A story notes:

There were 32,100 Islamists living in Germany last year - an increase of about 300 from 2004, said the report by Germany's domestic security agency, the Verfassungsschutz.

Cause for concern, then? Don’t be silly.

The number of Islamist extremists based in Germany increased slightly last year but the country faces far lower threat of terrorist attacks than states which took part in the Iraq war, an official report said Monday.

So that’s all right then. But hold on:

‘Even though the degree to which Germany is threatened is clearly lower than for those states which took part in the Iraq war, it must be noted that Germany is still seen ... as a helper of the US and Israel,’ said the report which underlined the presence of German troops in Afghanistan as boosting this image.

Ah.

Posted by melanie at May 24, 2006