German
Authorities Worry About MB Influence
by John Rossomando • Jan 7, 2019
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German officials reportedly see the Muslim Brotherhood as an
increasingly subversive force in their society. Attacks by ISIS, combined
with Muslim migration to Germany, have fueled social tension.
The reach of the Islamic Community of Germany (ICG), which the German
Domestic Intelligence Agency considers the German arm of the Brotherhood, is of
particular concern. ICG leaders allegedly give lip service to moderation
while privately supporting the transformation of Germany into an Islamic
state "in the medium term," German journalist Axel Spilcker wrote last month in a widely circulated German magazine
called The Focus.
The ICG's former head, Ibrahim El-Zayat, said in 2008 that it was
"premature to strike against the Jews and infidels" in Germany
counterterrorism analyst Sam Westrop, now with the Middle East Forum, noted
in 2013.
"But sooner or later we will strike against the enemies of Allah
and Islam. We have to wait," El-Zayat said.
ICG officials today are much more guarded today with their statements.
A brief about the Brotherhood posted on the website of the Interior
Ministry of the Interior in the German state of North Rhine Westphalia states: "The aim of the MB is the transformation
of the countries with an Islamic majority population into states with
Islamist government system based on Sharia as well as the Islamic legal and
living order. Violence is not ruled out to enforce this goal. But it is not
a priority. The MB rejects democratic state systems, or accepts them only
as a temporary solution."
German officials believe this desire to create a governmental system
based on Islamic shariah law violates the free democratic order. Gordian
Meyer-Plath, head of Germany's domestic intelligence agency the Bundesamt
für Verfassungsschutz (BfV) in the State of Saxony, warned in 2017 about the Brotherhood's effort to
establish shariah law in Germany and said it was working to subvert
democracy.
Burkhart Frier, who heads the BfV in North Rhine Westphalia, told The
Focus that the Muslim Brotherhood's subversive activities were a bigger
long-term threat to German democracy than al-Qaida or ISIS.
Frier also noted that the ICG received considerable funding from the
Gulf states.
The ICG slammed Frier in a column that appeared in the Islamische Zeitung.
"Apart from the fact that the public intelligence services still do
not show the proof of why they conclude that [ICG] activities are a threat
to the liberal-democratic constitution, this claim is frightening,"
the ICG said, claiming it has always been committed to democracy.
"Comparing them with such inhumane organizations that commit terrorist
acts, beheading and burning people in public, enslaving women and bringing
suffering and warfare to hundreds of thousands of people is simply
distasteful and absurd."
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