laws – “dhimmitude”; 13. The penalty for fornication or sodomy is being stoned to death; 14. The penalty for an initial theft is amputation of the right hand. Subsequent thefts are penalized by further amputations of feet and hand; 15. A non-Muslim cannot testify against a Muslim in court; a person who is “without respectability” cannot give legal testimony; a woman’s legal testimony is only given half the legal weight of a man’s (and is only acceptable in cases involving property); to legally prove fornication or sodomy requires 4 male witnesses who actually saw the act; 16. The establishment and continuation of the Islamic Caliphate (by force, if necessary) is a communal obligation; 17. Sodomites and Lesbians must be killed; 18. Laughing too much is forbidden; 19. Musical instruments are unlawful; 20. Creating pictures of animate life is forbidden; 21. Male circumcision, which includes the removing of the foreskin (the female element) is obligatory. Female circumcision, which includes the excision of the clitoris (the male element), is an honor and a benefit which is highly recommended (even required) ; 22. Slavery is permitted in some cases; 23. People may be bribed to convert to Islam; 24. Beating a rebellious wife is permissible; 25. Lying is permissible in a time of war (or jihad).

  13. Nutzlastbarde says

    Sep 6, 2014 at 2:16 pm

    Post from Germany.

    I live in Duesseldorf near Wuppertal and it
    is much more worst…they are everywhere…at the central station they are collecting money for the ISIS and recruiting young men for war…
    I once called the police (because i was face to face with someone who came fresh from a islamic military training camp and was talking with his comrade about bombs in trains, war training in turkey, and war in syria and when they will go back to isis)
    so i called the police to arrest him but no result…..
    on the other side of the line the police man told me he is not responsible…lol

    Everything in Germany changed …
    the german “culture” will vanish like raindrops in the sand in the next years…

    Germany is a base camp and a resource for the islamic war already…
    and noone is acting here…just blablabla
    I will keep you up to date!

    Ben

    • Jovial Joe says

      Sep 6, 2014 at 3:40 pm

      Thank you Ben, Europe needs active and vigilant citizens like you. Keep making your complaints to the authorities and keep your own records. If an attack is committed it might serve as vital evidence. Best Wishes.

    • Jay Boo says

      Sep 7, 2014 at 4:53 am

      I used to work with someone originally from nearby Ludensheid
      I hope It has not spread there as well.

  14. Roger Bentley says

    Sep 6, 2014 at 6:30 pm

    Try pulling that crap in the U.S. and you’ll hope that the police show up to keep you from really getting hurt. For starters, I don’t suggest showing up at a pig roast where guys are drinking beer.

  15. LWC says

    Sep 7, 2014 at 2:40 pm

    That whole proscription against the establishment-of-religion-thing might be a good idea after all, huh?

    The establishment of religion invariably destroys the freedom of religion.

  16. D says

    Sep 9, 2014 at 2:54 pm

    Bring that garbage to the South US!!!!

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