Despite a ban, the leader calls for a caliphate. - Approximately 1400 Muslims protest under tight security measures.
In contrast to the previous exhibition two weeks ago, this time there were no banners or flags displaying Islamic symbols or explicit pleas for the caliphate. Instead, several participants carried placards with the word "Censored" written on them. This seems to be a response to the stricter controls implemented by the city and authorities.
The proponents of the caliphate's argument: they claim they're deprived of the ability to freely express their ideas. Ironically, they use the Basic Law and freedom of expression to demand a dictatorship where no one can openly express their views, and no fundamental rights would exist.
Tougher rules for the second protest
At a demonstration at the end of April, approximately 1250 members of the group marched near the main train station, expressing their views strictly segregated by gender and calling for the creation of a Stone Age god state.
In response to the alarming imagery, the police prohibited a march into the city center for this Saturday. They also barred any calls for a caliphate this time. The regulations are as follows:
▶︎ No incitement to violence.
▶︎ Israel's right to exist must not be challenged.
▶︎ A caliphate on German soil cannot be advocated, not in "word, writing or image".
Interestingly, due to the ban on visible gender segregation during the first demonstration, no women were allowed to be seen among the protesters this time. Most of them stood veiled in groups on the sidelines, some wearing Palestinian flags around their necks. A mixture of men and women was unthinkable for the Stone Age Islamists.
A short distance away, Islamists with Palestinian flags and around 150 female counter-protesters stood facing each other. Some waved Israeli flags, while one woman held a sign that read, "Sharia is dictatorship."
The organizer of the demonstration is "Muslim Interaktiv," a successor organization to the "Hizb ut-Tahrir" that was banned in 2003 and labeled "definitely extremist" by the Hamburg Office for the Protection of the Constitution. One of its leaders is the student Joe Adade Boateng, who was recently prohibited from working as a teacher in Hamburg due to his Islamist incitement.
He spoke at the rally and, despite the ban, called for a caliphate. He'll face charges for this.
The Hamburg Interior Ministry stated that a prohibition on the demonstration was not legally enforceable. This was heavily criticized by the local CDU, among others.
Federal Justice Minister Marco Buschmann (46, FDP) considers the demands for a caliphate to be "politically ridiculous," but not necessarily illegal. The Federal Constitutional Court has ruled that as long as a ludicrous opinion, even one that contravenes the Basic Law, is only expressed, it must be tolerated.
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