Ahmed Akkari

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Ahmed Akkari ( Arabic أحمد عكاري, DMG Aḥmad ʿAkkārī ; * 1978 in Lebanon ) is a Danish political activist best known for compiling and disseminating the Akkari-Laban dossier , a report on the controversy surrounding the Mohammed cartoons . He is considered a Muslim imam .

biography

Ahmed Akkari was born in Lebanon in 1978. In 1985, when he was seven years old, Akkari came to Denmark with his family and was granted asylum. He returned to Lebanon with his family in 1990 and returned to Denmark a year later. Upon re-entry, the family was revoked of refugee status because the Lebanese civil war was over. Due to the intensive reporting in the Danish local media, Ahmed Akkari was granted the right to stay. Akkari graduated from school and trained as a teacher in Aarhus . In 2005 Akkari was granted Danish citizenship.

Akkari participated in the controversy over the Mohammed cartoons together with the Danish Imam Ahmad Abu Laban by writing the Akkari Laban dossier ( Arabic ملف عكّاري لبن; German dossier on the advocacy of the Prophet Mohammed ). Akkari and Abu Ladan, as part of a delegation of Danish believers who distributed the dossier in Islamic countries, were largely responsible for the flare-up of protests, some of which were violent, in several parts of the world. The dossier alleged, among other things, that the climate in Denmark after the publication of the Mohammed cartoons was promoting racism . In addition to the twelve original caricatures from the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten, three other images have been added to the dossier , the origin of which is unclear. Among other things, the alleged representation of Mohammed included an alienated agency photo of a French man imitating a pig in a joke competition. This and the other pictures fueled the dispute.

At the end of July 2013, Akkari assured in several interviews that he regretted his behavior during the "Mohammed crisis". He also apologized personally to cartoonist Kurt Westergaard , who was under constant police protection . As a result of his official departure from radical Islam, Akkari himself has been the target of threats.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Danish Muslims split over cartoons. news.bbc.co.uk, February 8, 2006, accessed January 21, 2015 .
  2. ↑ In the power of tradition. (No longer available online.) Nzz.ch, December 11, 2006, archived from the original on January 30, 2009 ; accessed on January 21, 2015 .
  3. ↑ Caricature Controversy: Misunderstanding in the Name of the Prophet. Spiegel Online , February 1, 2006, accessed January 21, 2015 .
  4. ↑ Fake Mohammed caricature: How a joke photo turned into a disgrace. Spiegel Online , February 8, 2006, accessed January 21, 2015 .
  5. ↑ Jeg skylder måske hele Danmark en undskyldning. TV 2 , July 29, 2013, accessed January 21, 2015 .
  6. ↑ The purified hate preacher. Frankfurter Rundschau , August 6, 2013, accessed on January 21, 2015 .
  7. ↑ Manfred Ertel : Under the wrong circumstances. Spiegel Online , September 21, 2013, accessed January 21, 2015 .
personal data
SURNAME Akkari, Ahmed
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Danish imam
DATE OF BIRTH 1978
PLACE OF BIRTH Lebanon