Foreign extremism
Foreigner extremism is a collective term used by the German constitution protection authorities for the activities of the so-called “ extremist or terrorist foreigner organizations” they observe, which see Germany as a “safe haven” from which they “can pursue their goals in their home country”.
According to the State Office for the Protection of the Constitution in Baden-Württemberg , it does not represent a separate type of extremism . According to the matter, it could be “ left-wing extremist , extremely nationalist , Islamist and other endeavors”. Regardless of this official definition, "residents" of the respective country are regularly involved in "foreign extremist" organizations.
Non-Islamist Organizations
In Germany at the end of 2011, foreigners organizations classified by the German Office for the Protection of the Constitution as “extremist” but not “Islamist” had around 26,410 members. According to the constitution protection report of the Interior Ministry of North Rhine-Westphalia, these organizations or groups include :
- People's Congress of Kurdistan (KONGRA-GEL) or PKK
- Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE; to German: Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam)
- Worker Communist Party of Iran (API)
- Revolutionary People's Liberation Party Front (DHKP-C)
- Marksist Leninist Komünist Parti (MLKP; Marxist-Leninist Communist Party, Turkey) and Komünist Partisi - İnşa Örgütü (KP-IÖ; Communist Party - New organizational structure)
- National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI)
- Lëvizja Popullore e Kosovës (LPK; People's Movement of Kosovo)
- Fronti për Bashkim Kombëtar Shqiptar (FBKSh; Front for Albanian National Association)
Islamist organizations
At the end of 2011 there were 30 Islamist organizations active nationwide, the potential of which rose slightly to 38,080 members / supporters (2010: 37,470). The supporters of Turkish groups formed the largest group with 32,270 people (2010: 31,370).
Of the around 1 million Muslims living in North Rhine-Westphalia, these are around 8,500 people, which is less than 1%. According to the NRW Constitutional Protection Report, by far the largest part of this can be assigned to the legalistic, non-violent or advocating spectrum:
- Hamas
- Hizb Allah
- Hizb ut-Tahrir
- Muslim Brothers : IGD / IZA
- Tabligh-i Jamaat
- IGMG
- Kaplan Association
literature
- Constitutional Protection Report of the State Office for the Protection of the Constitution Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania 2008 (PDF file; 715 kB)
- Artur Hertwig, Structures of Foreign Extremism in Germany. - In: The fight against terrorism, pp. 81-100, (Ed.) Kai Hirschmann, BWV, Berlin, 2003, ISBN 3-8305-0383-0
- Oliver Bossert, Guido Korte, Organized Crime and Foreign Extremism / Terrorism , Publisher: Fachhochschule d. Federal f. public Administration (2004), ISBN 3930732963
- Siegfried Schwan, Observation of the foreigner extremism in the Federal Republic of Germany under changing global political framework conditions , In: Festschrift for the 25th anniversary of the school for the protection of the constitution and for Andreas Huebsch. - Brühl / Rhineland: University of Applied Sciences. of the Federal Government for Public Administration, Department of Public Safety. - 2007, pp. 552-558
- State security report: State police service, left-wing extremism, right-wing extremism, letter bomb attacks, international terrorism, foreign extremism, intelligence services and counter-espionage, organized crime, personal and property protection , Austria, Federal Ministry of the Interior. - Vienna: Federal Ministry of the Interior, 19XX
swell
- ↑ Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution: Work area foreign extremism (excluding Islamism)
- ^ Verassungsschutz-bw.de: State Office for the Protection of the Constitution Baden-Württemberg - Foreign extremism ( memento from October 6, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) , accessed on May 5, 2011
- ↑ a b im.nrw.de: Ministry of the Interior and Municipalities of North Rhine-Westphalia - Extremism in Numbers ( Memento from April 16, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) , accessed on May 5, 2011
- ↑ Islamist Personnel Potential 2011
- ↑ Proof in the SWB catalog
Web links
- Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution - facts and figures. In: verfassungsschutz.de. Retrieved February 12, 2019 . on the website of theFederal Office fortheProtection of the Constitution