This article gives a brief up-to-date snapshot of the German Islamist scene and contents directed at German Internet users in the end of the year 2008. All mentioned sites and contents are open to the public on the Internet. In 2008, we assessed new alarming developments in this field. The article begins by reporting about radical German Internet sources and the content in German on international multilingual websites. Afterwards the focus is narrowed to the problems with servers that host radical sites. Altogether, the article outlines the current situation for German Internet users and tendencies of radicalisation on the Internet within German Islamist material and it gives a thought-provoking impulse about possible de-radicalisation measures. In conclusion, future tendencies are discussed and ideas for new strategies to counter extremist contents on the net are proposed. The article is not aimed at analysing the different main goals of terrorists on the Internet which can be described in brief as propaganda, legitimization, threatening and frightening of the enemy, recruiting and financing purposes.