Germany’s Domestic Intelligence Chief Warns of ‘Islamist Infiltration’
Recently the head of German domestic intelligence, Sinan Selen, held a meeting in the Bundestag building where he laid out for a select audience the threat of Islamist infiltration into the country’s political institutions. More on his warning can be found here:
Germany’s Intelligence Chief Warns of Islamist Infiltration of Political Institutions
by Jules Gomes, Middle East Forum, June 14, 2026:
At a closed-door meeting for select guests in the German Parliament building, the head of the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (BfV), Germany’s domestic intelligence service, warned of high-level Islamist infiltration into German political institutions.
Sinan Selen, 54, who has served as president of the BfV since 2025, explicitly raised the alarm about the Muslim Brotherhood before a select audience at the German Bundestag during a breakfast meeting, BILD said in an exclusive report in early June, noting that the information leaked to the newspaper was “extremely worrying.”
Islamist groups in general and the Muslim Brotherhood in particular were exerting targeted influence on state and political structures in Germany with a view to transforming the state and society, Selen told the secret meeting. The ultimate goal of these infiltration attempts was the establishment of an Islamic society.
The Muslim Brotherhood does not act violently, but it is no less dangerous, because it pursues its objectives in an extremely strategic manner with long-term goals, the intelligence head noted. The Islamists respect German laws—but only insofar as these laws are compatible with Sharia.
The Muslim Brotherhood’s strategy involves establishing contacts with political figures and inviting them to events through a complex network of organizations. The goal is to build long-term relationships and influence public officials in line with the movement’s agenda. For example, officials should oppose criticism of political Islam or turn a blind eye to Islamism, Selen said.
Parties on the left-wing political spectrum are more open and susceptible to contact and infiltration from Islamists, the intelligence chief warned. This is partly due to a lack of understanding of Islamist structures and partly due to a poorly understood concept of tolerance.
Several participants at the closed-door meeting, organized under the patronage of State Secretary for the Interior Christoph de Vries, told BILD that they were surprised by the urgency of Selen’s remarks but also satisfied with the clarity of his message.
In a follow-up interview with BILD published on June 4, Güner Balci, the Integration Commissioner for Berlin-Neukölln, confirmed that Islamist infiltration was so widespread in Germany that there are “still police projects nationwide in which Islamists participate.”
“Women and girls are forced to enter marriage as virgins or at least to pretend to be,” Balci warned. Because many people in Muslim communities “despise, abhor, and even want to punish” homosexuality, “we have a very high number of homophobic attacks and crimes in Neukölln, but also in other districts of Berlin.”
“Islamists have indeed gained a foothold in many areas, and not just in Neukölln,” Balci said. “They aren’t just active in mosque communities; they’re doing educational work, community outreach, they’re approachable for all kinds of issues in the neighborhood, they maintain contact.”
“They work in supposed integration projects funded by public money—and in doing so, they are gradually gaining access to more and more areas and spaces, and more and more ways to reach young people,” she added.
It is noteworthy that both Germany’s domestic intelligence chief Sinan Selen, born in Istanbul and raised in a secular Turkish family that immigrated to Cologne, and Berlin-Neukölln Integration Commissioner Güner Balcı, the daughter of Turkish Alevi guest workers, have emerged as particularly clear-eyed voices on the Islamist threat. Their backgrounds underscore the critical distinction between Islam as a faith and Islamism as a political ideology. Those with intimate knowledge of Muslim-majority societies and communities often best appreciate this divide—and recognize that effectively countering Islamist infiltration requires supporting anti-Islamist Muslims and secular voices rather than blurring the lines between the religion and its totalitarian perversion.
I’m not convinced that those now called “Islamists” represent a “totalitarian perversion” of the faith. They are the Muslims who take their Islam straight, not on the rocks. It is the “moderate” Muslims who choose to ignore parts of the faith, but we have no way of knowing which Muslims are only feigning “moderation” or which, initially being real moderates, for whatever reason become more fanatical in their faith. The countries of the Western world have no way to distinguish the “moderates” from the “fanatic,” when they cross the border, and cannot be sure that those who initially may appear “moderate” will remain that way. European countries must strive to end migration by all Muslims into their midst.
“That the ones who are responsible for Europe even being in this situation are slowly waking up is one step in the right direction, as we need to counter Islamist infiltration,” Kent Ekeroth, a former Sweden Democrats MP, told Focus for Western Islamism….
But those who are “waking up” to the perils of Islamic political infiltration were never part of the leadership that allowed mass migration of Muslims into their countries in the first place. Such leaders as Jordan Bardella of the National Rally in France, Alice Weidel of the Alternative für Deutschland, Rupert Lowe of the Restore Britain party, and Giorgia Meloni of the Fratelli d’Italia party have always been leery of Muslim migrants. What has changed is popular sentiment. It has become ever more hostile to Muslim migrants, which explains why those leaders, and their anti-Muslim immigrant parties, have risen so spectacularly in the polls. The naïve enthusiasm for Muslim migrants, as famously expressed in former Chancellor Angela Merkel’s insistence in 2015 that “Wir schaffen das!” — “We Can Do This!” — that is, we the people of Germany can successfully integrate large numbers of Muslims into our societies, has disappeared. Instead, the indigenous peoples of Europe have realized that the large-scale presence of Muslims in their countries has created a situation that for them is more unpleasant, expensive, and physically dangerous than would be the case without that large-scale Muslim presence.
It is the Muslim alliance with the left that has magnified the threat of Islamic penetration of Germany’s political institutions. This alliance should be publicized, and efforts made to convince the left that such an alliance is misconceived, given Islam’s misogyny and homophobia, and Islam’s refusal to uphold both freedom of speech and freedom of religion.
Writing on X, the German political scientist Nina Scholz said she was “naturally delighted when security agencies share the analysis from our book.” Scholz’s book, Political Islam—A Hybrid Threat to Europe: The Muslim Brotherhood’s “Civilization Jihad,” was published in April.
According to Scholz’s findings, the Muslim Brotherhood attempts to delegitimize the state and its institutions by infiltrating state institutions, influencing legislation, and exploiting the state’s weakness caused by external and internal crises to shift norms.
“A central element of their strategy is citizenship, which grants civic rights to activists in the network,” she writes, explaining that Yusuf al-Qaradawi, the chief ideologue of the Brotherhood, explicitly recommends that Muslims accept the citizenship of their host countries in his book on the interpretation of Islamic norms for Muslims in non-Muslim countries.
According to Al-Qaradawi, Muslims should accept citizenship not out of any sense of loyalty to the state, but only in order to vote for those who will support their Islamic penetration of domestic institutions. Think only of Zohran Mamdani, Ilhan Omar, Rashida Tlaib, and Sadiq Khan.
What begins as an alliance of seeming equals — Muslims and leftists — according to Scholz soon metamorphoses into an alliance where Muslims, that is, the Muslim Brotherhood, call the shots, and the leftists, having nowhere else to go, must follow. For all Muslims know, as Muhammad insisted, that “Islam is to dominate and not to be dominated.”
Now the head of Germany’s domestic intelligence service has issued his warning about Muslim infiltration of the country’s political institutions behind closed doors. Why should he not come out of the shadows and address the entire Bundestag with his warning? Surely he, who was born into a Muslim family, is not afraid to endure the predictable slander from the Muslims and the Left, that he is a “racist” and an “Islamophobe.”
German Police Officers: ‘This Country Is Finished’
In Germany, the police have learned to hew to a narrative that their superiors dictate; that narrative is a pollyannish presentation of Germany today, a place where migrants seamlessly assimilate to the larger society, and where former Chancellor Angela Merkel’s insistence that “Wir schaffen das!” — “We Can Do This!” — has come true. Migrants, who are now overwhelmingly Muslims, are integrating successfully, albeit slowly; there is no need for alarm; beware the far-right Alternative für Deutschland party, that spreads fear in order to gain support from voters the party has managed to frighten. But when they are away from their superiors, and from the television cameras, those police officers have a very different story to tell.
More of their story can be found here:
‘In Germany It is Open Season For Rape’, ‘This Country is Finished’ Say Police Officers
by Oliver JJ Lane, Breitbart, June 19, 2026:
When the cameras aren’t rolling German police officers, on the front line of the migrant crisis, give their unvarnished account of the state of the nation, finding “the Germany we know is disappearing”.
A German investigative journalist has urged her fellow countrymen to “listen to police officers” and their experiences and “act accordingly”. German broadsheet newspaper Die Welt reports the words of Liv von Boetticher who said she had spoken to police officers across Germany, “from all departments, of all ages, and from all federal states”.
The journalist said she was prompted to come forwards with what she’d learnt after noticing speaking to her officers told a very different and unvarnished account of Germany after official interviews had finished and the cameras stopped rolling. Having given the official line their jobs may depend on to be taped, afterward they related what she called “stories of fear and anger, violence, loss of control, and failed migration policies, and the feeling among law enforcement officers of often being abandoned by politics and society.”…
As elsewhere in Western Europe, in Germany the political and media elites, with few exceptions, try to hide the baleful effects of Muslim immigration on the country. They are, after all, the same people who encouraged, even enthused like Merkel over such a mass migration, and to now admit that their immigration policy was wrong and is tearing the country apart, would be too painful, and too damaging to their careers.
The despairing attitude of German police officers comes despite a decade-long effort to purge Germany’s police forces of mass migration-critical officers and supporters of populist-right border control party the Alternative for Germany (AFD). That push to get conservatives out of the police continues today, with the country’s senior policeman saying in 2025 that supporting AFD is “incompatible” with being a police officer and German states seeking to ban AfD party members from taking government jobs at all.
The malevolent and embarrassed elite’s attempt to weaken the AfD, even to consider planning to ban its members from government jobs, needs to be exposed. In the police, AfD supporters were forced out of the various police forces, but those who were deemed politically reliable — i.e. anti-AfD — in the end, through their own experiences with crime, ended up as AfD supporters themselves.
When police officers tell the investigative journalist Von Boetticher that “This country has no future” or “this country is finished,” they are expressing a deep despair. But all is not lost.
What would have to happen for things to be “turned around”? The Alternative für Deutschland party, headed by the formidable Alice Weidel, must win the next election. She articulates convincingly the party’s determination to end all Muslim migration and to deport both all illegal migrants in the country, all migrants who have been convicted of crimes, and all migrants who are determined to be economic parasites, living year after year on the fantastic cornucopia of benefits that the generous German welfare state provides. And the police officers who deal directly with criminals must be allowed to speak openly to the public about the true incidence of crime among the Muslim minority, instead of covering up the appalling truth as they must do at present, if they want to keep their jobs.
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In Germany, What to Do With the Syrians?
During the Syrian civil war that began in 2011 and ended in December 2024, millions of Syrians fled to countries in Europe, especially Germany. They were in the main Sunni Muslims, fleeing persecution and war at the hands of the Alawite dictatorship of Bashar Assad. Now that war has been over for a year and a half; Assad has fled to Moscow; Sunni Muslims now rule in Damascus. And there are still in Germany 700,000 Syrians who show no signs of wanting to return to their native land.
Some Germans in the governing CDU coalition want to let them remain, though their numbers swell the ranks of the Muslims, who now constitute 7% of the total German population. And other Germans, in the same political coalition headed by Chancellor Friedrich Merz, just as firmly want them to leave voluntarily or be deported. More on their dispute over how to treat those 700,000 Syrians can be found here:
German Coalition Rift Widens on Deporting Syrians
by Tamás Orbán, European Conservative, June 15, 2026:
Interior ministers of Germany’s federal states are set to meet on Wednesday, and there is one topic on everyone’s minds: What to do with some 700,000 Syrian refugees now that the civil war has ended and the country is relatively stable again?
As some might recall, the swift deportation of Syrian refugees was one of the main campaign promises of Chancellor Merz and his center-right CDU ahead of the 2025 February elections.
Fifteen months later, Germany is still just discussing the question, with the two old establishment parties within Merz’s grand coalition having wildly different takes on it.
CDU ministers, desperate to regain the trust of their voters and stop them from switching over to the nationalist AfD, are pushing for the implementation of Merz’s campaign promise and finally beginning large-scale reexaminations and returns.
The anti-Muslim immigration party, Alternative für Deutschland, headed by the charismatic Alice Weidel, wants there to be a complete halt to Muslim immigration, and for Muslims already in Germany who been granted asylum, including the Syrians, to be deported back to their country of origin when conditions there had changed sufficiently so that there was no longer any danger of persecution or death. The AfD has soared in the opinion polls, and is now more popular than the governing CDU coalition. In order to remain in power, that coalition has to show that it is just as tough as the AfD on the question of Muslim migrants.
The Socialists, meanwhile, are digging their own political grave by defending those 700,000 Syrians from calls to deport them. Few Germans want the Muslims now in their midst to remain. It turns out that this European-wide experiment in proving that “diversity is our strength” has proven quite the opposite. The Muslim migrants in Germany are determined to batten on all the benefits that the generous German welfare state provides: subsidized or free housing, free medical care, free education, family allowances, unemployment benefits, and more. They are in no hurry to be employed. And some of them, not content with those welfare benefits, add to them by committing crimes of property — street robberies, house burglaries, shoplifting, drug trafficking. Muslims in Germany make up 7% of the population, but 30% of its prison population. As for crimes of sexual assault and rape — Muslims are responsible for more than 50%.
The CDU has a fateful decision to make. If it refuses to deport the 700,000 Syrians now in Germany who can no longer be treated as refugees — they lost that status when Assad’s regime collapsed and a Sunni Muslim regime was installed in Damascus — it is certain to lose more support from voters on the right, who will switch to Alternative für Deutschland. The AfD will replace the CDU as the main party in a different coalition from the current one, this one consisting of rightist parties who share an opposition to Muslim migrants. Weidel will replace the hapless Merz, with his 19% approval rating.
However, if Merz and his CDU do deport those 700,000 Syrians in one fell swoop, the Social Democratic Party (SDP), the center-left member of Merz’ coalition government, which retains a pro-Muslim migrant policy, will likely quit the current coalition. Without the SPD, the CDU coalition government will fall, and Merz will be out of a job. He’s damned if he does, and damned if he doesn’t.
There is one possible way for Merz to save himself and his CDU/SDP coalition. That is for him to announce that yes, of course the 700,000 Syrians must go home, but not overnight. Their departure will be handled “with all deliberate speed” — that is, in a compassionate manner so that they can wind up their affairs in Germany — closing down or selling their businesses, selling their homes, slowly and properly. That might satisfy both the anti-immigrant right and the pro-immigrant left members of his coalition.
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