The number of radical Islamists operating in Germany has grown by leaps and bounds in the past few years, according to the nation’s domestic security agency.
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“We receive between two and four credible tips on planned terrorist activity in Germany each day,” Hans-Georg Maassen, chief of the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution, told Deutsche Welle, adding that the number of potential terrorists is increasing more and more by the month.
“We have to recognise that we are living in a different situation now than was normal,” he noted.
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As of late February, there were an estimated 1,600 radical Islamists living in Germany, and approximately 35.6 percent of them were considered “dangerous.”
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To make matters worse, the Islamists’ family members are oftentimes completely unaware of their family members’ ties to radicalism.
“These are social groups that find each other, let’s say through their mosque community, and the people who see them in the real world don’t necessarily notice any change in behavior,” Maasen noted.
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As recently as this week, a 26-year-old radical was reportedly arrested for planning to commit an attack against police officers or military soldiers using some sort of explosive device. The would-be perpetrator was reportedly active in Salafism, an ultra-conservative branch of Islam.
Moreover, investigations into the Christmas market attack late last year in Berlin reportedly led authorities to uncovering “a jihadi network in Germany led by Abu Walaa, the Iraqi cleric known as the ‘preacher without a face,’ who had links to [the perpetrator]and may have radicalized him or inspired him to carry out the attack in the German capital.”
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Immediately following the attack, critics slammed Germany Chancellor Angela Merkel for “allowing hundreds of thousands of asylum-seekers to enter the country, allegedly without proper security checks,” as reported at the time by Bloomberg.
The argument has been that Merkel’s bleeding-heart attitude toward migrants, refugees and asylum seekers is directly to blame for the rise in Islamic violence in Germany.
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Terrible news from Berlin but no surprise. Events like these will be the Merkel legacy.
— Nigel Farage (@Nigel_Farage) December 20, 2016
The critics both in Germany and abroad may have a point, as the situation in Germany clearly grows more perilous each day — and yet Merkel still appears hesitant to do anything about it.
