Said Ramadan

This article describes Said Ramadan, a Muslim Brotherhood activist. For the Islamic scholar, see Mohammed Said Ramadan Al-Buti .

Said Ramadan (center) during a visit by Pakistani President Muhammed Ayub Khan (left) in Munich , January 22, 1961

Said Ramadan ( Arabic سعيد رمضان, DMG Saʿīd Ramaḍān ; * April 12, 1926 in Shibin al-Barely in the Nile Delta ; † August 4, 1995 in Geneva ) was an Egyptian lawyer and leading activist of the Muslim Brotherhood .

Life

Shortly after the end of World War II , Ramadan opened the Muslim Brotherhood's first branch in Jerusalem . In 1946 he completed a degree in Islamic law and became editor of the Islamic weekly magazine Asch-Schihab . In 1948 he fought as a volunteer in Palestine to prevent the establishment of Israel . He travels to various Muslim countries and is arrested by Gamal Abdel Nasser while in Egypt . In 1954 Said Ramadan left Egypt together with Sayyid Qutb . He is the son-in-law of Hassan al-Banna .

In 1959 he received his doctorate from the University of Cologne . Between 1956 and 1958 he reactivated the branches of the Muslim Brotherhood in Jordan , Syria , Lebanon and Saudi Arabia . In August 1958 he settled in Geneva , where he founded the Islamic Center Geneva ( Center islamique de Genève ) in 1961 , which is now headed by his son Hani Ramadan . In 1962 he played a leading role in founding the Islamic World League . Said Ramadan opened a chain of Islamic centers independent of the governments of the respective countries with the aim of Islamizing Europe.

The mosque construction in Munich

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The American author Ian Johnson has presented in detail the plans for the construction of a Munich mosque , which began in 1957 on the initiative of the Bavarian government. First of all, the former Uzbek SS leader Nureddin Namangani was appointed chairman of the mosque-building commission, a "Oberimam" from the entourage of the Islamic SS troops under the ideological command of the Mufti Mohammed Amin al-Husseini , namely the SS division "East Turkish Arms Association “(See Reiner Olzscha ). Namangani had also been active in suppressing the Warsaw Uprising . When he was elected, Said Ramadan, then the most famous leader of the Muslim Brotherhood, sat in the room. The CIA had brought this prominent Muslim Brother to Munich as a fighter against communism; His supporters did not want to see that Ramadan also sought to abolish Western order. Then as now, the Brotherhood's goal of returning to an original mythical state of "pure Islam" was achieved through the external use of modern symbols, e.g. B. Western clothing and rhetoric, camouflaged.

Johnson ironically criticizes the Americans' political games with Ramadan for being deceived by his dexterous demeanor while apparently ignoring his ideology. In fact, the Muslim Brotherhood in Munich soon went its own way. In 1960 she ousted the old Bavarian SS cadre around Namangani from the mosque-building commission; this mosque became its own center.

Almost all of the Brotherhood's western activities were carried out by the small group of people who ran this mosque. Munich was the bridgehead from which the brotherhood spread in western societies ... Here in Europe they had the opportunity to develop permanent structures under the protection of laws and democratic institutions.

The German Islam Conference DIK names the initiators of the Munich mosque on the Islamic side as follows:

In 1958 the “Spiritual Administration of Muslim Refugees in the Federal Republic of Germany” was established. V. ”for former Muslim members of the armed forces.

That is a somewhat imprecise description for the continued organization of Soviet Nazi collaborators after the war.

Ramadan's work is continued today by his two sons, Hani and Tariq Ramadan , but in different ways. On August 9, 1995, he was buried at the side of his father-in-law Hassan al-Banna .

Fonts

• Said Ramadan: Islamic Law. Theory and practice . Muslim Student Association in Germany , Marburg 1996, ISBN 3-932399-00-5 .

literature

• Ian Johnson: A Mosque in Munich: Nazis, the CIA, and the Muslim Brotherhood in the West. Melia, Godalming 2010, ISBN 978-0-15-101418-7 . (English).
  • German: The fourth mosque: Nazis, CIA and Islamic fundamentalism. Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 2011, ISBN 978-3-608-94622-2 .
• Nina Nowar: Ramadan's heirs. The Islamic Community in Germany eV, IGD. Diplomica Verlag , Hamburg 2012, ISBN 978-3-8428-8381-9 .

Individual evidence

1. ^ Ziad Abu Amr , Fundamentalism in the West Bank and Gaza, Univ. Press, Indiana University Bloomington , 1994, p. 3.
2. ↑ Christopher de Bellaigue: In the rose garden of the martyrs. A portrait of Iran. From the English by Sigrid Langhaeuser, Verlag CH Beck, Munich 2006 (English original edition: London 2004), p. 319 f.
3. ↑ According to a received protocol, Ramadan appeared in Munich in 1958 in a further function in front of the mosque-building group, namely as "General Secretary" of the Islamic World Congress and made a donation of 1000 DM on behalf of his organization. According to Stefan Meining , Eine Moschee in Deutschland. CH Beck, Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-406-61411-8 , p. 112, with reference to Bayerisches Hauptstaatsarchiv , Sign. Laflü 1900: December 22, 1958, "Protocol No. 5: Session of the 'Dini Idare' broader base. " Spiritual administration of the Muslim refugees
4. ^ Ian Johnson: A Mosque in Munich. Nazis, the CIA, and the Muslim Brotherhood in the West. Melia, Godalming 2010, p. 127.
5. ^ P. XVI and p. 195.
6. ^ Ed .: Editorial Department DIK , section from the post-war period to today. Last act. March 9, 2013. Other sources mention 1951 as the year the association was founded