Germany’s Vice Chancellor, Digmar Gabriel, demands closure of Salafist mosques across the country as well as disbandment of the gatherings by the community.
German’s vice chancellor calls for closure of Salafist mosques
8 Jan 2017 - 10:17
Germany’s Vice Chancellor, Digmar Gabriel, demands closure of Salafist mosques across the country as well as disbandment of the gatherings by the community.
“Salafist mosques must be banned, the communities broken up, and the preachers expelled. And as quickly as possible,” RT quoted Gabriel as saying in an interview with the Der Spiegel on Saturday.
Gabriel made the remarks while commenting on the links being found between the Christmas market truck attacker and a Salafist preacher.
He added that he had a “zero tolerance” for Salafism, which has been growing in Germany over the past few years with the support of Saudi Arabia.
Salafism is often equated with Wahhabism, the radical ideology dominating Saudi Arabia and freely preached by clerics in the Arab country.
Wahhabism is also the ideology of the Daesh terrorist group, which claimed responsibility for last year’s deadly terrorist attacks in the French capital.
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