Islamist-extremist, Totalitarian Ideology in Germany

"[The IZH -- Islamic Center Hamburg --] promotes an Islamist-extremist, totalitarian ideology in Germany."

"[It and its suborganizations] also support the terrorists of Hezbollah and spread aggressive antisemitism."

German Interior Minister Nancy Faeser

 

"As the direct representative of Iran's 'Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution', the IZH disseminates the ideology of the Islamic Revolution in an aggressive and militant way and seeks to bring about such a revolution in the Federal Republic of Germany." 

German Interior Ministry statement

A German police officer stands outside the Imam Ali mosque on July 24, AP

 Police in Germany were authorized to raid 53 properties around the country affiliated with the Islamic Center Hamburg (IZH) along with five suborganizations scattered about Germany. The move follows searches that took place in November. The organization is now banned, accused of representing an "outpost" of Iran's theocratic government. Its purpose is to promote the Republic's leadership ideology of extreme Shiite Islamism.

Evidence gathered in the investigation, according to Interior Minister Faeser, "confirmed the serious suspicions to such a degree that we ordered the ban today". The blue-tiled Imam Ali Mosque in Hamburg -- the group's most prominent structure -- was one amidst the various Islamic Center Hamburg properties police raided early on Wednesday. Raids also took place in Berlin, along with six other German states.

It cannot be much of a mystery that the Islamic Republic of Iran has infiltrated Germany to such a degree. Turkey's Erdogan has also financed the building of many mosques as well in Germany, to serve the needs of the country's large Turkish-German population, originally brought to Germany as a labour force. That population is one that President Erdogan sees as one of his constituencies. 

 

Germany had a very large Muslim population even before it accepted a million migrants that had entered Europe in 2015. The result is a proliferation of mosques and a Muslim demographic that has its own ideas of religion and the law that applies, favouring Sharia over the German system of justice. The large presence of Muslims also gives countries like Iran and Turkey an influence on that demographic not necessarily to Germany's credit.

 

Germany bans Hamburg-based Islamic organization for supporting Iran, Lebanon’s Hezbollah  Anadolu Agency

Germany's domestic intelligence agency has long held the IZH under observation. In its annual report for 2023 it outright stated that it represents Iran's most important representative in Germany aside from the country's embassy. The group, founded in 1962, claims to have no reliable figures for the number of their members or supporters. Calls for the group to be banned in Germany surfaced years ago, but there was never any conclusive action.

 

Hans-Udo Muzel, Germany's ambassador to Tehran, was summoned by Iran's Foreign Ministry for a sound rebuke, in response to the mosque closure and the raids on other mosques affiliated with the Islamic Center Hamburg. 

German Police officers stage outside the Islamic Center Hamburg with the Imam Ali mosque on 24 July, AP

"The World Needs To Know"

"It's a big part of northern Israel that are living life like hell."

"I think everyone needs to know that this is what Hezbollah does. While we [the Israeli military] are aiming at military targets, they are ruining the everyday lives of Israelis."

"They target civilians on purpose; they know they are civilians. That's the difference. The world needs to know."

Ofri Eliyahu Rimoni, resident of Tel Aviv

Fires burn as a result of rockets launched from Lebanon into northern Israel, next to the city of Kiryat Shmona near the Lebanon border, on June 3, 2024 (Jalaa Marey / AFP)

The world has no wish 'to know'. The world's eyes are focused on Western legacy media that prefers to take its news stories from sources such as Al Jazeera, and any updates emanating from 'official' media sourced from Gaza straight from Hamas or Lebanon, speaking for Hezbollah. That tens of thousands of Israelis have been forced to evacuate their homes and towns in Northern Israel because of rockets and missiles fired from the Lebanon border into Israel by Hezbollah is of scant interest to the world at large. They simply don't care 'to know'. 

It makes more gripping, more intensely interesting copy to report that the Israel Defense Forces are bombing the Gaza Strip. The IDF takes extreme measures in the hope that it can, as much as humanly possible in a war, avoid civilian casualties. In the face of a reality where a terrorist combatant army takes great pains to infiltrate crowded civilian enclaves, where there is no concern over civilian vulnerability when rocket launchers are deliberately placed near schools, hospitals, mosques and densely-occupied apartment blocks.

Banking on the IDF being loathe to fire back at the launching sites or tunnels containing munitions, terrorist operatives or crowded enclaves, Hamas infamously directly places Palestinians in the line of fire, exulting at the deaths that result as collateral damage, using those deaths of 'women and children' as fodder for their claims of Israeli 'genocide'; the greater the number of civilian deaths, the more Western ire at Israel, not Hamas is raised, with demands that Israel cease firing, not that Hamas surrender its pledge of destroying the Jewish state.

 

Fire near Kiryat Shmona on the north (Hesder Yeshiva Union)

 

"It seems this is the new method of the enemy: they see and hear what's happening -- they understand burning the north [of Israel] is more effective."

"We're coming off a night of fires. And this morning another blaze started in the Yir'on Forest."

"Our biggest fear is the fire spreading to Mount Meron. If that mountain ignites, all the communities of Meron, Safsufa, and the Galilee panhandle will be in danger."

Guy Eyal, officer with the Golan Regional Council, northern Israel

Guy Eyal, the security officer (Merom Golan Regional Council)

 

Much of the northern stretches of the Galilee region is in danger, resulting from the Lebanese, Iran-proxy terrorist group Hezbollah firing rockets into Israel. Since October 8 when Hezbollah first began sending incendiary devices across the border to distract Israeli troops from its focus on the Gaza Strip following the October 7 terrorist attack on southern Israel, Israelis in the north have been forced to evacuate to safer areas in Israel, out of the line of Hezbollah fire.

Hezbollah's attacks have become more frequent and more numerous, necessitating that in the wake of a "swarm of drones" on Sunday from Hezbollah matters are heating up considerably. Dozens of rockets were fired at a number of northern Israeli communities; Katzrin, Margaliot and Kiryat Shemona among them. The ongoing missile strikes continued into Monday, sparking wildfires in the north. Close to 10,000 acres in Israel have been burned in the last week alone.

"This is Hezbollah's new strategy -- intentionally firing on open areas to ignite fires and burn the north" stated Ilan Shochat, former mayor of Tzfat, a town in northern Israel.

"It was definitely not an easy night, but the whole country is at war now, so it's not just our communities. Of course, it's not simple, but the only culprit is the Hezbollah organization. I tell the government that we're strong, we'll stay here, and we'll give them support to defeat Hezbollah in the south and north."

"True, there were massive fires last night, and it would have been better if the various authorities were better prepared. But this is what we have - we're at war, and we'll win it."

Shai Golani, manager of orchards, Malkia

June 2024, Wildfire in Kiryat Shimona area, Israel Fire Services Photo