Ibrahim Abou-Nagie

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Ibrahim Abou-Nagie ( Arabic إبراهيم أبو ناجي Ibrahim Abu Nadschi , DMG Ibrāhīm Abū Nāǧī ; * 1964 in theNuseirat refugee camp near Gaza ) is a Salafist German preacher of Palestinian origin.

Abou-Nagie has no academic training in Islamic theology, but is considered one of the leading figures in German Salafism , the fastest growing radical and neo-fundamentalist movement within Islam . In his videos, which are distributed on the Internet, he preaches an extremely repressive interpretation of the Koran . He only differentiates between Muslims and the “ kuffar ” (kāfir, the so-called infidels), against whom the use of force is “legitimate”, the Cologne public prosecutor quoted as saying.

Life

According to his own statements, Abou-Nagie came to Germany from the Gaza Strip in 1982 at the age of 18 to study electrical engineering , but did not graduate. On December 15, 1994, Abou-Nagie became a German citizen . Up to a subsequent tax claim of 70,000 euros in 2007, he ran a business for self-adhesive foils. After his economic failure, which ended in bankruptcy proceedings , Abou-Nagie devoted himself entirely to Islamic proselytizing and received Hartz IV benefits. On June 1, 2012, the Abou-Nagie authorities canceled Unemployment Benefit II because he apparently had unspecified income and was therefore not in need. The father of an adult son and two daughters lives with his family in Cologne - Esch .

The real religion

Together with the Salafist preacher convert Pierre Vogel , Abou-Nagie tried to convert children and young people to Salafist Islam. Young people were repeatedly encouraged to convert to Islam at open-air events . Abou-Nagie teaches Koran lessons in German for children and young people in various mosques in Germany.

Abou-Nagie's German-language internet portal Dierue Religion (DWR) was launched in 2005. At times it was offline, but then accessible again until the association ban in November 2016.

In his regular lectures and seminars, Abou-Nagie and his supporters, who are mainly based in the Bonn-Cologne area, convey "the entire range of Salafist ideology" according to the NRW constitution protection report. The content ranged from religious instructions and interpretations of faith to the glorification of martyrdom in jihad and the advocacy of the death penalty for homosexuals. In his speeches, he warns his followers against the “vicious” Western life: “They want to make us kuffar because they practice the commands of Satan”. The Salafist interpretation of Sharia must take precedence over all laws.

On November 15, 2016, the association The True Religion alias Stiftung Lies was banned by the Federal Ministry of the Interior according to the Association Act, as the association is directed "against the constitutional order and against the idea of international understanding ". The true religion used the information booths to radicalize interested parties and to advertise the terrorist organization Islamic State (Organization) (IS). 140 people are known to have traveled to Syria or Iraq after taking part in Lies! Campaigns to join IS.

Investigations and Proceedings

The Cologne public prosecutor sued Abou-Nagie in the summer of 2011. She accused him of being the head of a Salafist network around the Internet platform Die Wahre Religion , on whose side public crimes and disruption of religious peace were called for. According to Chief Public Prosecutor Rainer Wolf, Abou-Nagie made “recommendations” that legitimized violence and even went as far as destroying people of different faiths. In April 2012, the case was closed due to a lack of sufficient evidence.

In June 2012, Federal Interior Minister Hans-Peter Friedrich initiated an investigation with the aim of banning Die Wahre Religion , which included simultaneous house searches in seven federal states, while he dissolved the Salafist network Millatu Ibrahim in accordance with the Association Act . The Frankfurt Salafist group DawaFFM , which cooperates with the two organizations and against which investigations were also initiated, was banned in March 2013 together with smaller groups.

After Abou-Nagie was accused of inciting the murder of a critic of Islam in July 2012 , the Darmstadt public prosecutor opened an investigation, which it closed the following November because the allegations could not be substantiated.

On October 22, 2013, the Cologne public prosecutor brought charges against Ibrahim Abou-Nagie for social welfare fraud. On 11 February 2016 he was appointed by the Cologne District Court for commercial fraud to the parole suspended imprisonment convicted of thirteen months, he opinion of the Court benefits have referred unlawfully in the amount of 53,000 euros. The Cologne Higher Regional Court rejected the Abou-Nagies appeal in December 2017 as unfounded, making the judgment for social welfare fraud legally binding.

Koran distribution campaign Read!

In autumn 2011, The True Religion began as part of the Lies! with large-scale giving away Koran translations in the pedestrian zones of major German cities. With 25 million copies, the goal of one Koran per household should be achieved. The campaign met with massive political criticism. The then Interior Minister of Lower Saxony, Uwe Schünemann ( CDU ), condemned the action as "abusive extremist instrumentalization of Islam". The project also received criticism from the 12thMemoRise group . She accused the initiators of recruiting fighters for the jihadist - Salafist terrorist organization Islamic State .

The decisive co-organizer was Bilal Gümüs, who was considered to be his “right hand” until Abou-Nagies was rejected in 2016 . On behalf of Abou-Nagies, Gümüs organized the Lies! First in the Rhine-Main area and later nationwide and throughout Europe . -Campaign. For years, addressing people directly during distribution campaigns was an important recruiting mechanism for the Salafist scene. The Lies! Which ended with the DWR association ban in November 2016 ! Campaign was immediately taken up by the distribution campaign We love Muhammad , which Gümüs started together with Pierre Vogel and is considered a follow-up campaign , in which the biographies of the Islamic prophet are distributed.

Evaluation by liberal Muslims

The publicist Lamya Kaddor , first chairwoman of the Liberal-Islamic League , rejects Abou-Nagie's positions and attempts at proselytizing. Kaddor feels that her work has been "thrown back by at least 20 steps" by the Salafist proselytizing campaigns and criticized the fact that the public discussion, because of the actions, revolved primarily around whether "Muslims are generally backward and willing to use violence." Abou-Nagie is one of the relative aggressive and very offensive current within the Salafists. There is nothing wrong with distributing the Koran itself, but the methods and the amount of 25 million for every German household are strange, including the fact that Korans are stacked on wooden pallets and mixed with the crowd like flyers . She sees the action of the Salafists as a PR strategy to stylize herself as a victim and to co-opt other Muslims.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ إبراهيم أبو ناجي .. إسلامي يقلق الألمان (Ibrahim Abu Nagie .. an Islamist worries the Germans). In: aljazeera.net . June 20, 2012, accessed November 15, 2016 (Arabic).
  2. ↑ a b c Florian Flade: Ibrahim Abou-Nagie - The man who wants to save Germany from hell . In: Die Welt , April 14, 2012, accessed November 15, 2016.
  3. ↑ a b c d e f Indictment against hate preachers: "These are the laws of Allah" . In: Die Tageszeitung , September 12, 2011.
  4. ↑ "LIES!" - The Koran Project in Germany ( Memento from February 12, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ) State Office for the Protection of the Constitution Baden-Württemberg, Islamism 6/2012.
  5. ^ Salafists: A Koran in every household. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . April 3, 2012, Retrieved April 3, 2012 .
  6. ↑ Interview by Abou-Nagie at aljazeera.net, June 20, 2012
  7. ↑ Extremist Islam preacher: Public prosecutor's office investigates Salafists RP ONLINE, April 22, 2011
  8. ↑ Abou-Nagie: Hate Preacher filed for bankruptcy with EXPRESS, April 25, 2012
  9. ↑ Suspected social fraud Finally! Public prosecutor chases Cologne hate preachers , picture, April 26, 2012
  10. ^ Salafist campaign - Koran distribution in Stuttgart Stuttgarter Nachrichten, April 14, 2012
  11. ↑ Cologne Ibrahim Abou Nagie: Salafist preacher gets Hartz IV ( Memento from June 21, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) RP ONLINE, April 23, 2012
  12. ↑ Islamism: Raid on Cologne Salafists Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger June 14, 2012
  13. ↑ Ibrahim Abou Nagie - At 6 a.m. the investigators rang the doorbell at the Cologne Salafist preacher Kölner Express June 14, 2012
  14. ↑ How Salafists Influence Children and Young People . In: Report Mainz , SWR, May 9, 2011; Inquiry: radical preachers as religion teachers - how Salafists influence children and young people . In: Report Mainz , SWR, November 29, 2011.
  15. ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20140226152443/http://www.mik.nrw.de/uploads/media/Verfassungsschutzbericht_2010.pdf p. 219.
  16. ^ Wolf Schmidt: Salafist groups in Germany: The radicals among the radicals . In: The daily newspaper . ( taz.de [accessed on August 25, 2016]).
  17. ↑ a b Sasan Abdi-Herrle, Saskia Nothofer, Benjamin Breitegger: Fanatics in Germany's pedestrian zones . In: Die Zeit , November 15, 2016, accessed on February 17, 2019.
  18. ↑ Announcement of an association ban against the association “The True Religion” (DWR) alias “LIES! Foundation "/" Foundation LIES "of October 25, 2016 ( BAnz AT November 15 , 2016 B1 )
  19. ^ Nationwide raid: Interior minister bans Salafist association. In: Spiegel Online . Retrieved November 15, 2016 .
  20. ↑ Press release on the association ban of the association “The True Religion (DWR)” aka “Stiftung LIES” . Federal Ministry of the Interior , November 15, 2016, accessed on November 15, 2016.
  21. ↑ a b Embarrassing judicial farce about the Salafist Abou-Nagie: lawsuit against hate preachers must be stopped . In: Focus , April 16, 2012.
  22. ↑ a b Cologne Public Prosecutor's Office hears voices - and turns on the BKA by Holger Schmidt, SWR, April 16, 2012.
  23. ↑ Initiator of the Koran-Aktion: Slap for state security in investigations against Salafist preachers . In: Focus Online , April 14, 2012.
  24. ^ Salafists: raid and ban on associations. ( Memento of February 7, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Press release of the Federal Ministry of the Interior of June 14, 2012, accessed on December 4, 2013.
  25. ^ Reimann, Anna: Islamism in Germany: Interior Minister Friedrich forbids Salafist Association . In: Spiegel Online , June 14, 2012. Retrieved June 14, 2012.
  26. ↑ Islamism: Police start large-scale raid against Salafists . In: Spiegel Online , June 14, 2012. Retrieved June 15, 2012.
  27. ↑ The Federal Minister of the Interior is consistently taking action against Salafist structures in Germany. Press release of the Federal Ministry of the Interior of March 13, 2013, accessed on December 4, 2013.
  28. ↑ Announcement of the Federal Ministry of the Interior from May 15, 2014 on the incontestability of the association ban against DawaFFM including its sub-organization Internationaler Jugendverein - Dar al Schabab e. V. ( BAnz AT 05/22/2014 B1 )
  29. ^ Notes on the murder plans of Salafists in Darmstadt. ( Memento of April 5, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) In: Echo of July 18, 2012, accessed on December 4, 2013.
  30. ↑ Investigation stopped. In: Echo , November 16, 2012 ( partly online ( Memento from May 22, 2013 in the Internet Archive )).
  31. ↑ Hate preacher is said to have ripped off on a large scale Focus Online, November 24, 2013
  32. ↑ Hartz IV sneaky: hate preacher sentenced to suspended sentence . In: Spiegel Online , February 11, 2016.
  33. ^ Social welfare fraud: judgment against Abou-Nagie final . Süddeutsche Zeitung “Directly from the dpa Newskanal”, December 19, 2017, accessed on August 10, 2020 . .
  34. ↑ Salafists: The Office for the Protection of the Constitution criticizes the distribution of the Koran . In: Frankfurter Rundschau , April 13, 2012.
  35. ↑ The Koran from Ulm . In: Südwest Presse , April 13, 2012.
  36. ↑ Ibrahim Abou-Nagie: Medieval Missionaries , April 14, 2012.
  37. ↑ Islamist Project - A Koran in every German household . In: Die Welt , April 8, 2012.
  38. ↑ Anger over Korans in German pedestrian zones . In: Die Welt , April 11, 2012, accessed on June 13, 2012.
  39. ↑ Salafists abuse the Koran as a weapon . In; Die Welt , April 14, 2012, accessed June 13, 2012.
  40. ↑ Printing house again produces Korans for Salafists . In: Die Welt , June 13, 2012, accessed on June 13, 2012.
  41. ↑ Lower Saxony calls for a "pact against Salafism" . In: Die Welt , April 17, 2012, accessed on June 13, 2012.
  42. ↑ Jan Jessen: Muslim group “12thMemoRise” demonstrates against Salafists. In: derwesten.de. August 4, 2015, accessed November 15, 2016 .
  43. ^ Danijel Majic: Setback for proselytizing . In: Frankfurter Rundschau , March 15, 2018, accessed on February 17, 2019.
  44. ↑ Salafism: They're dragging my religion into the mud online, June 15, 2012. Accessed August 30, 2012
  45. ↑ The Koran Action - Much Ado About Nothing? Phoenix Round from April 17, 2012, 10.15pm - 11.00pm with Pınar Atalay , Lamya Kaddor (Chairwoman of the Liberal-Islamic Association), Prof. Thomas Bauer ( see video from 4:25 am and 11:50 am )
personal data
SURNAME Abou-Nagie, Ibrahim
ALTERNATIVE NAMES إبراهيم أبو ناجي (Arabic)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Palestinian Islam preacher
DATE OF BIRTH 1964