22 December 2012

Authorities plan exit scheme for Salafists

.... His office estimates that the number of extremist Salafists in North Rhine-Westphalia has doubled this year to 1,000. The effort with local Muslim groups comes after attempts at using hotlines to get people to either not join or quit such groups were less than successful.

Militant Salafist groups have been in the news a lot lately. On Thursday such a group released a video calling on followers to take German hostages to free an Islamist now serving a six-year sentence for stabbing two policemen in Bonn in May.

[A COMMENT] Would the better exit scheme not be deportation? If they don't like the Western Culture then there is always their own culture to move to elsewhere. [The Local] Read more