{"id":121495,"date":"2021-05-05T17:45:29","date_gmt":"2021-05-05T09:45:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=121495"},"modified":"2021-05-05T17:45:31","modified_gmt":"2021-05-05T09:45:31","slug":"germany-bans-muslim-group-over-alleged-terror-donations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=121495","title":{"rendered":"Germany bans Muslim group over alleged terror donations"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img src=\"https:\/\/s.abcnews.com\/images\/International\/WireAP_54b99dbf5285486098eec0a744d7bdc5_16x9_992.jpg\" alt=\"Police officers stay in front of a building of the Ansaar International association in Duesseldorf, Germany, Wednesday, May 5. 2021. The German government on Wednesday banned the Muslim organization. Buildings in 10 German states were raided, accordi\"\/><figcaption>Police officers stay in front of a building of the Ansaar International association in Duesseldorf<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>BERLIN, May 5 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; The German government on Wednesday banned a Muslim organisation that it accused of supporting &#8220;terrorism globally with its donations&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Police raided buildings associated with Ansaar International in 10 German states, the German Interior Ministry said in a statement.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The ministry alleged the money the organisation collected ostensibly went into welfare projects as a ruse to help finance groups such as the Syrian al-Qaida affiliate known as the Nusra Front, the Palestinian group Hamas and al-Shabaab in Somalia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe organisation Ansaar International and its suborganisations were banned. The network finances terrorism globally with its donations,\u201d an Interior Ministry spokesperson tweeted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>More than 1,000 police officers raided buildings and office spaces across Germany and confiscated about \u20ac150,000 (US$180,000).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWhen wanting to fight terrorism, one needs to dry out its money sources,\u201d German Interior Ministry Horst Seehofer said. He alleged that Ansaar International \u201cspreads a Salafist view of the world and is financing terror around the globe under the disguise of humanitarian help&#8221;. &#8212; NNN-AGENCIES<br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BERLIN, May 5 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; The German government on Wednesday banned a Muslim organisation that it accused of supporting &#8220;terrorism globally with its donations&#8221;. Police raided buildings associated with Ansaar International in 10 German states, the German Interior Ministry said in a statement.&nbsp; The ministry alleged the money the organisation collected ostensibly went into welfare [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":121497,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[209],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121495"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=121495"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121495\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/121497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=121495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=121495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=121495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}