germany is cracking down on radical islam the police raided scores of salafi as homes across the country earlier this month after the government claimed the muslim group has links to al qaeda so the office have been the focus of police investigations in the country since the terrorist shooting at frankfurt airport last year which is acts on a boycott has this report from the german capital. to the casual passers by these are just ordinary young muslims who want to be understood by the neighbors but only if you can distribute the bible why should you be able to distribute the qur'an these young men are countrymen and they want to share what they believe in what's wrong with that but when you look closer they're spreading not just what they believe in but what they insist is their one and only truth worth living this sign reads the meaning of the qur'an in german and the man is to laugh ace at hearings of an ultra conservative branch of islam infamous for their righteousness and intolerance of infidels notion a bunch of people control other people in the west it's called democracy for me t

increasingly taking a stance against radical islam their foreign policy goal but seems to promoted salafi and related what had the movements a seeing a major resurgence across the middle east especially in countries affected by the arab spring in the wake of the arab spring we've seen a group radical islamist power increasing its influence there is an overall agenda that is taking hold in the middle east and a lot of this is due to the involvement of washington and london in particular the intelligence agencies in the west have been seeding backing radical islamist. groups there are ties in links historically to al qaida and also the saudi arabian ruling regime and washington have worked together. for a long time while germany's far less vocal in the need for regime change in syria than it was in libya as an agent member is still in favor of and forcing so-called democratic changes even they've these changes are likely to empower groups that are now banned in germany and south x. on the way to artsy berlin. it's been a week since julian a songe asked ecuador for diplomatic asylum and took

most libs for years the german government guided by political correctness watched as the domestic salafi community grew in size given the fact that some of the nine eleven perpetrators used to belong to humber mosque didn't prompt much action but this month after a series of police raids the german government moved to ban a number of salafi groups whose ideology was recognized as incompatible with democratic values the hard core fundamentalist mainstream muslims i just as in tell us christians jews faced. in this berlin mosque. i believe to him about the loss to the corpse and it was time to spread out of this alcoholism is a hole because it's made sponsored saudi arabia. point policy pals it's not only germany that's concerned about the spread of cultural radical islam a few years ago france outlawed the full face veil norway has also banned saudi funded mosques but as western countries are increasingly taking a stance against radical islam their foreign policy goal but seems to promoted salafi and related to how the movement's a seeing a major resurgence across the middle east especial

, salafi's groups, for example, are very attractive to youth people. can speak german. they know the reality of the muslim teenagers. >> so jalon started a program for moderate imams to help them better understand germany. salih al jamabi, an imam from lubik is learning about germany's health care situations along with other aspects of german life. he hopes to apply that knowledge to help the people in his mosque. >> translator: you have to also explain that life here in germany is different from the life in their home country. >> other imams in the program have taken field trips to the legislature for a civics lesson and visited a synagogue to learn about judaism. they've gained a much deeper understanding of germany's culture. >> it's a learning process for both sides. for muslim community and for the government and for the german society, of course. >> germany is certainly making strides. but throughout europe, immigrants feel alienated and the native-born population feels overwhelmed by foreign influences. is there any nation out there that's getti

, salafi's groups, for example, are very attractive to youth people. can speak german. they know the reality of the muslim teenagers. >> so jalon started a program for moderate imams to help them better understand germany. salih al jamabi, an imam from lubik is learning about germany's health care situations along with other aspects of german life. he hopes to apply that knowledge to help the people in his mosque. >> translator: you have to also explain that life here in germany is different from the life in their home country. >> other imams in the program have taken field trips to the legislature for a civics lesson and visited a synagogue to learn about judaism. they've gained a much deeper understanding of germany's culture. >> it's a learning process for both sides. for muslim community and for the government and for the german society, of course. >> germany is certainly making strides. but throughout europe, immigrants feel alienated and the native-born population feels overwhelmed by foreign influences. is there any nation out there that's getti

fueling the violence in syria the country's government has been blaming the radical islamist sect of salafi. for bloodshed who in turn have powerful backing since middle east expert robert prince. the role of that as you call them the sound of. islamic fundamentalists here it has become increasingly nasty and aggressive and provocative of course they don't operate on their own their own close contact with the saudis and qataris and on some level when you're talking about saudi and qatari policy in the middle east you have to talk about the united states which coordinates with them you know the history is history is kind of ironic on the one hand here in the united states is this islamophobia but if we look just oracle it will see that benighted states have long had ties with islamic fundamentalists the regional picture here that's pushing all this we have this historic development the arab spring which took the united states and its allies by surprise and we see kind of a double standard of how they how the united states is is dealing with the arab spring so in places like bahrain and yemen

minorities in egypt all that this enfranchise minorities who now fear threatens because of the rise of salafi in the rise of islamist in the muslim brotherhood and we use their own statements in the actions of these people recently burning down ahmed shah thinks campaign headquarters we are in for a dark tide i mean you can't ignore reality ok i mean it was not really and they have to do i'm not in the habit of quoting george w. bush and people like that but then again sometimes democracy is a bit messy what do you say to that ok. yeah i mean i think what's happening here is we're conflating is a couple of separate issues you know here in egypt there's there is genuine concern about the trajectory of the revolution that you hear from leftists you hear from cops you can hear from people who you know from all of all political stripes you know who frankly the people who preach are the people who made the revolution in egypt they're not well represented in the run off of the presidential election this is a real concern but conflating this issue with with the israel issue and and suggesting that a