Saïda Keller-Messahli

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Saïda Keller-Messahli (born July 1957 in a suburb of Tunis ) is a Tunisian - Swiss Romance philologist and Islamic human rights activist .

Live and act

Keller-Messahli, who is counted among the “100 most important Zurich women” by the “ Schweizer Illustrierte ”, was born as the fifth of eight siblings into a farm worker family in Tunisia. Through “ Terre des hommes ” she was placed with a foster family in Grindelwald , where she lived for five years from the age of eight because her family was too poor to raise her. After that she returned to Tunisia and graduated from high school. She worked u. a. as a flight attendant for the Saudi Arabian Airlines . At the end of the 1970s, Keller-Messahli began studying law at the University of Zurich , but then switched to Romance studies , English literature and film studies . In 1997 she completed her studies with a licentiate . Keller-Messahli was the founder and managing director of the “Foundation for Palestine” and was sent as such by the Federal Department of Foreign Affairs (FDFA) to Hebron as an international observer . She also worked as a journalist and high school teacher.

By reading the book The Illness of Islam by Abdelwahab Meddeb , she became aware of the problem of Islam and began to take action. In 2004 she founded the “ Forum for a Progressive Islam ”, of which she is still president today. Keller-Messahli, who is not a practicing Muslim herself, has been present in the Swiss public again and again to promote a liberal Islam . and to criticize political Islam: “Because it is directed against any democratic order. He does not recognize any human law. His ideal is the state of God ”. It is therefore heard beyond the borders of Switzerland.

She was married to a psychoanalyst and has two sons. Your husband passed away.

Keller-Messahli was one of the first to sign the Freiburg Declaration of Secular Muslims from Germany, Austria and Switzerland - "The separation between state and religion is a thorn in the side of conservative Muslims," ​​said Keller-Messahli. She is also co-founder of the Ibn-Rushd-Goethe Mosque in Berlin, which stands for a secular, liberal Islam that separates secular and religious power and strives for a contemporary and gender-equitable interpretation of the Koran and the Hadith.

criticism

As of 2017, Zurich no longer sent prison staff to the courses of the Swiss training center for prison staff, which were co-led by Keller-Messahli. A spokeswoman pointed out the principle of the Justice Directorate, according to which their attitude of "integration and interreligious cooperation" did not agree with the attitude of Keller-Messahli. The St. Gallen security director Fredy Fässler , who was criticized by her in 2017, waited a year later for her "indications of radicalization in St. Gallen mosques". He said in 2018: "My impression is reinforced that she has radicalized when I hear about the new allegations."

The theologian Hansjörg Schmid criticizes a lack of nuances and sources in her book “Islamist Turntable Switzerland”. For Reinhard Schulze, "Keller-Messahli sticks to populist stereotypes". In her book “stereotypical information is presented with judgmental interpretations that do not allow any verification”. He mentions a "conspiracy-theoretical ensnaring of half and quarter truths".

Swiss and Austrian Balkan experts criticize their short summary of the history of Islam in 2018 as "full of mistakes", wrote Nada Boskovska, professor at the University of Zurich: "As much as I appreciate Ms. Keller-Messahli for her courageous statements on topicality - she is clearly neither a historian nor an expert on the Balkans. " A group of Austrian Balkan experts asked the Foreign Ministry to replace the text in its publications.

On November 12, 2018, Ms. Keller-Messahli affirmed that there were extremely radical Albanian mosques in the Valais (“en Valais, il ya des mosquées albanaises extrêmement radicales”). The commander of the Valais canton police contradicted her on the same day ("selon le commandant de la police cantonale, aucune mosquée valaisanne n'est radicalisée.")

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  2. ↑ a b c Willi Wottreng : "In my home country I would be forbidden to speak". In: Tages-Anzeiger . August 20, 2010, accessed September 16, 2016.
  3. ↑ Die Querdenkerinnen , schweizer-illustrierte.ch, undated
  4. ^ Catalog entry of the licensing thesis , Nebis , accessed on September 16, 2016.
  5. ↑ Hanspeter Hänni: "The Islamists preach bondage". In: Southeastern Switzerland . April 14, 2014, accessed September 16, 2016.
  6. ↑ Gian Signorell, Peter Johannes Meier: Women want a new Islam. In: Observer . 2/2010, January 20, 2010, accessed September 16, 2016.
  7. ^ The critical voice of Muslims , jungfrauzeitung.ch, December 26, 2016
  8. ^ The critical voice of Muslims , jungfrauzeitung.ch, December 26, 2016
  9. ↑ See e.g. B. Decision in Switzerland. Muslim students have to shake hands with teacher. In: Der Spiegel . May 25, 2016. Retrieved September 16, 2016.
  10. ↑ kath.ch: Saida Keller-Messahli to reform of Islam among the initiators of the call kath.ch September 22, 2016
  11. ↑ Women want a new Islam , observer.ch, Jan. 18, 2010
  12. ↑ Uta Keseling: Everyone prays together in the Ibn Rushd Goethe mosque . ( Morgenpost.de [accessed June 19, 2017]).
  13. ↑ Michael Meier: Doubtful imams look after prisoners in the Pöschwies . In: Tages-Anzeiger, Tages-Anzeiger . July 25, 2017, ISSN  1422-9994 ( tagesanzeiger.ch [accessed on May 31, 2018]).
  14. ↑ Michael Genova: EAST SWITZERLAND: Bekim Alimi: "Allegations of Keller-Messahlis are incomprehensible" | St.Galler Tagblatt . In: St.Galler Tagblatt . ( tagblatt.ch [accessed on May 31, 2018]).
  15. ↑ Lucie Monnat: Les salafistes cherchent à investir les mosquées suisses. In: 24Heures. 24Heures, September 2, 2017, accessed on May 31, 2018 (français).
  16. ↑ Reinhard Schulze: Populist stereotypes . In: Basler Zeitung, Basler Zeitung . February 27, 2018, ISSN  1420-3006 ( bazonline.ch [accessed May 31, 2018]).
  17. ↑ Luca De CarliInlandredaktor @ tagesanzeiger: The Islam critic and her controversial Balkan text . In: Tages-Anzeiger, Tages-Anzeiger . 2018, ISSN  1422-9994 ( tagesanzeiger.ch [accessed on May 31, 2018]).
  18. ↑ Andreas Ernst: Saida Keller-Messahli gets lost in the history of the Balkans | NZZ . In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung . February 5, 2018, ISSN  0376-6829 ( nzz.ch [accessed May 31, 2018]).
  19. ↑ Saïda Keller-Messahli: “En Valais, il ya des mosquées albanaises extrêmement radicales” ( fr ). Retrieved January 30, 2019.
  20. ↑ La police réfute la présence de mosquée radicalisée en Valais ( fr ) Accessed January 30, 2019.
  21. ↑ Saida Keller-Messahli received the Human Rights Award 2016. In: ref.ch . July 20, 2016, accessed September 16, 2016.
personal data
SURNAME Keller-Messahli, Saïda
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Tunisian-Swiss Romance philologist and Islamic human rights activist
DATE OF BIRTH July 1957
PLACE OF BIRTH near Tunis