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Another demonstration by the Islamist organization Muslim Interaktiv in Hamburg will be allowed to proceed, less than two weeks after an earlier demonstration caused a national uproar in Germany. Hamburg's police chief Falk Schnabel said on Wednesday that the group's planned demonstration called for Saturday will be subject to strict conditions by authorities. Muslim Interaktiv is classified as an extremist group by the German authorities. Schnabel said that police intensively examined options for an outright ban on the group's demonstration, and reviewed footage from the group's previous demo...
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A Jewish man has been assaulted by an unidentified perpetrator in Berlin in what authorities believe may have been an anti-Semitic attack, police said on Sunday. The 54-year-old was assaulted in central Berlin in the vicinity of two synagogues on Friday afternoon, it said. After insulting the man, who was wearing a prayer shawl underneath his shirt, the assailant pushed him to the ground and injured his hand with a scooter. The insults had not been clearly intelligible but the words "Free Palestine" could be heard, according to police. Security authorities have launched an investigation into t...
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Hundreds of people took to the streets in Hamburg on Saturday to protest against Islamism and anti-Semitism and in support of the liberal values of Germany's democratic constitutional order. The demonstration in Hamburg was planned as a counter-rally to a march organized by Islamists last week which caused nationwide outrage. Participants in the Islamist march had made calls for a caliphate. The caliphate as a form of rule originated after the death of the Prophet Muhammad in 632 AD and refers to a system based on Islamic law. As the representative of Muhammad, the caliph acts as both a religi...
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Austrian security services are investigating a series of blasts potentially aimed at Jehovah's Witnesses, after the car of a member of the religious group was set on fire on Friday, according to police. Witnesses to the incident in Premstätten in the southern state of Styria reported "a kind of explosion." As with previous incidents, no-one was injured. Last August, bombs detonated in two Jehovah's Witnesses' cars, also in Styria, while their owners attended a prayer meeting. At the end of March, a functional explosive device was found and defused in the entrance area of a meeting hall of the ...
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Polish police have detained a 16-year-old boy suspected of having thrown a Molotov cocktail at the historic Nożyk Synagogue, a police spokesman told the Rzeczpospolita newspaper on Thursday. The motive behind the Wednesday attack on the only Warsaw synagogue to have survived the Nazi onslaught during World War II, remained unclear. The suspect refused to make a statement. On Wednesday, the Israeli ambassador to Poland, Yacov Livne, published a photo on X, formerly Twitter, showing burn marks on the Nożyk Synagogue in the centre of the city. "Outrageous anti-Semitic attacks such as this can not...
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A Molotov cocktail was thrown at the only synagogue in Warsaw to have survived the Nazi onslaught during World War II, the police confirmed to the Polish news agency PAP following a report made to the police. The Israeli ambassador to Poland, Yacov Livne, published a photo on X, formerly Twitter, showing burn marks on the Nożyk Synagogue in the centre of the city. "Outrageous anti-Semitic attacks such as this can not be tolerated today," Livne wrote. "The perpetrators must be found and punished." Polish Foreign Minister Radosław Sikorsk wrote on X that the synagogue's rabbi had written that so...
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The head of the Bavarian opposition party in the German parliament, or Bundestag, has called for tough consequences following a demonstration in Hamburg in which speakers called for an Islamist caliphate to replace German democracy. "Anyone who wants to introduce sharia [strict Islamic law] in Germany and declare a caliphate is an enemy of our democracy," Alexander Dobrindt, the head of the Bundestag's faction for Bavaria's Christian Social Union (CSU), told the Bild newspaper. "The state must confront them with consistency and rigour," he said. More than 1,000 people attended the Hamburg rall...
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The head of the Bavarian opposition party in the German parliament, or Bundestag, has called for tough consequences following a demonstration in Hamburg in which speakers called for an Islamist caliphate to replace German democracy. "Anyone who wants to introduce sharia [strict Islamic law] in Germany and declare a caliphate is an enemy of our democracy," Alexander Dobrindt, the head of the Bundestag's faction for Bavaria's Christian Social Union (CSU), told the Bild newspaper. "The state must confront them with consistency and rigour," he said. More than 1,000 people attended the Hamburg rall...
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More than 1,000 demonstrators responded to a call for a rally by Islamists in Hamburg on Saturday, with some carrying posters that read "Caliphate is the solution" or "Germany - a dictatorship of values." They were protesting in the St Georg district against an allegedly Islamophobic policy and media campaign in Germany. The peaceful rally was secured by a large contingent of police. Authorities put the number of participants at 1,100. The organizers are linked to the group Muslim Interaktiv, which is classified as extremist according to Hamburg's Office for the Protection of the Constitution,...
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More than 4,000 books from the collection of a Jewish rabbinical seminary in Berlin that was looted by the Nazis have been discovered in Prague. The books were found in the library of the Jewish Museum in the city, according to a spokeswoman for the museum on Friday. The books have previously been thought lost. At least the title page and the first few pages are now to be scanned and made available online, she said. There are currently no plans to return the books to Berlin. The books came from the collection of Berlin's Higher Institute for Jewish Studies, which was closed and looted by the N...
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