Nouripour calls the demonstration “alarming” – and calls for the Islamic Center to be closed
“Allahu Akbar” echoes through St. Georg in Hamburg
Around 1,000 Islamists called for a “caliphate” and “Sharia” on Saturday in Hamburg. Now traffic light domestic politicians are calling for a ban on the group behind it, “Muslim Interaktiv”. Federal Interior Minister Faeser (SPD) calls the march “difficult to bear”.
“Caliphate is the solution” – with these slogans 1,000 participants marched through Hamburg at a demonstration organized by Islamists. Green Party leader Nouripour calls on Interior Minister Faeser to act. And Elon Musk also comments on what is happening.
Grünen leader Omid Nouripour has called for comprehensive reactions after a demonstration organized by Islamists in Hamburg. “It is alarming when extremists uninhibitedly proclaim a caliphate on our streets,” Nouripour told the news portal T-Online. What is now needed is “decisive action and intensive cooperation between our federal and state security authorities,” he continued. “With regard to Hamburg, I expect corresponding consequences: The Islamic Center, the Iranian mullahs’ espionage nest, must finally be closed by the Interior Minister.”
Interior Minister Nancy Faeser (SPD) is currently examining a closure. Nouripour also spoke out in favor of “consistent prosecution, club bans and intensive monitoring by the Office for the Protection of the Constitution”.
At the demonstration on Saturday with more than 1,000 participants, slogans such as “Germany’s dictatorship of values” or “Caliphate is the solution” could be read on posters. According to information from the Hamburg Office for the Protection of the Constitution, the person who registered the rally is close to the Muslim Interaktiv group, which is classified as definitely extremist.
Edition of the “Bild” newspaper smeared with red blood (belongs to Axel Springer Verlag, like WELT)
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Muslim Interaktiv had already organized a demonstration in the St. Georg district of Hamburg at the end of October last year, despite the ban. In February 2023, the group mobilized 3,500 people to a rally against a Koran burning in Sweden.
After the demonstration at the weekend, the public prosecutor’s office wants to examine the individual slogans and banners for criminal relevance. Police Chief Falk Schnabel announced this on Monday ZDF “Morning Magazine” at. “But it is also a fact that our Basic Law also allows extremist expressions of opinion with a view to freedom of assembly and freedom of expression,” he added.
The right to assembly is designed in such a way that it is not primarily about allowing or banning certain opinions. “We are the police, our law is neutral,” said Schnabel. The right to assembly is essentially about whether a gathering is peaceful.
CDU General Secretary Carsten Linnemann criticized Interior Minister Faeser. “Many millions of people around the world are brutally oppressed by Islamist regimes and often flee to free Europe. “It is all the more scandalous that hate demonstrators for a caliphate are once again taking to the streets in Hamburg – despite Interior Minister Faeser’s full-throated announcements that something like this will not be tolerated,” he told “Bild am Sonntag”.
“If you want a caliphate, you have come to the wrong place in Germany,” writes Faeser
In view of the images from Hamburg, Faeser had spoken out in favor of immediate and tough action by the authorities against crimes arising from demonstrations. “Seeing such an Islamist demonstration on our streets is difficult to bear. “It’s good that the Hamburg police have counteracted crimes with a large contingent,” Faeser told the “Tagesspiegel” on Sunday. If crimes such as terrorist propaganda for the radical Islamic Hamas occur, “there must be immediate, tough intervention in demonstrations,” she continued.
Additionally, Faeser said, you need to be clear about “red lines.” There should be no propaganda for Hamas, no hate speech against Jews and no calls for violence on German streets, she said on Deutschlandfunk on Monday.
In addition, the SPD politician wrote on the online service X: “If you want a caliphate, you have come to the wrong address in Germany.” Her party colleague Michael Roth also commented on
Tesla founder Elon Musk also spoke out with a tweet about the political situation in Germany. Calling for the government to be overthrown is certainly illegal in Germany, Musk wrote on the X platform about a video of the demo distributed by the “Nius” portal. The AfD chairwoman Alice Weidel then invited Musk to her office in the Bundestag. The event in Hamburg could be discussed there; it was just one of many worrying developments in Germany, she wrote in English. When asked, a spokesman for Weidel said the entrepreneur had not yet responded.