In Germany, there are various programs that are designed to prevent that people become extremists. But that doesn’t seem (to pick): this is Because especially the Salafism still continue to experience great inflow.
Supporters of the Salafist preacher Pierre Vogel
If supporters of the terrorist organization “Islamic state” (IS) now want to leave the country even across the border to Syria, then it is no longer as easy as it once was. Because of the IS controls less territory. In its Propaganda, the terrorists, therefore call now to perpetrate attacks in their home countries, if the departure would be successful. The more successful the terrorist organization “Islamic state” military will symbolically driven out of their “territory” in Syria or in Iraq, recently warned the chief of the Federal intelligence service (BND), Bruno Kahl, the greater the stroke risk.
Number of Islamists is rising
Of about 930 known extremists, the areas are in war such as in Syria or Iraq, left the country to fight for the IS or in terrorist camps to train, has returned for a third now to Germany or other European countries. At the launch of the constitutional protection report in 2016, Minister of the interior Thomas de Maizière said, with the 680, there are so many Islamist threat like never before. You will at any time trust a stop.
In Germany, there are various programs that are designed to prevent that people become extremists. But the Islamist scene in Germany is currently still the inlet. Alone, the number of Salafist Islamists is increasing steadily in 10,000 Salafists in the protection of the Constitution is now in Germany. In the past year, there were 8600.
Hans-Georg Maaßen to the protection of the Constitution Symposium to Islamist Terror
Over 90 mosques, observed the protection of the Constitution, to small and so-called micro-groups, or any potential single perpetrators. This is not to say that the reverse is, however, that there are 90 terror cells, one of which is a stroke risk. “The Islamist scene is heterogeneous in itself,” says Markus Schäfert, spokesman for the state office for constitutional protection in Bavaria, in an interview with DW. Therefore, the protection of the Constitution divided the Islamist scene:
Legalistic Islamists
These are groups that do not resort to violence, their political goals, not a wish, but also in Germany, a state with the free, democratic basic order is incompatible. “This is a part of the scene that is significantly larger,” says Schäfert. “Do you engage in lobbying, make use of the right of Assembly, you will have to make on the Internet Propaganda and disseminate its ideology.”
These groups will be observed because for the protection of the Constitution of the Violence is the decisive criterion, but the question of whether this organization takes efforts against the free democratic basic order.
Jihadist Islamists
For them, Jihad violence means active combat. They use violence to achieve their goals. “The are actually those who say, we want a God of the state, and not only here, but throughout the world,” says Markus Schäfert. They explain that the participation in the armed struggle for the individual duty of every Muslim and therefore call for global fight against the supposed enemies of Islam.
Salafist Scene
She was a special case, says Markus Schäfert, because it was located in two sub areas of the Islam. “There is political Salafism, which we attribute to the legalistic part, because there are not also people, the violence are not yet ready. But there is also a political Salafism, which serves as a breeding ground, as the ideology of Jihadism.” About 20 percent of the Salafist scene are classified as ready to use violence.
“However, the gradations are within the readiness to use violence again,” says spokesman Markus Schäfert. “There are those that might be situationally violent, so the hand grip. But there are also the other, the plan could fully organize terrorist attacks.”
A wide spectrum within the Salafist scene. But one thing was always: “Every Terrorist was previously Salafist,” says the expert from the country of the protection of the Constitution Bavaria. Conversely, this does not mean, however, that any Salafist must automatically be a terrorist.
“Lies” – The Koran-distribution campaign was banned by the end of 2016
Maassen wants more powers
The protection of the Constitution has already banned many Islamist organizations – such as the radical Salafist Association “Westphalia, The true Religion,” with its Koran-distribution campaign of “Lies” from North Rhine-Westphalia. Similarly, the mosque of the Association of German-speaking Islam, the circle of Hildesheim was regarded a long time as a meeting point of radical Salafists. Also, the assassin from Berlin’s Breitscheid-Platz, Anis Amri, was there, reportedly to visit.
The challenges for intelligence services have become much more complex. Today, the terror militia IS leading a cyber war on the Internet, to recruit fighters via the social networks and bomb-making instructions. The protection of the Constitution CEO Hans-Georg Maaßen, therefore, would more powers for its authority. The calls, particularly privacy advocates on the Plan. He also proposes that the protection of the Constitution more to centralise without the country offices to be abolished.