[IsraelTimes] German Vice Chancellor Sigmar Gabriel has called for banning Salafist Islamist mosques and deporting preachers who advocate violence."Salafist mosques must be banned, communities dissolved and the preachers should be expelled as soon as possible," Gabriel told the German weekly Der Spiegel on Saturday.
"Those who encourage violence do not enjoy the protection of religious freedom," he added.
Gabriel, who also serves as the party chairman of Germany’s center-left Social Democratic Party, emphasized that he employs a "zero tolerance" policy in combating the rise of Islamic extremism in Germany.
"If we are serious about the fight against Islamism and terrorism, then it must also be a cultural fight," he told the paper.
According to Gabriel, half of the foreigners who have traveled to Syria to fight alongside the Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling
Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not
reallyMoslems....
jihadist group in recent years, are Germans.
The domestic security service estimates that the number of radical Islamists in Germany rose above 9,000 this year, from some 3,800 in 2011.
About 550 are considered capable of a violent attack -- a list that once included Amri.