Role model for teenagers

How “pop Islamists” are storming social media

The event hall in Hamburg-Allermöhe, where supporters of "Muslim Interaktiv" met in private. Young men are mobilized on the Internet.(Bild: Google Earth, Screenshots Youtube, Krone kreativ)

Radical preachers on the internet are conquering German-speaking countries as role models for teenage assassins. Their goal is to establish a caliphate. How they approach young people, what makes them particularly dangerous, who their enemies are and what they plan to do.

A secret meeting of young Islamists in Hamburg has shaken Europe awake. Around 300 men drove up in front of an event hall in their swank cars to break the fast (iftar) during Ramadan. They are followers of "Muslim Interactive", a group of Muslims with a radical Islamic orientation. According to the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution, it is a front organization of the banned association "Hizb-ut-Tahrir - Islamic Liberation Front".