"Sharia police" patrol German streets, with court approval

My first post this morning foresaw some headlines which might appear in Canadian newspapers 15 years hence. One of them read: Brampton schoolgirl expelled for not wearing a burqa: Sharia law to be strictly enforced. So that's Canada's future? Maybe, but in Germany it's the present!

Don't believe me? Check out this report on the BBC News website. A German court has ruled that Islamists who patrolled the streets of Wuppertal wearing vests identifying them as "Shariah police" didn't break the law and won't be prosecuted.

Nine Salafists -- Islamic extremists -- were arrested in September 2014 after patrolling streets in the western German city, telling passers-by not to frequent discos, casinos or bars. The group also carried notices proclaiming in English a "Sharia Controlled Zone". The notices spelled out prohibitions like those in force in some Arab countries, outlawing alcohol, drugs, gambling, music and concerts, pornography and prostitution.

The "Wuppertal Nine" (as the lamestream media will surely start calling them) included Sven Lau, a convert to Islam and preacher, whose passport was seized this year after he visited Syria and a photo surfaced, showing him posing on a tank, with a Kalashnikov rifle slung around his neck.

Herr Lau, who has already spent some time in prison, is suspected of trying to recruit Muslims to join jihadists fighting in Syria/Iraq. He told the court he had gone to war-torn Syria in 2013 on a humanitarian mission. [Possibly to identify "refugees" suitable for importation to Canada? Ed.]

The appearance of the Salafists at night in Wuppertal triggered sharp criticism in Germany, after a film of their "patrol" appeared on YouTube. [Ed., have you found this?] [Not yet. Ed.] However, the court said they had not violated laws on the wearing of uniforms and public gatherings that were enacted after the fall of the Third Reich to protect the public from just this sort of intimidation.