German media announced that police forces raided the Hamburg Islamic Center and all other Islamic centers affiliated with the Iranian regime from early morning on Wednesday, July 24, and declared their activities banned.
In a statement, Germany’s Interior Minister announced that the evidence gathered in the investigations confirmed serious suspicions to such an extent that they issued the ban today.
Nancy Faeser added that the Hamburg Islamic Center promotes extremist and totalitarian Islamist ideology in Germany and its subsidiaries also support Hezbollah terrorists.
According to the ministry, the association that runs the Islamic Center of Hamburg, known as the “Blue Mosque,” violates the constitutional order of the Federal Republic of Germany.
According to the German Interior Ministry, representatives of the mosque have previously praised the violent actions of terrorist organizations like Hamas and supported banned terrorist organizations like Hezbollah.
Interior Minister Nancy Faeser said this action was taken due to extremism.
The center has been under the scrutiny of the federal government for months. It has been at least ten months since the German Federal Interior Ministry began searching the “Hamburg Islamic Center” and dozens of its affiliated offices on November 16, 2023, to find evidence for the possible necessity of banning its activities. Now, after this period, Nancy Faeser signed the order to shut down and end the activities of this Islamic center.
The Office for the Protection of the Constitution had previously stated that there was evidence showing this Islamic center is “a significant propaganda center for the regime in Europe and an arm of the Iranian regime.”
In August 2023, the German State Office for the Protection of the Constitution announced that the “Frankfurt Islamic Cultural Center” and the “Blue Mosque of Hamburg” are both connected with the “Iranian regime” and the “Muslim Brotherhood” of Egypt and are attempting to spread their radical Islamic ideology.
According to the Hamburg Administrative Court’s ruling, the city’s Islamic Center, also known as the “Blue Mosque,” is classified as an “extremist Islamist organization.”
In June 2022, Hamburg government officials issued a deportation order for Soleiman Mousavi-Far, the deputy head of the Hamburg Islamic Center, and three months later, he was deported from Germany.
At that time, German investigative officials expressed confidence that Soleiman Mousavi-Far supports extremist Shia militant organizations and terrorist organizations.
