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Germany: Convert to Islam arrested for supporting jihad terror group

Dec 15, 2015 9:25 am By Robert Spencer

The political and media elites would have us believe that this is a case of another convert to Islam misunderstanding his new, peaceful religion. Yet there is no program in any mosque or Islamic school in Germany or anywhere else to teach converts to avoid the understanding of Islam represented by Jaish al-Muhajireen wal-Ansar or other jihad groups.

Sven Lau

“Islamic extremist arrested in Germany on terror charge,” Associated Press, December 15, 2015:

BERLIN (AP) — Authorities in Germany have arrested one of the country’s most prominent Islamic extremists on suspicion of supporting a foreign terror group, prosecutors said Tuesday.

Sven Lau was arrested Tuesday in the western city of Moenchengladbach, federal prosecutors said in a statement.

Lau is suspected of four counts of supporting the group Jaish al-Muhajireen wal-Ansar, or JAMWA, which was designated a terrorist organization by the United States last year. Prosecutors alleged that the 35-year-old was the go-to contact for extremists wanting to fight for JAMWA in Syria and provided financial and material support to the group under the cover of humanitarian aid shipments.

The top security official in North Rhine-Westphalia, where Lau was arrested, described him as “one of the leading figures in the Salafist scene” in that state.

Lau, a convert to Islam, made headlines last year when he attempted to establish a “Sharia police” in the city of Wuppertal to enforce a strict interpretation of Islam.

“With their propaganda glorifying violence and their alleged help for suffering people in war zones, Salafist preachers such as Lau provide a breeding ground for the radicalization of young men,” said Ralf Jaeger, North Rhine-Westphalia’s interior minister. “They are inciting young people to join jihadist terror groups in Syria and Iraq.”…

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  1. Adrian says

    Dec 15, 2015 at 10:05 am

    Congratulation, German dhimmis…..

    This is the man behind the “Sharia Police” in Wuppertal. Lau was the subject of a 10/31/14 article by Joel Stonington. This article intimated how he was just like a regular guy relating how he watched “Walking Dead” and “…seemed calm, soft-spoken – even a little shy”. He had been arrested by the Germans and his passport taken away; at that point, he said he “doesn’t support ISIS, and was simply driving an ambulance and delivering aid to his fellow Muslims.”

    http://www.vocativ.com/world/germany-world/germanys-sharia-police/

    • Don McKellar says

      Dec 15, 2015 at 10:34 am

      That is a pretty scary story. Thanks for the link.

      From watching “Walking Dead” to being one. Remarkable.

      That sharia police aspect really demonstrates a fundamental difference between Islam and actual religions. In actual religions, there are no laws for unbelievers. Nobody is compelled to enforce religious laws on others who don’t believe, and the only time that happens is when you’ve got a bunch of pious retards taking it upon themselves to try and do so. With Islam, it’s actually written in the Koran to do that: there are laws for moslems and there are laws for Jews and there are laws for Christians, who are ruled over by moslems. And death sentences for anybody else. No other religion is like that.

    • gravenimage says

      Dec 15, 2015 at 4:49 pm

      Thanks for the additional information, Adrian.

      The insane thing is that a German court found such patrols *legal*:

      “German court lets off ‘Sharia police’ patrol in Wuppertal”

      http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-35059488

      • Adrian says

        Dec 15, 2015 at 5:31 pm

        my pleasure, Don and gravenimage…

        i have several American friends, ex-pats living in Germany and one of them just posted a “Bravo, to Canada” upon the news of Trudeau announcing Syrian “refugees” would start arriving …

        can u imagine?

        it’s like cattle applauding the approaching guy with the stun gun… o men Gott!!!

  2. underbed cat says

    Dec 15, 2015 at 10:17 am

    Some have said islam is brilliant. To put into place good deeds, charitable giving all the while planning to subvert governments thru terror and to get away with it because of A’s permissible lying to spread the ideology and keep hidden the true intent. a 700 year old plan and it still works. The sharia laws about misleading, slander punishments, still faces, and no talebearing turned it into a enemy of life.

    • gravenimage says

      Dec 15, 2015 at 4:59 pm

      Underbed Cat, those “good deeds” mostly involve waging violent Jihad, and that “charitable giving”–“Zakat”–involves funding violent Jihad more than it does anything civilized people would actually consider charities.

  3. Alarmed Pig Farmer says

    Dec 15, 2015 at 10:30 am

    OT: anybody in here been watching Homeland? This season is playing out in Berlin, and it’s great watching some truth, however imperfect, coming out of my flat screen. There are some stark and accurate depictions of what motivates the bad guys, who are always bearded Moslems intent on mass murder. Remind anybody of the truth? This is why Sen. Diane Feinstein lambasted the series last year as unacceptable entertainment because it’s filled with prejudice and hate. Also, I notice that the star of the series, Clare Danes, is executive producer. I thought that movie stars were always empty suit dumbass do goody loser globo-socialists. Apparently she is not that.

    • underbed cat says

      Dec 15, 2015 at 11:24 am

      Alarmed Pig Farmer says, I watch Homeland. I do too. I didn’t get into Homeland untill the near middle of last season, I have been hooked ever since. There are stark depictions, and similar situations to current reality. The black flag of ISIS over Embassy was a chilling scene.
      I read that they filmed in Germany, so it was a surprised that Angela Merkel, also allowed so many refugees into Germany. I wonder if this can ever be broadcast in Europe.The actor,executive producer, Clare Danes is amazing.The episode with Quinn, at Langley…when asked about the strategy was so perfect. This new season is awesome with Saul, his spy companion and lover are ( can’t think of her name), totally terrific. I wonder if the FBI/CIA watches? Berlin is a great setting. Would love to know how much accurate information this show can be without compromising the U.S. intelligence. The only show I wait for every week.

  4. jihad3tracker says

    Dec 15, 2015 at 10:31 am

    For newbies here or readers who have not seen it yet, find “The Jihad Triangle” on Youtube.

    The wonderful brilliant 24/7 counter-jihad expert on Islam —- David Wood —- explains what happens when converts to Allah’s fan club actually DO take his commands seriously, and do NOT think, as David says in the video, that Islam is “some sort of lunch buffet”.

    Length is a very brief four minutes and fifty seven seconds. Even the busiest multi-taskers among us can spare such a tiny slice in a hectic day. Watch it while warming up the coffee, combing shedding cats, and pondering if gold bullion is a better investment than stock in a new drone manufacturer.

    • gravenimage says

      Dec 15, 2015 at 5:07 pm

      Thanks for the head’s up, Jihad3tracker–David Wood is always excellent.

      Here’s the link:

  5. mortimer says

    Dec 15, 2015 at 12:10 pm

    Lau follows real Islam, while he considers others to be cafeteria Muslims. They must be coerced and threatened to practice real Islam by Sharia police.

    The above article is based in reality and mentions that Lau wants to enforce a strict interpretation of Islam. This is factual and doesn’t deny the jihad doctrine.

    There is a glimmer of hope if journalists start to learn about the jihad doctrine.

  6. RichardL says

    Dec 15, 2015 at 12:57 pm

    Just a bit of background on Lau for the non-Germans here. He is not just another convert. He is Pierre Vogel’s executive officer and Vogel pushed him to the front in the last year or so. Vogel is of course also a convert and was trained in Sowdi Barbaria. He is pretty smart and is able to form complete sentences. Lau is not. He is a dimwit, who did an apprenticeship as a mechanic. He is a pretty pitiful individual. Vogel is truly dangerous, especially since he has gone quiet.

    • gravenimage says

      Dec 15, 2015 at 5:23 pm

      Thanks for the additional information, Richard.

      Pierre Vogel is also known as Abu Hamza (not to be confused with the one with the hook in Britain):

      http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/2253/radical-islam-germany

  7. William says

    Dec 15, 2015 at 1:37 pm

    Mohammedans, including new converts like this one, do not – I repeat “do not” for those very few who may be reading here and don’t get it – misunderstand their religion when they resort to violence. On the contrary, they understand their religion very well. If a Mohammedan committed violence in the name of his religion, he would be following the dictates of the violent part of it; if he followed a peaceful path, he would be following the dictates of the peaceful part, too. I wish some people would get it through their thick skull that Mohammedanism is both peaceful and violent, with a predictable penchant for inflicting violence upon those found non-compliant in their religious virtues and upon those deemed insufficiently fervent.

  8. Angemon says

    Dec 15, 2015 at 1:59 pm

    Lau, a convert to Islam, made headlines last year when he attempted to establish a “Sharia police” in the city of Wuppertal to enforce a strict interpretation of Islam.

    Awwww, but we’re told by the talking heads and elected leaders that sharia law is perfectly compatible with Western values. What’s the big deal about a sharia cop or two?

  9. Walter Sieruk says

    Dec 15, 2015 at 2:56 pm

    Be the Muslim who is a jihadist from Germany are any other country They may be from different countries but they all have the same violent , harsh and deadly mindset because they all follower the same brutal violent harsh and deadly ” holy book’ of Islam, the Koran. For example,the Koran teaches in 9:123. “O you who believe ! Fight those of the disbelieves who are close to you,and let them find harshness in you….” Those people who were in the cities of both Paris and San Bernardino had indeed felt the harshness of Koranic /Islamic violence. Likewise, the Koran instructs in 9:11. “The believers fight in Allah’s cause, they slay and are slain, they kill and are killed.” Many people around the world as well as in specific countries such a Iraq and Syria have had much experience with deadly Islamic violence of the militant jihad. Likewise, those people in Paris and San Bernardino also a a bitter taste of deadly jihad Islamic violence.. So from the words of the Koran and the actions of jihadist Muslims it may be trustfully said is a death cult. In great contrast the death cult that is Islam is Christianity which is centered on Jesus Who said “I am come that they might have life,and that they might have it more abundantly.” John 10:10. [K.J.V.}

  10. Paul says

    Dec 15, 2015 at 2:57 pm

    All idiot converts to this barbaric cult are automatically at odds with
    all of their non-contaminated compatriots. These traitors are all ticking
    time bombs. We will learn.

    • Geoffrey Cooper says

      Dec 16, 2015 at 5:34 am

      These guys who convert are usually rather sad, sick, pathetic characters. Not very bright, did not do well at school, some crappy little job or more likely no job at all, or they’re often petty criminals, thieves, drug-dealers etc. who get converted in prison or young offenders institutes. They feel a resentment towards society because they feel they don’t receive the ‘respect’ that is their due, and inevitably they tend to be not at all successful with the ladies (‘the whores, the fucking bitches’!) Islam is a wonderful alibi and get-out-of-jail-free card for them. It gives them membership of a gang – ‘mates’ a support network, and tells them ‘its not your fault that your a pathetic loser, its all the fault of the evil, infidel western society’. They get to change their name (a classic, standard ‘cult’ technique) and grow a little fuzz on their face to show what a ‘man’ they are. The Islamic ideology promotes them from zero to ‘holy warrior’ in an instant and tells them that when the war against the infidels is finally won they will be a great lord with a whole stable of ‘bitches’ all of their very own. You can see how seductive a package this might appear to some of these people, we should feel sorry for them if it were not for how potentially dangerous they are. They even have their female counterparts who are if anything even sicker and more pathetic but that’s another matter altogether and deserving of its own investigation.

      • Paul says

        Dec 16, 2015 at 2:49 pm

        I completely agree. It’s just amazing the wide range of names
        that brain dead converts usually end up with – Muhammad, Abdullah
        Abdul, Abu…err…err…I’ll come back to that later if any more names
        spring to mind.
        So utterly unique are they all in their rebelliousness towards 21st
        century Western society that they ALL grow long beards and pretend
        they’re from 7th century Arabia with their silly pyjamas. Bloody idiots!

  11. Paul says

    Dec 15, 2015 at 3:15 pm

    One of the worst things about this cult is that some nobody
    can commit acts of cruelty and feel very righteous and proud
    of it, all because of its ‘divine’ mandate. What they’re really
    glorifying and worshipping, above all, is the perverse pleasure
    they take in perpetrating acts of cruelty and oppression.
    Losers. Absolute scum.

    • ? says

      Dec 15, 2015 at 6:37 pm

      What’s even worse is that they try to take as many innocents down with them via suicide bomb or indoctrination…

      • Paul says

        Dec 15, 2015 at 7:44 pm

        As far as indoctrination goes it’s the perfect system to
        deceive people and dehumanise them. Some truths wrapped
        with half-truths and downright lies, glorifying deception for a
        supposedly noble cause and absolving the perpetrator of any
        guilt or remorse.
        I don’t think enough people take this satanically devised and
        highly contagious mind cancer seriously enough and the sad
        truth is that many more innocent lives will be taken before this
        finally changes.

        • ? says

          Dec 16, 2015 at 4:12 am

          But will it change? That is the question. I pray that the people wake up before it’s too late….

        • Paul says

          Dec 16, 2015 at 7:23 am

          @?
          I personally think most will wake up. There’ll be a minority of
          die hard morons who’ll still use the words “racist” and “fascist”
          every couple of seconds to slander those who are uncomfortable
          with falling victim to a multiracial and multi-ethnic death cult.
          People are beginning to realise that these people who have enabled
          this problem for so long are in fact the true racists and fascists who
          put no value on human life, they are being rightly ridiculed and vilified
          on social media. This is crucial. It’s one very positive development
          that shows things are starting to shift in the right direction.

  12. abad says

    Dec 15, 2015 at 6:35 pm

    I foresee a lot worse things coming out of Germany right now.

    Islam is the Beast from the Earth (Revelations Ch 13), Muhammad is its false prophet which will eventually be purged from the earth.

    The Bible is very clear about Islam and its relation to the world; the followers of Islam who demand conversion or death to them (Revelations Ch 20), those who walk in the way of Christ and refuse to give in to the wickedness of Islam, and the purging of Islam from earth for all eternity (Revelations Revelations 21), the followers of Islam will be given a last chance to accept Christ and their Lord and Savior before their eternal destruction at the hands of the One, True, Living God.

    • Paul says

      Dec 15, 2015 at 8:11 pm

      You are completely right that Muhammad was a false prophet
      but it doesn’t appear that he’s the false prophet that Revelation
      refers to. Matthew 24 tells us to be aware of those who falsely come
      in Jesus’s name and who may deceive even the “elect if that was
      possible”. Muslims will tell you that they believe in Jesus, but for
      them, he’s merely a ‘prophet’ who wasn’t crucified and who comes to
      correct the Jews and the Christians and win them over to islam.
      The islamic ‘mahdi’ is essentially the second coming of Muhammad
      and is a carbon copy of the Biblical antichrist. The “false prophet” of
      Revelation who performs “signs and wonders” in order to deceive people
      into giving their allegiance to the antichrist sounds just like the islamic
      ‘prophet Jesus’. The real Christ, son of God, will come and destroy these
      imposters and they’ll be thrown into the Lake of Fire.
      People don’t understand just how deeply the deception runs. It goes to
      the bitter end. Islam came to deny the crucifixion and Christ’s sonship
      and for the devil to take as many people with him as possible down.

  13. ? says

    Dec 15, 2015 at 7:21 pm

    Huh, a German recently radicalized by a growing controversial political/social movement that focuses on gaining strength/influence through strong-arming naysayers, threats of violence towards certain groups, and organized violence against opposition, wants to establish a “police force” to coerce people into acceptance of said movement…. Yeah doesn’t sound familiar at all…
    Satans peace be upon you,

    Sieg Heil…

  14. Matthieu Baudin says

    Dec 15, 2015 at 7:46 pm

    “… Yet there is no program in any mosque or Islamic school in Germany or anywhere else to teach converts to avoid the understanding of Islam represented by Jaish al-Muhajireen wal-Ansar or other jihad groups…”

    Hey Brother, it will all look after itself in due course, if let be.

  15. Wellington says

    Dec 15, 2015 at 10:13 pm

    No argument from me right now. I would just like to quite willingly stoop to mere insult and say that this guy is a total loser and that is one ugly-ass excuse for a beard. That is all.

    • epistemology says

      Dec 16, 2015 at 8:54 am

      Dear Wellington, Sven Lau is simply an Islamic asshole. He calls himself Abu Adam and proselytizes aggressively.The Germans waited far too long to arrest him. The guys from the “sharia police” were even acquitted, no punishment for any wrongdoing. The judiciary needs to nip these things in the bud. They should have gotten three years at least and no parole. They need to be kept in solitary confinement, as they always proselytize in prison The weak and disoriented ones can easily be converted. So I hope this time he goes to prison but only in solitary confinement. The German authorities, the police, the judiciary etc. are wimps when dealing with Islam

      All the best to you and yours, take care my friend.

  16. Sergio says

    Dec 16, 2015 at 5:55 am

    Maybe next year the US will categorize JAMWA as a moderate Syrian allied. Then Lau will end up being a hero and a freedom fighter, courtesy of Obama.

  17. Matthieu Baudin says

    Dec 16, 2015 at 7:44 am

    “… With their propaganda glorifying violence and their alleged help for suffering people in war zones, Salafist preachers such as Lau provide a breeding ground for the radicalization of young men…”

    The timeless lure of heroic violence has always played with the minds of the young. The Quoran has demonstrated itself to be an excellent tool for grooming these impressionable minds and pointing them in the direction of Islamic Martyrdom. Unfortunately, once they’ve arrived on our doorsteps, we have to fight for our lives and those of our neighbours, which often means totally crushing these unfortunate souls.

  18. Andrew H. says

    Dec 16, 2015 at 11:58 am

    Converts to any religion are automatically suspect as being mentally unbalanced. Converts to Islam have to be really mad because only a lunatic who reads the Koran would want to join that group of mad men.
    Converts are usually far more dangerous that born-into-the-faith radicals and they should be watched carefully. Most preferable, of course, they should be put to sleep like mad dogs.

  19. Edwin1683 says

    Dec 17, 2015 at 12:38 am

    Yup, this is one butt-ugly critter. Call the exterminator.

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