More than 1,000 people demonstrated in Hamburg yesterday against Germany’s “hostile Islam” policy. Interior Minister Nancy Feser called the event “unbearable” and warned participants not to cross the “red line”.
“It is difficult to bear to watch such an Islamist demonstration in our streets. It is positive that the Hamburg police dealt with the violations with strong force and there were no incidents,” Ms Fesser told Tagesspiegel and stressed that “the red lines, which are where the extensive protection ends, must be clear of freedom of assembly and expression – that means no to terror propaganda for Hamas, no to anti-Jewish hate speech, no to violence.”
According to information from the Office for the Protection of the Constitution in Hamburg, cited by the public television ARD, the organizer of the gathering was a person close to the organization “Muslim Interactive”, which is considered by the German authorities to be “definitely extremist” and has been banned. Demonstrators repeatedly chanted “God is great” (Allahu Akbar), while speakers accused Germany’s politicians and media of “cheap lies” and “cowardly reporting” which aims to label all Muslims in Germany as Islamists. , due to the war in the Gaza Strip.
As Nancy Feser reported, the German security authorities closely monitor the Islamist scene in the country and after the banning of Hamas and the “Samidoun” network, other suspicious organizations have been identified, “other groups that want to excite, radicalize and nurture young Islamists”.
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