Germany cracks down on Muslim teams seen as threats to its constitutional order

The German authorities on Wednesday (November 5, 2025) banned a Muslim group it accused of violating primary human rights and the nation’s democratic values and performed raids in opposition to two different Muslim teams throughout the nation.

The Interior Ministry mentioned the organisation, which it banned, Muslim Interaktiv, represented a menace to the nation’s constitutional order by selling antisemitism and discrimination in opposition to girls and sexual minorities.

The German authorities argued the group was a selected menace as a result of it promoted Islam as the only real mannequin for the social order and maintained that Islamic regulation ought to take priority over German regulation in regulating life within the Muslim neighborhood, together with in areas such because the remedy of girls.

“We will reply with the total drive of the regulation to anybody who aggressively requires a caliphate on our streets, incites hatred in opposition to the state of Israel and Jews in an insupportable method, and despises the rights of girls and minorities,” German Interior Minister Alexander Dobrindt mentioned.

The Ministry additionally introduced that investigations have been underway in opposition to two different Muslim teams, Generation Islam and Reality Islam.

“We is not going to enable organisations equivalent to Muslim Interaktiv to undermine our free society with their hatred, despise our democracy, and assault our nation from inside,” the Minister added.

The Ministry mentioned in its assertion that the group “is especially against gender equality and freedom of sexual orientation and gender id.” “This expresses an intolerance that’s incompatible with democracy and human rights,” it added.

Authorities on Wednesday (November 5) searched seven premises within the northern metropolis of Hamburg and likewise performed searches in 12 premises in Berlin and the central German state of Hesse in reference to the opposite two teams underneath investigation.

The authorities mentioned Muslim Interaktiv sought to indoctrinate as many individuals as attainable and “thus create everlasting enemies of the structure as a way to constantly undermine the constitutional order.”

The on-line presence of Muslim Interaktiv appeared to have been taken down on Wednesday morning (November 5), and the group couldn’t be reached for remark.