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German Justice Minister Marco Buschmann has dismissed Islamist support for the caliphate as a form of rule as absurd, but does not necessarily consider it a judicial issue in Germany. His comments came ahead of an Islamist demonstration in Hamburg later on Saturday, called by the organization Muslim Interaktiv, and in the wake of controversy following a similar rally last month. “Purely expressing sympathy for a caliphate is something that I consider politically absurd,” Buschmann told dpa. But, he said, Germany’s Constitutional Court had found that as long as people simply express an absurd o…

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