Hazem Salah Abu Ismail
Hazem Salah Abu Ismail ( Arabic حازم صلاح أبو إسماعيل, DMG Ḥāzim Ṣalāh Abū Ismāʿīl ; * 1961 in Dokki ) is an Egyptian scholar of Salafism and an Islamist politician. He is also known as the "PEPSI Sheikh" because of a fatwa on the Pepsi soft drink .
Abu Ismail is the son of the Azhar scholar and MP Salāh Abū Ismāʿīl, who was involved in drafting an Islamic criminal law reform in 1976 and was one of the most important representatives of the religious opposition to the Mubarak regime in the 1980s .
Engagement and Presidential Campaign
His son Hazem Salah Abu Ismail was a member of the Muslim Brotherhood for a long time . He left the Brotherhood because he wanted to run for the 2012 presidential election. Ismail had confirmed that he was proud to be associated with the Muslim Brotherhood; however, he was no longer a member, as there were minor differences. In April 2012, the Election Commission announced that it would exclude Abu Ismail from the presidential election because his mother was a US citizen. According to the law, candidates must only be Egyptian citizens and descend from Egyptian parents.
After the electoral commission finally rejected Abu Ismail's objection to the expulsion, he announced that Egypt would experience an "Islamic revolution".
Political positions
Hasem Abu Ismail takes the position that personal freedom is incompatible with the religious law of Islam. In the event of his election victory, he announced that all women in Egypt would be forced to wear the veil. It would also ban tourists from consuming alcohol in public. He advocates the closure of casinos that are currently only open to foreign visitors. Tourists wearing two-piece swimsuits should be arrested in Abu Ismail. He also calls for Egypt's Christians to be disadvantaged : He says that it is an “honor” for non-Muslims to pay the Islamic poll tax ( jizya ). He said that the Copts had no reason to complain because they were better off in Egypt than the Muslims in the USA.
Abu Ismail calls for the termination of the peace treaty with Israel , saying that restarting relations with Iran is a better solution than maintaining ties with the Jewish state. The relationship with the United States of America should remain intensive, but only as long as it serves mutual benefit and interests.
He believes that Pepsi stands for Pay Every Penny Saving Israel , in German "Pay every penny to save Israel ". In addition, Abu Ismail regards Osama bin Laden as a martyr.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Salafist is running for the presidential election. Deutsche Welle , accessed on April 17, 2012 .
- ↑ See Malika Zeghal: Gardiens de l'Islam. Les oulémas d'al Azhar dans l'Égypte contemporaine. Paris 1996. pp. 152 and 253-264.
- ^ Rania Amer: Abou Ismail: Islamic Sharia will achieve the Coptic demand. (No longer available online.) Youm7, July 28, 2011, archived from the original on March 24, 2012 ; Retrieved July 9, 2011 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Presidential election in Egypt: Election Commission excludes ten candidates at fr-online.de, April 14, 2012 (accessed on April 14, 2012).
- ↑ Ulrike Putz: Exclusion of presidential candidates - Salafists threaten Egypt with an Islamic revolution , Spiegel Online, April 18, 2012
- ↑ Joseph Mayton: Egypt's presidential hopeful Abu Ismail says Islam gives no freedom ( Memento of the original from February 15, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Bikya Masr (English), February 11, 2012.
- ↑ a b Manar Ammar: Egypt candidate Abu Ismail: No gambling, no bikinis, no alcohol, Islamic dress ( Memento of the original from March 11, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Bikya Masr (English), November 1, 2011.
- ↑ US passport causes Islamists to find explanations. Spiegel online, accessed April 17, 2012 .
- ↑ Memri TV: Lecture by Abu Ismail on YouTube , interview with Abu Ismail on YouTube
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Abu Ismail, Hazem Salah |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | حازم صلاح أبو إسماعيل (Arabic) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Egyptian scholar and Islamist thinker |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1961 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Dokki, Giza |