Police kept an eye on the mosque on Monday Authorities raided the Islamic school of a Morccan cultural association in Frankfurt on Sunday, searching for violent and degrading videos, including one allegedly showing a person being decapitated.
Police and officials from Frankfurt's office of municipal authority raided a Moroccan school for Koran studies near the city's downtown train station in search of extremist propaganda used for inciting children to hatred. According to the state prosecutor's office on Monday, the officials were looking for material such as videos, DVD's and publications which showed violent and degrading images.....
A spokeswoman for the prosecutor's office in Frankfurt told German public television that there were "indications that the school was calling for a holy war against non-believers and that violent images were used to illustrate the war."
In the aftermath of Sept. 11, and the growing presence of Islamic terrorist activities in Europe, many authorities are concerned that such schools could be the breeding ground for fundamentalist Islam and extremist ideas. Only recently, a Muslim school in Bonn financed by the Saudi Arabian government was forced to open its doors to government supervision after similar concerns came to the attention of authorities who threatened to completely shut the school down......... Link to Full Article
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And now a flash from the past!
Germany detains terror suspect
November 29, 2001 Posted: 6:06 AM EST (1106 GMT)
FRANKFURT, Germany (CNN) -- German authorities said they detained a Moroccan man for questioning in Hamburg on Wednesday about a bank account he shared with one of the hijackers in the September 11 attacks in the United States.
German authorities identified the man as 27-year-old Mounir El Motassadeq.
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About Motassadeq:
Mounir Motassadeq is a 28-year-old electrical engineering student in Germany. He was arrested after the 9/11 bombings as a co-conspirator. Motassadeq is a member of a middle-class family who came to Germany in 1993 to study. By 1995, he was studying electrical engineering in Hamburg, where he is believed to have first met Atta no later than the following year.