Coordination Council of Muslims in Germany

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The Coordination Council of Muslims ( KRM ) (unofficially also the Coordination Council of Muslims ; for clarity, it is also called the Coordination Council / Coordination Council of Muslims in Germany ) was founded in 2007 as a working platform for the four largest Islamic organizations in Germany as part of the German Islam Conference . It is controversial how many of the Muslims living in Germany are represented by the KRM. The majority of mosque communities in Germany are represented in the KRM through its member organizations.

Among the founding members are since 2007:

In 2019 the KRM was expanded to include the following mosque associations:

An expression of interest for membership in the KRM is available.

organization

status

The cooperation in the KRM is based on joint rules of procedure , which were first signed by the four founding members on March 28, 2007. This means that the KRM is not a registered association , so it does not have an independent legal personality.

structure

The day-to-day business of the KRM is coordinated by the respective spokesperson. It is not known whether the KRM has its own staff or whether member associations send their staff to the KRM. In 2008, the Islamische Zeitung criticized the fact that the KRM had no employees, no budget, no lobby office in Berlin, no website of its own and hardly any clearly defined program. It is not known whether the KRM is now acting as a separate organization or has a predominantly coordinating function.

In July 2019, the establishment of state structures was announced without any further details.

Rules of Procedure

The rules of procedure give the DITIB a right of veto and three representatives with voting rights, while the other associations only have two representatives each. It also says:

  • “Members at the federal level can only become umbrella organizations or umbrella organizations […] The general assembly decides on admission. A rejection of membership does not need to be justified. "
  • "The Coordination Council is committed to the free and democratic basic order of the Federal Republic of Germany."
  • “The Koran and Sunna of the Prophet Mohammed form the basis of the Coordination Council. This principle may not be abandoned or changed even by changes to these rules of procedure. "

A further development of the rules of procedure into binding statutes planned in 2007 did not take place.

speaker

The role of spokesman for the coordination council changes every six months on April 1 and October 1 and is provided by the member organizations. In April 2020, Burhan Kesici ( IRD ) replaced Zekeriya Altuğ ( DITIB ). His office will expire at the end of September 2020.

Legal recognition as a religious community

It is not known that the Coordination Council itself seeks religious community status. This is in Germany because of the Regligionsverfassungsrecht prevailing national jurisdiction in any case only by the states possible. However, according to its rules of procedure, the KRM wants to work “together with the existing Muslim country structures and the existing local structures to create legal and organizational conditions for the recognition of Islam in Germany within the framework of international treaties”. Regardless of the question of whether the coordination council even strives for a status as a religious community, Volker Beck expressed the opinion in April 2007 that the KRM does not yet meet the requirements of a religious community according to Art. 140 GG : “... a pure umbrella organization is not yet a mere umbrella organization under our law Religious community and does not yet meet the requirements of a corporation . ”He also advised caution in dealing with the predominantly conservative and fundamentalist forces within the KRM, although he advocated a perspective of equality.

Contact person for politics for "the Muslims" and own representation

The aim and purpose of the coordination council is, according to § 2 of its rules of procedure, to organize the representation of Muslims in the Federal Republic and to be the contact person for politics and society. The intention, also confirmed in the preamble to the KRM rules of procedure, to create “a uniform structure of representation for Muslims in the Federal Republic”, is understood as a claim to sole representation that would like to exclude Muslim representation outside the KRM.

Right to representation through the member organizations

The Coordination Council mainly represents Sunni Muslims and also Shiite Muslims through the Central Council of Muslims.

At the time of its founding, the coordination council represented around 300,000 of the 3.8 to 4.3 million Muslims in Germany through its member associations. In addition, there will be an unknown number of members as part of the 2019 expansion.

  • DITIB : approx. 950 member mosques, 110,000 - 140,000 members
  • Islam Council : approx. 400 member mosques, 80,000 - 140,000 members
  • ZMD : approx. 300 member mosques , 20,000 - 30,000 members
  • VIKZ : approx. 300 member mosques, 24,000 - 30,000 members
  • ZRDM: approx. 50 member mosques, unknown number of members
  • UIAZD: approx. 30 member mosques, unknown number of members
  • IGBD approx. 60 member mosques, unknown number of members

Not represented in the KRM are a .:

  • the Alevis, which are mainly organized in the Alevi Congregation Germany (AABF), with their approx. 130 member congregations . However, it is controversial among the members whether they consider themselves Muslims.
  • the Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat with about 50 member communities. They are not recognized as Muslim by Sunni associations.
  • the most important representation of the Shiites in Germany, the Iranian Islamic Community of Shiite Congregations in Germany (IGS) with approx. 110 member congregations .
  • the Islamic Community Millî Görüş (IGMG) with its approx. 350 member communities. However, it dominates the KRM member Islamrat.
  • the Liberal-Islamic Federation, which represents liberal Muslims with its approx. 5 member communities.

Perceived representation by Muslims in Germany itself

According to the then KRM spokesman Köhler, “an estimated 85 percent” of the mosque communities in Germany were represented in the founding phase . According to a study by the BAMF, however, only 10 percent of Muslims in Germany knew the KRM in the first half of 2008.

In 2007, Lale Akgün , the SPD's Islamic Commissioner at the time, criticized the fact that the Coordination Council mainly represented conservative Muslims and could not speak for all Muslims in Germany. Also in 2007, Seyran Ateş criticized : "Most Islamic associations represent a fundamentalist, strict Islam."

Contact person for politics

German politicians have long been calling for the establishment of an umbrella organization for Muslims living in Germany, which should serve as a single point of contact for politics and facilitate the legal recognition of organized Muslims as a religious community and, moreover, as a public corporation . The Green Bundestag member Omid Nouripour commented, however: "The permanent call of politics for the one telephone number in Islam is completely counterproductive."

Opinions of the KRM

  • On April 13, 2007, the KRM demanded the immediate release of the German hostages in Iraq.
  • In an interview before the 2nd meeting of the Islamic Conference, the KRM spokesman stated that he wanted to support Muslim parents in demanding separate physical education classes , and received strong irritation and criticism for this.
  • On the occasion of the second meeting of the German Islam Conference, the KRM asked the Federal Government to present a " roadmap " and to specify the objectives.
  • In a statement of May 24, 2007, the KRM responded to a text by the EKD on the subject of Christians and Muslims in Germany of November 28, 2006.
  • On July 3, 2007, the KRM issued an opinion on the draft law for the implementation of EU directives on residence and asylum law . Because of the law, Turkish organizations threatened to withdraw from the integration summit and eventually boycotted it. The KRM can "understand if the Ditib distances itself from the integration summit". From the group of KRM member associations, only DITIB is invited to the integration summit.
  • In the summer of 2008, the associations represented in the KRM agreed for the first time on a common calculation basis for the beginning and end of the fasting month Ramadan and thus created the prerequisite that for the first time almost all Muslims in Germany celebrate Ramadan and the subsequent festival of breaking the fast at the same time.
  • In September 2008 the KRM demanded the replacement of Prof. Muhammad Sven Kalisch and withdrew from the advisory board of the Center for Religious Studies (CRS) at the Westphalian Wilhelms University in Münster .
  • In spring 2012, the Muslim Coordination Council criticized statements made by the new Federal President Joachim Gauck . Gauck had discussed the sentence of his predecessor "Islam belongs to Germany".
  • In June 2012, the KRM criticized a ruling, the Cologne Regional Court that the circumcision of male infants or children as a criminal assault recognized. (For the legal situation in Germany see here .)
  • On November 15, 2015, the four KRM members and four other associations condemned the “vile and barbaric” terrorist attacks on November 13, 2015 in Paris : “The murderers of Paris are mistaken if they believe they are the executors of a divine will. Terror stands in complete contradiction to the mercy of God. "KRM spokesman Zekeriya Altug said in Cologne that after the attacks in Paris the message in this country must be:" We stand together against those who want to divide us. "

See also

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. coordi nation council of Muslims , according to press releases, also Koordi nierungs council of Muslims called - both names are as well used by both the participating organizations by the media side by side.
  2. The designation as Coordination Council of Muslims in Germany is in the title of the rules of procedure of March 28, 2007 (in the rest of the text of the rules of procedure it is briefly called the coordination council ); however, according to the website , the name is Coordinating Council of Muslims .
  3. a b KRM is planning expansion in the near future. In: KRM. June 8, 2019, accessed on July 9, 2020 (German).
  4. IGBD Federal Board confirms KRM cooperation - IslamiQ. In: IslamiQ - news and debate magazine. June 26, 2019, accessed July 9, 2020 .
  5. a b c d e Rules of Procedure of the Coordination Council of Muslims in Germany at www.religion-recht.de
  6. PDF of the rules of procedure with the signatures of the signatories
  7. Unity through the KRM - Illusion or Opportunity? Khalil Breuer wants to know who really coordinates the position of the Muslims. In: Islamic Newspaper . October 8, 2008, accessed June 16, 2015 .
  8. KRM plans to set up state structures - IslamiQ. In: IslamiQ - news and debate magazine. July 2, 2019, accessed July 9, 2020 .
  9. Church fight over the mosques - Muslims demand their constitutional recognition. In: Tagesspiegel. April 13, 2007, accessed June 16, 2015 .
  10. Volker Beck: Roadmap for Integration. In: The daily newspaper . April 16, 2007, accessed June 16, 2015 .
  11. a b Mariam Lau: Böhmer against Muslim coordination committee: "Fundamentalists have the majority in the council". In: The world . April 21, 2007, accessed June 16, 2015 .
  12. ^ Muslim life in Germany . Representative study by the BAMF on behalf of the German Islam Conference , June 2009, p. 11.
  13. a b c d Islamic associations taz April 12, 2007
  14. a b c d e Kerstin Krupp: concerns about cooperation between Islamic associations. In: Berliner Zeitung . April 12, 2007, accessed June 16, 2015 .
  15. New umbrella organization criticized as too conservative. In: The world . April 12, 2007, accessed June 16, 2015 .
  16. ^ Muslim life in Germany . Representative study by the BAMF on behalf of the German Islam Conference, June 2009, p. 17 (for the survey period, see p. 38).
  17. ^ Seyran Ateş: The multicultural mistake. How we can live better together in Germany. Ullstein, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-550-08694-6 , p. 197.
  18. ^ Coordination Council of Muslims in Germany (KRM) calls for the immediate release of the German hostages in Iraq , islam.de, April 13, 2007
  19. ^ "We represent a mainstream Islam". In: The time . April 19, 2007, accessed June 16, 2015 .
  20. Aiman ​​Mazyek on the statements by Köhler , Jörg Lau, Zeit-Blog, April 21, 2007
  21. Andrea Brandt, Cordula Meyer: Big idea, small plan. In: Spiegel Online . April 23, 2007, accessed June 16, 2015 .
  22. ^ Coordination Council of Muslims for the German Islam Conference: "Roadmap" and the objectives must be specified , islam.de, May 1, 2007
  23. Profiling at the expense of the Muslims? IGMG , May 24, 2007
  24. Invitation to discussion and dialogue: Handout on the subject of Christians and Muslims in Germany EKD press release, November 28, 2006
  25. ^ Opinion of the Coordination Council of Muslims in Germany on the draft law for the implementation of EU directives relating to residence and asylum of July 3, 2007
  26. Muslims threaten to withdraw from the integration summit. In: Tagesspiegel . July 4, 2007, accessed June 16, 2015 .
  27. http://www.islam.de/10694.php
  28. Canan Topçu: Kalisch does not fit the advice of the Muslims. In: Frankfurter Rundschau . September 12, 2008, archived from the original on April 1, 2009 ; accessed on June 16, 2015 .
  29. KRM: Federal President Gauck's statements about Islam are irritating
  30. KRM: Cologne's ban on circumcision is a massive encroachment on religious freedom (June 27, 2012) Religiously motivated circumcision: circumcision judgment criminalizes Muslims and Jews
  31. Press release of the Islamic Organizations in Germany ( Memento of the original dated February 3, 2016 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. November 16, 2015, accessed February 3, 2016. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.koordinationsrat.de
  32. Muslim associations call for social cohesion . Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, November 16, 2015.