German authorities have issued a deportation order to the former head of the Islamic Center Hamburg. The organization was recently banned as espousing an extremist ideology.
DW -- The IZH, which Mottafeh headed from 2018 until its forced closure in July, was considered by German domestic intelligence authorities to be controlled by Iran.
In addition, the center promoted "an Islamist-extremist, totalitarian ideology in Germany," German Interior Minister Nancy Faeser said in a statement issued to justify the move to close it down.
"This Islamist ideology is opposed to human dignity, women's rights, an independent judiciary and our democratic government," she said, stressing, however, that the move was not directed against Islam as a religion.