(Ahval) Germany’s domestic intelligence agency 2018 report for the North Rhine-Westphalia state said the Muslim Brotherhood was being closely monitored by Germany due to dangers the report said legal, non-violent Islamist groups posed to the country’s democracy, German state-run Deutsche Welle Turkish reported on Wednesday.
The Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution’s (BfV) report said legal Islamist groups were working to control a large portion of the population and called said groups non-violent but extremist.
The report said the Muslim Brotherhood, a movement originally from Egpyt, could transform into a representative for the interests of Muslims in the eyes of the public and the state, and that the group’s religious ideology could potentially spread among Muslims in North Rhine-Westphalia and Germany at large.