Islamic Center Aachen

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The Islamic Center Aachen eV (IZA) was founded in 1979 to support the Bilal Mosque in Aachen . It belongs to the Central Council of Muslims in Germany .

history

With the labor migration in the 1960s, many Muslim families, both academics and business people and simple workers, came to Aachen and after a few years they became an integral part of the cityscape.

The considerations for the establishment of an Islamic center in Aachen began in 1958, when the Muslim students expressed their needs regarding the construction of a prayer room.

The foundation stone was finally laid in 1964 as part of a ceremony in cooperation with RWTH Aachen University and the ambassadors of the Islamic countries in the presence of numerous students and academics from neighboring European countries. Construction was completed in 1967 and expanded in 1979 due to lack of space.

The IZA, originally founded by the leader of the Syrian Muslim Brotherhood, Issam al-Attar , split off from the Islamic Community in Germany (IGD) in 1981 . Since 2003 the IZA has been running the “Center for Islamic Studies”, a theological training center for imams . Attar headed the IZA until 1996.

Islamism

According to the findings of the Office for the Protection of the Constitution in North Rhine-Westphalia, the sponsoring association is close to the Syrian branch of the Islamic fundamentalist Muslim Brotherhood , but tries to "appear moderate and ready for dialogue" in public events. According to Klaus Grünewald, a long-time head of the specialist department for alien extremism at the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution , the sponsoring association also housed Algerian terrorists in exile.

The IZA, which was at times also observed by the Office for the Protection of the Constitution, distances itself from the accusation of having contacts with the Syrian Muslim Brotherhood. "The IZA has no organizational links to the Muslim Brotherhood or other movements," says the website with a view to the former IZA leader Issam El-Attar, who was opposition leader in Syria in the early 1960s, but his membership in the party " already in 1977 ”gave up.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ministry of the Interior of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia (Ed.): Verfassungsschutzbericht des Landes Nordrhein-Westfalen on the year 2005. P. 24
  2. ↑ Ministry of the Interior of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia (Ed.): Verfassungsschutzbericht des Landes Nordrhein-Westfalen on the year 2007 . S. 186 .
  3. ↑ Klaus Grünewald: Defending Germany's Constitution, in: Middle East Quarterly, March 1995, p. 10, online see web links

Coordinates: 50 ° 46 ′ 47 "  N , 6 ° 4 ′ 16.9"  E