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Police Raid Islamic School in Frankfurt
Deutche Welle ^ | July 12 2004

Posted on 07/12/2004 12:15:51 PM PDT by knighthawk

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.

Lead prosecutor Hubert Harth confirmed the search of the school, which is part of the Taqwa mosque and its adjoining cultural association, but would not comment on any further details. He told the German press that the authorities would now be busy sifting through the confiscated material and that it would probably take weeks before any conclusion could be drawn.

Teaching fundamentalism

Authorities for the city launched the investigation after receiving a complaint from a female student at the school, who claimed children were being exposed to video material which offended human rights. One of the videos mentioned allegedly showed a decapitation, another featured violence against women. Authorities had also registered complaints of female pupils being slapped as punishment at the school and treated in a degrading manner.

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."

Ayaozu Ahmed (photo) from the Taqwa mosque vehemently rejected the accusations, saying the school had never shown violent material to its pupils and that its sole purpose was to teach children Arabic so that they can read the Koran. "We have never shown such things. We don't even have a video player," he told the media.

So-called Koran schools, such as the one in Frankfurt where 300 children are instructed in Arabic and studies of the Koran, enjoy a growing popularity in Germany. Unlike regular public schools they do not fall under the supervision of the state school board and their is no control of the content of their teachings.

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.


TOPICS: Germany; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: alqaedagermany; frankfurt; germany; islamicschool

1 posted on 07/12/2004 12:15:51 PM PDT by knighthawk
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To: dennisw; watchin; VOA; harpseal; timestax; xJones; justshutupandtakeit; TopDog2; ThomasMore; ...
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If people want on or off this list, please let me know.

2 posted on 07/12/2004 12:18:06 PM PDT by knighthawk (We will always remember We will always be proud We will always be prepared so we may always be free)
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To: knighthawk

Please add me to your ping list thank you.


3 posted on 07/12/2004 12:20:26 PM PDT by TXBSAFH (Power corrupts..... Absolute power can be fun.)
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To: knighthawk

Looks like a madrassa right in Germany.


4 posted on 07/12/2004 12:21:39 PM PDT by dennisw (Once is Happenstance. Twice is Coincidence. The third time is Enemy action. - Ian Fleming)
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To: knighthawk

Please put me on your list.


5 posted on 07/12/2004 12:21:39 PM PDT by Bahbah
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To: knighthawk

Islam = The Future of Europe.

Will the Euroweenines still be hurling invective at the USA after they've been forced to bow towards Mecca and "pray" to Allah?


6 posted on 07/12/2004 12:22:30 PM PDT by Guillermo (It's the 99% of Mohammedans that make the other 1% look bad)
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To: knighthawk

The way Saudi Arabian Wahhabists have invaded American buying off politicans and lobbying via groups like CAIR...and they way they build Mosques and Islamic centers accross America even in areas that have no significant muslim populations..the way they buy up US rural properties and the way we leave our borders wide open...and the way we encourage their Wahabbi imams to become US Military & prison chaplains...

Sooner or later the USA will become like Europe..'Islamo-fied'....and if the Clinton's & Kerry's have anything to say about...it will be sooner rather than later

imo


7 posted on 07/12/2004 12:32:56 PM PDT by joesnuffy (Moderate Islam Is For Dilettantes)
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To: knighthawk
Authorities raided the Islamic school of a Morccan cultural association...

This is kind of sad for a number of reasons:
1. Morocco seems to be making some rational steps into the modern era, with a
new constitution which has been crafted to embody Western-style democracy, while having
support even from Koranic philosophy.

2. IIRC, Morocco was among the first (maybe the first) country to sign a treaty with the USA.

3. Capt. Dale Dye (USMC, Ret.; been in the film industry lately) said that
his experience is that Moroccans are the trustworthy Muslims...they are much more
directly honest in their day-to-day interactions with foreigners.
8 posted on 07/12/2004 12:49:01 PM PDT by VOA
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To: knighthawk
So-called Koran schools, such as the one in Frankfurt where 300 children are instructed in Arabic and studies of the Koran, enjoy a growing popularity in Germany. Unlike regular public schools they do not fall under the supervision of the state school board and their is no control of the content of their teachings.

Let's just take a wild guess on the reason for their growing popularity.

Europe is committing mass suicide.

9 posted on 07/12/2004 12:52:32 PM PDT by Madame Dufarge
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To: knighthawk
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.

I think they just described what amounts to the entire curricula of Islamic "education" centers around the world.

10 posted on 07/12/2004 12:58:15 PM PDT by kezekiel
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To: Bahbah; TXBSAFH

I added you to the list.


11 posted on 07/12/2004 1:01:48 PM PDT by knighthawk (We will always remember We will always be proud We will always be prepared so we may always be free)
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To: Guillermo
"Will the Euroweenines still be hurling invective at the USA after they've been forced to bow towards Mecca and "pray" to Allah?"

No. They will then be whining for us to come an spill more American blood to come and free them, AGAIN!

12 posted on 07/12/2004 1:38:38 PM PDT by Desron13
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To: Madame Dufarge
Let's just take a wild guess on the reason for their growing popularity. Europe is committing mass suicide.

They are popular in Europe because the European countries *pay for them* with tax money. Wait till we get them here in the US.

13 posted on 07/12/2004 9:44:56 PM PDT by valkyrieanne
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To: kezekiel
I think they just described what amounts to the entire curricula of Islamic "education" centers around the world.

Coming soon to a voucher-supported school near you.

14 posted on 07/12/2004 9:45:30 PM PDT by valkyrieanne
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To: knighthawk
Give it up Germany. Pathetic.

You made your bed, so now sleep in it.

Same goes for France, Spain and now the Philippines

15 posted on 07/12/2004 9:49:44 PM PDT by expatguy (Fallujah Delenda Est!!)
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