BONNE, May 27 (IslamOnline.net) - The Rasterfahndung investigation campaign targeting Muslim minority in Germany has failed so far to find any hard evidence to bring even one single Muslim to justice on terrorism charges, a leading German magazine reported Monday, May 26.

Germany’s anti-crime police launched a sweeping campaign targeting some 95,271 of the Muslim community in the country - estimated at four million people - but fell short of providing solid evidence on terror charges against any of them, Der Spiegel said.

The campaign, which further targeted the Muslims bank accounts, did not find any link with “terrorist organizations.”

However, it unjustifiably placed a freeze on deposits of some five thousand euros belonging to some individuals.

The interior ministers of German states, speaking to the weekly, said that they were not able to deport what they called suspected Muslim extremists despite the tightened anti-terror laws in the country.

The magazine said that the Rasterfahndung, launched in the aftermath of the 9-11 attacks on the United States, swallowed huge sums of money and affected negatively the civil liberties in Germany.

German authorities also fired some 86 Muslims from their sensitive jobs in nuclear stations and airports under the pretext of suspected ‘extremist-leaning thinking.’

German Interior Minister Otto Schily, for his part, asked the interior ministers of the 16 German states to deport ‘Muslim extremists’ from Germany, hitting out at national security officials for not effectively using anti-terror laws strictly.

In statements to the Der Spiegel Monday, Schily refuted reports that a number of anti-war terror drafted by his ministry and ratified by the German parliament (Bundestag) in November 2001 were ineffective.

Germany’s annual report on civil liberties, released last week and drawn up by seven human rights and legal organizations, warned of violating the privacy of the German society.

It cited some privacy violations by the German authorities in the name of stepping up security measures.

Security measures have been expanded to include monitoring citizens with video cameras installed in the streets, public squares, banks, gas stations, public transport and parks, charged Juergen Kuehling, a former judge at Germany’s Supreme Constitutional Court, who brought the report to light.

It seems as if the German society, due to the extraordinary measures mentioned in the report, was a wartime society and not a civilized Western society, he stressed.

The former judge in German’s top legal body also regretted that the German people were indifferent towards the violations of their rights.

Those who are not worried about such measures because they have nothing to hide, do not know much about the random round-the-clock telephone tapping, Kuehling said.

The report further said the rigid security measures denied scores of Muslim women wearing hijab job opportunities, which brazenly violates the principle of religious freedom enshrined in the German constitution.

It also expected that the Supreme Constitutional Court would reach a final decision regarding the case of veiled Muslim female teachers working in state schools by June.

The civil liberties report underlined that this case in particular had affected the neutrality of the state in dealing with its citizens.