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Germany: Mosque raided for suspected jihad terror financing, imam is one of chief suspects

Dec 19, 2018 8:01 am By Robert Spencer

Imagine how surprised German authorities will be when they discover that the As-Sahaba mosque is not singular or uniquely “extremist,” but that aiding jihad is a chief goal of Islamic zakat (almsgiving). But by the time they do realize that, it is likely to be far too late.

“German police raid Berlin mosque over suspected ‘terror financing,'” DW, December 18, 2018 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):

Police raided a mosque and several other buildings in Berlin on Tuesday morning in an operation into suspected terrorism financing, prosecutors said.

State criminal police, intelligence officers as well as special police forces took part in the raids, which included the As-Sahaba mosque in the Berlin neighborhood of Wedding.

One of the main suspects was identified as Ahmad A., an imam at the mosque who preaches under the name of Abul Baraa.

The 45-year-old is suspected of sending money to an Islamist fighter in Syria “for purchasing military equipment to carry out terrorist criminal acts,” prosecutors said on Twitter….

The As-Sahaba mosque is under surveillance by Germany’s domestic intelligence agency and is considered an important meeting point for members of Germany’s radical Salafist scene, according to the Berliner Morgenpost newspaper.

The mosque was founded in 2010 by the German-Egyptian Islamist Reda Seyam, who is accused of taking part in a terror attack in Bali, according to the paper. He later left Germany to travel to Syria to become the “education minister” for the militant “Islamic State” (IS) group.

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  1. Anjuli Pandavar says

    Dec 19, 2018 at 9:39 am

    This is, potentially, a turning point, and if so, the best news to come out of Germany and the EU for a long time. It must be understood that there is *no mosque* that does not have its hand in financing jihad mass murder and terror. Every mosque collects zakat and every zakat collection, whether wholly or in part, *must* finance jihad. There is *no way* around this.

    Although contributing to this zakat is an obligation on every Muslim, it does not mean that every Muslim actually contributes, even if in the congregation when the zakat is collected. But no mosque, and hence no imam, is innocent of financing terrorism and mass murder.

    If the German authorities carry this one through, the mosque will have to be shut down, as will all other mosques and all Islamic Centres. It would be stupid in the extreme not to deport the individuals in charge of such places. Since zakat is an obligation on Muslims, collection will simply shift to less convenient locations and means, such as Muslim community groups and councils, Muslim-owned commercial outlets and madrassas, or less “community-enhancing” means, like the Internet.

    Either way, the unavoidable win for us here is that it will throw the spotlight on mosques and zakat like never before, and much wider than just in Germany. Potentially, the quaint notion that there are mosques that are not involved in “radicalisation” can finally be put to rest. For our part, we need to capitalise on this opening and expose *all* Islamic establishments, including those nested within non-Islamic establishments, like universities. We can make this a major breakthrough, even if the German authorities buckle under pressure from the IOC (via its EU “permanent representative”) and backtracks.

    • mortimer says

      Dec 19, 2018 at 11:45 am

      Anjuli, I pray the LORD that you are right. Your well-informed conclusions about zakat cannot be disputed by Muslim leaders.

      You have in fact revealed that IT IS NOW ILLEGAL TO PRACTICE ISLAMIC CHARITY, BECAUSE ZAKAT FUNDS ISLAMIC JIHAD-TERRORISM.

      One more item in Islam that shows that ISLAM IS NOT ‘ETERNAL’, but a ‘TEMPORARY’ medieval empire based on extortion and slavery.

      Now that ZAKAT may not be used to fund JIHAD, the terrorists will be increasingly cash-strapped.

      There should be an urgent program to translate all counterjihad books into the major European languages … especially for countries with large Muslim populations.

    • Terry Gain says

      Dec 19, 2018 at 1:05 pm

      One swallow doesn’t make a spring.

      • Anjuli Pandavar says

        Dec 19, 2018 at 5:02 pm

        TG

        “One swallow doesn’t make a spring.”

        —

        This is true, but no one is suggesting that it does. But we are neither so blind as to not see a swallow, nor so bloody-minded as to not acknowledge what one swallow COULD imply. And my God, in our dire situation, can we afford to glibly dismiss each swallow without at the very least taking a glance at whether a swarm might be coming up somewhere behind it and get ready for that spring? I am interested in ridding the world of Islam, my friend, and every single swallow will get my full attention until I’m satisfied that it’s alone. Is that OK?

        • David M says

          Dec 19, 2018 at 7:18 pm

          Anjuli everything you said is logical & obvious, but this is the time of political correctness where up is now down & facts are ignored. Most probably it will all be just swept under the carpet.

      • gravenimage says

        Dec 19, 2018 at 8:19 pm

        True, Terry and Anjuli. This doesn’t necessarily show that the Germans as a whole have wised up; it is nonetheless a good sign.

    • Anjuli Pandavar says

      Dec 19, 2018 at 5:18 pm

      OIC, not IOC! Given the sordid recent history of the former, I suppose it’s an easy mistake to make.

    • Shalom says

      Dec 20, 2018 at 10:41 am

      Yes, but I’ve seen similar articles 2 or 3 years ago here at JW where a mosque in Germany was raided and they removed hundreds of Korans which had ‘extremist’ content and a mosque in Germany where they found loads of stored weapons but never seems to make any difference.

      • A_M_Swallow says

        Dec 20, 2018 at 12:37 pm

        Nothing changes. Have security walls appeared to keep trucks out? Are more police on duty on New Years Day? Are more voters voting for right wing parties? Are more Mosques being watched?

        Things change but they change slowly.

  2. P. Douglas says

    Dec 19, 2018 at 9:57 am

    Every “Satan’s House” (mosque) is the same. A place to hide weapons, cache explosives and TRAIN SOLDIERS!
    It has been this way for 1400 years! WHY do the ass-hole political “Leaders” continue to deny this great, historical TRUTH!

    • Anjuli Pandavar says

      Dec 19, 2018 at 11:48 am

      PD,

      Islam is a very dangerous creed, and left unchecked, will bring untold misery to the world. We know that. Mosques, and indeed, all places were Muslims, may safely be assumed to play some part in furthering the central Islamic objective of achieving the genocide of all infidels and the subjugation of all Christians and Jews, with the eventual extermination of the latter, until “all religion is for Allah alone.” This is clear and about as damning as it gets for any creed.

      To hate Islam for what it has done to the world and continues to do, and to want to extirpate it from this earth is fully understandable. But one thing that will *not* help us is for us to lie about Islam. Even if there are certain things that all mosques do, it is not true that all mosques are the same. Mosques differ in some quite important ways. There are mosques that hide weapons and cache explosives, but not all mosques do this. It might be true that there are mosques that train soldiers, but they would constitute for fewer than all mosques, and I very much doubt any of them would be outside the Dar al-Islam, although it is, of course, possible that such training does take place in a remote ranch, forest clearing or mountain valley in the West, and that the facility also doubles as a mosque.

      So my point is, dear friend, we serve our cause better by taking the time to learn about Islam, and saying what we know or think, asking questions of the many good people sharing here. I don’t think anyone will claim to be absolutely right about everything, but we all hope to learn while we each make our own constructive contributions, even with great passion.

  3. Martin says

    Dec 19, 2018 at 10:45 am

    video – Berlin mosque raided, imam arrested for terror, more

    • Shalom says

      Dec 20, 2018 at 11:46 am

      Something that’s occurred to me watching this video is that they call it a Salafist mosque. In England, half the mosques are Deobandi led and these are equally as dangerous as the Salafi led ones and yet they are overlooked and dismissed as being harmless. According to the media, it’s ok to use the term Salafi Islamist but never Deobandi.

  4. A_M_Swallow says

    Dec 19, 2018 at 11:34 am

    The Germans are very methodical, after they have raided 3 or 4 Mosques they will suspect every Mosque and Imam. The police may find letters and emails supply evidence against other Mosques.

    • Terry Gain says

      Dec 19, 2018 at 1:08 pm

      The Germans weren’t methodical enough to open a Koran or history book before inviting millions of Muslims to invade their country.

      • epistemology says

        Dec 19, 2018 at 5:19 pm

        Exactly, the Germans haven’t got a clue about Islam, talking about the elites. They think there are only a few extremists supporting terrorism and as for the others it’s all motherhood and apple pie. The always repeated mantra ‘Islam is the religion of peace’. I watched Arte the French-German channel a while ago. They told us the muzzies who had to leave Spain and went to Tunisia in the 13th century were pure refugees having to leave their home country. Boohoo! The requonquista was the only sensible thing the Spaniards could do.

      • A_M_Swallow says

        Dec 19, 2018 at 6:38 pm

        Checking for Islam is not part of their method. They may have check the immigrants were not pagans who prayed to Owen. Traditionally Muslims were a southern European problem. The Teutonic knights fought pagans.

  5. 762x51FMJ says

    Dec 19, 2018 at 2:47 pm

    I said before, i was 9 and in Munich,Arabella 72′.
    When i was hurt by glass in the courtyard restaurant during what we later thought was part of the Olympic attack across town.
    Turned out it was merely another Saudi national giving one of his wives a 21st story divorce, she landed through the glass skylight avove our dinner table. .
    He followed her down with Ak 47 salut.
    The Military Police locked us down. And took him out..
    Germany is now exactly like i remember . Same exact place.

  6. gravenimage says

    Dec 19, 2018 at 7:28 pm

    Germany: Mosque raided for suspected jihad terror financing, imam is one of chief suspects
    ………………..

    This is probably true of *most* Mosques in the West.

    Funding Jihad terror with Zakat is mainstream Islam.

  7. Michael,B,Budinger says

    Dec 19, 2018 at 8:58 pm

    Well if the mosques are not hiding the weapons , who is. We all know that these so called refugees are on Jihad. Its how they have worked for 1400 years, migrate, build up numbers, start raping women and girls also little boys, keep building numbers up then go into full jihad with mass killings.
    Lebanon was a Christian Country when I was young, then their government let in Muslims, this is the method that they conquered Lebanon with.

    • b.a. freeman says

      Dec 20, 2018 at 9:39 pm

      well, lebanon wasn’t really a christian country; it was *controlled* by maronite christians at the time, but hey had been dhimmis before WWI. when the mandate was cut loose after WWII, the maronites managed to take control, probably because there were a lot of christians in that are. starting in the 1980s, if memory serves, hamas and other a**-wipes moved in, assassinated several key maronites, and lebanon became a virtual part of syria, although controlled by hamas. nobody *let* hamas in; they just sneaked in with weapons from syria, and then they owned it.

      nevertheless, before the a**-wipes took over, it used to be a decent place, from what i read. afterwards, ti was all about the usual muslim pursuits, with rape of women and children, theft, murder, and mass murder being the most popular among the ummah. nobody goes there now except for hamas monsters, and the maronites are probably dhimmis again.

      • gravenimage says

        Dec 21, 2018 at 10:42 pm

        Yes–grimly, Hezb’allah has largely taken over in Lebanon now.

  8. Brother Charles says

    Dec 20, 2018 at 6:53 am

    If the IMANS are a supspect then all of them will be suspect ,Because they do what the IMANS tell them ?

  9. Brother Charles says

    Dec 20, 2018 at 7:00 am

    BEFORE YOU COME IN TO RAID THIS MOSQUE FOR HIDING WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION ,CAN YOU SLIP THESE PLASTIC BAGS ON YOUR SHOES , ( while the gunmen are getting away )? SARCASM helps one in a bad day ?
    Just had to add this extra comment .

  10. Max says

    Dec 20, 2018 at 1:14 pm

    Nothing is hidden under the Sun!
    They shall continue to be exposed one after the other😊

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