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German police raids target Islamic State recruiters, suspected of recruiting among refugees

Sep 22, 2015 10:16 am By Robert Spencer

German police are worried about Muslims who have traveled to the Islamic State and then returned to Germany. Why are they allowed back in? The Islamic State has declared its determination to destroy Germany and other Western states. Traveling to it should be regarded as an act of treason, and those who go not allowed to return.

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“German intelligence ‘concerned’ Islamists recruiting refugees,” by Deborah Cole, AFP, September 22, 2015 (thanks to Lookmann):

Berlin (AFP) – German intelligence warned Tuesday that the number of Islamic extremists in the country had increased sharply in recent months and expressed serious concern that they were recruiting among refugees.

The Office for the Protection of the Constitution (BfV), Germany’s domestic security watchdog, said the number of radical Salafists had surged to 7,900 in September from 7,500 in June, and that many were trying to lure asylum-seekers into their ranks.

“We are very concerned that Islamists in Germany are trying, under the cover of humanitarian assistance, to exploit the situation of the refugees for their own ends and to proselytise and recruit among asylum-seekers,” BfV president Hans-Georg Maassen said in a statement.

Germany expects to receive up to one million asylum-seekers this year, five times more than last year. Syrians, who are fleeing their war-ravaged country, form the largest group.

Maassen said that a total of 740 radical Muslims had left Germany to join jihadists in Syria and Iraq, 20 percent of them female. Around one-third of those who went to the region have returned to Germany, while about 120 of them have been killed.

He said the BfV was keeping close watch on such activities given their “significant radicalisation potential” in the migrant community.

“We are keeping a particularly close eye on unaccompanied minors among the refugees, who could be easy targets for Islamists,” he said.

Maassen stressed that his office had no evidence that jihadist groups were using the large influx of refugees to infiltrate Germany.

And he said the BfV was also concerned that far-right groups were seizing on the issue of Germany’s openness to refugees for propaganda purposes, saying it contained “significant potential for escalation”.

Yeah, there’s your problem, Maassen: the “far-right.”

Maassen warned that the risk of clashes with left-wing counter-demonstrators also “should not be discounted”.

Since “left-wing counter-demonstrators” are generally violent fascist thugs, this is a given.

– Dawn raids-

German police carried out dawn raids in Berlin Tuesday targeting individuals suspected of inciting people to go and fight for the Islamic State group in Syria.

The raids began at 6:30 am (0430 GMT) and targeted, among others, a 51-year-old Moroccan suspected of recruiting for the jihadists, police said in a statement.

A 19-year-old Macedonian thought to be currently in Syria is also suspected of involvement in the recruitment drive, it said.

“We are looking for evidence to see whether these allegations are true,” a police spokesman said. No arrests were made.

One raid was conducted at an association linked to a mosque in Berlin’s central Tempelhof district, the spokesman said. Seven homes were also searched.

“We have no indications that anything was being planned in Germany,” he said when asked about indications of any plot to attack targets here.

But people who go to fight in Syria “gain experience of violence there and one day or another can return to Berlin”, he said….

Why can they return?

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Filed Under: Featured, Germany, Islamic State (aka ISIS, ISIL, Daesh) Tagged With: Hans-Georg Maassen, Office for the Protection of the Constitution (BfV)


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  1. Don McKellar says

    Sep 22, 2015 at 10:21 am

    What are the German people doing to resist and stop Merkel? She’s the one who is enabling a flood of potential Islamic State mass murderers to invade Germany. Isn’t there any will to stop her and this nightmare that’s unfolding?

  2. Angemon says

    Sep 22, 2015 at 10:57 am

    But people who go to fight in Syria “gain experience of violence there and one day or another can return to Berlin”, he said….

    Fine. You want to let them back? Then put them on a terror watch list and the moment they set a foot in Germany drop the SWAT on them so quickly they don’t even have time to think “allahu akbar”, drag them to court, prosecute them for treason and give them a fair trial before assembling the firing squad – for all intents and purposes they pledged their allegiance to a foreign entity who declared war on Germany, ergo, they’re traitors.

    • john spielman says

      Sep 22, 2015 at 12:01 pm

      if you want to STOP islamic terror in in tracks the after you execute these evil doers, bury them with dead pigs or pig entrails and advertise that this will happen to any and all jihadists.
      It worked for Black Jack Pershing in the Phillipine islamic insurrection in early1900s

      • Charli Main says

        Sep 22, 2015 at 2:45 pm

        100% spot on. Muslims are always ranting on about how they are not afraid to die, because they are going to Allah´s whore house in the sky.
        Well then, make the vermin afraid to die for Allah, by making sure that everyone of them knows, that he will be buried in pig shit, after he has been disposed off.

  3. Alarmed Pig Farmer says

    Sep 22, 2015 at 11:13 am

    … the number of Islamic extremists in the country had increased sharply in recent months and expressed serious concern that they were recruiting among refugees.

    So which one is this, multiculturalism or diversity? It’s gotta be one of the two. Whichever, what’s important is that it ain’t racist.

    You know who’s having the last laugh on this, from his tall throne up there in Jannat the Islam porno heaven: Grand Mufti Haj Amin al-Husseini, Yasser’s uncle and Hitler’s buddy, who advised Adolph on the Final Solution. He must be guffawing at the fall of Germany to Islam.

    My only question is, will Mercedes Benz, BMW and Audi lose their touch after the Moslems take over? Sometimes too much multiculturalism and diversity is not so good.

    • Sven says

      Sep 23, 2015 at 6:17 am

      Case in point; the recent revelation of VW cheating on emissions tests. German engineering has been replaced with islamic taqiyya engineering.

  4. Jay Boo says

    Sep 22, 2015 at 11:23 am

    Oktober Fest time

    Germany’s Oktober Fest and the Islamic Hajj this year, coincide.
    Therefore traditional Lederhosen & Dirndl dresses they must hide.
    Gone is the Pork Knuckle, Smoked Pork Chops, or Pork Roast and great German beer.
    No Alsace wine or even sausage made of swine will you find.

    Instead there will be mandatory veils, and recitation of Muhammad’s tall tales.
    Enjoy your couscous and goat milk and wash it down with groveling fear.

    Have a happy Oktober Fest

    • Alarmed Pig Farmer says

      Sep 22, 2015 at 12:19 pm

      Gone is the Pork Knuckle, Smoked Pork Chops, or Pork Roast

      This is a negative trend. I don’t like where this is moving.

  5. jihad3tracker says

    Sep 22, 2015 at 11:37 am

    The rhymed eloquence in the preceding comment is tough to upstage ! ! ! Maybe America should kick the current Poet Laureate out of his comfy chair (but let him finish whatever limericks he is working on, of course) and install Jay Boo in the job.

    Anyway, back to my point. I’ve mentioned this before, but if you want an explanation of the playbook the German recruiters use, go here: www dot anweringmuslims dot com. Find “The Jihad Triangle in David Wood’s search box feature.

    Four minutes and fifty-seven seconds of brilliance and clarity, with some of David’s puckish humor thrown in to complete the lasagna. Send it on to every clueless elected official you can think of, plus sweet Aunt Edna and Uncle Herman.

  6. Marty says

    Sep 22, 2015 at 12:08 pm

    Off topic but very significant.
    The mohammedan dominated Unite Nations has made
    Saudi Arabia chair of its Human Rights Council.
    Now if those Saudis who attacked the Twin Towers had
    mistakenly hit the UN ——–

  7. jimmy says

    Sep 22, 2015 at 12:17 pm

    this is absurd… the muslims simply gather together and wage Jihad… no one is recruiting.

  8. William says

    Sep 22, 2015 at 12:23 pm

    I am beginning to think it a good thing for the Islamic State to exist and to continue to exist into the indefinite future. The reason for thinking it is when one raises the idea that Mohammedans should be expelled from the West, a typical response is then where would you send them. Maybe predominantly Muslim countries refuse to take them for various reasons, including for security concerns. But with the Islamic State, they welcome all true-believing Mohammedans (of the Sunni persuasion, I suppose). So, if we decide to rid the West of the Mohammedans, they should be welcomed by the Islamic State, and those expelled should welcome being sent to the Islamic State, seeing that many are now so determined to go there in spite of our governments’ putting up roadblocks to such pursuits.

  9. Jay Boo says

    Sep 22, 2015 at 12:30 pm

    Let’s remember well that every mosque and Islamic Center is essentially a recruitment center.

    Muslims have no religion.
    They have merely a vain political ambition adorned by vile claims of DUTY.

  10. mortimer says

    Sep 22, 2015 at 4:14 pm

    The German Leftists are determined to destroy Germany by barbarian Muslim destabilization.

  11. Alarmed Pig Farmer says

    Sep 22, 2015 at 4:50 pm

    I see where the rate of forcible rape in Bayern province has skyrocketed over the last couple of weeks what with all the Moslem “refugees” now living there. Welcome to Stockholm, Munich. You crazy Munchkins you, the fairy tale cartoon is being brought to life in your homeland now in real-time. No claiming surreal here, this is gonna be cinema verite, gonna hurt, gonna be pain. There’s a price to you must pay for multiculturalism, there is also a price you must pay for diversity.

    One suspects that good old fashioned Germans are wistfully recalling the good old days when the main minority there was Jews. Now it doesn’t seem so bad after all. Back then it was a little diverse but not at all perverse.

  12. David M says

    Sep 23, 2015 at 9:27 am

    Saudi Arabia’s offer to build 200 Mosques in Germany for the new Muslims. How generous of them.

    http://www.google.com.au/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=10&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0CEMQFjAJahUKEwi-1KGFoI3IAhVkraYKHaDsAqY&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.independent.co.uk%2Fnews%2Fworld%2Feurope%2Frefugee-crisis-saudi-arabias-offer-to-build-200-mosques-in-germany-for-syrian-refugees-branded-cynical-10511850.html&usg=AFQjCNFG4Z0Whe0z1MVlevsVT0JD0lqx5Q&sig2=_dmCvN6WRjKnQKQge24FhA

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