A video circulating online shows among them Sven Lau, a German Salafist convert who claims to be one of those behind the patrol idea.
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By AFP, Berlin | September 8, 2014
German politicians and media Monday called for a crackdown against radical Islamist propaganda after a group of ultra-conservative Salafists took to the streets calling itself the “Shariah Police”.
“No tolerance for Salafists” said conservative daily Die Welt after a small group of men, wearing orange vests with “Shariah Police” written on them, went on a series of “patrols” in the western city of Wuppertal.
Seeking to enforce their austere moral code, they told nightclub-goers to refrain from drinking alcohol and listening to music and arcade customers not to play games for money.
A video circulating online shows among them Sven Lau, a German Salafist convert who claims to be one of those behind the patrol idea.
Under current German law, the self-styled “Shariah Police” could at most face a charge of disturbing public order.
Police said the patrols took place last week and urged people to contact them if they saw suspicious behaviour linked to Salafist activity.
No arrests have been made so far, but political leaders warned they would crack down on the Islamist patrol if it took its campaign any further.
“We will not tolerate an illegal parallel justice,” warned Justice Minister Heiko Maas.
“Sharia law is not tolerated on German soil,” Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere told Saturday’s Bild newspaper.
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