A learned scholar of the ideology of Islam and former Homeland Security officer sees a dangerous trend unfolding in Germany as the number of Salafi Muslims is on the rise.
With the figure exceeding 12,000 for the first time, Germany’s Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (BfV) is reporting a record number of Salafist Muslims in the country. Salafists adhere to a strict interpretation of Islam and comprise the single largest Islamic group within the country.
OneNewsNow spoke to Phil Haney, a founding member of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. He argues the most important point is to notice the upward trend.
“[Islamists] are penetrating right into the heart of Germany, [which] means they are already spread out all over the country,” he observes.
The intelligence assessments reveal the number of Salafists in Germany is three times as high now as it was in 2011, and “the growth is particularly high in Berlin.” According to Tagesspiegel,half of the Salafists in the capital city of Germany are considered violent Islamists.
Coincidentally, the most recent intelligence report comes on the heels of a terror cell plotting an attack on a Berlin synagogue. After a series of police raids, several suspected “radical” Islamists were arrested across the country.
Salafi is commonly interpreted as “radical,” which Haney points out is wrong. Salafi actually means “original” – and Haney describes it as “going back to the way it was during Muhammad’s time.”
Salafist Muslims try to emulate Muhammad in every possible way, explains Haney: “[The ideology] is so reductively legalistic that they revert back to a 7th-century Arabian Peninsula lifestyle.” And that, he warns, is a pro-Sharia lifestyle which is implemented by jihad.
The use of the term radical, he continues, “is a misnomer that doesn’t help us understand [the ideology]” and, in fact, is a “misconception” and “misrepresentation” of Salafi Muslims.
“[Salafists] are actually as close to the real Islamists of Muhammad’s time as anybody in the world,” he tells OneNewsNow.
Haney isn’t surprised that the BfV report reflects security officials are actually concerned about the growing numbers of Salafists in the country, especially since the government is not confident their numbers have reached a peak.
As those numbers continue to increase, a previous report disclosed that “Salafists want to establish a ‘theocracy’ according to their interpretation of the rules of sharia, one in which the liberal democratic order no longer applies” and both the “political and jihadi Salafists share the same basic ideology.” As a result, adds Haney, one can assume the Salafists wish to establish an Islamic caliphate over the German state.
The 2017 report also reveals “the Salafist scene represents the essential recruitment field for Jihad, [and] almost without exception, all persons with a German connection who have joined the jihad were previously in contact with the Salafist scene.” The focused effort on proselytizing and recruiting of refugees was noted in the report.
Beyond proselytizing and recruiting, Salafists create influence over the mosques, Haney indicates.
“If the mosques are not Salafi enough, or observant enough, then they co-opt the leadership and take it over,” he explains – adding that people are influenced by intimidation and coercion and, as a result, become more and more Sharia-compliant.
“And that’s the whole point,” Haney points out: “To follow Sharia and subvert a nation from there.”
The challenge, according to Haney, is how the country’s leadership will respond to the constant rise of Salafi Muslims in the country. “[Still], it’s a good thing that Germany knows the numbers, [as] it’s better than not knowing them,” he adds.
Haney contends the Western world is watching how Germany responds to the indicators of the emerging threat.
“As long as [German political and intelligence officials] continue to sit and watch the trend increase, observe it, but can’t come up with a policy to address it, then there’s only one inevitable conclusion: chaos, anarchy, and disorder,” he predicts.
Haney is author of the book “See Something, Say Nothing: A Homeland Security Officer Exposes the Government’s Submission to Jihad.”
Cross-posted from OneNewsNow.
mortimer says
I hand it to the Germans for identifying the term ‘Salafist’ as the key ideology of jihadism. ‘Salafism’ is defined as the version of Islam that is self-consciously closest to the Islam of the first three generations of Muslims. Salafism is the official religion of Saudi Arabia. Salafism is jihadist to the core.
Terrorism expert Phil Haney correctly observes, “As long as [German political and intelligence officials] continue to sit and watch the trend increase, observe it, but can’t come up with a policy to address it, then there’s only one inevitable conclusion: chaos, anarchy, and disorder.”
We know what to do about jihadism: convince Muslims that the Koran is of human origin and they will stop being jihadists instantly.
German Koran scholarship is among the most advanced if not the most advanced in the world. The German intelligence corps should recruit the world’s top scholars to develop materials that show Islam is a manmade hoax.
Carl -stealth Infidel- says
I don’t think that trying to convince evil people to reject their convenient excuse to do evil by explaining it’s man-made origin will succeed in ending the distruction of which the evil shit-people live for. That was what islamism have known all along, that evil bums needed the crap-book just as much as the crap-book needed the evil bums.
Carl -stealth Infidel- says
I didn’t explain myself well.
I don’t think the average evil Muslim cares who wrote the Koran. The Koran is a authorization for doing evil, and the average evil Muslim finds comfort in that organized Haven that is islam. They may do evil and instead of being punished, they are praised for it.
Islam needed warriors, and knew it had to offer incentive to acquire warriors. Therefore plunder and slaves, and freedom to kill and torture was the incentive.
Satanic pact. They need each other to continue the evil power-lust-riches and hate of the goodness of Man.
gravenimage says
Mortimer, Salafists are not really different from any committed Muslims–and Jihadism is not different from Islam. Jihadists do not follow a creed other than Islam.
As for this last, you never say why Muslims would believe that ‘filthy Infidels’ that Islam is a manmade hoax.
Savvy Kafir says
Good point! Devout Muslims are so contemptuous of us and our opinions, they would be more likely to double-down and embrace their religion even more fervently if we tried to convince them Islam is a hoax.
gravenimage says
Yes, Savvy Kafir–and not only are Muslims contemptuous of Infidels, but they consider us to be enemies of Islam for just existing. Add to that that any criticism or even questioning of Islam is deemed blasphemy, and you don’t exactly have a receptive Muslim audience.
toomanyhobbies says
yet they keep Merkl a terrorist sympathizer…
PRCS says
I” hand it to the Germans for identifying the term ‘Salafist’ as the key ideology of jihadism. ‘Salafism’ is defined as the version of Islam that is self-consciously closest to the Islam of the first three generations of Muslims. Salafism is the official religion of Saudi Arabia. Salafism is jihadist to the core.”
Salafism is an ISM.
Jihadism is NOT.
Jaladhi says
Any time Muslims come to any country by any means, migration or invasion, it simply increases the threat of jihad terrorism! This is the universal truth!!
Michael Copeland says
“Jihad is not inhumane, despite its necessary violence and bloodshed, its ultimate desire is peace.” –
Ibrahim Sulaiman
Jaladhi says
Ha, ha,… that’s what Muslims think!! Jihad brings peace after killing all infidels!!
Rose says
Right… peace for who? And then they have to continue the slaughter because there will always be people who want to think for themselves and rebel in their heart. That’s not true peace…
Walter Sieruk says
with the growing jihadist threat in and to Germany , with all its brutal, cruel and murderous violence no rational and intelligent person should well understand that the threats and dangerous behavior of the jihadists towards the people of all the nations of Europe , including Germany .
This has been further explained and revealed by in the book , by Robert Spencer ,THE HISTORY OF THE JIHAD FROM MUHAMMAD TO ISIS .Which in page 367 informs the reader that “The early twenty- first century saw a sharp rise in jihad massacres perpetrated all over the West by individuals or small groups of Muslims: in London, Manchester, Paris, Toulouse, Nice ,Amsterdam, Madrid, Brussels, Berlin Munich ,Copenhagen…”
Those jihadists /Muslims with their insidious jihad-minded Muslims scheming for the subtle and not so subtle, Islamic conquest of Europe by every possible means, including the stealth and violent jihad which is, indeed, awful.
As explained by William Wagner in his book HOW ISLAM PLANS TO CHANGE THE WORLD .Which informs the reader n page 195 “Of all the continents of the world, Europe is probably the number one target by Muslim strategist who are seeking world dominance.”
Therefore, the Europeans would be wise to be on guard.
PRCS says
Chuckling at the German description: ‘Salafist scene.
So very different from this ‘scene'”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fEEkX-UGdt0
FYI says
Infidels playing haram musical instruments,unveiled women singing,people dancing and happy,peace and non-violence,everybody having a good time..?
al lah the sad ARAB god of the muslims will be furious!
al lah might even be jealous:it cannot be easy to play the Tambourine when you have TWO RIGHT HANDS as allah does.And how do you dance with one foot?You can’t do the Hokey Cokey!
{FACT allah can’t do the Hokey Cokey “You put your left foot out..right? foot..oh..”}
Shouldn’t they be living in fear and in islamic misery and “praying” to allah,islam’s One footed,one shinned,Two right handed god*?
allah is a jealous god…
*koran 68:42,koran 49:1,Sahih muslim 1827:not necessarily found in English Translations but in the Arabic.”Lost in translation” conveniently..
PRCS says
Yes, a jealous god.
Walter Sieruk says
Regarding those jihadist/Muslims in Germany as well as the other countries of Western Europe with result in them not only being ungrateful but even worse yet many of those Muslim migrants becoming so very arrogant to the point that they became criminals . As in some of them engaged in rioting and even rapes of the European girls and women.
In addition to this vile brutal behavior by the heinous Muslim who were kindly permitted to enter the nations of Europe to live, As the countries of ,for example France, Germany Sweden, Denmark etc. This unthankful Islamic spirit on the part of those lawless violent Muslims who immigrated to the countries of Europe may be explain, in part, by the fact that the Muslim fundamentalist group that even had the president of Egypt assassinated in the month of October of the year 1981 has a fifty –five booklet that is was written only for Muslims fundamentalists but was later discover by non-Muslims. This booklet’s title is THE NEGLECTED DUTY. One scholar, Johannes Jansen who had thoroughly investigated Islam and Islamic terrorism has even discover that those Muslims, who had entered Europe of behaved in violent and heinous ways, are actually action out what they view and a sacred individual duty of the jihad as by engaging in awful violent criminal action in non-Muslim lands .
As Jansen revealed that jihad booklet of Islam, THE NEGLECTED DUTY “contains all the ideological material needed to justify the attacks of 9/11 or any other acts of terror committed to frighten non-Muslims. And he thinks the document explains the criminal behavior of suburban and center –city immigrant youngsters in many European cities; its author clearly ‘sees Islam as license to kill rob and commit arson.’ “ [1] Nevertheless, many of the apologists for Islam still have that blatant gall , in spite of all the facts of reality, to actually make the claim the Islam is a “peaceful religion.” What a totally false to make that Islam is “a peaceful religion “What Bull! A “peaceful religion” indeed.
[1] THE ISLAM IN ISLAMIC TERRORISM by Ibn Warraq pages 308, 309.
Jaladhi says
Muslims are never grateful to anybody and least of all to non-Muslims no matter how much you help them! It is their birthright by way being a Muslim to get everything from a non-Muslim! How would you expect any gratefulness from such people!
gravenimage says
Yep.
Walter Sieruk says
Many jihadist /Muslims have the Islamic agenda and quest to conquer the nations of the West for Islam, which of course includes Germany.
Either “by hook or by crook” as in by engaging in the stealth jihad or in the violent and deadly “jihad of the sword.” Likewise part of all this in is by the Muslim infiltration of the Western countries which is being accomplished by the great number of Muslim migrants who are entering the Western nations.
As a Former Muslim had revealed in his book when he wrote that “there has been large –scale immigration into the West, from Islamic nations…of Muslims who are implacably hostile to the West, have no desire to learn why the West became so rich and tolerant , and certainly have no desire to assimilate. They feel no gratitude of allegiance to their Western host nations; their only obligations are to fellow Muslims.”
The author further clarifies by adding. “The mere presence of so many Muslims in the West had affected the domestic and international behavior of governments, whose foreign policy is dominated by fear of offending their Muslim population ready to riot on the slightest pretext. Those unassimilated Muslims are committed to introducing Islamic laws in the West. , and they are able to do so cleverly exploiting the freedoms created over the centuries by the infidels.” [1]
As for that above statement that the “Muslim population [is] ready to riot on the slightest pretext…” This is valid evidence that the old saying is true .Which is that “Evil is always looking for an excuse.”
On this very important subject another scholar in his book informs the reader that “Islamic involvement in the political process is much more advanced in Europe than in the United States.” and he further makes it known that “Of all the continents of the world, Europe is probably the number one target by Muslim strategists who are seeking world dominance.” [2]
[1] THE ISLAM IN ISLAMIC TERRORISM by Ibn Warraq, page 354
[2] HOW ISLAM PLANS TO CHANCE THE WORLD by William Wagner , pages 176, 195.
Jaydam says
I have always believed that the growing numbers muslims pouring into Europe, and other western nations over the last half century, will unfortunately rise to the point that serious conflict will happen sooner or later. It will be interesting to see what spark ignites the flames of conflict in the future. But it will happen, and in order for non muslims to survive the coming conflict, all moderate and extremist muslims will have to be forcibly driven out of our lands once and for all. There can be no have measures with them, and when the history books are written, the blame should be mostly laid at the door of the leftist globalist in the politics and media, who have encouraged this all to happen and turned a blind eye. On a lighter note, as the music hall comedian George Formby used to say, “Its turned out nice again” – Lets hope thats what does happen in the end 😉
Student of History says
There is an awful lot of literature that indicates this is exactly the plan in progress which has a singular world government as the end goal. “Morals and Dogma” by A. Pike is a good place to start learning about this plan in action.
gravenimage says
This book is pretty much just about the Scottish Rites of Freemasonery. Perhaps you are thinking of his supposed “prophecy”, which foresaw three world wars? The problem is that the only source for this came out *after* WWII, and is a baseless hoax.
The unexpected voice says
May be telling to Qur’an sick teaching to people as much as possible? Still, the dhimmi will just dismiss it and view muslim as a victim of ‘racism’ or ‘bigotory’ again.
gravenimage says
The growing jihadist threat in Germany
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Thank you, J. M. Phelps. And welcome to this new contributor to Jihad Watch.
Battle says
J. M. Phelps hits nail on head. Good.
Joe S. says
The Germans are real idiots for allowing followers of such a dangerous religion as Islam to enter and penetrate all levels of society. Same with Sweden. People in southern Greece and Italy are up in arms and fed up with the huge number of immigrants (mostly Muslims) who are taking over their spaces. The EU authorities are encouraging all this. This is like the turkey happily and stupidly welcoming Christmas. Does Europe not realize that it’s undertaking a suicide mission ???????!!!!!!!
No Muzzies Here says
They do not assimilate. They do not become German. They do not abandon their silly seventh-century superstitions. They do not go to work.
Angela Merkel should have known this before she let them in.
OLD GUY says
Best way.to handle the problem is DO NOT let them in your country to start with! The teaching of islam is hate and death, why would you want to bring that ideology or so called religion into your country or home? The muslims are not coming because they love you or your country. They are coming to take over your country and to enslave non believers of islam or kill you.
Savvy Kafir says
Yep.
gravenimage says
Spot on, OLD GUY.