Swiss Muslim group denies wrongdoing over jihadist documentary
Here's the documentary, though it is in Arabic, so I have no idea what the hell they're saying.
Swiss Muslim group denies wrongdoing over jihadist documentary
An executive at a Swiss Muslim organization said on Monday that a documentary he had made about jihadists in Syria was intended to shed a harsh light on their activities rather than glorify them as prosecutors have alleged.
A criminal investigation against Naim Cherni, head of the Islamic Central Council of Switzerland’s (ICCS) multimedia department, was launched with the country on high alert after the Islamist State attacks in Paris on Nov. 13 which killed 130 people.
Speaking at a news conference in Berne, Cherni said his film was “an important contribution in the fight against Islamic State”, the SDA news agency reported.
He described the criminal investigation against him, announced by federal prosecutors on Saturday, as “rather weak and politically motivated”, SDA said.
ICCS President Nicolas Blancho accused prosecutors of overreacting and playing into the hands of extremists by launching a frontal attack on what he called mainstream Muslims.
The Swiss criminal investigation has accused Cherni of violating a ban on jihadist groups.
Cherni, from Berne but with a German passport, is accused of traveling to Syria in October and interviewing the leader of a jihadist umbrella group as well as the leader of Jabhat al-Nusra, which is affiliated with al Qaeda.
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