Germany: Protesters in Hamburg- "Caliphate Is the Solution"

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The below article in the Austrian daily, Kronen Zeitung, is translated by Fousesquawk It has a short video of demonstrators chanting in Arabic. One local newspaper, the Hamburger Abendblatt, has a photo from this protest, but only a couple of lines of information.

Ban impossible

Thousands of Islamists at demonstration in Hamburg

Foreign October 12, 2024 at 19:24

By Jakob Drechsler, Michael Arning, and Mahe Cruesemann

Caption: At a demonstration in April in Hamburg, by the same organizer, this sign of a participant caused a commotion. (Sign reads: “Caliphate is the solution”.)

Numerous Muslims gathered at a demonstration Saturday evening in Hamburg. Behind the action is a company named Muslim Interactive, which reportedly is close to a banned Islamist organization. 2,000 participants were expected.

The location is the Hamburger Steindamm in St Georg District near the Central Train Station. The motto of the event is: “Stop the genocide against our Uyghur brothers and sisters in East Turkistan”. The demonstration was supposed to last three hours.

Connection to banned organization

As reported by Bild, the demonstration was announced by Joe Adade Boateng. The student is the leader of the Islamist movement, “Muslim Interactive”. This is in close connection with the banned organization, “Hizb ut-Tahrir“, which is monitored by the German Protection of the Constitution (agency- security police).

The organization shared a video of the demonstration on X:

“The solution for East Turkestan:

-The elimination of the treacherous rulers of the Islamic world.

- The complete overcoming of the national state order in the Islamic world.

-The replacement of the colonial order with a just system-the Caliphate, which will enable Jews, Christians, and Muslims to once again live in peaceful harmony.”

Advertisement for a caliphate at a demonstration in April

In order to increase the number of participants, the organizers of the demonstration intensively advertised on the Internet. Previously in April, there was a “Muslim Interactive” demonstration, which for many, brought negative attention. One participant there openly propagated: “Caliphate is the solution” on a placard.

According to police, the assembly authorities conducted an examination as to whether the event could be banned. “Since the right of assembly, anchored in Basic Law, represents a cornerstone of our democracy, an assembly can only be banned under special circumstances, for example, when life or limb is endangered. The result of the examination by the assembly authorities was that a ban is not possible,” a spokesperson explained to Bild.

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Fousesquawk comment: Deportation is the solution.