Thursday, December 28, 2017

The Salafistian Story

This week....ARD (public TV, Channel One) went and did a fairly in depth piece on the Salafistian scene in Germany involving women.

The federal cops of Germany are beginning to realize that some Islamic women (not a lot) are becoming hardcore Salafistian-types.

From the northwest (North Rhine-Westphalia), they've identified one network of women....forty in number...who are actively putting the Salafistian lifestyle up and promoting it.  To some degree, they are indoctrinating their own kids into the lifestyle.

For the cops, this is a worry.  Almost every single Jihadist-terrorist that they've come across in the past couple of years...has been identified as active in the Salafisitian culture.

I then note a direct quote from the ARD article: "Salafism is a backward-looking, extremely conservative flow of Islam. His followers refer exclusively to the Koran, rejecting any form of modernization."

It's a limited piece to some degree, but it also demonstrates the process of thinking by the cops and aiming at one particular group to worry about.  Trying to outlaw it is virtually impossible because of the freedom of speech and freedom of religion given to all Germans by the German Constitution.  So the cops are mostly in a watch and view situation.

Recruitment provocateurs?  The simple answer is yes.  By demonstrating some lifestyle.....a basic culture...a happy-theme, they entice young naive women into some belief that this can all work out and be a great positive in life.

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