Erol Pürlü

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Erol Pürlü (* 1969 near Sivas , Turkey ) is a German Islamic scholar , imam and pastor . From October 2008 to March 2009 and from October 2010 to March 2011 he was the spokesman for the Coordination Council of Muslims in Germany , the umbrella association of the four largest Islamic organizations in Germany, which was founded during the German Islam Conference in 2007. Pürlü represents Islam in Germany in the media. In addition, he has been a member of the German Islam Conference since the beginning and is involved as a prison chaplain and in the Christian-Islamic dialogue.

Life

In 1977 Pürlü moved with his parents near Augsburg . After his school days in Germany , Pürlü received a theological training at the Association of Islamic Cultural Centers (VIKZ) in Cologne and studied Islamic sciences ( master's degree ), Semitic and pedagogy at the university there . There he was involved in setting up the Islamic Academy ISLAH (Villa Hahnenburg). Pürlü is a German citizen .

From 2001 to 2005, Pürlü was the full-time Secretary General of the VIKZ. His main job is now there as a public relations officer. Pürlü was active in the association's own imam training for men and women.

During the disputes about the establishment of the first VIKZ-owned dormitory for students in Duisburg-Bruckhausen , Pürlü commented in 2003 on the accusation that the students were isolated there and never seen on the street, arguing that German children too were “Would stay. The dormitory in Duisburg is now a showcase project and has integrated quite well into the district. In the 2005 discussion on Islamic religious instruction in Germany, he advocated regular German Islamic instruction if "the religious community is involved". On the occasion of the establishment of a private imam school in Berlin in 2009, Pürlü advocated the training of imams in Germany. In 2009, the Munich public prosecutor initiated a police investigation against Millî-Görüş -Görüs General Secretary Ogüz Ücüncü, IGD chairman Ibrahim El-Zayat and five other suspects on suspicion of forming a criminal association and providing financial support for banned or violent Islamist organizations . As spokesman for the Coordination Council of Muslims, Pürlü emphasized that the investigation was directed against people, not against institutions. Both Millî Görüş and IGD are indirectly represented in the coordination council through their central associations. The investigations against Oğuz Üçüncü , Ibrahim El-Zayat and five other suspects were closed in September 2010.

Pürlü is one of the faces of the ZDF forum on Friday . He devoted his term of office as spokesman for the Coordination Council of Muslims to a. the plan to institutionalize the dialogue with the Central Council of Jews and to promote Islamic religious instruction in public schools. In February 2011, during his tenure as spokesman for the Coordination Council of Muslims, a legally controversial communiqué was signed with the North Rhine-Westphalian School Minister Sylvia Löhrmann on the introduction of Islamic religious instruction.

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Single receipts

  1. ↑ a b Ursula Rüssmann: Dialogue with Borders - Erol Pürlü ( Memento from December 6, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) . In: "Frankfurter Rundschau" of October 2, 2008.
  2. ↑ PORTRAIT: Religions in dialogue(PDF; 137 kB) in: Heidenheimer Zeitung from October 1, 2008
  3. ↑ September 29, 2008: Erol Pürlü is the new spokesman for the KRM ( Memento of March 9, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Press release of the Central Council of Muslims of October 2, 2008.
  4. ↑ The cross with the Koran . In: Der Spiegel . No. 40 , 2003, p. 82 ( online - September 29, 2003 ).
  5. ↑ Duisburg: This is not indoctrinated by Peter Klucken, rp-online.de February 9, 2010
  6. ↑ Jahel Mielke: Islam on the plan . In: "Zuender", web magazine of the time , No. 51/2005 .
  7. ↑ Christina Hebel: Islam in German . In: "Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung" of March 9, 2009.
  8. ↑ Markus Wehner : Money for Terrorists? In: "Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung" from March 28, 2009.
  9. ^ Investigations discontinued In: "Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung" of September 21, 2010
  10. ^ Faces of the forum at ZDF. (Retrieved November 7, 2009.)
  11. ↑ Islam lessons from 2012 throughout NRW wdr.de, accessed on October 12, 2016
  12. ↑ On the wrong track to German “State Islam” Zeit-online, accessed on October 5, 2011
personal data
SURNAME Pürlü, Erol
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German imam
DATE OF BIRTH 1969
PLACE OF BIRTH near Sivas , Turkey