Posted on 03/17/2015 9:20:45 AM PDT by Olog-hai
Around 70 police officers searched the Sahabe Islamic Education and Cultural Center in Stuttgart on Tuesday, looking for connections to terrorist organization ISIS.
“There is concrete suspicion that the association fulfills the criteria for being forbidden under the law,” Baden-Württemberg interior minister Reinhold Gall said in a statement. “We’ve been watching the association for a long time, but the suspicions of breaching the law have grown more serious recently.” […]
Gall said the Sahabe association “supports the use of violence to assert religious values and supports a foreign organization, the so-called Islamic State, which provokes attacks against people or property.”
The interior ministry statement said that the Sahabe Center was “dominated by Salafists” from the western Balkans and “could be described as a meeting point for Islamists from all over Baden-Württemberg.” …
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Here in the US, they would only consider this type of raid for a “conservative” group.
At least Stuttgart is home to EUCOM and SOCEUR (Patch Barracks) if the Germans need backup.
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