Terror in Europe: STOP THE BOMB calls for the suspension of the State Treaty with the Islamic Centre Hamburg
Press Release, January 19, 2015
The coalition STOP THE BOMB warns the public against the activities of the Islamic Republic of Iran in Hamburg.
While the world is shocked by the massacre in Paris, the weekly newspaper of the Iranian paramilitary organization Ansar-e Hezbollah praises the murders of Paris as "blessed" and "legitimate" punishment for insulting the Prophet Muhammad. (1) The Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif condemned the cartoons of the magazine Charlie Hebdo as insulting. (2)
The Iranian regime is also active in Germany. The most important means to disseminate its influence is the "Islamic Centre Hamburg" (IZH), which is controlled directly from Tehran according to the German intelligence service. Its head Ayatollah Reza Ramezani is a "supporter of the Iranian state doctrine" and enjoys the full confidence of the Iranian spiritual leader Ali Khamenei. (3)
Despite its Islamist-Jihadist orientation, the IZH is integrated into German society.The Hamburg State Treaty with Islamic associations made the IZH a partner of the city of Hamburg. (4)
The IZH is circulating the Islamist, anti-Western and anti-Semitic propaganda of the Iranian regime in Germany. One example is a speech of Ali Khamenei from December 2014 that is published on the website of the IZH which says: "From the beginning, the Islamic Republic government … [has been] showing enmity towards the Zionist regime. This policy has continued until today. … We helped Hezbollah in Lebanon - which is a Shia group - in the same way that we helped Hamas and Islamic Jihad and we will continue to do that ... I announced- and this will definitely happen- that the West Bank should be armed like Gaza“.(5)
A propaganda clip from 2012 for the IZH-conference "Islamic awakening" calls for the spread of Islamism in the "heart of Europe". (6)
Among the guests of the most recent IZH-conference (7) in January 2015 was Mustafa Yoldas, former head of the Islamist organization IHH, which was banned in 2010. (8) Also present were Aiman Mazyek, the chairman of the Central Council of Muslims and Katajun Amirpur, a scholar of Islamic studies from the University of Hamburg. (9)
STOP THE BOMB spokeswoman Ulrike Becker warns: "An outpost of the Islamic Republic must not be a partner of the Hamburg Senate or the University of Hamburg. The fact that the terror propaganda of the Iranian regime is disseminated in Germany points to the fatal consequences of a foreign policy of appeasement and a failed integration policy that favors Islamists instead of supporting the democrat among Muslims. We call on government agencies and universities to stop all cooperation with the IZH, which represents a domestic security risk. The treaty with the IZH must be canceled immediately. The Iranian regime is the largest sponsor of terrorism worldwide. Khamenei's cadre factory in Hamburg is a threat to all Democrats and should be closed as soon as possible."
(1) www.rferl.org/content/iran-charlie-hebdo-killings-blessed/26796066.html
(2) http://news.yahoo.com/iran-condemns-insulting-charlie-hebdo-prophet-cover-102514320.html
(3) www.hamburg.de/contentblob/2235784/data/verfassungsschutzbericht-2009-nur-text-fassung.pdf, pages 59-63
(4) http://www.welt.de/regionales/hamburg/article109372437/Scharfmacher-rufen-zu-antijuedischem-Protest-auf.html
(5) http://www.izhamburg.de/index.aspx?pid=99&articleid=64122
(6) https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=ZvVzDefUyk4#t=230; http://www.shia-forum.de/index.php?/topic/54974-internationale-konferenz-islamisches-erwachen-im-izh/
(7) http://www.schurahamburg.de/index.php/2-uncategorised/132-einladung-zur-konferenz (8) http://www.taz.de/!55746/
(9) http://www.awr.uni-hamburg.de/ueber-awr/aktuelles/akuelle-meldungen/stellungnahme-katajun-amirpur-anschlaege-paris.html