Iqbal Sacrania

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Sir Iqbal Abdul Karim Mussa Sacranie (born September 6, 1951 in Malawi ) is a Muslim functionary in Great Britain and was Secretary General of the Muslim Council of Britain (MCB) from 2002 to 2006, the Muslim denomination with the largest number of members in Great Britain .

As a member of the Muslim minority in Malawi, Sacranie fled to Great Britain after his country gained independence in 1964. Since the 1980s, Sacranie has mainly dealt with the question of better integration of Muslims in Great Britain. Among other things, through his initiative, the MCB was created in 1997. On December 1, 2005, he was ennobled by Queen Elizabeth II as a Knight Bachelor .

Sacranie and the MCB have been criticized in Great Britain for their Islamic-conservative and fundamentalist positions . For example, after the publication of the book The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie , for which the author was threatened with death by Islamists , Sacranie stated that "death may be too easy" for Rushdie and that instead his mind must be tormented until he stands for himself sorry for the blasphemy. He later stated that these statements were misunderstood: all he wanted to do was try to convince Muslims that it was wrong to kill Rushdie. The MCB boycotted a remembrance ceremony for the liberation of the Auschwitz concentration camp from 2001 to 2007 and justified this with the Israeli occupation of Palestine, in which innocent Muslims were killed. In 2005 the police opened a harassment investigation into Sacranie after he said on the radio that homosexual relationships were "harmful" and registered homosexual partnerships "unacceptable".

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Knights and Dames at Leigh Rayment's Peerage
  2. ↑ Rushdie in hiding after Ayatollah's death threat , Peter Murtagh, The Guardian , February 18, 1989 (English)
  3. ↑ https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/audio/2009/feb/12/rushdie-fatwa-sacranie-satanicverses
  4. ↑ Muslims unite! A new Reformation will bring your faith into the modern era , Salman Rushdie , The Times , August 11, 2005
  5. ↑ Muslim leader faces police questioning about 'homophobic' remarks , Joshua Rozenberg, The Daily Telegraph , December 1, 2006
personal data
SURNAME Sacrania, Iqbal
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sacranie, Sir Iqbal Abdul Karim Mussa (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British General Secretary of the Muslim Council of Britain, a Muslim denomination in Great Britain
DATE OF BIRTH September 6, 1951
PLACE OF BIRTH Malawi