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Germany bans Muslim group over alleged terror donations
[AlAhram] Police raided buildings in 10 German states associated with Ansaar International, German news agency dpa reported

The German government on Wednesday banned a Moslem organization that it alleged had supported ``terrorism globally with donations.``

Police raided buildings in 10 German states associated with Ansaar International,
...founded in 2012, the group describes itself as an aid organization carrying out projects "for the good of Allah." It claims to have 600 members in Germany and around 2,000 around the globe, ostensibly providing health services, water and sanitation, orphanages and education to the needy in Africa, Asia, Europe, the Middle East and Americas...
German news agency dpa reported. The news agency said the money the organization collected went to welfare projects but also to groups such as the Syrian al-Qaeda affiliate known as the Nusra Front, the Paleostinian group Hamas, the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®, and al-Shabaab
...... Somalia's version of the Taliban, functioning as an arm of al-Qaeda...
 in Somalia.

``The organization Ansaar International and its suborganizations were banned. The network finances terrorism globally with its donations,'' a spokesperson for the German Interior Ministry tweeted.

The ministry quoted Interior Minister Horst Seehofer as saying, ``When wanting to fight terrorism, one needs to dry out its money sources.''

A man who answered a phone call to the organization's headquarters in the western German city of Duesseldorf immediately hung up when The News Agency that Dare Not be Named called seeking comment.
The Times of Israel adds:
In 2018 alone, it collected 8 to 10 million euros in donations, according to its first chairman.
In 2019 Germany raided 90 properties associated with a network headed by two groups based in North Rhine-Westphalia: WorldWide Resistance-Help and Ansaar International.

Posted by: trailing wife 2021-05-06
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