Islamic Community Millî Görüş

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Islamic Community Millî Görüş
(IGMG)
logo
legal form registered association
founding 1995
Seat Kerpen
purpose Sunni Islamic community
Chair Kemal Ergun
Managing directors Bekir Altaş (General Secretary)
Members 127,000 (2020)
Website www.igmg.org

The Islamic Community Millî Görüş e. V. (abbreviation “IGMG”, Turkish İslâm Toplumu Millî Görüş ) is a registered association since 1995 with its seat in Cologne . She is from the Islamist Milli-Görüs originated movement in Turkey and is one of the largest Sunni - Muslim communities in Germany . Is IGMG is a member of the Islamic Council for the Federal Republic of Germany , in turn, a founding member of the Coordination Council of Muslims is. Due to the history of its origins, it is still observed by the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution .

history

In the course of the recruitment of guest workers from the 1960s, several million Muslims came to Western Europe from Turkey and other countries. In the early 1970s, Muslim workers set up small places of worship to perform their prayers. At the end of the 1970s, for organizational reasons, these municipalities initially merged regionally and later supra-regionally. The forerunners of the IGMG emerged from this concentration movement. The IGMG itself was founded in 1995. In 2001, Necmettin Erbakan , the founder of the Millî Görüş movement, said at the 7th IGMG General Assembly in Hagen that the Muslims in Germany would "definitely come to power". Whether this happens "with or without bloodshed" is an open question.

structure

The religious, cultural and social services of the IGMG are performed by the central association, the regional associations and the mosque communities, depending on the task at hand. The latter provide the infrastructure for daily religious practice such as prayer rooms and imams.

According to its own information, the IGMG maintains 518 mosque communities worldwide, of which 304 are based in Germany, and a total of around 2,330 facilities. The local communities are organized in 35 regional associations, 15 of them in Germany. The total number of members is put at 127,000, the size of the community is around 350,000 people. The number of members or followers in Germany is given as 31,000.

Board

former headquarters of Millî Görüş

The chairman of the IGMG has been Kemal Ergün since May 2011 . The deputy chairman of the IGMG has been Hakkı Çiftçi since May 2011; Bekir Altaş has been General Secretary since 2015.

Areas of activity

The IGMG offers the Muslims comprehensive services, as they are typically provided by religious communities. These include: Irschad (Religious Guidance), Education, Social Services, and Community Development. The women have their community called “Women's Community” (KT = Turkish Kadınlar Teşkilatı ), the young women in turn have their own community, ie “Young Women’s Community” (KGT = Turkish Kadınlar Gençlik Teşkilatı ).

Publications

Camia , the IGMG's association newspaper, appears every two weeks and has a circulation of 45,000. In the Camia , the members of the IGMG community are informed about news from the IGMG headquarters, the regional associations and the local mosque associations. Religious texts, a family and youth section, an art and culture section as well as relevant news texts are also part of the newspaper's fixed content. The Camia is comparable to the classic association journals of other religious organizations, but in this scope it is unique among the Islamic religious communities with headquarters in Germany.

The monthly magazine Perspektif is distributed throughout Europe.

Own training of imams and religious educators

According to a survey by the BAMF , the IGMG has been running an educational academy for the training of religious staff (30 graduates per year) at the location of the vocational school for Muslim executives in Mainz (Rhineland-Palatinate) for male students and in Bergkamen, which was set up by the umbrella organization Islamrat in 2014 (NRW) for school girls. The aim of the 3-year vocational school training is to be able to "carry out worship and religious education activities as an imam or theological specialist".

Observation by the Office for the Protection of the Constitution

Due to the history of its origins, the IGMG was monitored by the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (BfV) and by some state offices (LfV) for several years. The BfV assigns the IGMG to so-called "legalistic Islamism". This is unconstitutional , but rejects violence. The IGMG tries with political means to enable its members to live in Germany in accordance with Islam.

The IGMG was against the Constitutional Protection North Rhine-Westphalia with assistance by the lawyer Michael Hubertus von Sprenger seven desist sue . In at least one case, the Free State of Bavaria was also defeated in court.

The observation of the IGMG by the protection of the constitution has recently been questioned more and more frequently. The Hamburg State Office for the Protection of the Constitution announced in April 2014 that it had already stopped monitoring the IGMG. There are no indications of efforts against the free democratic basic order . In May, the Lower Saxony LfV also announced a reassessment. The IGMG can no longer be clearly assigned to the Islamist spectrum. LfV President Maren Brandenburger spoke of a reform course "which speaks in favor of the fact that the entire organization can no longer be clearly assigned to the Islamist spectrum". In June 2014 the LfV in Bremen published its report in which the IGMG was no longer listed. In April 2015, the state of Schleswig-Holstein also joined the re-evaluation. The Ministry of the Interior announced that “not all of the branches of the IGMG are viewed as unconstitutional” and that monitoring of the IGMG as a whole has been stopped. The states of North Rhine-Westphalia and Saarland also no longer listed the IGMG in their respective annual reports for 2014. Since the report for 2016, the IGMG is no longer under observation by the LfV in Rhineland-Palatinate .

Problem of control by the Turkish government

Whether or to what extent the Islamic Community Milli Görüs in Germany is controlled by the AKP , Turkish bodies or Diyanet is judged differently by experts.

The Federal Government is permitted to allow members of the Turkish Embassy and Consulates General to participate in events organized by DITIB, the Islamic Community Milli Görüş (IGMG) or the Association of Islamic Cultural Centers. V. (VIKZ) known. "With the AKP deputy and former Milli Görüs general secretary Mustafa Yeneroglu there is a further element of control and influence. He heads the" Election Coordination Center for Abroad "of the AKP.

If Millî Görüş originally had an oppositional relationship with the Turkish state, Volker Beck and the former DITIB lawyer Murat Kayman speak of a "diyanetization" of the organization in relation to the changed relationship between the IGMG and the Turkish state. In the press, the organization, along with DITIB and ATIB, is part of "Erdogan's network". With the takeover of the Islamic-oriented AKP in Turkey, the once clear boundaries between Ditib and Milli Görüş are now blurred. "Milli Görüs is regarded as Erdogan's political school," writes journalist Kemal Hür . The head of Diyanet also appeared repeatedly at the IGMG in Germany. For Sevim Dagdelen , Member of the Bundestag , Milli Görüs is part of the “Erdogan Network in Germany”. The journalist Eren Güvercin speaks of the fact that the IGMG and DITIB act like associations for expellees and that the Office for Turks Abroad is bringing the association's youth "in line" with nationalistic indoctrination through youth programs marketed as a cultural program.

According to the IGMG, 35 Diyanet imams work in their communities. However, according to the federal government in the IGMG, "a large part of the religious commissioners or imams are not sent by the Diyanet". According to the IGMG, the use of the Diyanet imams to bridge a theological bottleneck serves as a temporary solution. Measures of the Association of Youth and Public Relations are financed through the Presidium for Turks Abroad and Related Peoples (YTB) . In return, the organization has repeatedly acted politically together with other Turkish-Islamic associations and with the participation of Turkish embassy staff on Turkish political issues and is referred to as part of "Erdogan's lobby" in Germany. The Islamic scholar Susanne Schröter speaks of an association of different organizations of Turkish origin under Erdogan's agenda and cites the IGMG's defense of the DITIB in the espionage affair as an example. The cooperation between Ditib and Milli-Görüs mosque associations in Germany is described as more or less close.

In response to a parliamentary question in 2016, the federal government announced that there were no reliable findings on the financial links between IGMG and IGD ; In terms of personnel, however, the former IGD functionary Ibrahim El-Zayat worked at least temporarily for the European Mosque Construction and Support Community (EMUG), which is closely linked to the IGMG. With regard to connections to the Union Internationaler Democrats (UID), the Federal Government pointed out that there were indications that in the past, isolated former members or officials of the IGMG had switched to the UID ; Meanwhile, there are no findings about financial connections between IGMG and UID.

Occasionally, however, the AKP-affiliated organization also sets its own accents and called for moderation in disputes between the governments in Berlin and Ankara.

Fraud and tax evasion proceedings

In September 2017, an extensive fraud trial against four defendants from the old leadership of the German IGMG began before the Cologne district court. It is about the postponement of 5 million, tax evasion and social security fraud, which could also bring new insights into the question of the control of Milli Görüs from abroad.

literature

  • Schirin Amir-Moazami: The Islamic Community Milli Görus in the field of tension between transnational dynamics and German Islamic politics , in: Dietrich Reetz (ed.): Islam in Europa: Religiöses Leben heute , Waxmann, Munich 2010.
  • Thomas Lemmen : Islamic Organizations in Germany . Friedrich Ebert Foundation , Bonn 2000, p. 40–47 ( PDF accessed October 15, 2014).
  • Werner Schiffauer : The Islamic Community Milli Görüs - a lesson on the intricate connection between migration, religion and social integration . In: KJ Bade, M. Bommes, R. Münz (eds.): Migration Report 2004. Facts - Analyzes - Perspectives . Campus Verlag, Frankfurt - New York 2004, pp. 67–96, digitized version (PDF file; 1.3 MB), also available on Google Books, partly with the same text as e-text: Werner Schiffauer : Die Islamische Gemeinschaft Millî Görüş . Centrum voor Islam in Europa (Universiteit Gent), Gent ( accessed online on October 15, 2014 - History of the IGMG).
  • Werner Schiffauer : After Islamism. An ethnography of the Islamic community Millî Görüş . Suhrkamp, ​​Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-518-12570-0 .

Web links

Individual evidence

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