Thursday, April 19, 2007

DAR AL HARB - GERMANY: "RELIGIOUS PROFILING" BY GERMAN INTELLIGENCE

Germany: intelligence services target Muslims
By Liz Fekete

As the UK government publishes new proposals to combat violent Muslim extremism, we examine two reports critical of the German approach.


Since September 11, European security services have been given unprecedented powers to define which Muslim organisations are 'legitimate' and which 'illegitimate'. Two new publications from internationally-respected bodies are critical of the crude way in which German intelligence services have been evaluating the 'Islamist threat'.

The International Crisis Group, in its report 'Islam and Identity in Germany', has criticised the Verfassungsschutz (German Intelligence Service) for adopting a 'slippery slope' view of Islamic extremism.[1] And the Open Society Institute EU Monitoring and Advocacy Programme, in a briefing paper on Muslims in Germany by cultural anthropologist Nina Mühe, has similarly criticised 'the role and power of definition' that has been given to German intelligence services to distinguish between 'real' and 'misguided' Muslims.[2]

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I am sure that the Islamic Handmaidens are already hyperventilating and working up plans on how to make sure islam succeeds in its jihad on the West...


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