A Berlin SPD official claims the party is infiltrated by «activists and Islamists.»
The integration officer for the Neukölln district has made serious allegations of Muslim Brotherhood influence and internal conflicts within the Berlin SPD over this matter.
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Local politics in Berlin has come into effervescence after the mayor of the Neukölln district decided to step down and not stand for re-election. The mayor received only 68.1 per cent support in the party's internal vote. He himself considered this result insufficient to maintain his legitimacy and announced that he was stepping aside.
This resignation has not remained within the party's internal sphere. The debate has taken an unexpected turn due to the statements made to The Mirror of the district's integration officer and party member, the socialist Güner Balci.
Balci claims that Islamists and activists have “infiltrated” parts of the SPD and the administration.
In the interview with Der Spiegel, Güner Balci makes his most forceful accusation: He claims that “Islamists and activists have infiltrated parts of politics, the SPD and the administration."”According to his account, this influence is not directly visible, but rather operates “through apparently independent NGOs”, some of which would be, he says, under observation by the German constitutional protection service for their proximity to the Muslim Brotherhood.
Balci states that these entities They exert political pressure in the name of the fight against discrimination, but in reality “they are part of a long-term strategy"”intended to gain influence in political and institutional spaces. According to her, The aim is not to document real cases of discrimination, but to intervene in the public debate and influence the SPD's positions.”, especially on issues of integration, Islamism and security policies.
The Integration Officer It directly links this influence to the case of the outgoing district mayor.. He ensures that “with the support of a certain sector of the left”, these groups “They have managed to bring down a mayor.”For Balci, this shows that the activity of activists and Islamists “is not limited to the social sphere”, but has reached into spaces of political power within the SPD.
Critique of the term “anti-Muslimism” and the banalisation of Islamism
Balci Frontally rejects the concept of ’anti-Muslimism“, which he considers a ”battle cry“ introduced and disseminated, according to her, by actors who have used the Fighting discrimination to protect or relativise forms of Islamism. Remember that similar expressions, such as “Islamophobia”, were first adopted by regimes and leaders like Iran or Erdoğan, and he maintains that today They are used to limit the debate on Islamism. and divert attention from its growth.
According to Balci, The use of this term is contributing to “whitewashing” situations that should be described as Islamism.. He states that there are sectors that even deny the existence of the problem and that use the expression “anti-Muslimism” to suggest that any criticism of Islamist movements is prejudice against all Muslims. This equivalence, he says, “Relativises the growing antisemitism”and makes it difficult to tackle the Islamist attitudes and structures that, according to her, have been reinforced in certain environments.
NGOs and complaint offices under the influence of Islamist activists, according to Balci.
Balci assures that Some of the discrimination registration offices are not in the hands of neutral organisations, but in those of groups linked to Islamist activists.. Explain that “some of these structures are located in entities that the Office for the Protection of the Constitution classifies as close to the Muslim Brothers”According to her, these organisations present themselves as independent NGOs, but operate “with their own agenda” rather than with the aim of rigorously documenting discrimination against Muslims.
The integration officer denounces that these groups are not seeking to protect victims of racism, but rather… to influence public and institutional debate. He claims that behind the complaint offices there is “a strategy to gain legitimacy and political presence”in spaces where policies on integration and coexistence are decided. According to Balci, this allows Islamist activists to “to present themselves as representatives of the Muslim community”and at the same time stifle any critical discussion about Islamism.
Anyone who doesn't see the problem with Islamism may be part of the problem., according to Balci
Balci directs one of his harshest criticisms at Raed Saleh, former president of the Berlin SPD. He recalls that, after the Hamas terrorist attack on 7 October, he “did not take a clear stance”. He points out that, while antisemitic crimes were on the rise, Saleh… was calling for the concept of “anti-Muslim racism” to be incorporated into the regional constitution, a proposal that she interprets as a way of shifting the focus where it doesn't belong.
According to Balci, this attitude reflects a lack of willingness to recognise the growth of Islamism in certain social settings, especially in neighbourhoods like Neukölln. He links it directly to the Muslim Brotherhood., which considers a central actor in the dissemination of religious and political influence discourses and structures. For this reason, it states that “who hasn't seen this dynamic yet” this dynamic becomes “perhaps part of the problem”.
Muslim clan crime and pressure on traders in Neukölln
Balci warns that parts of Neukölln are already dominated by organised crime networks linked to Arab-origin clans. According to her, the situation is serious enough to lead to “more stabbings and shootings in this area, in Berlin and beyond.” She explains that most citizens do not perceive this reality because they do not live in the same circles, but she insists that her colleagues and numerous neighbours suffer the consequences directly.
The district's traders are one of the most vulnerable groups to these dynamics. Cite specifically. businesses that refuse to identify Hamas as a “freedom movement” or that refuse to pay protection money. These people, he says, are often subjected to intimidation, pressure and reprisals. Among the examples he provides, andincludes vendors of shawarma who refuse to pay “Schutzgeld”, the extortionate payment demanded by some Islamist-linked criminal groups.
He assumes that his warning could cost him his job.
Balci makes no secret of the fact that he is aware of the potential consequences of his position. He knows that his words are making parts of the SPD uncomfortable and that, following the resignation of the mayor with whom he worked closely, his role within the administration may be called into question.
Explain that it is “a patriot from Neukölln”, who holds the post out of conviction and not for personal gain. His central commitment, he says, it is with thepeople who fight every day against any form of extremism and with the traders and families who directly suffer pressure from the clans and Islamist groups. He says that will continue to denounce what it considers real dangers to local coexistence and democracy, even though it leaves her more politically exposed. “I'm not doing it for convenience,” she says in the interview. And the subtext is clear: If the price of speaking out is losing her position, it is a price she is willing to pay.
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