• Why Jihad Watch?
  • About Robert Spencer and Staff Writers
  • FAQ
  • Books
  • Muhammad
  • Islam 101
  • Privacy

Jihad Watch

Exposing the role that Islamic jihad theology and ideology play in the modern global conflicts

Germany: Former spy chief says “2,200 potential terrorists who could carry out attacks anytime” now in the country

Feb 20, 2019 9:00 am By Robert Spencer

They ain’t “right-wing extremists,” either. Danke, Merkel!

“2,000 Islamists ‘Ready to Carry Out Attacks at Any Time’ Says Former German Spy Chief,” by Virginia Hale, Breitbart, February 18, 2019:

The security threat posed by more than 2,000 Islamist terror suspects is just one example of how Angela Merkel’s “mistake” to throw open the borders continues to haunt Germany daily, the country’s former spy chief has said.

Hans-Georg Maassen, who was forced to retire as Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (BfV) chief last year after voicing skepticism over antifa-promoted footage used to claim Germans had carried out a ‘pogrom’ against migrants, said domestic security has been compromised since the Chancellor moved to welcome well over a million migrants in 2015.

Having been a co-author of German residence laws emphasising the state’s role and duty to ensure the “control and limitation of immigration”, Maassen “felt chills” when he saw that “thousands of [third world migrants] were allowed to enter just like that”, he told the tabloid newspaper Bild.

“The security situation has been aggravated by the so-called migration crisis,” asserted the former lawyer and intelligence chief, appearing at a conservative conference in Cologne, where he was given the reception of a “rock star” by right-wing supporters of Merkel’s Christian Democratic Union (CDU), according to Bild….

There are now “around 2,200 potential terrorists who could carry out [Islamist] attacks at any time”, the former BfV head said, adding that the number of Islamic extremists living in Germany has risen from 3,800 in 2012 to 11,500 today.

“Not only do the [migration policy] mistakes of 2015 continue to affect [the country] but they are repeated daily,” lamented Maasen, before asserting the belief it is extremely unlikely Germany would be able to successfully integrate the massive number of people who have taken up residence in the nation over the last few years.

Share this:

  • Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on WhatsApp (Opens in new window)
  • Click to print (Opens in new window)
  • Click to email this to a friend (Opens in new window)
  • More
  • Click to share on Skype (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on Telegram (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on Tumblr (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on Pocket (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on Pinterest (Opens in new window)

Follow me on Facebook

Filed Under: Featured, Germany, immigration Tagged With: Hans-Georg Maassen


Learn more about RevenueStripe...

Comments

  1. Michael Copeland says

    Feb 20, 2019 at 9:22 am

    Only 2,000?
    UK has 23,000.

    • mortimer says

      Feb 20, 2019 at 12:38 pm

      This is a conservative number. It surely represents those who are ideologically prepared and perhaps even trained. Such volunteer jihadists are motivated to conduct jihad, as long as someone invites them to ‘join the caravan’ … and thereupon, they will do so if another party has a plan.

      My own estimate of 2,000 jihadists per 1.6 million Muslims in Germany is about the same as that of Hans-Georg Maassen. That’s less than 1% of total Muslims.

      Worldwide, about 2,00,000 Muslims are jihad-ready. Someone only needs to ask them and show them the plan. They will join a jihad if they are invited.

      15% of all Muslims (250,000,000) will provide logistical support for the 2 million jihadists.

      • gravenimage says

        Feb 20, 2019 at 8:06 pm

        Mortimer, can you show any pious Muslims who do *not* support the imposition of Shari’ah–which is what Jihad is for?

  2. medforth says

    Feb 20, 2019 at 9:43 am

    Close our borders now! Bosnians enter Germany with 17 hand grenades+++
    Entering Germany for criminals of all kinds is an easy game, this is the price we have to pay for a Europe without border controls. Now in Dresden two Bosnians were controlled by the federal police, 17 functional hand grenades were found in the car. What the 17-year-old and 28-year-old had in mind is not yet known, at least nothing good can be assumed, because anyone who drives around this country with weapons could strike at any time.The main thing is that we remain tolerant and liberal-minded, aren’t we?

    The tabloid BILD reports:

    Alert at Dresden main station: The Mercedes ML320, an SUV with Bosnian license plates, had been parked in the parking ban at Bayrische Street in the afternoon. Federal police officers then checked the two inmates, Bosnians aged 17 and 28.
    The two men were initially taken for interrogation on suspicion of illegal entry. The officers snatched a small amount of drugs from a suspect’s pocket. A customs sniffer dog searched the Bosnian car. It did not find any drugs.Nevertheless, it found something. A spokeswoman for the Federal Police: “Hidden in the trunk of the car we finally discovered 17 hand grenades.
    The state police were called in. Experts secured the explosives, transported them away. It is not yet known whether they were to be used to carry out an attack. The investigation is ongoing. The spokeswoman: “The hand grenades, however, were functional.”
    Read more:
    https://searchlight-germany.blogspot.com/2019/02/close-our-borders-now-bosnians-enter.html

    • Terry Gain says

      Feb 20, 2019 at 9:56 am

      No one has demanded that the police apologize for their Islamophobia. So all is not yet quite lost?

  3. Terry Gain says

    Feb 20, 2019 at 9:48 am

    There are now “around 2,200 potential terrorists who could carry out [Islamist] attacks at any time”, the former BfV head said, adding that the number of Islamic extremists living in Germany has risen from 3,800 in 2012 to 11,500 today.
    ………
    That is Known extremists and does not include unknown extremists or potential extremists. The number of potential extremists may be estimated by the number of Muslims who are in possession of The Islamic War Manual, otherwise known as their “holy” book.

    • gravenimage says

      Feb 20, 2019 at 9:36 pm

      Grimly true, Terry.

    • Rufolino says

      Feb 21, 2019 at 4:44 am

      Not does the estimate of terrorists include all those “sympathetic” to the aims of terrorism.

      But terrorism may be irrelevant. One imam recently said:

      “We will conquer Europe through the womb and the ballot box.”

  4. dan christensen says

    Feb 20, 2019 at 10:07 am

    The global Religious World War has started in a low-key way.
    The 2015 German migration disaster triggered the widespread violent jihadism, which even now is escalating unpredictably.
    Now the Europeans understand what ‘Globalism’ is about – it is stealth Sharia unfolding under the tutelage of Soros, Bilderberg, Trilateral Commission, international socialism, religious organisations like CAIR, the pope, MSM and so forth.
    Some people are interested in sowing discord and starting internal civil wars on a global scale, with islam as the crowbar to destruction of Western civilization.
    That is why islam needs to be openly declared a non-religious subversive organisation globally. Islam only have around 25 years left to win world domination, otherwise when oil is discarded as a primary energy source in around 25 years, islamic oilproducing countries will be ruined totally.

    • eduardo odraude says

      Feb 20, 2019 at 11:53 am

      Islamic nations may think they only have 25 years. But I think in fact energy will hit near zero cost in 25 years (unless civilization collapses). Everyone, including the Islamic world, is likely to have sufficient energy and material goods, if not within 25 years, then not long after that — again, assuming civilization continues, a big assumption. However, Iran’s demographic collapse — Iranians are reproducing at well under replacement rate — means that Iran does have a limited time to achieve whatever insane goals the mullahs have in mind. At current rates of reproduction, the Iranian population apparently is going to drop by half with each generation.

      • dan christensen says

        Feb 20, 2019 at 2:42 pm

        I imagine that the global demand for oil gradually diminishes, as other energy forms evolve (fusion energy). So, gradually the oil producers lose income and the islamic countries are about 600 years behind in technology development; they are simply 99% dependent on Western technology. If they can’t pay for food and technology, islam will surely collapse. The fine point here is that islam itself, thanks to its backward primitive outlook, will be the major destroyer of islamic societies and the deadly break up of islam.
        The pope shall be very sorry.

  5. eduardo odraude says

    Feb 20, 2019 at 11:44 am

    When are the German people going to vote Merkel out? When are they going to hold her criminally liable?

    • mortimer says

      Feb 20, 2019 at 12:41 pm

      Germans want the socialist goodies and handouts from these globalist parties offered as bribes.

      • Heidi says

        Feb 20, 2019 at 2:45 pm

        Mortimer, you are mistaken. We do not want goodies or Hand outs nor do we want socialists. We have three State elections as well as the European Parliament election 2019 and the parties in Germany are so afraid that they stoop so low to sell demands made by the AfD as their own. More and more People in Germany and Europe are waking up. What gets me is that in some Police Chiefs call for more foreigners in our Police force, especially from Arabic and Turkish-speaking countries. Finally I understand when they say “all artificial intelligence is nothing compared to natural stupidity”.

      • gravenimage says

        Feb 21, 2019 at 12:13 am

        Mortimer, more Germans voted *against* Merkel than for her, The problem was that the opposition vote has been fragmented.

        • Heidi says

          Feb 21, 2019 at 2:40 am

          gravenimage, who wants something like him representing our country? Only leftists and other scum. https://www.bild.de/politik/ausland/politik-ausland/40th-anniversary-steinmeier-congratulates-terror-mullahs-60264056.bild.html

        • gravenimage says

          Feb 21, 2019 at 9:45 pm

          Heidi, I’ve seen that story–it was covered here at Jihad Watch.

          I did not mean to imply that Merkel was the *only* problem in Germany.

  6. Anjuli Pandavar says

    Feb 22, 2019 at 4:55 pm

    “around 2,200 potential terrorists who could carry out [Islamist] attacks at any time”
    —
    This is failing to see the wood for the trees. What we’re dealing with here is an *army* being assembled. When will it be mobilised? I don’t know. But I consider these scenarios, all highly plausible, as potential triggers:

    – European governments unable to subdue their restive populations reaching critical mass
    – EU governments defying EU directives, especially those pertaining to immigration, reaching critical mass
    – The EU, for whatever reason, no longer being able to bankroll so-called “joint projects” with Arab countries (this will destroy the Palestinian Authority)
    – A significant split in EU foreign policy, especially along the Israel-jihad fault-line, between conflicting internal blocs
    – EU member states establishing bilateral military relations with the US reaching critical mass
    – Another country formally initiating exit from the EU, especially a founding member
    – Germany redividing (possibly with Bavaria joining the eastern side)
    – Open attacks on Muslim ghettos (this might trigger the Muslim militias to mobilise spontaneously)
    – Multiple anti-EU governments coming to power in quick succession
    – Anti-EU landslide in May Euro elections
    – One country leaving the Euro currency
    – The army, in any one EU country, stepping in to stop the rot
    – One EU country leaving Schengen
    – Muslims imposing Shari’a as the law of the land in Sweden and the scramble for sex-slaves getting underway
    – Post-EU Britain, under new “populist” government, initiating robust de-Islamisation program
    – Any one of these could, of course, be a catalyst for several others.

FacebookYoutubeTwitterLog in

Subscribe to the Jihad Watch Daily Digest

You will receive a daily mailing containing links to the stories posted at Jihad Watch in the last 24 hours.
Enter your email address to subscribe.

Please wait...

Thank you for signing up!
If you are forwarding to a friend, please remove the unsubscribe buttons first, as they my accidentally click it.

Subscribe to all Jihad Watch posts

You will receive immediate notification.
Enter your email address to subscribe.
Note: This may be up to 15 emails a day.

Donate to JihadWatch
FrontPage Mag

Search Site

Translate

The Team

Robert Spencer in FrontPageMag
Robert Spencer in PJ Media

Articles at Jihad Watch by
Robert Spencer
Hugh Fitzgerald
Christine Douglass-Williams
Andrew Harrod
Jamie Glazov
Daniel Greenfield

Contact Us

Terror Attacks Since 9/11

Archives

  • 2020
    • December
    • November
    • October
    • September
    • August
    • July
    • June
    • May
    • April
    • March
    • February
    • January
  • 2019
    • December
    • November
    • October
    • September
    • August
    • July
    • June
    • May
    • April
    • March
    • February
    • January
  • 2018
    • December
    • November
    • October
    • September
    • August
    • July
    • June
    • May
    • April
    • March
    • February
    • January
  • 2017
    • December
    • November
    • October
    • September
    • August
    • July
    • June
    • May
    • April
    • March
    • February
    • January
  • 2016
    • December
    • November
    • October
    • September
    • August
    • July
    • June
    • May
    • April
    • March
    • February
    • January
  • 2015
    • December
    • November
    • October
    • September
    • August
    • July
    • June
    • May
    • April
    • March
    • February
    • January
  • 2014
    • December
    • November
    • October
    • September
    • August
    • July
    • June
    • May
    • April
    • March
    • February
    • January
  • 2013
    • December
    • November
    • October
    • September
    • August
    • July
    • June
    • May
    • April
    • March
    • February
    • January
  • 2012
    • December
    • November
    • October
    • September
    • August
    • July
    • June
    • May
    • April
    • March
    • February
    • January
  • 2011
    • December
    • November
    • October
    • September
    • August
    • July
    • June
    • May
    • April
    • March
    • February
    • January
  • 2010
    • December
    • November
    • October
    • September
    • August
    • July
    • June
    • May
    • April
    • March
    • February
    • January
  • 2009
    • December
    • November
    • October
    • September
    • August
    • July
    • June
    • May
    • April
    • March
    • February
    • January
  • 2008
    • December
    • November
    • October
    • September
    • August
    • July
    • June
    • May
    • April
    • March
    • February
    • January
  • 2007
    • December
    • November
    • October
    • September
    • August
    • July
    • June
    • May
    • April
    • March
    • February
    • January
  • 2006
    • December
    • November
    • October
    • September
    • August
    • July
    • June
    • May
    • April
    • March
    • February
    • January
  • 2005
    • December
    • November
    • October
    • September
    • August
    • July
    • June
    • May
    • April
    • March
    • February
    • January
  • 2004
    • December
    • November
    • October
    • September
    • August
    • July
    • June
    • May
    • April
    • March
    • February
    • January
  • 2003
    • December
    • November
    • October
    • March

All Categories

You Might Like

Learn more about RevenueStripe...

Recent Comments

  • J. Morgan on Iranian Kurdistan: Muslim brothers behead their sister in honor killing over her romantic relationship
  • ELI on Uighur leader: ‘We’re actually quite worried’ about what Biden might let China get away with
  • revereridesagain on Erdogan: ‘Turks must defend the rights of Jerusalem, even with their lives’ for ‘the honor of the Islamic nation’
  • James Lincoln on Erdogan: ‘Turks must defend the rights of Jerusalem, even with their lives’ for ‘the honor of the Islamic nation’
  • Carol on Greece, Cyprus, Egypt, France and UAE conduct joint military exercises amid rising Turkish threat

Popular Categories

dhimmitude Sharia Jihad in the U.S ISIS / Islamic State / ISIL Iran Free Speech

Robert Spencer FaceBook Page

Robert Spencer Twitter

Robert Spencer twitter

Robert Spencer YouTube Channel

Books by Robert Spencer

Jihad Watch® is a registered trademark of Robert Spencer in the United States and/or other countries - Site Developed and Managed by Free Speech Defense

Content copyright Jihad Watch, Jihad Watch claims no credit for any images posted on this site unless otherwise noted. Images on this blog are copyright to their respective owners. If there is an image appearing on this blog that belongs to you and you do not wish for it appear on this site, please E-mail with a link to said image and it will be promptly removed.

Our mailing address is: David Horowitz Freedom Center, P.O. Box 55089, Sherman Oaks, CA 91499-1964

loading Cancel
Post was not sent - check your email addresses!
Email check failed, please try again
Sorry, your blog cannot share posts by email.