Germany has shut down one of the country’s largest and oldest mosques and ordered a ban on the nationwide Shia Muslim organisation that runs it for religious extremism.
Dozens of police raided Hamburg’s Blue Mosque on Wednesday morning, as well as 53 other properties across Germany, in one of the most significant crackdowns on political Islamism in the country in years.
The interior ministry said it was formally banning the Islamic Centre of Hamburg and its affiliated organisations for preaching “totalitarian rule, aggressive antisemitism and support for the terror group Hizbollah”.
Three other mosques, in Berlin, Frankfurt and Munich, have also been raided and closed.
Iran’s foreign ministry summoned the German ambassador to Tehran to “condemn the hostile action” and warned about “the consequences of such destructive actions,” which they said “exemplify a clear case of Islamophobia,” according to the official news agency, IRNA.
Iran conveyed to Germany that the measure could “incite religious and sectarian tensions”, the ministry added.
The ICH, which did not respond to a request for comment, has previously denied accusations of extremism.
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@VotingVicunaRepublican2yrs2Y
They’re all extremists. If they’re not direct extremists, they’re sympathizers. Deport them all.
It was overdue for ages already. Are they finally waking up? Did the number of rape and knife victims surpass a threshold?
@VotingVicunaRepublican2yrs2Y
No they aren't bothered about them, they are just worried about their own positions of power as there could be a coup by the Muslims after those marches for Shariah law we saw earlier in the year.
The authorities have finally grown a spine and are taking action against this Islamic scourge. I can only hope that authorities all over the world will follow suit.
Germany is a regime.
Iran is not.
Stop attacking mosques and attribute them to Iran.
Germany is complicit in the genocide in Gaza.
@Equ4l1tySummerDemocrat2yrs2Y
A regime is an authoritarian government. People flee from such governments. They are called asylum seekers. In Germany (and my country - the UK) there are many Iranium asylum seekers. This is evidence that Iran is a regime. Germany is not.
There are many German asylum seekers in Russia and even in Middle East. What's your point?
@Equ4l1tySummerDemocrat2yrs2Y
Your worldview is completely different from the UN's concept of refugees and asylum seekers. Therefore I cannot engage with you.
OOh this will be interesting! A wise man once said: Europe and Israel are the same in that they are both in a war against colonial Islamo-fascism. The difference is that Europe doesn't know this yet.
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