Qaasim Illi

Abdel Azziz Qaasim Illi (* 1982 as Patric Jerome Illi in Schaffhausen ; resident in Bonstetten ) is a Swiss computer scientist who has converted to Islam and is a board member of the Association of Islamic Central Council Switzerland (IZRS).

Life

Illi was born in Schaffhausen. When he was twelve years old, his parents emigrated to the Philippines with the intention of running a hotel. Illi wanted to stay in Switzerland and spent his youth in a foster family. This belonged to a Puritan Christian free church. After attending secondary school, he completed an apprenticeship as a computer scientist. Illi founded "B + B Electronics" and until September 1999 was the organizer of techno parties under the Schaffhausen label "Hardbeat Rec. - The Trance / Techno Label". His last rave was the “Troja II” on the Sulzer site in Winterthur. He met his wife Nora Illi at a solidarity campaign for Palestine and married her in 2003 in Jordan. Illi studies history and Islamic studies at the University of Bern .

politics

Illi was a member of the Action for an Independent and Neutral Switzerland (AUNS) for four years . In 2002 he co-organized a rally in Schaffhausen against Switzerland's accession to the UN , in which the Young4FUN.ch organization also took part under Lukas Reimann . According to a report by Weltwoche, Illi hailed Palestinian suicide bombings on several occasions . He described 16 Israeli victims of a bus attack on his website as “ Zionist occupation bastards” who had been “killed”. Illi was convicted of anti-Semitic racial discrimination . He became known to the general public in 2002 through his visit to Hamas founder Sheikh Ahmad Yasin . Illi founded the organization "Pro PLO Switzerland" in Schaffhausen, their core consisted of six converted to Islam Swiss.

At a demonstration in Zurich, Illi caused an Israel flag to be burned . After the intervention of spectators, he described Switzerland as a " Zionist state infiltrated ". The Swiss federal prosecutor's office investigated the organization in 2003 because Illi is said to have prepared explosives offenses. The case against Illi for possession of explosives was closed in March 2004. The «Pro-PLO Switzerland» was officially dissolved at the end of 2004, but its website remained active and was now operated in Khartoum . In November 2016, the Swiss public prosecutor opened an investigation into jihadist propaganda against Illi and Nicolas Blancho . Illi and Blancho were acquitted on all counts on June 15 by the Swiss Federal Criminal Court.

Today Illi u. a. Abdel Azziz Qaasim and is a member of the board and, as “Head of Department for Public Relations and Information”, contact person and, according to the statutes, actuary of the radical Islamic association “Islamic Central Council Switzerland (IZRS)”.

Private

Qaasim Illi was married to Nora Illi , who died in March 2020 . They had six children together.

literature

• Daniel Ryser : Qaasim Illi and the Islamic Central Council. The Bümpliz jihadists. In: WOZ Die Wochenzeitung 34/2016 from August 25, 2016 (special supplement, 32 pages).

Web links

• From techno organizer to Islamist leader ( memento of July 5, 2011 in the Internet Archive ), Abdel Azziz Qaasim Illi as a guest of Roger Schawinski on Radio1 , May 9, 2010 ( MP3 , language: Swiss German; 54.4 MB). Archive version.
• “The veil hides its charms” , interview with Qaasim Illi in the Aargauer Zeitung.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Naïm Cherni: Les membres de la direction du CCIS. In: Le Temps . May 10, 2010, accessed January 19, 2012.
2. ↑ Islam gives him the support he is looking for. In: Tages-Anzeiger of February 12, 2010, accessed: January 17, 2012.
3. ↑ Showdown of Hardbeat Rec. - Come back on 1st of Nov 1999 ( Memento of 4th October 1999 in the Internet Archive ), accessed: 23rd November 2013.
4. ↑ Hardbeat Records ( Memento of the original from January 28, 2015 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: flix.de of November 27, 1999, accessed: November 23, 2013. 
5. ^ Criminal Tango instead of Techno Party. In: Schaffhauser Bock from September 16, 1999, accessed January 17, 2012.
6. ↑ Throughbreak 3 canceled! In: partyzoom.ch of September 7, 1999, accessed: January 17, 2012.
7. ↑ Behind the veil. In: Sunday of June 25, 2011, accessed: January 17, 2012.
8. ↑ Blancho and Illi from the Islamic Central Council receive 40,000 francs in scholarships. In: Aargauer Zeitung of October 27, 2010, accessed January 17, 2012.
9. ↑ Qaasim Illi was a member of the Auns. In: Tages-Anzeiger .ch from May 30, 2010
10. ↑ Public rally against joining the UN ( Memento from June 1, 2002 in the Internet Archive ) In: patricilli.net, accessed: January 17, 2012.
11. ↑ ^{a b} Bin Laden in Biel. In: Die Weltwoche of April 14, 2010, accessed on January 17, 2012.
12. ^ Hannes von Wyl: "IZRS spokesman Illi and pornography - that's double standards". In: Tages-Anzeiger . April 21, 2016. Retrieved November 28, 2016 . 
13. ^ "Zionists cleanly killed": How extreme are Swiss Islamists? ( Memento from January 19, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) In: View from January 29, 2010, accessed: January 17, 2012.
14. ↑ Federal Office of Police: “Report on internal security in Switzerland” Differentiated presentation of the situation on internal security in 2003. Media releases, fedpol, June 2, 2004. Access: January 18, 2012. ( pdf ( Memento of the original from January 25, 2015 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 note. ) 
15. ↑ ^{a b} Federal Office of Police: “Report on Internal Security in Switzerland” Differentiated presentation of the situation on internal security in 2004. Media releases, fedpol, May 26, 2005. Accessed: January 17, 2012. ( pdf ( Memento of the original from May 17, 2014 in Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. ) 
16. ↑ Behind the veil. Muslim Report Switzerland. Video in: DOK , Schweizer Fernsehen from April 4, 2010. (51 minutes). A film by Karin Bauer. (see from 32:52 to 34:30)
17. ↑ A target of Hamas fans In: Blick from August 2, 2003, accessed January 17, 2012.
18. ↑ New proceedings against PRO-PLO Switzerland. In: news.ch from August 4, 2003, accessed on January 17, 2012.
19. ↑ "Nikab-Nora" - investigation against the man of the "Anne Will" veiled. Berliner Kurier from November 28, 2016
20. ↑ Marcel Gyr: One guilty verdict and two acquittals | NZZ . In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung . June 15, 2018, ISSN  0376-6829 ( nzz.ch [accessed June 26, 2018]).
21. ↑ IZRS Board of Directors ( Memento of the original from December 11, 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. , IZRS website, accessed January 17, 2012. 
22. ^ Entry of the Islamic Central Council Switzerland in the commercial register of the canton of Bern.  ( 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.  
23. ↑ IZRS statutes ( Memento of the original dated February 21, 2012 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. , IZRS website, accessed January 18, 2012.