Pierre Vogel

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Pierre Vogel during a rally in Freiburg 2014

Pierre Vogel ( Arabic أبو حمزة Abu Hamza ,DMG Abū Ḥamza  'The father of Hamza'; *July 20, 1978inFrechen) is anIslamist German preacherand formerboxerwho is considered influential in theGerman Salafism scene. State investigation and prosecution authorities keep bird itself fromevangelical ChristianitytoSunni Islam convert, is one of the most influential people of German convert scene. Various German media describe him as an Islamist or an Islamisthate preacher.

Life

Pierre Vogel was baptized and confirmed as a Protestant . According to his own statements, he attended the Norbert-Gymnasium in Dormagen , a Roman Catholic denominational school .

Vogel began boxing in 1993 and trained at the Berlin TSC . In 1996 he became German junior middleweight champion (U 19) and in the same year he was a participant in the international Brandenburg Cup in Frankfurt (Oder) alongside Felix Sturm , where he won the silver medal in the middleweight division. At the age of 16 he switched to a sports boarding school in Berlin at the Sportforum Hohenschönhausen , where he received his Abitur in 1999 . He then did community service . In 2000 he started a career as a professional boxer at the Boxstall Sauerland Event and remained undefeated in seven fights in a draw. He appeared at World Cup and European Championship preliminary fights from Sven Ottke , Danilo Häußler , Vitali Klitschko and Artur Grigorian .

On May 11, 2001, Vogel drove to a mosque in Frechen with a US training partner , where he spontaneously decided to speak the Islamic creed. In June 2002 he gave up boxing because he could no longer reconcile it with his faith.

After the first semester , he broke off a teacher training course for elementary and secondary schools that he had started at the University of Cologne , after which he began language training in Arabic in Bonn , which he also broke off. In 2003 Vogel married a Moroccan woman and in 2004 went to the Arab Institute for Foreigners at the Umm Al Qura University in Mecca on a three-semester scholarship .

In a talk show in 2010, Vogel stated that he had met one of the later terrorists of the Sauerland group in Mecca in 2005 or 2006 and advised him against attacks in Germany. Vogel returned to Germany in 2006 after his daughter was born with a heart defect in Bonn and his daughter and wife were not able to come to Mecca as planned.

Until the self-dissolution of the Salafist association Invitation to Paradise ( EZP for short ) in 2011, Vogel was a member there and has since been considered its figurehead. The association was considered an influential propaganda platform for Salafist ideology at the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution .

After Vogel tried to gain a foothold in the Hamburg Salafist scene at short notice in the summer of 2014 and lived briefly in Hamburg-Wilhelmsburg , he moved to Bergheim near Cologne that same year . The State Office for the Protection of the Constitution in Hamburg was alarmed and warned publicly in advance of his move to Hamburg.

In December 2015, following a notification from the Koblenz public prosecutor, it became known that his father Walter Vogel was a member of the Hells Angels .

Preaching activity

Bilal Philips and Pierre Vogel, 2011
Sven Lau (left) together with Pierre Vogel at a rally in Freiburg, June 2014

From 2006 he worked as an Islamist preacher. Vogel is mainly known for his numerous lectures on Islam (e.g. doctrine of the faith) as well as on individual subjects (e.g. the position of women in Islam). Numerous videos by Vogel can be found on the Internet, including lectures and conversations from Germans to Islam led by Vogel . Publicly staged conversions are also common at his rallies.

On April 20, 2011, Vogel and Bilal Philips held a rally in front of around 1,500 supporters in downtown Frankfurt, which could only take place after legal disputes and subject to conditions regarding the positions represented. A public funeral prayer planned for May 7, 2011 for the terrorist Osama bin Laden , who was killed five days earlier , was prohibited by the city of Frankfurt am Main. Another rally was held following a court decision.

Vogel appeared on June 9, 2012 at the 1st Islamic Peace Congress in Cologne, a rally he initiated that attracted widespread media attention because it directly related to the riots in Bonn ( debates on the ban on Salafism in Germany ) and the distribution of Koran translations in several major German cities followed.

In January 2014, Vogel started a tour of Germany which , according to his announcement, would take him through 33 German cities. His rallies were advertised on the Internet and registered by members of the local Salafist scene. According to the North Rhine-Westphalian Constitutional Protection Report, the number of participants in the meeting for 2014 was consistently well below the registered number of participants. This lack of popularity may therefore have contributed to the fact that the Germany tour was not carried out to the extent originally announced.

End of May 2014, said the city of Bremen a patent for June 1 rally with bird and Sven Lau before the Bremen Main Station, because the Salafi ideology "elementary the free democratic basic order " contradicts and paving "the way for violence and terrorism." But both the administrative court and the higher administrative court in Bremen decided that even anti-constitutional statements should be accepted as long as they are not punishable. The city was not able to produce any criminal statements that would have justified the ban. At the rally, Vogel called Islamist fighters in Syria “freedom fighters”, but he called it “nonsense” to claim that he was calling on people to join them in Germany. He appealed to his listeners, as a representative of Islam, “to behave in the best possible way to fellow human beings”.

Vogel, along with Bilal Gümüs, is the organizer of the follow-up campaign to the Koran distribution campaign Lies! current campaign We love Muhammad , with which he tried massively to proselytize. The new campaign has since appeared in Germany and Switzerland.

Viewpoints and rhetoric

Pierre Vogel during a rally in Koblenz 2011

Vogel especially spreads his theses to a younger audience. The influence of the Salafiyya often becomes clear in his representations - referred to as Islamist hate sermons . Vogel speaks out in favor of wearing headscarves for Muslims. He compares it to the dress code at work, that you have signed a contract to adhere to the orders of the boss or the prophet and receive wages for it. If you don't stick to it, you get less or no wages. Vogel positions himself against forced marriages because they were expressly forbidden by the Prophet Mohammed . Vogel considers violence against innocents, terrorist attacks and honor killings to be incompatible with Islam. Vogel rejects the theory of evolution and Darwinism , which is taught in schools "to make people unhappy".

With his jovial style of preaching, which approximates the language of young people, Vogel has great success, especially with younger Germans and both Muslim and non-Muslim migrants of the second and third generation.

Vogel distances himself from the use of force for proselytizing. According to the Federal Agency for Political Education, however, his view of the world is characterized by a strict division into Islamic and un-Islamic behavior, “right” and “wrong” or “good” and “bad”. With this in mind, he calls on young Muslims living in Germany in particular to consistently differentiate themselves from their non-Muslim living environment. From the point of view of security authorities, Vogel's sermons thus harbor the risk of contributing to the radicalization of “individual, very religious young people”. Vogel compares the situation of Muslims in Germany with the earlier persecution of Jews by the National Socialists . Until 2011 Vogel spoke out against political violence; however, since 2011 he has expressed understanding that “some Muslims react to 'attacks against Islam' with violence”.

In videos he makes a statement in the form of his shirt with the logo of the terrorist militia Islamic State (IS). He called the Islamist militiamen in Syria “freedom fighters”; In the opinion of the KSTA author Markus Decker, he is “ dancing ” on the threshold of criminal liability without crossing it. ”While the political public in Germany discussed intensively in the summer of 2014 how the Yazidis in northern Iraq, who had been threatened by IS , could be helped Vogel called on the Yazidis to convert to Islam.

In April 2015, IS called on its supporters to kill Vogel in the monthly ISIS propaganda magazine Dabiq . The reason given is that Vogel was a renegade who "accepted the comforts of the western world and a peaceful life in the lands of the oldest enemies of Islam". After the terrorist attacks in Paris on November 13, 2015 , he criticized Facebook for the fact that such attacks were prohibited according to the Koran. According to n-tv , Vogel is using the IS threat as advertising for his own purposes; he shared an excerpt from the IS magazine on Facebook as an argument against his critics.

reception

The Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung writes on its website: “Observers and liberal Muslims consider his views to be anti-integration and anti-constitutional.” Christoph Ehrhardt writes on FAZ.net : “Pierre Vogel is one of the most prominent - and according to the assessment of the security authorities, also most influential - figures of the German convert scene ”. According to Spiegel Online , parts of the Salafists refer to Vogel as “an 'enemy of the mujahideen ', as a 'slipper' or as an unbeliever”.

Vogel is seen as problematic by the Berlin Office for the Protection of the Constitution because, according to Frank Jansen in the Tagesspiegel , he “rejects terror in his speeches on the Internet”, but “on the other hand, with his slogans he is promoting the radicalization of Muslims”. According to the protection of the Constitution of Schleswig-Holstein, Vogel is considered to be "one of the best-known protagonists of the Salafist average spectrum". The same report confirms Vogel's distancing itself from violence, but sees “clear Salafist traits” in his interpretation of Islam, characterized by “anti-Christian resentment” and the representation of the “absolute superiority of Islam”. In a study carried out by the British Change Institute for the European Commission , Vogel is seen as a very prominent person who preaches the Salafist version of Islam.

The Lower Saxony Interior Minister Uwe Schünemann during the presentation of the Constitutional Protection Report 2007 , Vogel had justified the marriage of nine-year-old girl in a mosque in Göttingen, the lecture was "just as perverse to call." Vogel is not mentioned by name in the report itself.

In the run-up to a planned event of the Islamic Central Council Switzerland in Bern in 2009, at which Vogel was supposed to speak, an entry ban was imposed on him. The Swiss Federal Office for Migration relied on the Aliens Act , which allows entry bans if foreigners in Switzerland or abroad violate public security and order. When trying to enter Switzerland anyway, Vogel was turned back at the border.

In the specialist book Extremism Research: Handbook for Science and Practice , published in May 2018 , edited by political scientists Eckhard Jesse and Tom Mannewitz , the authors come to the conclusion in the biographical portrait of Vogel that he is “currently the most active person and the most publicly prominent face of the Salafist scene ”.

literature

  • Ulrich Kraetzer: Salafism as a youth culture: the provocateur Pierre Vogel. In: Ders .: Salafists: A threat to Germany? Gütersloher Verlags-Haus, Gütersloh 2014, ISBN 978-3-579-07064-3 , pp. 133-162.
  • Nina Wiedl, Carmen Becker: Popular preachers in German Salafism - Pierre Vogel: star preacher from German soil . In: Thorsten Gerald Schneiders (ed.): Salafism in Germany. Origins and dangers of an Islamic fundamentalist movement . Transcript, Bielefeld 2014, ISBN 978-3-8376-2711-4 , pp. 192-197.
  • Annika Lindow: Salafism in Germany - its German preacher Pierre Vogel (= publications of the Islamic Science and Education Institute . Volume 13). Bautz, Nordhausen 2014, ISBN 978-3-88309-869-2 (123 pages, with a preface by Ali Özgür Özdil ).

Web links

Commons : Pierre Vogel  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

References and comments

  1. ↑ Hamza is Pierre Vogel's first son. See Claudia Dantschke: »Don't let yourself be radicalized!« - Salafism in Germany . In: Thorsten Gerald Schneiders (ed.): Salafism in Germany. Origins and dangers of an Islamic fundamentalist movement . Transcript, Bielefeld 2014, ISBN 978-3-8376-2711-4 , pp. 171–186, here p. 181.
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  6. ↑ Search for the alleged first IS fighters from Saxony . In: Freie Presse , September 19, 2014.
  7. ↑ The social scientist Alexander Häusler describes Vogel as a "hate preacher": ders., Rainer Roeser: Geliebter Feind? Islamism as a mobilization resource for the extreme right . In: Thorsten Gerald Schneiders (ed.): Salafism in Germany. Origins and dangers of an Islamic fundamentalist movement . transcript Verlag, Bielefeld 2014, ISBN 978-3-8376-2711-4 , p. 313.
  8. ↑ The Islamic scholar Abdel-Hakim Ourghi describes Vogel as a “hate preacher”: this: Salafism - New Koran distributors . In: Die Zeit , No. 49/2016, November 24, 2016 (guest article; published online on December 14, 2016). Retrieved December 3, 2018.
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  44. ↑ Verfassungsschutz Report 2007. (PDF; 470 kB) (No longer available online.) Formerly in the original ; accessed on June 13, 2019 : “Although he clearly distances himself from violence, the contents of his lectures have clear Salafist features. If he wants to convey to his listeners self-confidence as a Muslim, he does so in contrast to German society with strict moral concepts and anti-Christian resentments, in short: by preaching the absolute superiority of Islam. With clear, easily understandable rules, he provides orientation in the often confusing worlds of his followers. "
  45. ^ Change Institute: Studies into violent radicalization; Lot 2: The beliefs ideologies and narratives. A study carried out by the Change Institute for the European Commission (Directorate General Justice, Freedom and Security). (PDF; 1.2 MB) (No longer available online.) The Change Institute, February 2008, p. 75 , archived from the original on December 16, 2011 ; Retrieved on July 7, 2011 (English): "Currently there is a high profile public figure, the convert Pierre Vogel, who is active in missionary work and presents a Salafi version of Islam to audiences."
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personal data
SURNAME Vogel, Pierre
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Abu Hamza
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Islamist preacher
DATE OF BIRTH July 20, 1978
PLACE OF BIRTH Cheeky