Salafists are trying to convert young women to radical Islam online. With increasing success. The ultra-conservative ideas are being spread in a very modern way by influencers on social networks. The aim is for the victims to cover themselves up, obey men and bear children.
Investigators cannot say how often it happens. However, it is certain that there has been a sharp increase in cases recently. And the victims of radicalisation are getting younger and younger. According to a report by public broadcaster Bayerischer Rundfunk, the age of initiation is now 14 to 15. The State Office for the Protection of the Constitution and Counter-Terrorism in Upper Austria has also made this observation.
In November, the newspaper JF reported exclusively on a secret report by the authority. It speaks of Catholic girls who are persuaded to convert to radical Islam. They are then quickly married off to Muslims with the aim of ‘giving birth to fighters’. The radicalisation is said to take place on the internet.
A woman who has left the scene now tells German broadcaster BR how these radicalisations take place. Male and female influencers with tens of thousands of followers spread propaganda and present themselves as religious authorities on social networks. ‘If you talk a lot about Islam, young girls think you are a scholar,’ the report quotes the anonymous insider. The messages conveyed are explosive. ‘Women can do jobs, but with controls’, preaches a Salafist on TikTok, for example. But the influencers have no real interest in the girls. ‘The moment you convert to Islam, you are marginalised,’ the dropout is quoted as saying.
A spokesperson for the Office for the Protection of the Constitution in Bavaria adds: ‘At the beginning, simple questions from everyday life are used – for example, finding a partner, raising children or clothing. Women are attracted by such topics, and only later does the ideologisation follow.’ Just how serious the problem is is made particularly clear by one figure: in Germany alone, authorities speak of 11,500 known Salafists living here.
There needs to be a mass deportation of Muslims from Europe. Islam is an evil cult and should be destroyed systematically.