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The government in Berlin said yesterday that it is taking "extremely seriously" a mass give-away of translations of the Qur'an on German city high streets by Salafist Muslim fundamentalists.
"The interior ministry is taking the current Salafist efforts extremely seriously," a spokesman in Berlin told reporters, a day before the Salafist organisation was to continue the Saturday morning handouts in dozens of city pedestrian zones.
The spokesman said police were also investigating threatening criticism by Salafists of German newspapers, which was "absolutely unacceptable".