Koran distribution campaign

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Logo of the campaign at a missionary in Bern (2014)

Campaigns for the distribution of translations of the Koran by representatives of Salafism mainly to non-Muslims with the aim of spreading Islam as widely as possible are referred to as Koran distribution campaigns .

One in 2011 under the name Lies! The Koran distribution campaign started in Germany , which after its spread in Germany, Austria and Switzerland was also extended to other countries, was banned by the Salafist association The true religion alias Lies! Foundation and sub-organizations such as the publishing house prohibited by the German Federal Minister of the Interior on November 15, 2016. After this ban, the follow-up campaign We love Muhammad appeared immediately in Germany and subsequently in Switzerland.

2011–2016: Read!

The Read! was organized by the Salafist preacher Ibrahim Abou-Nagie . It served primarily to proselytize non-Muslims to Islam in the sense of the Daʿwa (“call to Islam”) mentioned in the Koran .

The name of the action is derived from the first verse of the 96th sura , which is generally considered to be the first revelation of the prophet Mohammed :

اقرأ باسم ربّك الّذي خلق iqraʾ bi-smi rabbika 'llaḏī ḫalaq ' Read ( or: read) in the name of your Lord who created! '

The campaign distributed Muhammad Rassoul's translation of the Koran in German-speaking countries in a purely German edition (Rassoul's translation originally appeared in an Arabic-German edition), which also contains a commentary by the German convert Frank Bubenheim .

The distribution campaign had its regional focus in spring 2012 in the western German federal states. From 2012 Lies missionized ! also regularly in Switzerland. As of 2015, according to the initiators, around 4,000 volunteers for the campaign are said to have been active in twelve European countries, from Scandinavia to the Balkans.

The group The True Religion , founded and led by Ibrahim Abou-Nagie , which organized the Koran distribution campaign, was banned by the Federal Ministry of the Interior on November 15, 2016 . An action was brought against this ban at the Federal Administrative Court, but withdrawn on the first day of the hearing.

financing

According to the initiators, the distribution of the Koran was financed by small donations from German Muslims. As of September 24, 2014 Abou Nagie has a lie! GmbH registered in Cologne with a minimum capital of 25,000 €. The financing is handled by the Swedish Insamlingsstiftelsen Al Quran Foundation and an account at SEB Bank in Sweden.

reception

The campaign sparked great controversy in the media and in politics.

According to the Federal Ministry of the Interior , criminal investigations began in April 2012 after two journalists who had reported critically on the Koran distribution campaign for the Tagesspiegel and the Frankfurter Rundschau were threatened .

Reporting on the campaign led to the dismissal of the managing director of the Ulm printing company Ebner & Spiegel , which had repeatedly produced tens of thousands of copies of the Koran on behalf of the Salafists. Before the initial acceptance of the order, the printing company had the criminal police and the Office for the Protection of the Constitution confirmed the harmlessness of the Koran, but after the public debate broke out, it considered stopping production.

The Constitutional Protection spokesman Bodo W. Becker said about the distribution of the Koran by the Salafists that it was a propaganda campaign and that the Koran only served as a vehicle; Rather, the aim is to recruit followers. In November 2013, the Interior Minister of Hesse, Boris Rhein, reported on repeated recruiting of fighters for the civil war in Syria , which was directly related to the distribution of the Koran and which took place in schools in particular.

In 2015, the campaign was picked up by users of the pr0gramm.com website, which in response was a citizens' initiative called “LIES! The Basic Law ”started. In several German cities stands with banners reading “LIES! In the name of your country, which grants you protection and freedom. 'Human dignity is inviolable' ”and distributed several thousand constitutional codes.

In 2015, in response to the Koran distribution campaign, representatives of the CDU organized actions in several cities to distribute the Basic Law, with which they wanted to set an example against Salafism.

One of the two perpetrators of the 2016 attack on a Sikh temple in Essen also took part in the Koran distribution campaign.

The project also received criticism from the Muslim group 12thMemoRise . She accused the initiators of recruiting fighters for the jihadist - Salafist terrorist organization Islamic State .

Since 2016: We love Muhammad

Pierre Vogel and Bilal Gümüs , who lives in Frankfurt am Main and who has already played a key role in organizing the Lies! Campaign, started immediately after the Lies! in November 2016 the We love Muhammad project, which is considered a follow-up campaign, in Germany and subsequently in Switzerland.

In addition to a biography of Mohammed, further information material to spread the Salafist ideology is distributed free of charge. In contrast to the Lies! Campaign, the distribution does not take place at distribution stands, but rather on a mobile basis in heavily frequented inner-city areas. The We love Muhammad project is also active on the Internet, where it uses social networks in particular to contact interested parties. It offers its own Islam app, audio books and the prophet's biography being sent via online orders.

The arrest and detention of the Kurdish-born Bilal Gümü in March 2018 on charges of aiding and abetting in preparation for a serious, state-endangering act of violence is seen as a setback for proselytizing. As of October 2018, the court proceedings opened in April 2018 at the Frankfurt am Main regional court are in progress .

See also

Individual evidence

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  2. ↑ Florian Flade: A Koran in every German household . Die Welt, April 8, 2012 ( online ).
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