The claim
In a short video clip from “this week,” a black-clad, supposed Muslim cleric calls on Germans to convert, leave the country or die.
Our conclusion
The video was recorded at the beginning of 2017 and shows a well-known right-wing extremist. On Telegram he calls for this clip to be distributed without context in order to deliberately disturb.
A short video excerpt is currently being shared that shows a man dressed in black spreading his message of hate in a public square:
Allahu Akbar! Converted! Leave this country! Or die! In a few years your teachers, your judges, your politicians will be Muslims! We conquer this country with our women's bellies! There's nothing you can do about it! Allahu Akbar! Convert, leave this country or die! Allahu Akbar!
Poisonous words from the Islamophobic, right-wing extremist hate preacher Sven L.
The video is neither current nor does it show a real imam. Only the location is right: Halle an der Saale.
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Information stand for young Muslims and a right-wing extremist hate preacher
At the beginning of 2017, four young Muslims set up an information stand in front of the Ulrichskirche in Halle, as they often do. With personal conversations and the books at their stand, they regularly try to find new supporters for the small Muslim community: the Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat . The reform community, which has been active in Germany for around 100 years, is on the one hand peace-loving, open and reflective, but on the other hand it is also very conservative in its values: it strives for the dominance of Islam in Europe too. As a recognized subgroup of Islam, it gives religious instruction in Hesse, among other places.
However, on Saturday, February 11, 2017, there was an incident. A man with a full beard, dressed in black robes meant to represent an imam, stirred up sentiment against the stall operators and Islam. “Convert!”, “Allahu Akbar!”, “Fight for Allah!” he shouted across the market square.
The spokesman for the Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat youth organization, Shehroz Sial, later described the events to the Mitteldeutsche Zeitung as follows: “Many people really thought he was one of us.” Nothing similar would have happened until then. “Suddenly two men came towards us and shouted at us. I just spoke to an older lady and was simply shocked." Sial assumes that these men were also part of the hate preacher: "He brought people with him, but they didn't recognize it right away."
Some passers-by were able to identify the man dressed in black as the organizer of the regular Monday marches: the accused sedition , Sven L., also known as the then operator of the hate website “Halle-Leaks” . Others thought he was a real Muslim cleric. “People suddenly avoided us,” reported Sial. They would have allowed themselves to be influenced by L. and would have preferred to listen to him rather than the young Muslims who eventually tried to confront him. Only when a resident called the police did officials ban the hate preacher from being in the immediate vicinity of the book stand.

The false preacher puts on a show
Videos of the campaign end up on Sven L's social media channels. His YouTube appearance has now been permanently blocked, but new profiles of him continue to appear on Facebook after they have been blocked. Like many right-wing extremists, L. has also switched to alternative media portals such as Telegram, where the videos of his hate speech are still available. A short clip, which was not recorded in the immediate vicinity of the book stand but later, is on L's Telegram channel with the following request:
That was a little addition when we shot the video “Nothing to do with Islam.” 40 seconds that are deliberately disturbing. If you upload it somewhere without mentioning the author. This wakes up do-gooders. So feel free to easily use my videos for other purposes.
Sven L. calls on his followers to spread the hate message (sic)
The clip with English subtitles is exactly the one that is currently being distributed again. Twitter postings act as if the hate sermon was delivered “this week” and not in 2017. Without any context and with full intention, the imagery is relied on: it is implicitly assumed that it is a real imam, who threatens people in Germany with death. Further investigations and legal proceedings are currently underway against L., which involve dangerous bodily harm and a criminal trading platform on the Internet.
Conclusion: The video was recorded at the beginning of 2017 and does not show a real Muslim clergyman, but the well-known right-wing extremist, Sven L. On Telegram he calls for this clip to be distributed without context in order to deliberately disturb.

Sources: Mitteldeutsche Zeitung , Deutschlandfunk , FAZ , SZ , MDR , ahmadiyyajugend.de
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