Ali Kızılkaya

Ali Kızılkaya (* 1963 in Kayseri , Turkey ) is the former chairman of the Islamic Council for the Federal Republic of Germany . He has lived in Germany since 1972 . For the period from April to September 2008 he was the spokesman for the Coordination Council of Muslims in Germany .

Career

After years of dialogue work in mosque communities in northern Germany, he began to work in the German headquarters of Milli Görüs (IGMG) in Cologne in the mid-1990s . Since 2002 he has chaired the Islamic Council for the Federal Republic of Germany. He is a participant of the German Islam Conference .

In 2006, Kızılkaya welcomed the removal of a controversial production of Mozart's opera Idomeneo from the repertoire of the Berlin Deutsche Oper with the argument that “it is not about the freedom of art, but about respect for the other”.

In October 2006, in connection with death threats against the green member of the Bundestag Ekin Deligöz , who had asked Muslim women to remove the headscarf , he said that the item of clothing "was a 'religious commandment. This could not be put into perspective according to country and location ... At the same time, he said : 'Whoever doesn't wear it has his freedom' ".

In Bild am Sonntag in March 2007, Kızılkaya called on the Islamist kidnappers of the kidnapped Germans in Afghanistan to release the kidnapping victims. Neither Islam nor the Koran would justify such crimes.

He was one of the signatories of the Amman Message ( Amman Message ).

Web links

• “It is easier to build a nuclear power plant than a mosque” , the daily newspaper , October 12, 2007, interview

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1. ↑ "Opera cancellation. "Stage victory for Islamists" , Spiegel online , September 27, 2006, interview with Katajun Amirpur
2. ↑ Page no longer available , search in web archives: quoted. according to a report on the website of the sender n24
3. ↑ “Islamic Council is committed to the release of the German hostages” , ddp , March 14, 2007