Germany cracks down on Muslim groups viewed as threats

BERLIN — The German government on Wednesday banned a Muslim group it accused of violating basic human rights and the country’s democratic values and conducted raids against two other Muslim groups across the country.

The Interior Ministry said the organization which it banned, Muslim Interaktiv, represented a threat to the country’s constitutional order by promoting antisemitism and discrimination against women and sexual minorities.

The German government argued the group was a particular threat because it promoted Islam as the sole model for the social order and maintained that Islamic law should take precedence over German law in regulating life in the Muslim community, including in areas such as the treatment of women.

“We will respond with the full force of the law to anyone who agg