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by George Igler
• December 21, 2016 at 5:30 am
- The Sheikh Eid
Bin Mohammad al-Thani Charitable Association and the Saudi Muslim
World League are coordinating a "long-running strategy to exert
influence" by Gulf States in Germany, according to a report
authored by Germany's security agencies.
- "This is
about war, about children being indoctrinated, they are only in
primary school and already fantasize about how when they grow up,
they want to join the jihad, kill infidels." — Wolfgang
Trusheim, Frankfurt State Security office.
- "For quite
some time we've had indications and evidence that German Salafists
are getting assistance, which is approved by the governments of
Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Kuwait, in the form of money, the sending of
imams and the building of Koran schools and mosques." — Rolf
Mützenich, German MP and Middle East expert.
- Declining to
assimilate in the West continues with the apparent, religiously
mandated, preference to have the host countries become Islamic.
Salafism -- from salaf, "ancestors" or
"predecessors" in Arabic -- urges the emulation of the first
three generations of the Islamic prophet Mohammad's companions, and
Mohammad himself. It is often deemed the most fundamentalist
interpretation of Islam.
Security agencies in Germany claim that 9,200 such Islamic
extremists currently call the country home. Another intelligence briefing
cited by Süddeutsche Zeitung, warns that "the ideology
already has 10,000 followers" and growing, in the country.
"Almost all of the German nationals who have travelled to Syria
to fight for Islamic State became radicalized by Salafis, who target
low-income Muslim youths in German cities," wrote the Los Angeles
Times, adding that it is proving increasingly challenging for German
intelligence officials, "to differentiate between those who identify
intellectually with Salafism and those who espouse using violence to
realize a radical version of Islam."
by Maria Polizoidou
• December 21, 2016 at 4:30 am
- The Iranian
government, with these two cases (Kabis and Noor 1), seems to hold
in its hands a bomb that can blow up the Greek economic and
political system. If Greek authorities seriously investigate these
cases, they will trigger a domino-effect of disclosures that could
well destabilize Greece's government.
- Iran can
blackmail and manipulate its political influence inside Greece, or
Iran can use its ability to destabilize a member of NATO and Eurozone,
Greece, to strengthen its international position.
Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras meets with Iranian
Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in Tehran, on February 8, 2016.
(Image source: Office of the Supreme Leader)
As Sunnis and Shiites are fighting for regional hegemony in the
Middle East -- Syria, Yemen -- Greece, as geographical gate for Europe
and the Balkans, is a trophy country for the Iranian regime. In recent
years, the Iranians have been exploiting the corrupt establishment's
thirst for money. Through drug dealing and oil smuggling, Iran seems to
be trying to buy political influence and access to the Greek media.
Well-informed diplomatic sources say that the Iranian Embassy in Athens
is extremely active in Greece's political and economic life behind the
scenes.
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