The “sharia police” of Wuppertal angered the Muslims: your Central Chairman Mazyek criticized the actions sharp – and calls the supposed moral guardians “yobs”.

The young men arguing orange safety vests imprinted with “Shariah Police” over and issued in the Wuppertal city center pious advice: As a so-called Sharia police Salafists have posing as guardians of public morals – and immediately was the outrage large.

The Chairman of the Central Council of Muslims in Germany, Aiman ​​Mazyek has sharply criticized the action now. “These few yobs do not speak in our name,” said Mazyek in the “Tagesspiegel am Sonntag”. What would do the Wuppertal Salafists, was a “misappropriation of our religion.” You hurt tremendously with their “shrill and completely absurd action” Muslims. However Mazyek also demanded to pay too much attention to the action.

The Moenchengladbach preacher Sven Lau claimed on Saturday that unasked distributed Tips to refrain from vices such as gambling or drugs were merely been a clever advertising campaign for its Salafist troops.

NRW Interior Minister Ralf Jäger (SPD), meanwhile, has arranged to ensure the orange vests with the imprint “Shariah Police”, the Salafists should thus appear again in public. According to the prosecution, it had initially been no legal recourse to ensure the West.

Islamists in Wuppertal: The head of the “sharia police”

“Stay away from gambling, do not touch drugs, do not touch the wrong way,” says Sven Lau and encourages the young man caring his hand on his shoulder. The 33-year-old Lau, who was born and raised in North Rhine-Westphalia Mönchengladbach, once was fire chief of the city fire department. He knows how to put out fires and also exactly how they are lit. With his latest missionary action in Wuppertal, the “Sharia police”, he has certainly triggered a media firestorm – which should please him.

In a Saturday published on its website video he presents the PR campaign in any case as a unique campaign is: The “Sharia police” never really existed, the men dressed the orange west for a few hours. “We knew that the sensation will bring,” said Lau. His goal was to initiate a discussion on Islamic law in Germany.

Lau is one of the speakers of the ever-growing Salafist scene. He directed in his hometown Mönchengladbach a mosque and was chairman of the fundamentalist organization “Invitation to Paradise”. Constitutional protection and detective watching the extremists for years. For a Hetzer or hate preacher actually holds it, hardly anyone drooling speeches are not his thing. Laus mesh is rather the buddy tour. He’s on a larger, wiser brother – which is not necessarily less dangerous. Especially Lau playing with the media and public opinion now perfectly mastered.

Islamists ın Wuppertal:Salafists proselytize in Germany

For years advertise Salafists in Germany on the road – with increasing success: You are trying to inspire young men for their fundamentalism. But they distribute flyers and Quran translations, they go to school yards and organize mass rallies. Laus sympathizer and fellow Pierre Vogel, also an advocate of Sharia, its obscure views could even spread on talk shows of public television.