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Muslim Brotherhood making inroads into eastern Germany

Jul 15, 2017 2:11 pm By Robert Spencer

Merkel’s legacy.

“Muslim Brotherhood Makes Inroads into Saxony,” translated by Mike K. from “Muslimbrüder in Sachsen auf dem Vormarsch,” Preussische Allgemeine Zeitung, March 2, 2017:

Back in October 2014, when the first PEGIDA demonstrators took to the streets to warn of the looming Islamisation of their homeland, there were practically no Muslims to be found in the German state of Saxony. Their share of the population lay under one percent, a fact that the media would constantly harp on in order to hold the Islamoskeptic PEGIDA protest group up to ridicule. Yet things have changed significantly since then in the wake of the mass influx of “asylum seekers”, whereby no one can say precisely how high the number of Muslims in the Free State of Saxony has already become, thanks to the authorities’ persistent failure to properly register the masses of so-called “refugees”.

In any case, there is now a growing Muslim presence in Saxony, not just in the state’s three main urban centres of Dresden, Leipzig and Chemnitz, but also in smaller communities and rural areas. The driving force behind this trend appears to be none other than the Muslim Brotherhood. For in contrast to the states of the old West Germany, other Muslim lobbying associations, such as the Turkish-Islamic Union for Religious Affairs (DITIB), have no real organizational basis in Saxony to fall back on. This has enabled the Muslim Brotherhood to make inroads in what is practically a vacuum. A development that entails significant risks, of course, given that the Muslim Brotherhood is a radical Islamic organization whose declared mission since 1928 has been to establish dictatorial, sharia-based regimes in as many countries as possible over all the world. The Brotherhood has also not shrunk from using violence in pursuing this goal, which is why they are currently officially treated as a terrorist organisation in Egypt.

The Muslim Brotherhood’s activities in Saxony were brought to light by none other than the President of the state’s Office for the Protection of the Constitution (Verfassungsschutz), Gordian Meyer-Plath. At a press conference in early February, he revealed that members of the Brotherhood were in the process of acquiring a growing portfolio of local real estate, which they intended to later use as sites for mosques and community centres. This investment spree, he explained, was well-funded: “They criss-cross the state with wads of cash and snap up properties”. And not just in Dresden and Leipzig, for example, but also in smaller towns like Riesa, Meissen, Pirna, Bautzen and Görlitz. The constitutional watchdog agency had also discovered that the Brotherhood has been working through a front organization known as the Saxon (SBS) to avoid drawing attention, this being a publicly registered charity purporting to be “open to all people, irrespective of their ethnicity, nationality, religion or language” and supposedly representing a “non-politicised form of Islam”.

The statements made by Saxony’s top constitutional monitor were contradicted by the SBS’ managing director Saad Elgazar, a native of Egypt. While Mr Elgazar agreed that a cheaply priced building had been purchased in Pirna, he pointed out that the remaining nine locations consisted of extremely modest leased premises in back courtyards, ones whose size and accoutrements were “appropriate” to the small size of the local Muslim community. The notion that SBS had any ties to the Muslim Brotherhood was flatly denied by Mr Elgazar, who averred that the association respected the Federal Republic of Germany’s constitutional order and had no contacts whatsoever with Islamic fundamentalists. Mr Elgazar is a physicist and former Chairman of Dresden’s Islamic Centre who currently also runs the Marwa Elsherbiny Cultural and Educational Centre along with its appurtenant mosque.

These claims hardly correspond to the facts, however, as evidenced by the charity’s collaboration with the so-called “Islamic Community in Germany” (IGD), an association that attracted attention back in November 2016 in connection with a promotional leaflet. Indeed, the respective constitutional watchdog agencies for several of Germany’s western and southern states have concluded that the IGD is essentially the Muslim Brotherhood’s “HQ organization for Germany” and have thus placed it under surveillance. Moreover, the government of the United Arab Emirates has included the IGD on its list of the world’s most dangerous radical Islamic organisations since late 2014.

In Saxony, by contrast, the constitutional watchdogs seem far less aware of the problem. In fact, neither the Muslim Brotherhood nor the IGD is even mentioned in the latest Situation Report issued by the state’s Office for Protection of the Constitution. Nor does the agency’s president believe that the Brotherhood activities – which he himself elucidated – pose any particular danger, given that, as he puts it, they are neither terrorists or Salafists.

This state of affairs was commented on by Kirsten Muster, who chairs the state caucus of the Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) party in Dresden and also serves as its spokesperson for legal affairs: “I am rarely at a loss for words but this time I’m literally struck dumb. An organisation than openly supports Sharia law and supports terrorism through Hamas is trying to gain political influence in Saxony … yet Mr Meyer-Plath plays the appeaser and would have us believe the Muslim Brotherhood is somehow not that bad. One could almost say he’s relieved that the Brotherhood “only” wants to introduce Sharia law in Germany! Whoever strives to establish Sharia in our country is acting in flagrant opposition to our democratic, constitutional order. The AfD is calling for an immediate ban on this organisation, to prevent further properties from falling into the hands of facilitators of terrorism.” Very much as usual, of course, no one has lifted a finger.

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  1. Jean Terry says

    Jul 15, 2017 at 2:20 pm

    This is what can happen here through the purchase of property. I hadn’t thought about that but the Brotherhood probably is funded with plenty of money to do that. Little by little, bit by bit, they creep in and overwhelm the population and blind leaders of countries.

    • Beyondculturewars says

      Jul 16, 2017 at 11:32 am

      Zukat, pure and simple.

  2. mustapha crap says

    Jul 15, 2017 at 2:37 pm

    Ban the Muslim Brotherhood, it is a terrorist organisation, ALL property bought by MB & its front groups should be seized by the state, as being bought using terrorist funds.
    ALL membership of the MB & its front groups should be prescribed as terrorist facilitators, and membership of said groups should attract prison sentences followed by summary deportation NO right to appeal.
    ALL MB & front group assets seized should then be used to reaffirm German culture, with Beer and Sausage festivals held in every mosque throughout Germany, complete with Oompah bands, Lederhosen, and those ridiculously massive Beer Steins served by buxom blonde German lasses ALL festivals to be held throughout Ramadan with Ooompah music played through the night and day by bands travelling on the back of open top trucks.
    Those members of the MB and its front groups should be jailed in isolation and subjected to 24hr Oompah bands and the smells of Beer & Sausages.

    • Donald R Laster Jr says

      Jul 16, 2017 at 1:26 pm

      All of Islam is a terrorist operation. Remember, Islam is a theocracy organizing invasions of non-Islamic controlled States through any means possible. An Islamic is a citizen of a foreign State and part of an invading army. Until people re-learn what Islam actually is everyone is in danger.

      Also, remember the word “allah” when properly translated means “the god”. It is not a name. The god of Islam is Hubal (Baal) chief god of the Arab pantheon of god and is associated with the moon.

  3. somehistory says

    Jul 15, 2017 at 2:59 pm

    Monopoly is not a game to the moslum terrorist group.

  4. Al says

    Jul 15, 2017 at 3:38 pm

    There is a line of a song which is familiar to many, ‘When will they ever learn?’. When it comes to the policy of allowing for the flood of Muslims to dilute national blood lines enriched by the inherent traditions and values that made those populations joyful, the answer to the question above is likely, ‘When it’s too late’. Those in power, in individual nations as well as collectively in the machinations of the European Union, see only through that mirror of [1] controlling the citizenry, [2] preserving the power structure status quo. Controlled by the various methods of mass media, acceptable levels of casualties is a tension, but just part of the cost of doing governmental business

  5. Peter says

    Jul 15, 2017 at 4:46 pm

    Heil Muhammad?
    Sieg Islam?

    Nein danke!

  6. gravenimage says

    Jul 15, 2017 at 8:15 pm

    Muslim Brotherhood making inroads into eastern Germany
    ………………..

    I hope patriotic Germans finally start to stand up for their civilized society.

  7. TheBuffster says

    Jul 15, 2017 at 9:46 pm

    If I stand back and distance myself from the real-life consequences, it’s fascinating to watch the ways human beings find to escape the facts and implications that they don’t want to be true.

    But there *are* real life consequences, and they’re going to affect us all.

    We need to keep trying to smack these suckers awake.

  8. abad says

    Jul 15, 2017 at 9:59 pm

    Muslim Brotherhood – Hussein Obama’s religion – maybe he should move to Germany and be their new spokesman

  9. mortimer says

    Jul 15, 2017 at 10:31 pm

    Germans are the world leaders of the OSTRICH BRIGADE…those who think that Islam’s implacable jihad will go away if they simply ignore it or pretend it doesn’t exist.

    Germans seem to have a DEATH WISH. What else can explain their fascination with this DEATH CULT?

  10. Lydia says

    Jul 16, 2017 at 12:46 am

    Wow, close to home. Saxony is where my mother is from, from a small town near Chemnitz.
    It is all going like dominoes, just like the pope wants.

    There was an incident a few years back over here in Texas where he was spearheading the operation of dumping all these illegal teenagers from Latin America who were even dangerous and they ended up in detention centers after being bused in, many busloads full.

    It’s all part of the borderless agenda, including:

    1. They let in migrants from the middle east who were mostly muslim. The Christians were left behind to die, or die along the way by the muslims.
    2. The muslims enter like a trojan horse and spread terror. As a result people feel compelled to comply with the migrant culture so as not to get raped and so on. The government advocates in favor of the migrant culture instead of vice versa, all in the name of ‘multi-culturalism,’ leading to assimilation in the opposite direction.
    3. Their religion spreads, helping the diversity and goal of the blended one world religion under antichrist.
    4. The sovereignty of nations is attacked, as if no country has the right to say no to the migrants entering. They are all supposed to enter as if there were no borders, all to push the border-less mindset leading to the one world government under antichrist.
    5. They will increase their terrorism in the goal of their ‘holy war’ take over of the lands they are invading.

    It’s all part of the plot. Yep.

    Sadly, these things will only get worse. I truly feel for the people in Europe right now. I am glad I don’t live there. At least we have more time than they do. Not to sound ‘fatalistic,’ but it’s a long story.
    Always hug and kiss your loved ones every day, tell them you love them, and don’t argue over the petty stuff. You never know what is around the next corner, it is happening all over.

    For comfort and encouragement, all I can say is: turn to the Lord.
    ( :

  11. Lydia says

    Jul 16, 2017 at 12:49 am

    Oh, and…

    6. With the rise of terrorism, they can whip out their… (drumroll)….
    ‘counter-terrorism’ measures. It’s not what it sounds like either.
    Think… ‘islamophobia,’ and you will get the picture.

    Yes, there is an agenda behind all these things.
    Me? A conspiracy theorist? Of course, only the theories are proving true by the day.
    The conspiracies are real, that stuff does exist, only an ostrich would deny it.

  12. More Ham Ed says

    Jul 16, 2017 at 2:50 am

    For something to listen to while making a fresh toasted ham sandwich:
    Recent interview with Chris Gaubatz – exposing what he learned while working for CAIR and their direct ties to Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood.

    • billybob says

      Jul 16, 2017 at 4:10 pm

      Excellent!

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