German secret service goes after AfD and Friends of Israel over comments about hate preaching in mosques
Thomas Haldenwang replaced the former head of the German Secret Service Georg Maassen, who was forced out in November. Maassen had refused to put the the Alternative for Germany (AfD) under surveillance, but under Haldenwang, the German Secret Service is now actually considering putting AfD under surveillance. The reason, according to the co-chair of the AfD faction in the German Bundestag, Beatrix von Storch, is accusations of “anti-democratic behavior.”
These accusations were completely unfounded; they stem from a “quote in which she said ‘Hate is preached in mosques against our system of government, against Jews and Christians. Mosques need to be observed by the Secret Service.‘”
Von Storch argues that she was “appealing to the Secret Service to do something about anti-democratic sermons and calls to hate against Christians and Jews in mosques,” but instead, her concerns were (as usual) turned around on her, and now she is the one being called “undemocratic.”
Yet von Storch, who is also co-founder of the Friends of Judea and Samaria in the EU Parliament, is correct. Muslims should not be using mosques to engage in political warfare against Jews, Christians and democratic governments, but they do. And instead of focusing on protecting Germany and democratic values, the Secret Police under Haldenwang has shifted Germany’s priorities to align with Sharia. Haldenwang’s force is now, like many others, acting as Sharia police.
A journalist from the not very AfD-friendly pubweb WDR wrote that preaching hate against Jews and Christians is very common in mosques…Jews in Germany are suffering more and more attacks by Muslims” and are “scared to wear their yarmulkes in public.
The Independent reported in mid-January that Germany’s secret service was going to investigate whether the AfD party was becoming “too extreme,” but the service remains flaccid on Islamic “extremism” (jihad).
“Gestapo Methods: German Secret Police Goes after Friends of Israel,” Voice of Europe, January 29, 2019:
The co-chair of the Alternative for Germany (AfD) faction in the German Bundestag Beatrix von Storch has charged the incoming head of the German Federal Secret Service Thomas Haldenwang with ignoring radical Islamism and Anti-Semitism and attacking the AfD for criticizing them instead.Haldenwang replaced the former head of the German Secret Service Georg Maassen, who had refused to put the AfD under surveillance and criticized Angela Merkel for claiming there were Nazi “manhunts” in the town of Chemnitz in August, for which no evidence exists.After Maassen was forced out in November, his successor Thomas Haldenwang recently took the unusual step of announcing the German Secret Service would “examine” whether to put the largest German opposition party under surveillance for alleged unconstitutional activities.Speaking on Russia Today, AfD spokesman on the Foreign Policy Commitee Petr Bystron said, “we would support the work of the Secret Service if it were to do its job in secret, as its name says. But what we are seeing is the total opposite: They are announcing that they are thinking of putting us under surveillance. Dr. Maassen had to go because he refused to do this, and said there were no reasons to put the AfD under surveillance.”The German Secret Service (Verfassungsschutz) has so far refused to release its report justifying its announcement, which has instead been leaked to several left-wing media outlets such as the Süddeutsche Zeitung and the Tagesspiegel.Referring to the reporting in the Tagesspiegel, AfD Bundestag faction co-chair Beatrix von Storch charged Secret Service head Haldenwang with protecting radical Islamists and Anti-Semites while attacking the AfD for political reasons.The reason given for charging Von Storch with anti-democratic behavior was a quote in which she said “Hate is preached in mosques against our system of government, against Jews and Christians. Mosques need to be observed by the Secret Service”, according to the Tagesspiegel. Von Storch was referring to an exposé on Muslim hate preachers published by pubweb journalist Constantin Schreiber in the book “Inside Islam”, she says…..
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