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Radical
Islamists are trying to recruit arriving refugees by offering them items and
services they desperately need. German
officials are warning of a specific new risk posed by accepting refugees from
the Middle East.
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It was
later that at least one of the terrorists involved in the Paris attacks
exploited the refugee crisis to gain access to the country.
German
officials are warning of a specific new risk posed by accepting refugees from
the Middle East, as more than 1 million of them are
expected to enter the European country in the next year alone.
The Wall Street Journal is reporting
that German homegrown radical Islamists
are trying to recruit arriving refugees by offering them items and services
they desperately need as they escape the war-torn region: food, shelter,
language interpretation, copies of the Koran and traditional Muslim clothing.\
“They start by saying, ‘We will help
you live your faith,’” Torsten Voss of Germany’s domestic intelligence agency
told the Journal, according
to Fox News. “The Islamist area comes later — that is, of course, their goal.”
In response to this risk, German
authorities in Berlin have issued a 16-page warning to aid workers, calling attention to three mosques in
particular with suspected radical Islamist ties. But at this point,
there’s little authorities can do aside from asking radicalization experts which
mosques to recommend for flagging.
“I’m afraid that anti-Americanism, anti-Israel sentiment and
anti-Semitism will be on the rise,” Der Tagesspiegel, editor in chief
Malte Lehming told Fox News in October. “We have very limited educational tools
to change that. Syria is one of the
most anti-Israel countries, influenced by Iran and helped by Hezbollah.”
Concerns come just two weeks after
the Paris terrorist attacks in which about 130 people were killed and dozens
more were injured. It was later discovered
that at least one of the terrorists involved in the attacks exploited the
refugee crisis to gain access to the country.
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