Germany banned Muslim group over accusations of anti-constitutional activities, including calling for the establishment of a caliphate, the interior ministry said.
Police raided seven buildings in the northern port city of Hamburg, where the Muslim interactive group was based, as the ban was announced.
Society with their hatred and attack our country from within,” Interior Minister Alexander Dorinda, of the center-right CDU/CSU bloc, said.
The association came under fire last year during a rally in Hamburg where more than 1,200 people demonstrated, denouncing Germany’s allegedly Islamophobia policies.
Signs carried at the rally included some that read “the caliphate is the solution”, which made headlines across the country and prompted a heated national debate.
The group, also accused of rejecting women’s rights and promoting hatred of Israel, will now be dissolved and its assets confiscated, according to the ministry.
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