Abdul Aziz Ghazi

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Maulana Abdul Aziz Ghazi ( Urdu مولانا عبدالعزیز; * 1960 in Balochistan ) is a Pakistani preacher. He is the son of Maulana Muhammad Abdullah and the brother of Abdul Rashid Ghazi .

From 1998 until the uprising in July 2007, he ran the Red Mosque in Islamabad together with his brother Rashid . While Rashid was killed in the fighting, Abdul, disguised as a woman in a burqa, was caught while trying to escape. In 2009 he was released on bail. Since then he has been working as an imam in the Red Mosque again. He also bears the honorary title Maulana ( Persian مولانا"Our Lord / Master"; from Arabic مولى maulā  'Lord'). He is close to the Taliban. As long as Ghazi remains untouched by the police, the fight against extremism in Pakistan cannot be successful, says the Pakistani opposition member Jibran Nasir. In an interview, Ghazi declinedto condemn the2014 Peshawar terrorist attack.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Christoph Ehrhardt: House visit to the hate preacher , in: FAZ, August 21, 2010.
  2. ^ Friederike Böge: The turning point, in: FAZ No. 23, January 28, 2015, p. 3.
  3. ^ Friederike Böge: The turning point, in: FAZ No. 23, January 28, 2015, p. 3.
  4. ^ Friederike Böge: The turning point, in: FAZ No. 23, January 28, 2015, p. 3.
personal data
SURNAME Aziz Ghazi, Abdul
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Aziz Ghazi, Maulana Abdul; Aziz, Maulana Abdul; Aziz, Abdul
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Pakistani preacher
DATE OF BIRTH 1960
PLACE OF BIRTH Balochistan