In Islam, zakat — the alms required of every Muslim — can and should be given to further the jihad. So it shouldn’t surprise anyone that there are so many jihad-linked charities.
“Seehofer bans Salafist association Ansaar International,” translated from “Seehofer verbietet salafistischen Verein Ansaar International,” Welt, May 5, 2021:
With raids in ten federal states, the interior ministry enforced a ban on a Salafist association and all its offshoots. At first sight, aid projects had been supported there – in fact, money was flowing to terrorist groups in Syria and Somalia, for example.
Federal Interior Minister Horst Seehofer (CSU) has banned the Salafist association Ansaar International and all offshoots of the Islamist association. His ministry said the ban was enforced early Wednesday morning with searches and seizures in ten federal states. According to initial information, objects and people in Rhineland-Palatinate, Baden-Württemberg, Bavaria, Berlin, Brandenburg, Hamburg, North Rhine-Westphalia, Lower Saxony, Schleswig-Holstein and Hesse were affected.
To justify the ban, the Interior Ministry said that Ansaar’s fundraising was done with the intention of passing the funds on to terrorist groups abroad, in particular to the Al-Nusra Front in Syria, the Palestinian Hamas and al-Shabab in Somalia.
Some of the support directly benefits these associations. Aid projects are sometimes supported, “which are, however, directly part of the sphere of activity of the respective terrorist organization.”
“You will stew in hellfire”
The ministry also believes that the group’s proselytizing activities are against the constitutional order. Here, “enemies of a world order that protects the human dignity of people of different faiths are continually being created.” Children from Germany would be sent to the facilities set up by Ansaar abroad “in order to internalize Salafist-extremist content and bring it back to Germany.”
“If you want to fight terror, you have to dry up its sources of money,” said Seehofer, as the interior ministry spokesman, Steve Alter, wrote in the short message service Twitter. The starting point for the ban was a large-scale raid on the network in April 2019, during which extensive material was confiscated. Ansaar International has its headquarters in Düsseldorf, the sub-organization WWR-Help in Neuss, North Rhine-Westphalia. Around half of the 90 people and objects that were affected at the time were in North Rhine-Westphalia.
A Düsseldorf lawyer is also one of the accused
The network of associations that have now been banned also includes the Änis Ben-Hatira Foundation, named after the German-Tunisian football player, as well as the Somali Committee for Information and Advice in Darmstadt und Umgebung e.V., the women’s rights association ANS. Justice e.V., Umma Shop and Helpstore Secondhand UG and Better World Appeal. The Interior Ministry found that donors were defrauded by the untrue claim that the funds were used exclusively for humanitarian purposes.
In April of this year, apartments were searched in connection with the ban proceedings on suspicion of financing terrorism in North Rhine-Westphalia and Bavaria. The suspicion is directed against three accused between the ages of 32 and 40, said the Düsseldorf Public Prosecutor’s Office at the time on request. Investigate suspected fraud and misuse of funds. One of the accused is a Düsseldorf lawyer.
Beneath the Veil of Consciousness says
And those three will be imprisoned/deported when? Just kidding.
That would be too much like making sense. Why does Germany have to justify anything to do with non-Germans. The Saudis don’t justify their Muslim only highway. There are countless instances of Muslim countries excluding non-muslims for no other reason than they are not muslim (not part of the he-man women haters club).
Raja says
Isn’t it safe to presume that any Islamic organisation = potential terror enabler?
Is there anyway Robert Spencer and others can educate the world of the curse of Islam for mankind?
somehistory says
Mr. Spencer was once educating agencies in the U.S., but a mozlum creep was allowed to invade the position at the top of the heap, a.k.a. pretender to be president of the enation, and he put an end to all of that education. Even to having the written materials changed so they didn’t tell the Truth about islam and what mozlums are doing. He also stopped the trial of c.a.i.r. for their funding of terror from going forward.
If Mr. Spencer had continued long enough in the job of educating government agencies, perhaps other nations … some anyway…might have asked for his counsel.
gravenimage says
+1
DavidR says
Where is the cancel culture when you need them? Their headquarters in San Francisco isn’t answering the phone. However, a cancel culture spokesperson indicated via Twitter that none of their irrelevant requirements over race, ethnicity and religion were met to trigger a cancelling.
born saturday says
how many other such charities??? how much money does the german lead eu give to islamic countries???
gravenimage says
Damn good questions.
Check Burry says
Then you have bidens string pullers planning to give Palestinian terrorists, ie. read Pal Gov a large bag of dollars
gravenimage says
Germany bans Islamic organization after donations for humanitarian purposes were funneled to jihad terror groups
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It is not just that Islamic “charities” are used to money launder fund for violent Jihad, it is that funding for Jihad is considered a core part of “Zakat” (often mistranslated as “charity”).
Andrew Blackadder says
Some old friends in Munich have told me that there is no problems whatsoever with muslims in Germany, as she speaks with the muslim women at the shop, and they all wear the head gear, and that I am becoming like a fascist, when I told her if she is so ashamed of her countries Nazi past then why does she wish for some Nazi sympathizers to enter Germany, illegally, and wave the Swastika Flag outside the Berlin Train Station while the local Police stand by and do nothing about it, as that is an illegal act.
No reply and I sent that ages ago.
Denial aint no river in Egypt.
gravenimage says
I’m sure many of us have had to listen to this kind of denial. Very troubling.
Crusades Were Right says
A gigantic, absurd, expensive (in terms of money AND human lives) game of “whack-a-mole”!
Linde Barrera says
I am proud of Mr. Horst Seehofer for doing his job. Many Germans who were not even born when World War II was over have been instilled with a lot of guilt regarding the Holocaust. So many of the younger generations of Germans give Muslims a free pass, but Muslims are people and Islam is the ideology. There is a distinction. And when the adherents do not participate in Jihad, that is a good thing and they are not breaking any civil laws. But when the adherents break civil laws (which Islam advocates to make everyone an Islamist) the authorities must step in and break up the fund raising for terror and arrest/jail/put on trial and deport if necessary. But many times these Islamists have become citizens of the countries they want to take down. So politicians, judges, and law enforcers must be diligent to keep the non-Jihadists safe.