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by Soeren Kern
• June 5, 2014 at 5:00 am
Counter-terrorism efforts are
too focused on security-related threats rather than on prevention and
combating radicalization at the earliest stages of indoctrination.
Salafist groups are recruiting
and radicalizing young Muslims under the guise of doing "mission
work."
A
Salafist demonstration in Solingen, Germany on May 1, 2012, moments before
it degenerated into a violent riot. (Image source: YouTube)
Salafism is the fastest growing Islamist movement in Germany, and
Salafist jihadists pose one of the greatest threats to national security,
according to a new German intelligence report.
The annual report—known in German as the Verfasungsschutzbericht Niedersachsen
2013—focuses on threats to the democratic order in the northwestern German
state of Lower Saxony, home to a sizeable Muslim community.
The 196-page document was prepared by the Lower Saxony branch of
Germany's domestic intelligence agency, the Bundesamt für Verfassungsschutz
(BfV), and was made public by Boris Pistorius, the Interior Minister of
Lower Saxony, at a special press conference held in the city of Hannover on
May 25.
Despite its regional focus, the report provides a wealth of information
about the rise of radical Islam in Germany as a whole.
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