Why do key members of Germany’s ‘woke’ government see Muslim extremists filling the streets of Hamburg with demands for an Islamic caliphate takeover of Germany, as a “disadvantaged minority group that must be empowered?”

Thousands of Islamic extremists organized by Muslim Interaktiv, operating as a proxy for the radical Islamic caliphate movement, “Hiz ut-Tahir,” which has been  banned in Germany since January 2003, recently marched through the streets of Hamburg demanding that the European Union’s most populous and powerful country be reconstituted as an Islamic state governed by sharia law.

Middle East Forum Although Hizb ut-Tahrir is banned, the government continues to turn a blind eye to Muslim Interaktiv, which was established in 2020 and opposes Western liberal democracy, women’s rights, and the state of Israel’s right to exist.

Led by a German-Ghanaian convert to Islam, Raheem Boateng, Muslim Interaktiv criticizes the “highly praised” values of the West, including freedom of expression, women’s rights, right to life and human rights – he says these are mere illusions. He claims that 100 years of Muslim suffering should have already taught Muslims across the globe that there is no political alternative to improve their situation than to reinstate a caliphate. Western ideas, including secularism, liberalism, and nationalism, are the catalysts for the “catastrophic situation in the Middle East,” he said.

One of Germany’s leading experts on political Islam, Ahmad Mansour, lamented that “despite the seriousness” of the challenge posed by Muslim Interaktiv, “only a few are upset, while the majority of the country continues to ignore them.” He warned the “naïve West” against “tolerating everything — even those forces that would threaten its way of life — in the name of radical diversity and multiculturalism.”

Hamburg’s spy chief, Torsten Voß, said that Muslim Interaktiv is “dangerous because of its capacity to increase the number of Islamic extremists in the long term.”

The audacious display of Islamic power on German streets cast light on a glaring double standard: On the one hand, the German government continues to trivialize and even express solidarity with the totalitarian challenge to democracy posed by radical Muslims, who openly seek to overturn Germany’s constitutional order. On the other, the government is obsessed with the threats it says are posed to democracy by the anti-Muslim immigration Alternative for Germany (AfD), the country’s second-largest political party, whose popularity is largely fueled by voters frustrated with the government’s refusal to crack down on those very same radical Muslims.

Muslim Interaktiv, along with its close cousins, Generation Islam and Realität Islam, is the vanguard of a new generation of German Islamic extremists who have replaced old-school jihadist propaganda with the fresh battle cry of grievance peddling. While the overall goal — to Islamize Western society — remains the same, the new method of adopting the role of an aggrieved minority is more effective because, rather than being overtly illegal, such speech is constitutionally protected.

A new report from the Lower Saxony Criminological Research Institute revealed that a majority of Muslim students (67%) agreed with the statement: “The rules of the Qaran are more important to me than the laws in Germany.” Almost half (45.8%) believed that “an Islamic theocracy is the best form of government” and 51.5% agreed with the statement: “Only Islam is able to solve the problems of our time.”