I though these were refugees running from the Taliban
They pose in paramilitary outfits holding knives, call themselves the ‘King of Munich’ and think Sharia law is good: according to an investigation by the RTL programme ‘Extra’, young refugees from Afghanistan are spreading radical Islamic ideas, even though they are allegedly seeking protection from the Taliban in Germany.
According to the programme, the videos were not made in Afghanistan, Syria or Turkey, but in Germany – for example in city centres, asylum centres or Bavarian parks – and when the RTL reporters investigated the videos, they uncovered a broad network of like-minded people as far away as France. In the videos, this group threatened, among other things, to ‘cut off heads’ and attack the ‘enemies of Islam’, if necessary with explosives on their bodies.
When reporter Liv von Boetticher tracks down one of the Afghan TikTok users in a park and speaks to him, the Afghan does not deny his support for the values of the Taliban. ‘The Islamic Emirate of the Taliban to me is definitely better. There is no more war, no more theft. Nothing. If thieves are caught, their hand is cut off.’
It is said that the migrants came to Germany for economic reasons. The young men even support a caliphate in Germany: ‘If Germany becomes and remains Islamic, then everything will be very good,’ one of them is quoted as saying.
Extremism expert Ahmad Mansur sees these young migrants as an underestimated danger: ‘These are people who are very close to extremism, to Islamism,’ Mansur explains in the article. ‘The attitudes they have towards mainstream society in Germany and Europe are very hostile.’
These men ‘grew up with an understanding of Islam that is actually much closer to that of the Taliban’ than to that of modern Islam, explains Mansur. You can see a ‘lifestyle Islamism here. Men who live out their masculinity in a very toxic, very patriarchal way.’ Syria, Afghanistan and Turkey are currently among the most common countries of origin for asylum seekers. The current legal situation stipulates that every asylum application must be examined – even if the person entered the country via another country. This was also the case for the suspect in the Solingen attack. The 26-year-old Syrian Issa Al Hassan managed to prevent his deportation to Bulgaria and obtain subsidiary protection in Germany because the authorities let deadlines pass.
‘Now the point has been reached where even the last person sitting in the federal government has to understand that things can’t go on like this,’ CDU Secretary General Carsten Linnemann is quoted as saying in the RTL report. The federal police union also speaks of a ‘loss of control’ at German borders that needs to be rectified.
The RTL reporters claim to have informed the Bavarian Office for the Protection of the Constitution about their research. However, the videos remained online until the programme was published.
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They pose in paramilitary outfits holding knives, call themselves the ‘King of Munich’ and think Sharia law is good: according to an investigation by the RTL programme ‘Extra’, young refugees from Afghanistan are spreading radical Islamic ideas, even though they are allegedly seeking protection from the Taliban in Germany.
According to the programme, the videos were not made in Afghanistan, Syria or Turkey, but in Germany – for example in city centres, asylum centres or Bavarian parks – and when the RTL reporters investigated the videos, they uncovered a broad network of like-minded people as far away as France. In the videos, this group threatened, among other things, to ‘cut off heads’ and attack the ‘enemies of Islam’, if necessary with explosives on their bodies.
When reporter Liv von Boetticher tracks down one of the Afghan TikTok users in a park and speaks to him, the Afghan does not deny his support for the values of the Taliban. ‘The Islamic Emirate of the Taliban to me is definitely better. There is no more war, no more theft. Nothing. If thieves are caught, their hand is cut off.’
It is said that the migrants came to Germany for economic reasons. The young men even support a caliphate in Germany: ‘If Germany becomes and remains Islamic, then everything will be very good,’ one of them is quoted as saying.
Extremism expert Ahmad Mansur sees these young migrants as an underestimated danger: ‘These are people who are very close to extremism, to Islamism,’ Mansur explains in the article. ‘The attitudes they have towards mainstream society in Germany and Europe are very hostile.’
These men ‘grew up with an understanding of Islam that is actually much closer to that of the Taliban’ than to that of modern Islam, explains Mansur. You can see a ‘lifestyle Islamism here. Men who live out their masculinity in a very toxic, very patriarchal way.’ Syria, Afghanistan and Turkey are currently among the most common countries of origin for asylum seekers. The current legal situation stipulates that every asylum application must be examined – even if the person entered the country via another country. This was also the case for the suspect in the Solingen attack. The 26-year-old Syrian Issa Al Hassan managed to prevent his deportation to Bulgaria and obtain subsidiary protection in Germany because the authorities let deadlines pass.
‘Now the point has been reached where even the last person sitting in the federal government has to understand that things can’t go on like this,’ CDU Secretary General Carsten Linnemann is quoted as saying in the RTL report. The federal police union also speaks of a ‘loss of control’ at German borders that needs to be rectified.
The RTL reporters claim to have informed the Bavarian Office for the Protection of the Constitution about their research. However, the videos remained online until the programme was published.
Islamismus: „Wenn Deutschland islamisch wird, dann wird alles sehr gut werden“, sagt der Afghane - WELT
Eine Gruppe afghanischer Migranten verbreitet laut einer RTL-Recherche gezielt islamistische Propaganda. Gedreht wird dafür auch in deutschen Innenstädten. In Videos drohen die jungen Männer mit Gewalt gegen „Feinde des Islams“.
