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Seven so-called Islamic fundamentalists have been ordered to pay fines over a "sharia police" patrol they launched in that was met with mass media and political outrage. Germany's laws against wearing uniforms originally aimed to prevent neo-Nazis staging rallies and parades.
Judges said the group's actions were aimed at achieving an "intimidating effect suggestive of militancy" by aping the sharia police that exist in some Middle Eastern countries as violent organisations. In September , the seven patrolled the streets of Wuppertal, a west German industrial town with a sizeable Muslim population, wearing orange high-visibility vests marked "Sharia Police".
