Crowds gathered in Hamburg to demonstrate against Islamophobia, with some calling for a caliphate. Photo: Axel Heimken/Avalon 
More than 1,000 people took part in a protest in Hamburg organized by Muslim Interactive Photo: Axel Heimken/Avalon
Speaking earlier this month, Andy Grote, Hamburg's interior senator for the Social Democratic Party, singled out Muslim Interactive, calling for “tough and decisive action” against Islamic extremists.
Lamia Kaddor, a Green MP, described the group as “not only very dangerous, but also a completely marginal group among German Muslims” that took advantage of the “Gaza problem.”
Volker Beck, president of the German-Israeli Society, asked why the group was not banned for its links to Hizb ut-Tahrir.
Calls for the government to take action The move against the group comes as that politicians are reluctant to weaken support for Israel even as other world leaders say its army has waged too aggressive a war in the Gaza Strip and has caused a humanitarian disaster.
Germany has been accused of suppressing free speech and threatening democracy with bans on protests since October 7.
Yanis Varoufakis, Greece's outspoken former finance minister, and Ghassan Abu Sitta, a doctor who visited Gaza for the first time after months of war, said that Germany risks damaging its reputation internationally.
Mr Varoufakis' lawyer said he had documents showing his client was banned from entering Germany after he was due to speak at the pro-Palestinian congress in Berlin was canceled by the authorities.
The German ambassador to Pakistan was met with protests on Saturday: demonstrators are “shocked by the courage that you are here to talk about civil rights while your country brutally humiliates people ” advocating for Palestinian rights.”
Earlier this month, Nicaragua asked the International Court of Justice to stop German arms sales to Israel, arguing that Berlin violated the UN genocide convention with its arms sales.< /p>
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