Islamic Council for the Federal Republic of Germany

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Islamic Council for the Federal Republic of Germany V.
(IR)
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legal form registered association
founding 1986
Seat Cologne
purpose Nationwide coordinating body and joint decision-making body for Islamic religious communities
Chair Burhan Kesici
Members 37 member organizations
Website islamrat.de

The Islamic Council for the Federal Republic of Germany V. (IR) is next to the larger Turkish-Islamic Union of the institute for religion e. V. , the Association of Islamic Cultural Centers e. V. and the smaller Central Council of Muslims in Germany e. V. an Islamic umbrella organization in Germany. It was founded in 1986 as a nationwide coordinating body and joint decision- making body for Islamic communities in Berlin . The IR sees itself as the legal successor to the “Islamic World Congress Branch Berlin eV” founded in 1932. V. ". Ali Kızılkaya was the chairman from 2002 to 2015 . Burhan Kesici has been the chairman of the Islamic Council since 2015 . The association is based in Cologne . The Islamic Council represents 37 member associations with an estimated 40,000 to 60,000 members. The largest member association is the Turkish Islamic Community Millî Görüş (IGMG), which is monitored by the Office for the Protection of the Constitution. It provides the majority of the members as well as the chairman. The Islamic Council has been a founding member of the Coordination Council of Muslims since April 2007 and provided its spokesman with Ali Kızılkaya from April to September 2008 and Burhan Kesici from April to September 2020.

Self-image and goals

The Islam Council sees itself as an interest group of Muslims living in Germany . This includes the areas of theology , instruction in the faith for young people and adults, holding church services and other religious events. He stands up for the unity and protection of Islam, for cultural and religious understanding and the integration of Muslims by creating a future-oriented infrastructure. It strives for recognition as a corporation under public law and thus for equality with other religious communities.

Together with the Central Council of Muslims , he has set up commissions that lobby for the provision of Islamic religious instruction in German schools and for an exemption for slaughtering in Germany.

Chairman Burhan Kesici made the Islamic Council's position on homosexuality clear by stressing in a radio interview that Islam does not accept such things. "People who consider themselves Muslims and who are gay and lesbian," he described as "a very small minority."

Federal associations

Regional associations

Links to Islamist organizations

The Islamic Council is not mentioned in the current 2019 report on the protection of the constitution by the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution . However, for its largest member organization, the Islamic Community Millî Görüş (IGMG), connections to the “Millî Görüş” movement in Turkey are established, which in turn is assigned to the legalistic spectrum of Islamism . In 2003 the Office for the Protection of the Constitution suspected that the IGMG was using the Islamic Council to represent its interests and pointed out that the then chairman of the Islamic Council, Ali Kızılkaya , was a former function of the IGMG. The same applies to the former chairman, Hasan Özdogan, according to the Lower Saxony Office for the Protection of the Constitution. Kızılkaya is also mentioned there as the former general secretary of IGMG. Kizilkaya himself sees the IGMG, however, only as an important, but not as a dominant member. The Islamic Council was also accused of having worked with the World Islamic Peoples Leadership , a pan-Islamic organization founded by Muammar al-Gaddafi , which led to Hasan Özdoğan, the last chairman of the association, being voted out of office.

No legal religious community

The Münster Higher Administrative Court decided on November 9, 2017 in the final instance: "Islamic associations" do not represent a religious community as a legal subject . The Central Council of Muslims and the also suing "Islamic Council" do not meet the requirements to be considered religious communities within the meaning of the Basic Law . This means that they have no claim against the state of North Rhine-Westphalia to the general introduction of Islamic religious instruction in public schools, the court ruled (Az. 19 A 997/02). Above all, the judges in Münster doubted whether these umbrella organizations had sufficient teaching authority over their member associations. The court did not allow an appeal against the judgment. However, the judgment was overturned by the Federal Administrative Court on December 20, 2018 and submitted again to the Münster Higher Administrative Court for a decision. In their decision, the higher judges criticized the fact that several points had not been taken into account by the Higher Administrative Court in Münster in the grounds for the judgment.

See also

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Integration and Islam. Migration, Refugees and Integration. Series of publications Volume 14  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Conference June 2005, Federal Office for Migration and Refugees@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.bamf.de  
  2. ↑ a b For the concerns of the Muslims ( Memento of the original from July 19, 2006 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. , Conversation between the Islamic newspaper and A. Kizilkaya, November 26, 2003 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.islamrat.de
  3. ↑ a b Islamic Community Milli Görüs e. V. ( Memento of the original from March 16, 2008 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. , Constitutional Protection of Lower Saxony @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.verfassungsschutz.niedersachsen.de
  4. ↑ Self-presentation of the Islamic Council ( Memento of the original from December 12, 2007 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.islamrat.de
  5. ↑ Tobias Armbrüster: "Islam is of course compatible with the Basic Law". Interview with Burhan Kesici. Deutschlandfunk , April 18, 2016, accessed on April 18, 2016 .
  6. ↑ a b Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution: Constitutional Protection Report 2019 . Berlin June 2020, p. 228 .
  7. ↑ Constitutional Protection Report 2003 ( Memento of the original dated August 30, 2006 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. , Federal Ministry of the Interior @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / verfassungsschutz.de
  8. ↑ Islamic Community Milli Görüş e. V. (IGMG) ( Memento of the original from March 16, 2008 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. , Lower Saxony State Office for the Protection of the Constitution @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.verfassungsschutz.niedersachsen.de
  9. ^ Islamic Organizations in Germany , Uta Rasche, FAZ , October 25, 2001
  10. ↑ Press report of the Frankfurter Rundschau , November 9, 2017
  11. ↑ BVerwG 6 B 94.18, decision of December 20, 2018 | Federal Administrative Court. Accessed March 31, 2019 .