Germany's intelligence service warns of the infiltration of the Muslim Brotherhood into institutions and parties.
The head of the domestic intelligence service warned MPs in private that political Islam cultivates relationships with politicians and civil society organisations. The aim would be to introduce Sharia law.
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The debate over the Muslim Brotherhood has just entered the German Bundestag in full. After the report from France and the Sweden's recognition of the problem, Now it is Germany that is focusing on the Islamist movement's influence strategy. According to what has been published The German newspaper Image, Sinan Selen, President of the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution, vto warn at a closed-door parliamentary meeting about attempts by them to exert influence Muslim Brotherhood in German institutions and parties. Several parliamentarians have explained to Image the content of the meeting.
A contact strategy to introduce Sharia
According to the information published by Image, Selen's warning did not centre on an immediate violent threat., but rather as part of a long-term political influence strategy. The security chief explained that The Muslim Brotherhood are trying to establish relationships with elected officials., public figures and civil society organisations. The aim is to gradually influence political decisions and to guide them towards a vision inspired by Sharia.
The key point of the warning is that this influence does not present itself in explicit religious language. The movement operates through entities, associative networks and public interlocutors with Concepts acceptable to European democracies: fight against racism, combat Islamophobia, inclusion or recognition of minorities. In this way, demands for religious funding They appear before institutions as simple demands for rights, equality or non-discrimination.. According to Selen, this is how they are attempting to introduce a Sharia-inspired agenda.
Left-wing parties are more permeable to Islamist discourse.
According to information published by BILD, one of the issues addressed at the meeting was the greater ease with which certain political environments can accept the discourse of Islamist organisations when it is presented in the language of anti-racism, inclusion and the defence of minorities. The problem would not be an explicit ideological coincidence with Islamism, but rather the ability of these networks to adapt their discourse to the political codes of the European left.
This vulnerability arises when religious demands are formulated as claims against discrimination. In this context, Questioning a demand linked to political Islam can immediately be presented as racism, Islamophobia or an attack on a minority.. This makes it difficult for parties, public officials and progressive institutions to set clear boundaries without fear of being accused of discrimination. In this way, the Muslim Brothers do not need to present themselves as a conservative religious force.
The German government denies having any knowledge of religious infiltration.
According to reports Image, The German government responded in early May to a parliamentary question, stating that it had no knowledge of a “directed infiltration.” of the parties represented in the Bundestag by Islamic organisations. Officially, therefore, the government does not acknowledge the existence of an operation organised by religious activists to infiltrate political parties. Thus, the contrast is clear: while the government downplays the problem in public, the head of intelligence warns in private about the influence strategy of the Muslim Brotherhood.
The argument for not answering the question in May was to protect the State's interests: disclosing further information could jeopardise the work of the domestic intelligence service responsible for monitoring threats to the German constitutional order.
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