The director of a Berlin language school and critic of radical Islam, Hudhaifa Mashhadani, remained shocked in an interview with FOCUS online. A man, possibly of Palestinian background, tried to push her in front of an oncoming subway train.
Shortly after 11 am yesterday, Friday, the head of the famous German-Arab School in Berlin, Hudhaifa Al-Mashhadani, came from Neukölln city hall. He went down to the subway. When the subway train was halfway there, a man from behind pushed her towards the tracks with his jacket.
“I survived because I fought back”
“The man then hit me on the head with his hand,” Al-Mashhadani reported, “with only a few seconds remaining.” But he defended himself as best he could. When the train finally stopped, a clever subway guide quickly closed the door behind him. That’s how Mashhadani was able to spot the culprit.
The southern-looking man wore a red and white Palestinian keffiyeh and glasses. The perpetrator looked at him and imitated a knife across his throat with two fingers and then pointed two fingers at his eyes: “That’s it, it didn’t work this time, but we are watching you,” Al-Mashhadani said.
As a police spokesperson told FOCUS online, state security agencies are investigating. Surveillance video from BVG subway cameras is currently being evaluated and witnesses are being questioned.
Hudhaifa Mashhadani is the head of the German-Arab School in Neukölln and a public critic of the Islamic mosque association. He was also active in the “German-Arab Council”, where 36 liberal and secular associations gathered and collaborated with Israelis and Jews in Berlin.
“The influence of mosque associations and Al-Quran schools is becoming increasingly greater”
“Güner Balci is right, the power of the association of mosques and Koranic schools is becoming greater, they are bringing the ideology of the Muslim Brotherhood and other extremists to this country and especially to children,” Al-Mashhadani told FOCUS online.
Al-Mashhadani collaborated with Martin Hikel and Güner Balci against extremists
Al-Mashhadani said he had repeatedly tried, together with Neukölln integration officer Güner Balci and Mayor Martin Hikel, to combat the growing influence of radical Islam.
Therefore Hudhaifa Al-Mashhadani is sure: “The Islamists want revenge and kill me.” He suspects former activists of the now-banned Hamas-supporting organization “Samidoun” and Neukölln of being “left-wing radicals”.
Meanwhile, Berlin Mayor Kai Wegener also condemned the attempted attack.
