Germany: Muslim who cofounded group with local Islamic State leader will not be deported

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“Hildesheim: Muslim will not be expatriated,” translated from “Hildesheim: Obermuslim wird nicht ausgebürgert,” by Manfred Rouhs, PI News, January 22, 2022 (thanks to Medforth):

The committed Muslim Ahmed R. has made a successful start to 2022. In mid-January, the city of Hildesheim received a notice from the administrative court in Hanover that revoked his German citizenship. The authority had previously failed to give him a fair hearing, writes the left-wing alternative Berlin publication “taz.” His naturalization in 2014 is therefore still valid.

Ahmed R. has repeatedly caused grief to the German authorities. Born in Germany, he spent his early youth in Tunisia, where he also experienced his religious socialization. Back in Germany, he was one of the founders of the German-speaking Islamkreis Hildesheim association, in which, among others, the well-known Salafist preacher Abu Walaa appeared.

Walaa was considered Germany’s head of the Islamic State. His pilgrimage through Germany ended after he was sentenced to ten and a half years in prison in early 2021 for membership in a terrorist organization, terrorist financing and aiding and abetting the preparation of an act of violence that endangers the state.

Other well-known Muslims who met at the German-speaking Islamkreis Hildesheim association were Sven Lau, Pierre Vogel, Abul Baraa and Anis Amri, the assassin from Berlin’s Breitscheidplatz.

Ahmed R. has been a German citizen since 2014 and had no problems declaring his loyalty to the free and democratic basic order. In writing, even. At the court in Hanover, he asserted that he had always rejected radical tendencies within the German-speaking Islamkreis Hildesheim association. Nobody can prove him wrong.

At the end of the process, the city of Hildesheim caved in and revoked the expatriation notice.