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Only 30?
30 German mosques and cultural centers tied to Hezbollah: intel report
By Benjamin Weinthal | Fox News |July 11, 2019:
Some 30 mosques and cultural centers in Germany have ties to the U.S.-classified terrorist organization Hezbollah, according to a Hamburg intelligence agency report.
Story continues below advertisementThe U.S. government and a bipartisan group of American lawmakers have urged Berlin to outlaw the Lebanese terrorist group in Germany.
“In Germany, there are currently about 30 known cultural and mosque associations in which a clientele regularly meets that is close to Hezbollah or its ideology,” wrote the intelligence agency.
According to the 282-page intelligence document and other German reports reviewed by Fox News, there are 1,050 Hezbollah supporters and members in Germany.
Fighters with the Lebanese Shiite Hezbollah party, carry flags as they parade in a southern suburb of the capital Beirut, to mark the al-Quds (Jerusalem) International Day, on May 31, 2019.Fighters with the Lebanese Shiite Hezbollah party, carry flags as they parade in a southern suburb of the capital Beirut, to mark the al-Quds (Jerusalem) International Day, on May 31, 2019. (AFP/Getty)
U.S. Ambassador to Germany, Richard Grenell told Fox News: “The danger that Hezbollah sympathizers are raising funds in Hamburg is further evidence that Hezbollah must be banned from Germany in its entirety. Any funds bound for Hezbollah are used by the Iranian regime to support Assad’s violence in Syria and sponsor terrorism around the world.”
Iran’s regime is a major financial sponsor of its chief proxy Hezbollah. Both Hezbollah and the Islamic Republic of Iran are allies of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.
The Hamburg intelligence report states “the collection of donations is one of the most important tasks of the associations” where Hezbollah operatives meet.
Do the findings raise questions about how much money German Hezbollah members and supporters are sending to Lebanon to aid their organization in advancing terrorism in the U.S. and Europe and waging war against Syrian civilians?
According to the report, “the associations are characterized by the effort to strengthen the bonds of the Lebanese living here [in Hamburg] with their homeland and to the organization.”
The document noted that there are 30 Hezbollah supporters in Hamburg.
Additional German intelligence data shows that Hezbollah operatives across Germany send funds to the terrorist group’s headquarters in Beirut.
The Hamburg intelligence report covers a wide range of security threats targeting the city-state.
In addition to the U.S., Canada, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Israel, and the Arab League have designated Hezbollah’s entire movement as a terrorist organization. In 2013, Germany and the European Union merely proscribed Hezbollah’s so-called military wing as a terrorist entity.
In June, a bipartisan group of U.S. congressional representatives — Lee Zeldin, R-N.Y., Grace Meng, D-N.Y., Ted Deutch, D-Fl., and Gus Bilirakis, R-Fl — urged German Chancellor Angela Merkel in a letter “to designate Hezbollah as a terrorist organization.”
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“We write to you today to express our concern over the recent failed vote in the Bundestag to designate Hezbollah in its entirety as a terrorist organization. We appreciate your government’s commitment to fighting terrorism, and we believe that taking the step to designate the political wing of Hezbollah [as terrorist] will have a significant impact on Hezbollah’s activity in Europe and around the globe,” the legislators wrote.
“The growth of support for Hezbollah will also contribute to the rise of anti-Semitism in Europe, which has already resulted in deadly attacks against Jews. That is why we strongly urge Germany to take substantive action against Hezbollah through sanctions and other means that will hamper their ability to project influence in the region.”=
In May, a Manhattan federal jury convicted Bronx resident Ali Kourani of eight offenses that included providing support to Hezbollah to launch terrorist attacks against facilities in New York City.
The 34-year-old Kourani, who was born in Lebanon, engaged in surveillance of a Secret Service facility in Brooklyn, two military sites in Manhattan, and 26 Federal Plaza in Manhattan — which at 41 stories is the tallest federal office building in the U.S., and contains the FBI’s New York field office.
Merkel has vehemently rejected a full ban of Hezbollah in Germany. The chancellor snubbed her country’s Jewish community in May after the nearly 100,000-member Central Council of Jews in Germany asked her to outlaw Hezbollah.
The president of the council, Dr. Josef Schuster, said at the time that “a full ban of Hezbollah’s organization has already happened in the Netherlands and the United Kingdom”, adding that the group is “heavily financed by Iran, and poses, in its entirety, a threat to the entire world.”
The United States government has labeled Iran’s regime the leading international state-sponsor of terrorism.
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo called on Merkel during his visit in May to proscribe Hezbollah as a terrorist entity.
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29 Comments
4 years ago
Of Course the Germans support their Islamic Nazis, now they have the great excuse of Cultural Misunderstandings as an excuse to carry out what most German wish they could do, kill Jews. The German people are now seeing that they are being replaced by Islamonazis. Hitler wished Germany was more like Muslim countries, and now it is one.
4 years ago
Reply to
Nefarious420
Agree. And Left/Liberals in rest of EU support illegals/jihadis too !
Left/Liberal are also making ISIS / jihadis happy by making beheading fashionable https://tinyurl.com/y7k93bs9
Insane ?
4 years ago
notice the photo above where the muslims are saluting….it’s just like the nazi salute. muslims are no different than the nazis, which explains why merkel encourages them taking over germany
4 years ago
not surprised, liberal ideology to cure cancer would be to give everybody cancer, so we’re all even
4 years ago
LIBERTY CLUBS International
– one key goal of our liberty clubs
– should be to surveil, expose and warn citizenry
– about all Islamist tyrant behavior
– in every country
– like this:
FREIHEIT GESELLSCHAFT International
4 years ago
An islamic terrorist attack against the Fecal Bureau of Islamisation? Why should I care?
4 years ago
WHY hasn’t Merkel banned this group already??
4 years ago
Reply to
R. Arandas
Why hasn’t the USA taken steps to ban Islam-TOTALLY? HUNGARY AND POLAND HAVE and why is there this hesitation to not destroy the Mosques of WAR AND the imams and get the arms back?
4 years ago
Reply to
notislam
I hope Hungary and Poland are smart enough to realize they shouldn’t grant asylum to the corrupt, craven, degenerate, atheist cowards of the dying West. The atheist f*cks made their excremental bed of lies (about Christianity and islum) let them lie in it.
4 years ago
Reply to
notislam
Because the USA is not ruled by Americans, like in Germany our politicians just follow orders given by their Masters.
4 years ago
These are merkel’s mosques
4 years ago
30 ?? Every single one of them is tied to terror….it’s what they do…
4 years ago
Mosque are your TOMBSTONES.
Goodbye.
4 years ago
Refusal to ban Hezbollah is simply an endorsement of this criminal gang.We call it aiding and abetting thus making Merkel and her gang equal partners in the ongoing crimes they commit as well as being fully responsible for them. Once again the Germans must be saved from themselves. Denazification was only a partial success; now, it must be Deislamification. I suggest there are a few Poles and Hungarians eager to do do the job. There has never been an official peace treaty with Germany,the German military is toothless,the German people sheeple, so there would be little opposition. We can start with a trial of Merkel and her gang for crimes against western civilization and humanity.
4 years ago
Reply to
John Acord
We have far more Mosques and Muslims in the USA plus training camps for warriors of Islam than Germany will ever have and we are proud of it because we are a Cristian nation..
4 years ago
AT LEAST the Hamburg intelligence agency is reporting on their mosque terrorist headquarters. American intel is kissing their arses and letting them commit crimes and plan attacks!!!. People better WAKE UP!
4 years ago
They look like Hitler’s troops as they paraded in WW2. We know or SHOULD ALL KNOW that al-Husseini was”a bridgeHfigure of transporting Nazi genocide in Europe into the post war middle east”. Now how much of this is going on in the USA -I believe plenty and why haven’t Infidels been alloud to attack them before they cause another 9/11 that is even worse than the first ? There have been warnings and it will happen .
4 years ago
I love my brethren in the USA and I will be there this summer to discuss ideas direction and the way forward.
God bless to all. X????????????????????????????????????????
4 years ago
Reply to
R. Arandas
I’ll start with visiting a mutual friend in Ohio and then make my way overland to Arizona where I’ll be paying my respects at my fathers grave. Looking forward to seeing my other country as I’m a citizen of the USA and the UK though I have never before visited
4 years ago
Reply to
R. Arandas
Iv has a lifelong antipathy to air travel but have now decided that I’ll have to take the bull by the horns or never see the land of my father.
America here I come!????????????
4 years ago
30 mosques have ties? C’mon, the majority of muslims in Germany and worldwide support hezbollah, hamas and all the other jihad groups. Gotta love the shot of the hezbollah troops giving the ‘Heil’ salute!
