Omar Al-Rawi

Omar Al-Rawi (born May 8, 1961 in Baghdad ) is an Austrian politician ( SPÖ ) and integration officer of the IGGiÖ ( Islamic Faith Community in Austria ).

Life

After completing his community service with the workers' maritime association, Al-Rawi worked in the construction industry from 1991 to 1992. From 1992 to 1996 he held the function of a works council of Hofman & Maculan AG , from 1997 to 1999 that of the works council chairman of ERA-Bau AG . He has been a works council at Strabag since 2000 .

From 1978 to 1990 Al-Rawi was involved in the Austrian student body .

Since 1999 he has been the integration officer of the Islamic Faith Community in Austria. In the same year he founded the Muslim Austrians Initiative with Carla Amina Baghajati , Tarafa Baghajati , Mouddar Khouja and Andrea Saleh . In 2001 he ran for the Vienna City Council. Since 2002 he has been a member of the Vienna state parliament and local council .

Controversy

Al-Rawi and the Muslim Austrians' initiative he founded are said to be close to the Islamist Muslim Brotherhood , which has repeatedly been denied by the Muslim Brotherhood and by the Islamic community in Austria. In a 2017 study by George Washington University , Al-Rawi was cited as a supporter of organizations related to the Muslim Brotherhood. The MP Efgani Dönmez called on Al-Rawi to resign because of this close relationship with the Muslim Brotherhood. Al-Rawi also stood out for his support for Imam Adnan Ibrahim from Palestine , who is considered a representative of a moderate, “European” Islam, but who has also been accused of calling for jihad .

At a demonstration against the violent storming of a Gaza solidarity ship by Israeli soldiers on June 4, 2010 in Vienna, Al-Rawi announced that he would continue the fight against the activists who died in the Ship-to-Gaza incident . The IKG Vienna accuses Al-Rawi that his statements, as well as other messages and statements from participants, were inflammatory at the demonstration he helped to organize. Al-Rawi is one of those "provocateurs" who "artificially increased the excitement about the ship incident and thus called up or activated existing anti-Semitic resentments in some". The Federal Association of Israelite Religious Communities urged Al-Rawi to "draw conclusions and withdraw from political life". Both Al-Rawi and the Islamic Faith Community have rejected the IKG's allegations and stressed that differences of opinion on the Middle East conflict should not lead to a disruption of the good relations between Muslims and Jews in Austria.

The Liberal Muslims Austria initiative accused Al-Rawi of “meeting with extremist foreign Salafist leaders” and called for his resignation.

Web links

• Data on life and work (SPÖ Vienna)
• Initiative of Muslim Austrians - self-expression
• Omar al-Rawi: Four radical mosques in Austria (ORF Religion)
• Omar Al-Rawi on meineabektiven.at

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Stefan Beig: Larise, Dunja / Schmidinger, Thomas (eds.): Handbook of Political Islam , September 2, 2008, accessed on November 8, 2013
2. ↑ oe1.orf.at: Secret infiltration. It's about pressure, not terror , Jan. 1, 2007
3. ^ Lorenzo Vidino: The Muslim Brotherhood in Austria . In: GW Program on Extremism . August 2017, p. 30 ( gwu.edu [PDF]).
4. ↑ Radical Islam: Political Controversy over the Muslim Brotherhood Study . In: www.kleinezeitung.at . September 15, 2017 ( kleinezeitung.at [accessed April 25, 2018]).
5. ↑ Florian Klenk: Sharia in St. Joseph ( memento from September 25, 2008 in the Internet Archive ), June 3, 2008.
6. ↑ LICRA: Is that the opinion of the SPÖ? (No longer available online.) Formerly in the original ; accessed on August 12, 2019 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )   , Die Jüdische , June 15, 2010.
7. ↑ ^{a b} Die Presse: Anger over Gaza Incident: Rabbis Spit on , June 16, 2010
8. ↑ When will GR Omar Al-Rawi draw political conclusions? (No longer available online.) Formerly in the original ; accessed on August 12, 2019 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )   , Die Jüdische , July 13, 2010.
9. ↑ Benjamin Weinthal: Austrian Jewish community calls for gov't to ban IHH branch , 16 July 2010
10. ^ The Salafist and Jihadist danger is growing and threatening Austria. Liberal Muslim Initiative, September 9, 2013, accessed April 26, 2018 .