Children radicalised in mosques, 11-year-olds with knives, rising crime rates… The devastating verdict from the German charity for child refugees that says: ‘Integration has FAILED. We must STOP admitting asylum seekers’

A leading youth charity is warning that refugee children in Germany are becoming radicalised in mosques, joining gangs and roaming the streets with knives as young as 11.

The Christian organisation ‘Die Arche’ (The Ark) has 33 centres in Germany and supports more than 7,000 children and young people from refugee and socially disadvantaged families.

In a shocking interview with the newspaper Bild, spokesman Wolfgang Büscher, who has worked for the NGO for 20 years, said the continuing influx of refugees means Germany is at breaking point.

“Our system has collapsed. We are at the end. The main reason for this is the continued influx of refugees,” he said. “I call for a freeze on the admission of refugees, otherwise it would no longer be possible to provide aid.”

Meanwhile, a social worker at the organization named Josi warned: “The support systems are broken. Integration has failed. We can’t do everything.”

The 32-year-old added: ‘The politicians talk and talk and close their eyes to the problems. It will escalate and there will be a big bang.’

Germany is struggling with the current large influx of migrants, mainly from Syria, Afghanistan and Turkey. File photo shows people queuing at a reception facility last year

Büscher’s comments come days after German authorities banned an Islamic organization in Hamburg. Pictured: Police secure the grounds of a mosque run by the Islamic Center Hamburg (IZH) group

Büscher added that among the young refugees his charity helps, those of Arab descent in particular are becoming increasingly “criminalised and radicalised”.

“All the problems that refugee policy automatically brings with it, but which no one actually wants to acknowledge, are concentrated here,” he said.

‘Young Muslim adolescents in particular show what is going wrong with integration. Eleven-year-olds are already running around here with knives.’

He said many young people are “lost” to gangs who recruit them and lure them in by saying: “Come to us if you don’t like the Germans. It’s better with us.”

According to Büscher, ‘many’ young people who go to the Ark centers visit mosques where radical Islam is preached. Moderate places of worship are called ‘wimp mosques’ by them.

He added that of the 1,500 young people housed in the Berlin Ark, there are hardly any Muslim girls over the age of 13, because “they have to stay at home.”

‘I was told that the parents are afraid that our Western values ​​will be passed on to the young girls.

“Then they are no longer allowed to come to us. We no longer reach these families. They live in a bubble, in a different system,” he said.

He added that staff had informed him about young women being forced into marriage.

File photo shows a group of refugees next to drying clothes on the grounds of the arrival center of the first reception facility of the eastern German state of Brandenburg

File photo shows a refugee entering the arrival center of the East German state of Brandenburg’s first reception facility in Eisenhüttenstadt

He added that such children often come from “hotspot schools,” where there are even classes with 95 percent immigrants.

Last year, more than 350,000 people applied for asylum in Germany, the highest number since 2016.

Opposition leaders say the shocking figures show the government is failing to tackle what they call a “migration crisis”.

About one in five (18 percent) of Germany’s population consists of immigrants. The country is the most important destination for migrants in Europe.

Büscher’s comments come days after German authorities banned an Islamic organization in Hamburg and its affiliates for pursuing radical Islamic goals.

The premises of the Islamic Centre Hamburg (IZH) were searched. As a result of the investigation, the group was banned and four mosques in the country were closed.

The Interior Ministry accused IZH of promoting anti-Semitism and supporting the Iranian-backed Lebanese militant group Hezbollah, which is also banned in Germany and classified as a terrorist organization by the European Union.

Interior Minister Nancy Faeser said the government has banned the Islamic Center Hamburg because it “promotes an Islamist-extremist, totalitarian ideology in Germany”

Footage from the Bavarian police and security forces raid on the Islamic Association Bayern in the Pasing district of Munich, Germany, as part of the federal ban that also includes the IZH

Interior Minister Nancy Faeser said in a statement: “Today we banned the Islamic Center Hamburg, which propagates an extremist, Islamist, totalitarian ideology in Germany.

‘This Islamic ideology is contrary to human dignity, women’s rights, an independent judiciary and our democratic government.’

She said she wanted to make it clear that “the ban absolutely does not apply to the peaceful practice of the Shiite religion.”

A 2020 report on Islamic life in Germany found that there were about 5.5 million Muslims out of Germany’s 83 million inhabitants.