Germany: ZDF describes Islamist demo as “right-wing extremist”

The organizers of the Islamist demo in Hamburg are not affiliated with an Islamist group, but rather with a right-wing extremist group. ZDF caused a stir with this claim.

Mainz - ZDF has corrected a false report about the Islamist demonstration in Hamburg. In the “heuteXpress” news on the morning of April 29th, the moderator Sara Bildau incorrectly said that the organizers of the demonstration were “close to a right-wing extremist group monitored by the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution”. It is true that “Muslim Interaktiv” is observed by the Hamburg Office for the Protection of the Constitution as a confirmed extremist effort in the Islamist milieu,” the broadcaster made clear.

The error had been transparently corrected on the ZDF homepage, a spokeswoman said at the request of Junge Freiheit. The false report had previously been criticized on social media and picked up by the news portal NIUS, among others.

Islamist demo is making waves
Meanwhile, Saturday's Islamist demonstration continues to make waves. Numerous politicians called for a ban on the “Muslim Interaktiv” group. And there are also calls for Interior Minister Nancy Faeser (SPD) to resign.

The approximately 1,000 participants in the meeting had called for the establishment of a caliphate and complained about allegedly anti-Islamic policies in Germany. They also criticized “cheap lies” in reporting on the Gaza war and repeatedly expressed their protest with shouts of “Allahu Akbar.”

Source: Junge Freiheit