{"id":7619,"date":"2022-09-15T21:43:56","date_gmt":"2022-09-15T20:43:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/soerenkern.com\/?p=7619"},"modified":"2025-11-21T21:39:04","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T20:39:04","slug":"germany-disbands-expert-group-on-political-islamism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/soerenkern.com\/web\/2022\/09\/15\/germany-disbands-expert-group-on-political-islamism\/","title":{"rendered":"Germany Disbands Expert Group on Political Islamism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/soerenkern.com\/2022\/09\/15\/germany-disbands-expert-group-on-political-islamism\/fwi-german-islamism-faeser\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-7620\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7620\" src=\"https:\/\/soerenkern.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/fwi-german-islamism-faeser.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/soerenkern.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/fwi-german-islamism-faeser.jpg 600w, https:\/\/soerenkern.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/fwi-german-islamism-faeser-300x175.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Germany\u2019s coalition government has dissolved an expert working group on political Islamism \u2014 opting instead to fight \u201cIslamophobia.\u201d The move has angered and alarmed those who warn that Islamism is spreading unabated in Germany, especially among young people in schools and on social media.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<h2>Germany Disbands Expert Group on Political Islamism<\/h2>\n<p>Soeren Kern | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.meforum.org\/fwi\/fwi-news\/germany-closed-its-eyes-to-russian-expansionism-does-it-again-with-islamism\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Middle East Forum<\/a> | September 15, 2022<\/p>\n<p>Germany\u2019s coalition government has dissolved an expert working group on political Islamism \u2014 opting instead to fight \u201cIslamophobia.\u201d The move has angered and alarmed those who warn that Islamism is spreading unabated in Germany, especially among young people in schools and on social media. Germany\u2019s apparent self-deception about the danger of Islamism may end up being even more detrimental to the country\u2019s future than its catastrophic error to totally become energy dependent on Russia.<\/p>\n<p>Germany\u2019s Interior Minister, Nancy Faeser, quietly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.faz.net\/aktuell\/politik\/inland\/innenministerium-aus-fuer-expertenkreis-islamismus-18290498.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">discontinued<\/a> the so-called Expert Group on Political Islamism (<em>Expertenkreis Politischer Islamismus<\/em>) in early September. No reason was given for the decision, but since assuming office in December 2021, Faeser, of the left-leaning Social Democratic Party (SPD), has repeatedly been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.welt.de\/politik\/deutschland\/plus239306089\/Islamismus-Der-weisse-Fleck-auf-der-politischen-Agenda-der-Ampel.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">accused<\/a> of ignoring or downplaying the threat Islamism poses to German democracy.<\/p>\n<p>The expert group, which consisted of eleven people from a variety of academic disciplines, was\u00a0<span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bmi.bund.de\/SharedDocs\/pressemitteilungen\/DE\/2021\/06\/expertenkreis-politischer-extremismus.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">established<\/a><\/span>\u00a0in June 2021 by the then interior minister, Horst Seehofer, to identify measures to counter the spread of Islamism in Germany. \u201cWe must take decisive action against any ideology that is directed against the values and norms of our free-democratic basic order,\u201d he\u00a0<span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bmi.bund.de\/SharedDocs\/pressemitteilungen\/DE\/2021\/06\/expertenkreis-politischer-extremismus.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said<\/a><\/span>\u00a0at the time.<\/p>\n<p>The working group\u2019s original remit was for a period of one year, but its members had requested that they be allowed to continue their work. A written proposal\u00a0<span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.faz.net\/aktuell\/politik\/inland\/innenministerium-aus-fuer-expertenkreis-islamismus-18290498.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">called<\/a><\/span>\u00a0for expanding \u201cquantitative and qualitative\u201d research into non-violent Islamism because, \u201cdespite numerous preventive efforts and measures, it is not possible to curb the appeal and attraction of political Islamism (especially for young people).\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Bundestag Member Christoph de Vries of the opposition Christian Democratic Union (CDU)\u00a0<span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cducsu.de\/presse\/pressemitteilungen\/innenministerin-faeser-vernachlaessigt-den-kampf-gegen-politischen-islamismus\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said<\/a><\/span>\u00a0that the government\u2019s decision to dissolve the group of experts represents \u201cthe culmination of a policy of looking the other way and ignoring Islamism as a phenomenon that endangers democracy.\u201d He\u00a0<span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cducsu.de\/presse\/pressemitteilungen\/innenministerin-faeser-vernachlaessigt-den-kampf-gegen-politischen-islamismus\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">added<\/a><\/span>\u00a0that Faeser\u2019s decision was \u201ca slap in the face to all those who work against religious extremism and for our democracy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In its latest annual report, Germany\u2019s domestic intelligence agency (Bundesamt f\u00fcr Verfassungsschutz, BfV)\u00a0<span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bmi.bund.de\/SharedDocs\/downloads\/DE\/publikationen\/themen\/sicherheit\/vsb-2021-gesamt.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">warned<\/a><\/span>\u00a0that threats from violent and nonviolent Islamism in Germany continue unabated. The report estimated that Germany is home to roughly 30,000 highly radicalized Muslims, although the actual number certainly is much higher. (The BfV admitted that it lacks data on at least ten Islamist groups operating in Germany.)<\/p>\n<p>The BfV report\u00a0<span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bmi.bund.de\/SharedDocs\/downloads\/DE\/publikationen\/themen\/sicherheit\/vsb-2021-gesamt.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">identifies<\/a><\/span>\u00a0Salafism, which rejects democracy and the separation of state and religion, as the largest and most influential Islamist movement in Germany. Its roughly 12,000 adherents are said to be increasingly heterogeneous and carrying out their activities underground to avoid detection by German authorities.<\/p>\n<p>The second-largest Islamist organization in Germany is Milli G\u00f6r\u00fcs (Turkish for \u201cNational Vision\u201d), a Turkish nationalist political and religious movement that is\u00a0<span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hudson.org\/content\/researchattachments\/attachment\/1268\/vielhaber.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">strongly opposed<\/a><\/span>\u00a0to Muslim integration into European society. Although Milli G\u00f6r\u00fcs, which is\u00a0<span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bmi.bund.de\/SharedDocs\/downloads\/DE\/publikationen\/themen\/sicherheit\/vsb-2021-gesamt.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">estimated<\/a><\/span>\u00a0to have at least 10,000 adherents in Germany, has been monitored by German intelligence for anti-constitutional activities, it continues to operate freely throughout the country.<\/p>\n<p>The report\u00a0<span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bmi.bund.de\/SharedDocs\/downloads\/DE\/publikationen\/themen\/sicherheit\/vsb-2021-gesamt.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">listed<\/a><\/span>\u00a0more than a dozen other Islamist groups active in Germany including: al-Qaeda, Hamas, Hezbollah, Hizb-ut-Tahrir, Islamic State and the Muslim Brotherhood. The groups have ties to, and are believed to receive funding from, Islamist groups in Africa, Asia and the Middle East.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDespite some successes, such as bans on Islamist associations, the thwarting of Islamist-motivated terrorist attacks in Germany and the prevention of numerous departures to jihad areas, the threat posed by Islamist terrorism in Germany and for German interests and institutions worldwide persists,\u201d the BfV concluded.<\/p>\n<p>Shortly after the BfV published its report, the head of the Frankfurt Research Center on Global Islam, Susanne Schr\u00f6ter, accused the German government of ignoring the problem of Islamism. \u201cThe coalition government persistently sweeps the problem of Islamism under the rug,\u201d she\u00a0<span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.welt.de\/politik\/deutschland\/plus239306089\/Islamismus-Der-weisse-Fleck-auf-der-politischen-Agenda-der-Ampel.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said<\/a><\/span>\u00a0in an interview with Welt am Sonntag. \u201cNeither the high potential for violence, nor the problems with Islamists in schools, nor the oppression of girls and women, seem to worry the government.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The German government has acknowledged that its priority is to combat \u201cIslamophobia,\u201d not Islamism, according to documents\u00a0<span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.welt.de\/politik\/deutschland\/plus239306089\/Islamismus-Der-weisse-Fleck-auf-der-politischen-Agenda-der-Ampel.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">leaked<\/a><\/span>\u00a0to Welt am Sonntag. Germany\u2019s Interior Ministry more than doubled funding for an Independent Expert Group on Anti-Muslim Hostility (Unabh\u00e4ngigen Expertenkreis Muslimfeindlichkeit, UEM), from 162,000 euros in 2021 to over 473,000 euros in 2022. By contrast, the now-dissolved Expert Group on Political Islamism had a budget of only 112,000 euros in 2021 and requests to increase that funding in 2022 were rejected.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe coalition government has so far largely ignored the danger of Islamism in Germany,\u201d Bundestag Member Andrea Lindholz\u00a0<span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.welt.de\/politik\/deutschland\/plus239306089\/Islamismus-Der-weisse-Fleck-auf-der-politischen-Agenda-der-Ampel.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">told<\/a><\/span>\u00a0Welt am Sonntag. \u201cBy doing nothing, Mrs. Faeser and her coalition partners are creating a security vulnerability.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Islam expert Rebecca Sch\u00f6nenbach, in an interview with Bild,\u00a0<span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bild.de\/politik\/inland\/politik-inland\/islamismus-expertenkreis-des-bundesinneninisteriums-soll-arbeit-einstellen-81214576.bild.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">noted<\/a><\/span>\u00a0that the coalition government appears committed to fighting all forms of discrimination, except for the discrimination perpetrated by Islamists. \u201cThe federal government must take action against Islamic extremists,\u201d she said. \u201cSo far, however, it has canceled all measures to do so.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sch\u00f6nenbach\u00a0<span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bild.de\/politik\/inland\/politik-inland\/islamismus-expertenkreis-des-bundesinneninisteriums-soll-arbeit-einstellen-81214576.bild.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">warned<\/a><\/span>\u00a0that dissolving the Expert Group on Islamism would end up denying protection to those who urgently need it. \u201cIn addition to women, vulnerable groups such as young people are left to Islamists who will try to radicalize as many as possible,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>Bundestag Member Alexander Throm\u00a0<span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cducsu.de\/presse\/pressemitteilungen\/innenministerin-faeser-vernachlaessigt-den-kampf-gegen-politischen-islamismus\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">accused<\/a><\/span>\u00a0Faeser of \u201cneglecting the fight against political Islamism in the most criminal way.\u201d In a statement he said that the representatives of political Islamism \u201creject our basic democratic order\u201d and, \u201cwith their anti-constitutional ideology, create intellectual breeding ground for terrorists.\u201d Throm added that the activity of the expert group was an \u201cimportant milestone in the fight against extremism and terrorism\u201d and that \u201cwith her one-sided politics\u201d Faeser \u201cendangers the security of the citizens.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The head of the Center for Islamic Theology at the University of M\u00fcnster, Mouhanad Khorchide,\u00a0<span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/cibedo.de\/2022\/09\/08\/kritik-am-aus-fuer-den-expertenkreis-politischer-islamismus\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said<\/a><\/span>\u00a0that the dissolution of the expert group on Islamism indicates that the government does not fully understand the danger of Islamism. \u201cThose in charge are still caught up in the thought that only violent ideologies like jihadism are dangerous,\u201d he said. \u201cThere is a lack of awareness of the danger of the ideological underpinning of violent Islamism.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>Soeren Kern is a Middle East Forum Writing Fellow.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Germany\u2019s coalition government has dissolved an expert working group on political Islamism \u2014 opting instead to fight \u201cIslamophobia.\u201d The move has angered and alarmed those who warn that Islamism is spreading unabated in Germany, especially among young people in schools and on social media.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[34,48],"tags":[179,181,245],"class_list":["post-7619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-germany","category-islam-in-europe","tag-germany","tag-islam-in-europe","tag-islamism"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - 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