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Publication: www.dw-world.de
Date: July 15, 2004
URL: http://www.dw-world.de/english/0,,1432_A_1268444_1_A,00.html
[Note from Hindu Vivek Kendra: Is
this an isolated incident?]
Police officials in Frankfurt on
Thursday said they found violent and degrading videos during last weekend's
raid of an Islamic school belonging to a Moroccan cultural association.
Prosecutors had said that the raid occurred at the al-Taqwa mosque on Sunday
after a 9-year-old told her teacher that she and other children had been
shown violent videos calling for a "holy war against unbelievers," including
one video showing a beheading. "What we saw on the video is, in our view,
inciting people," said Frankfurt police spokesman Peter Liebeck. "It glorifies
holy war." Liebeck said that someone claimed to have bought the video at
the Frankfurt mosque, which is why the search was conducted. Police said
it could take weeks to fully investigate the confiscated data, mostly because
the Arabic texts have to be translated into German.
