by Zeev Avrahami

Prenzlauer Berg, an upscale liberal quarter in Berlin, has a Saturday market that offers fresh produce, food stalls, flowers, fish and champagne. This is not just a market to buy from also rather a place to go if you want to be seen.For the past 18 years, Mahmoud has kept his falafel stall in a corner of the market. He is a native of Germany whose parents were Palestinians. Mahmoud does not like Jews or Israelis. He charges them a special price for his food. He also directs profanities at them and spits on them as they walk by.One Saturday, he yelled at a Jewish passer-by: “Too bad Hitler didn’t finish you off.” The Germans in the market kept drinking their champagne. When I found myself on the receiving end of the falafel seller’s abuse, I went to the market manager to complain. The man calmly explained to me that Mahmoud was a great guy with just one small problem – Jews drive him crazy. He told me that Mahmoud had once been suspended from the market for a month. The second time Mahmoud yelled at me as I entered the market was a year ago, as attacks against Jews in Germany had reached a new peak. So I decided not to keep silent and protest against the German treatment of Jews. For 10 weeks we stood by the market carrying signs. Although we had a license to demonstrate, the police pushed us back, twice. One time I was arrested. Four Germans shouted at me to go back home. Some wanted to engage in conversation about the terrible policies of Israel. We declined. A few looked sympathetically at our signs, but most kept drinking their champagne. The German press coverage of the demonstration described Palestinian and Israeli wrestlers facing each other where we poor Germans were hosting them. But this narrative should not be believed. Mahmoud is shouting profanities at Jews because the German government, by its silence, is allowing him to. The Saturday market in Prenzlauer Berg is not even an extreme example of the treatment of Jews in Berlin. Berlin’s Jewish Museum director resigned after having given use of the building to BDS activists, who advocate the boycott of Israel. Munich’s Jewish Museum director hosted an exhibit calling the Negev Desert a settlement and accused the Jewish National Fund of war crimes. Both museums are Jewish in name only and are funded by the German government. As they abuse their titles, they use their reputation to spread hatred against Israel. Israelis coming to Berlin are quick to understand that they must adopt a certain state of mind to be accepted into German society’s mainstream. One aspect of it is to viciously and attack Israel regardless of events. Young Germans are tired of the inherited guilt of the Holocaust. They are so obsessed by it that they fail to understand that only by accepting their responsibility will they be rid of it.

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The hero of Iranian judo whose recent loss to a Georgian in world competitions was dubbed as the biggest surprise in judo in 2019 has requested asylum in Germany. Saeid Mollaei lost a match in obvious indifference not to face an Israeli judoka in world competitions in Tokyo in August, based on a rule in the Islamic Republic banning competition between Iranian and Israeli athletes. The International Judo Federation has confirmed the news about his asylum request and voiced support for Mollaei. This week, world Bronze medalist in Judo, Mohammad Mohammadi Barimanlou decided to retire sincehe had to face an Israeli judoka in the current international judo championship. Last March, another Iranian judoka Mohammad Abbas Nejad pulled out of the Tbilisi 2018 Grand Prix to avoid facing Israeli athlete Yarin Mnagid in the 66 kilogram weight category. The same has been happening in international Olympic type wrestling matches and both Iranian players, coaches and international sports officials have been putting pressure on the Islamic Republic to abandon its discriminatory policy violating basic principles of international sports.

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An asylum seeker who has already committed 542 offences in Germany is at large despite this criminal record. The man, who is said to come from North Africa, has a simple but effective way of preventing his deportation: He simply does not reveal anything about himself. Nobody knows who he is or where his home is. One third of the proceedings were for possession and acquisition of narcotics, one third for fraudulent obtaining of benefits, for example in the form of fare evasion.In addition, there are bodily harm, theft, robbery and about one third for violations of the Residence Act,” says Chief Police Inspector Rüdiger Buchta, listing the misconduct of the asylum seeker who entered Germany in 1998 without a passport, “and yet the homeless person can move through Frankfurt unhindered. Fingerprints have not yet been able to help determine identity. He usually mentions Morocco or Algeria as his homeland. The North African was briefly arrested in a raid on Friday. He is said to have been drunk and to have talked incomprehensibly to oneself. Once more fingerprints were taken at the police station. Since there is no warrant for his arrest, the man was released again. 

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Last Tuesday, a 33-year-old Syrian inflicted a cut on his ex-wife’s face in front of a supermarket. The woman managed to escape to the shop, the Syrian fled. In the night on Wednesday, the arrest took place. According to a police press release, a 33-year-old Syrian got into an argument with his 41-year-old ex-wife in front of a grocery store in the Vienna district of Brigittenau in the street Wallensteinstraße. He did not know where she currently lived, but had been able to narrow down the area and locate her.So it came to the confrontation in front of the shop, where he pulled a knife and injured the woman. The victim was able to flee to the shop  and contacted employees who immediately alerted the police.While the woman’s injury was being treated in the hospital, the manhunt began. According to the police, the crime was the result of a violent past. The perpetrator was already known for domestic violence, dangerous threats, assault and trespass. In the night of Wednesday, the Syrian asylum seeker was finally arrested in the Vienna district of Meidling. The police interrogations have not yet been completed. The man used a kitchen knife as a weapon. This has not yet been found. 

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Yesterday, Friday, around 03:30 p.m., the police and fire brigade were deployed in the St. Peter church in Wildeshausen (photo above). A member of the parish had noticed dense smoke in the church hall, which is why the fire brigade was alerted. By the time the fire brigade arrived, no fire was burning, so only the Church had to have ventilation. Due to the circumstances, it must be assumed that the fire in the church was deliberately set. There was no damage to the building itself. The total damage to property is estimated at 80,000 Euros. The high damage is mainly due to the heavy sooting of the interior furnishings. The Wildeshausen police accept relevant hints regarding the crime and suspected perpetrators by calling 04431-99410.

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On Thursday evening, the police deployed a large number of officers to a rampant Iraqi engagement party in Hanover. At 11.09 p.m. a brawl had been reported at the Bomond event centre on Badenstedter Street (Linden-Mitte district).According to initial estimates, about 150 to 200 people were involved in the brawl. In front of the building, the police officers faced about 100 people, some of whom were very upset. In the course of the first interrogations it could be determined that there had been a brawl between several persons during the festivities. In this regard, the police are investigating for dangerous and simple bodily injury. During the interrogation, the 33-year-old guest ran towards the 40-year-old police officer and tried to knock him over.  The policeman was able to prevent this with the help of a colleague and then to arrest the guest. The attacker scratched the 40-year-old officer in the face and slightly injured him. Only when other police car patrols arrived at Badenstedter Street the situation could be reassured. Now the 33-year-old has to answer for assault and battery. 

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The organization “Islamic Relief Germany” was founded in 1996 in Cologne and belongs to a worldwide operating network. This network is close to the Muslim Brotherhood, extreme Islamists. Due to this proximity, the accounts of Islamoc Relief at the USB Bank were already blocked in 2012. In 2016, HSBC also drew a line under the business relationship with the organisation.But this does not prevent party representatives such as the the former Foreign Minister and current Federal President Frank-Walter Steinmeier, the Social Democrat Hannelore Kraft, Henriette Reker or the Green politician Cem Özdemir from vigorously advertising the organization, which is close to Islamic terrorism. They gave their name and their photos for a fundraising campaign by Islamic Relief Germany. 

What is Islamic Relief?

Islamic Relief is one of the largest Islamic charities in the world. Founded in 1984, Islamic Relief today maintains branches and offices in over 20 countries and it has reported franchise-wide income of hundreds of millions of dollars. Western governments provide a significant proportion of this income.
Islamic Relief was founded – and continues to be managed – by prominent Islamist operatives. A few examples of prominent current and former IR trustees and officials include:

• Hany El-Banna OBE – founder of Islamic Relief and a former trustee of several charities accused of links to Islamist extremism and terror. El-Banna established Islamic Relief while a student involved in Muslim Brotherhood circles. In 2016, El-Banna gave an interview to Al-Aqsa Voice, the official radio station of the terrorist group Hamas, during which he urged “a strong coalition” between civil society organizations and the Hamas government to “repel any foreign ideas and malignant intrusions.”
• Essam El Haddad – co-founder of Islamic Relief and the foreign policy advisor to Egypt’s (now-deposed) Muslim Brotherhood President Mohamed Morsi. Egyptian law enforcement alleges that Haddad used Islamic Relief to finance the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood. The Egyptian prosecution also claimed that Haddad was “financing terrorism by using global charities such as Islamic Relief.”
• Khaled Lamada – chairman of Islamic Relief’s USA branch and the founder of Egyptian Americans for Democracy and Human Rights, one of the Brotherhood’s key lobbying arms in the United States. Writing and sharing Facebook posts mostly in Arabic, Lamada has circulated text praising the “jihad” of the “Mujahidin of Egypt” for “causing the Jews many defeats.” He has republished claims on Facebook that praise Hamas for inflicting a “huge defeat” against the “Zionist entity.”
• Issam Al-Bashir – a prominent member of the European Council for Fatwa and Research, a body of Muslim Brotherhood clerics led by Muslim Brotherhood spiritual leader Yusuf Qaradawi, who has advocated killing Jews and homosexuals. Bashir previously served as the Minister of Guidance and Religious Endowments in the genocidal Sudanese regime.
• Ahmed Al-Rawi – a former director of Islamic Relief Worldwide, who also served as a director of the Muslim Association of Britain, which the Daily Telegraph has named as the Muslim Brotherhood’s “main declared British affiliate.” In 2004, Al-Rawi signed a declaration in support of jihad against British and American forces in Iraq.

Islamic Relief has long been accused of funding terror. Both Israel and the United Arab Emirates have designated Islamic Relief as a terror-financing organization. In 2005, Russian authorities accused Islamic Relief of supporting terrorism in Chechnya. And in 2012, the Swiss banking giant UBS closed down Islamic Relief’s accounts and “blocked donations coming from its customers to the charity,” reportedly over terror financing fears. Four years later, HSBC did the same.In the Gaza Strip, Islamic Relief funds organizations closely linked to the terrorist organization, Hamas. In February 2015, for example, Islamic Relief UK, using Swedish monies, funded a project run by the Al-Falah Benevolent Society to provide aid to “displaced families.” Al-Falah is run by senior Hamas figure, Ramadan Tamboura, and Jamal Hamdi Al-Haddad, who manages a Hamas-run Hebrew language program for Palestinians in Gaza titled “Know Your Enemy.”Another key partner for Islamic Relief branches in Gaza is the Gaza Zakat Committee, also known as the Islamic Zakat Society (IZS). IZS works closely with the Hamas government. It is managed by a prominent Hamas preacher named Hazem Al-Sirraj, a former student of Hamas founder Sheikh Yassin. In 2018, Islamic Relief Worldwide submitted an appeal for $420,000 for IZS through a United Nations fundraising scheme.Islamic Relief also maintains financial links with several terrorism-linked groups in the Middle East, including the Charitable Society for Social Welfare, which was founded by Al-Qaeda terrorist and “Bin Laden loyalist” Abdul Majeed Al-Zindani.The Middle East Forum has identified dozens of prominent extremist clerics and Islamist activists who continue to speak regularly at Islamic Relief events. Examples include Abdullah Hakim Quick, who claims that the Islamic position on homosexuality is “death”; Haitham Al-Haddad, who describes Jews as “pigs and apes”; and Abdul Nasir Jangda, who defends sex slavery and advocates killing apostates.In April 2017, The Times of London reported that Britain’s Charity Commission was investigating the charity’s decision to organize a tour with Yasir Qadhi, an extremist preacher who had previously told audiences that killing homosexuals was part of his religion.Islamic Relief has enjoyed a great deal of access to prominent government officials. In the U.S., Islamic Relief officials have dined at the White House, accepted appointments as advisors to the State Department, and enjoyed speeches by administration officials at Islamic Relief events. In the U.K., Islamic Relief events have featured speeches by Prince Charles, the deputy Prime Minister and various cabinet ministers.In fact, Islamic Relief enjoys the support of taxpayers and politicians across the globe. The Middle East Forum has identified over $80 million in grants and donor matching schemes from Western governments, the European Union and the United Nations since 2007.Between 2000 and 2016, American community and corporate foundations have given Islamic Relief over $4.3 million. The largest single donation was provided by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, which handed Islamic Relief almost $1.4 million.Islamic Relief also benefits from the credibility of its non-Muslims partners and admirers. Even prominent Jewish charities have worked closely with Islamic Relief, despite its long history of promoting anti-Semitism. Leading newspapers and cable news networks encourage readers to donate to Islamic Relief and produce regular puff-pieces about Islamic Relief’s officials and their work.Islamic Relief’s claims to be a moderate organization are gradually losing credibility. Since Islamic Relief was designated as a terrorist organization by the United Arab Emirates, a number of Western countries have starting examining the international charity’s activities.In the United States, a government source revealed to Ryan Mauro, a fellow of the Clarion Project, that agents from the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Internal Revenue Service and Office of Personnel Management had put together a criminal case relating to Islamic Relief in 2016. The Middle East Forum submitted requests for documents concerning Islamic Relief under the Freedom of Information Act to the agencies involved. In January 2018, the OPM confirmed the existence of a criminal investigation, stating: “We are withholding the records … as they were compiled for law enforcement purposes and their disclosure could reasonably be expected to interfere with ongoing enforcement proceedings, by—for example—suggesting the scope of an investigation and alerting potential subjects as to the nature of the Government’s evidence and strategy.”In Germany, in November 2016, Christian Gaebler, a Secretary of State in the Berlin Senate, responded to a written question about Islamic Relief’s Islamist connections by declaring: “Islamic Relief Germany has connections to organizations surrounding the Muslim Brotherhood.” In January 2017, however, Germany’s Federal Court of Auditors announced it was investigating Islamic Relief Deutschland for a “potential misuse of the aid money.” Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg, a German radio station, reported in 2017 that the investigation is suspected to relate to the movement of funds from Islamic Relief Deutschland to the Islamic Relief Worldwide headquarters in Britain.In Sweden, according to a recent government report into the activities of the Muslim Brotherhood, Islamic Relief is a “key organization” in providing “credibility” to the Muslim Brotherhood. The report reveals that Muslim Brotherhood official Haytham Rahmeh is part of Islamic Relief Sweden, and notes that “[Rahmeh] has been involved in supporting militias linked to the Muslim Brotherhood in the Syrian conflict, through lobbying and weapons purchases.”For decades, Western governments have bestowed funds and legitimacy on Islamic Relief. This patronage has ensured that a small group of Islamist students and activists from a city in England would come to manage a vast global franchise that has the ear of Princes and Presidents, while serving as the vanguard for Islamism in the West and a fig-leaf for the extremism that grips Muslim communities.Western governments must stop funding Islamic Relief. All government partnerships with Islamic Relief must end. Further, legislators in both the U.S. and Europe should encourage law enforcement agencies and charity regulators to look into Islamic Relief’s activities in the Gaza Strip and Syria, and examine allegations made by Egyptian prosecutors that Islamic Relief branches were funding Morsi’s Muslim Brotherhood government. Politicians should also appeal to international bodies to exclude Islamic Relief and halt all funding.Ultimately, if Western governments are serious about fighting the intolerant, divisive and violent effects of global Islamism, then Islamic Relief must be shut down. It is the flagship institution of lawful Islamism in the West. There are certainly Muslim charities that do not promote extremism and subsidize terrorism. Why should taxpayers all over the world fund a charity that does?

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After three girls (8,11,9 y/o) have been addressed in a suspicious manner since Monday evening in the Hamburg district of Wilhelmsburg, the police are asking for hints from the population. The three girls were each on their own when a man is said to have attracted their attention in different ways. According to the information provided by the girls, the attempts to contact them varied from merely waving to them to pursuing them and addressing them with sexual intentions. Each of the three girls had been able to flee from the man, but felt very frightened by the encounter with him.All girls immediately reported the incidents to their parents, who then informed the police. In no case, however, did the immediately initiated manhunt lead to the suspect man being found.The investigators of the Sex Crimes Department do not currently rule out the possibility that the same man may have been involved in all cases. This man was described by the girls as a rather obese middle-aged man who may be of Turkish origin and possibly bald with a crown of hair. In two cases he is said to have been on foot, in one case in a black limousine.Witnesses who have made observations about the incidents described or who can provide a clue as to the man’s identity are requested to report to the police information telephone by calling 040/4286-56789 or to any police station.

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