because a few years back they were very active they are very visible on the streets handing out free copies of the koran to people recruiting new followers on the streets and then all that vanished and now they re basically not out in the open anymore so we were wondering what happened to them are they still active and if so what are they doing and some people might not be familiar with this particular group so we actually hear i know we ve we ve prepared this piece for our viewers and they re after i d like to get your reaction to it let s have a listen. they support a radical form of islam and reject democracy and freedom salafist. 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