men with kalashnikovs stop my taxi. when the doors of their man opened i was terrified like a frightened animal. on the can i did my best to remain calm and shut out the thousands of thoughts rushing through my mind. after a shot. in the autumn of twenty fifteen a people smuggler brought janina across the border from turkey into syria. she went to shoot a documentary about an old school friend who had converted to islam and then joined a group of islam ists. janina was seven months pregnant at the time but her friend promised her that she d be safe. i trusted her but the circumstances were so different from the last time we had seen each other in germany. there were two different worlds that didn t have any connection.
it was ten thousand eight hundred that s almost a tripling in seven years. and this is the salafist stronghold in germany the western state of north rhine-westphalia it s thought there are about three thousand salafist supporters here the regional intelligence agency classifies eight hundred of them as prone to violence authorities watch female salafist particularly carefully as wives and mothers they re important in holding the community together in two thousand and twelve a group of islam ists in germany were caught planning a bomb attack in bonn at least one of the group had salafist connections. salafist have taken to a german town centers preaching and handing out the koran for free in two thousand and sixteen the interior minister banned the group that had organized those giveaways. who will let me. and we don t want terrorism in germany we don t want calls for terrorism to be made here for people to be
it s one of the fastest growing branches of islam in germany that s what the federal domestic intelligence service says in two thousand and eleven german authorities knew of about three thousand eight hundred salafist in the country three years later that number was seven thousand. and by two thousand and seventeen it was ten thousand eight hundred that s almost a tripling in seven years. and this is the salafist stronghold in germany the western state of north rhine-westphalia it s thought there are about three thousand salafist supporters here the regional intelligence agency classifies eight hundred of them as prone to violence authorities watch female salafist particularly carefully as wives and mothers they re important in holding the community together in two thousand and twelve a group of islam ists in germany were caught planning a bomb attack in bonn at least one of the group had salafist connections. salafist