Mevlana Mosque (Berlin)

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Facade and entrance of the Mevlana Mosque building on Skalitzer Strasse . Since 2013 the house has been remodeled and a dome and a minaret have been added.

The Mevlana Mosque ( Turkish Mevlana Camii ) is a mosque in the Berlin district of Kreuzberg . The Mevlana congregation is a founding member of the Islamic Federation Berlin . The community of the Mevlana Mosque has about 350 members.

history

Connections to Millî Görüş

The Mevlana Mosque has been criticized for its links with the Millî Görüş movement, which the Office for the Protection of the Constitution is monitoring for its Islamist and anti-democratic stance. The Islamic Community Millî Görüş Berlin (IGMG-Berlin) was founded on August 14, 1976 under the name “Avrupa Milli Görüş Teşkilati - Berlin Bölge e. V. “(AMGT - Berlin section) was founded. On August 23, 1980, the AMGT-Berlin changed its name to “Mevlana-Moschee und Koranschule e. V. ". At the same time the " Islamic Federation in Berlin e. V. ”, whose founding member was the association“ Mevlana Mosque and Koran School e. V. "is. On August 24, 1989, the name was again changed to “Mevlana-Moschee e. V. ”changed. According to internal documents, the name "Milli Görüş (AMGT-Berlin)" should continue to be used and, after a restructuring in June 1995, "Islamic Community Milli Görüş / Berlin Section" (IGMG-Berlin). Externally, the association continues to use the name “Mevlana-Moschee e. V. "

Nail Dural , chairman of the “Islamic Federation Berlin” from its founding in 1980 until November 26, 2005, was already a member of the board of “Milli Görüş-Berlin” in 1979. Yakup Taşçı was already a member of the founding board of “Milli Görüş-Berlin” and imam of the “Mevlana Mosque” in 1976 , as well as the contact person for the Islamic primary school whose sponsoring association “Islam Kolleg e. V. ”is in turn a member of the“ Islamic Federation Berlin ”. Aykut Haldun Algan was chairman of “Milli Görüş-Berlin”, deputy managing director and financial administrator of the “Islamic Federation” over the years. His brother Ahmet Algan in turn is a founding member of the "Islamic Federation" and its public relations worker. Externally, the informally connected “Mevlana Mosque e. V. "," Islamic Federation Berlin "and" Milli Görüş-Berlin "continue to be independent organizations. The former head of the Berlin Office for the Protection of the Constitution, Eduard Vermander, held the Mevlana Mosque for the seat of the "Milli Görüş-Berlin". The “Islamic Federation Berlin” was approved by the Berlin Senate in 2001 to provide Islamic religious instruction.

The murder of Celalettin Kesim

On January 5, 1980, the teacher and secretary of the Berlin Turkish Center Celalettin Kesim was murdered by Turkish fascists and religious fanatics during an action against the then threatened military dictatorship in Turkey. Around 40 activists from the politically left-wing Turkish Center, who were distributing leaflets at Kottbusser Tor , were attacked by around 70 Turkish fascists and religious fundamentalists who came from the neighboring Mevlana mosque and beat them with chains, batons and knives. Celalettin Kesim was injured by a knife stab in the thigh. Although the incident was watched by plainclothes police, Kesim bled to death in the street. Uniformed police and ambulances only came to help after more than 30 minutes.

"Hate Preacher" Affair

At the end of 2004, the ZDF magazine Frontal21 reported on " hate sermons " in the mosque community. The Berlin immigration authorities ordered the imam's expulsion. With tape recordings it could be proven that suicide bombers were stylized as heroes and hatred for Americans and Jews was stoked. The TV report said, for example, that Yakup Taşçı described the Germans as “stinking infidels who end up in hell”. According to the Higher Regional Court, this translation, against which Taşçı had successfully sued so far, was "ultimately correct". The Imam is said to have made his controversial statements on June 12, 2004 on Oranienplatz in Berlin-Kreuzberg during a public rally and in a sermon during Ramadan 2004. The Berlin Administrative Court saw it as proven that Taşçı had glorified violence in his speeches and "significantly disrupted the basic consensus on the peaceful coexistence of different population groups". First, the imam objected to the deportation and initiated a constitutional lawsuit that initially protected him from deportation. The imam later withdrew the objection to his deportation, so that it became final and he had to leave Germany. That Taşçı could be called a "hate preacher" by ZDF was confirmed in April 2007 by the Brandenburg Higher Regional Court.

Yimpaş affair

The ZDF magazine Frontal21 also reported in November 2006 that Yakup Taşçı had openly advertised in his sermons to acquire shares in the profits of the Islamic holding Yimpaş . The buyers of the shares are said to have lost large parts of their assets when the German subsidiary of the holding company had to file for bankruptcy. Taşçı is said to have done money business himself and made high interest profits . The Berlin public prosecutor's office was investigating fraud . Taşçı, who is registered as unemployed, is said to have received state benefits from the Berlin-Mitte job center, although, according to Frontal21 research, he had just under half a million euros in the account of a Turkish bank.

Berlin Book and Culture Festival

In a press release on April 24, 2006, the Islamic Federation of Berlin stated that the annual book fair held on the mosque site was “a matter for a private publisher” and that “the mosque had nothing to do with it”. In an advertising brochure, however, it says "Every year around 1000 reading enthusiasts visit our book fair". Journalist Richard Herzinger reported in 2004 on the “2. Berliner Buch- und Kulturfest ”in the Mevlana Mosque from writings by the Egyptian religious scholar Mohammed Qutb , which were displayed in German, whose brother Sayyid Qutb is a major pioneer of modern militant Islamism . The book fair displays also included copies of the Turkish daily Vakit, which was later banned in Germany, and religious-political writings by the author Harun Yahya . When a journalist from Tagesspiegel (on the day of the open mosque ) asked Mohammed Qutb at the book table , Burhan Kesici replied that “people read these books anyway”, so they could also be sold. Of course, that does not mean that the Federation shares Qutb’s views.

Fire in the mosque

On the night of August 11-12, 2014, a part of the mosque that was under construction burned down. Since there were remains of a flammable liquid in the rubble, it may have been an attack. The Berlin police assume arson , an accident or a technical defect are impossible. A few weeks later, the public prosecutor's office opened an investigation into a suspect. As a spokesman for the prosecution said that it was for the accused to one of Jordan originating man who had noticed already because of other arson charges and is currently in custody sit.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Kotti, Berlin Mainstream . In: Der Tagesspiegel
  2. ^ Federal Constitutional Protection Report 2011 (PDF; 6.0 MB) p. 290 ff.
  3. ↑ Politics in the Name of Allah . 2nd Edition. P. 40.
  4. ↑ Politics in the Name of Allah . 2nd Edition. P. 38.
  5. ↑ Islamist Association loses against the taz . In: the daily newspaper , March 4, 2006.
  6. ↑ About the IFB . Islamic Federation in Berlin. "The IFB is independent and only represented regionally."
  7. ↑ The Office for the Protection of the Constitution wants to review the organizers of Islam classes . In: Berliner Zeitung , November 6, 1998, p. 21.
  8. ^ Berlin: Islamic religious instruction admitted . ( Memento of the original from August 24, 2004 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. migration-info.de, edition 02/00 (February / March 2000). @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.network-migration.org
  9. ↑ For the love of Allah . ( Memento of the original from May 30, 2011 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. In: jungle world , 2002 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / jungle-world.com
  10. ↑ a b Yakup T. is a "hate preacher" . In: Berliner Zeitung , April 26, 2007
  11. ↑ Imam of the Mevlana Mosque is expelled . ( Memento of November 22, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) berlin.de, press release No. 26 of December 16, 2004.
  12. ↑ Sigrid Kneist, Suzan Gülfirat : Hate preacher is not allowed to stay. Court strengthens immigration authorities: expulsion was legal . In: Der Tagesspiegel , February 24, 2005.
  13. ↑ Imam celebrates the rule of law . In: taz , June 23, 2005:
  14. ↑ Hate preacher goes voluntarily - Former imam of the Mevlana mosque in Berlin withdraws his suit against his deportation . erhaltungstrieb.blogg.de, September 10, 2006
  15. ↑ a b Questionable business at the Berlin Mevlana Mosque / Preacher also suspected of fraud . Frontal21 , ZDF, November 7, 2006.
  16. ↑ Questionable business . In: Der Tagesspiegel , November 7, 2006.
  17. ↑ Press release of April 24, 2006
  18. ↑ Hildegard Becker: Mosque Report: The "Hijacking" of British Islam . ( Memento from April 2, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Sicherheit-heute.de, November 1, 2007.
  19. ↑ Richard Herzinger : Radical message, gentle in tone . In: Die Zeit , No. 20/2004.
  20. ↑ Claudia Keller: Day of the Open Mosque: Curious glances under the dome . In: Der Tagesspiegel , October 3, 2007.
  21. ↑ Hildegard Becker: From people stupid and other embarrassments . ( Memento from December 11, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Sicherheitsheit-heute.de, October 8, 2007.
  22. ↑ In the courtyard of the Mevlana Mosque in Kreuzberg: Book fair with anti-Semitic inflammatory pamphlets . haGalil , April 20, 2006.
  23. ↑ Andreas Kopietz: Muslims fear attack on mosque .  ( 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. In: Berliner Zeitung , August 15, 2014.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / berliner-zeitung.de  
  24. ↑ Police assume arson in Mevlana mosque . rbb television , August 27, 2014
  25. ↑ Andreas Kopietz: Jordanians are said to have set fire to mosques . In: Berliner Zeitung , August 31, 2014.

Coordinates: 52 ° 29 ′ 57.5 ″  N , 13 ° 25 ′ 12.9 ″  E