Shaker Assem

Shaker Assem (* 1964 in Cairo ) is an Egyptian-Austrian mechanical engineer and spokesman for the Islamist organization Hizb ut-Tahrir .

Family, childhood and youth

He was born the son of an Egyptian and an Austrian woman in Cairo, where he also grew up. He attended the German Protestant high school there until he was 16 . After the death of his father, he returned to Austria with his mother in 1980. After graduating from high school in Villach , he studied mechanical engineering at the Technical University of Vienna . He only got to know Hizb ut-Tahrir in Austria while studying. After graduation he worked in industry and at times as a teacher.

Shaker Assem currently lives in Vienna, is married and has one child.

Public work

Between 2002 and 2005 he moved to Germany for professional reasons and was involved in the Islamist organization Hizb ut-Tahrir. Due to his knowledge of German, he was appointed a representative member and represented the organization to the media. He caused a sensation in 2003 when he granted the deputy federal chairman of the NPD Holger Apfel an interview, which was published in the party newspaper German Voice .

A month before that, the organization Hizb ut-Tahrir had been banned by a decree of the Federal Ministry of the Interior because of its activities against the idea of ​​international understanding and the advocacy of the use of force to achieve political goals in Germany. A lawsuit against this ban was dismissed in 2006.

Shaker Assem returned to Austria in 2005, where he continues to act as spokesman for his organization. Among other things, he was a guest on October 12, 2011 in the ORF discussion program Club 2 , on the subject of “Muslim women in Austria: Between oppression and emancipation” . This led to media criticism of the ORF and its guest selection. Broadcasting officer Robert Stoppacher defended this decision and stated that in order to balance the participants in the discussion, Mr. Assam had been explicitly invited "as a representative of a markedly conservative interpretation of Islam".

In February 2012 Shaker Assem was withdrawn from the role of host at the regular Friday prayers at the Afro-Asian Institute in Vienna by the Archdiocese of Vienna due to the public controversy surrounding his person.

The public prohibition of activity imposed by the Federal Republic of Germany on representatives of Hizb ut-Tahrir has no legal effect in Austria.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Radical Islamist: Diocese attacks an ORF Online on February 24, 2012
2. ↑ Against democracy, for Sharia: The NEWS interview with an Islamist ( memento of the original from December 19, 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. Interview by Corinna Milborn with Shaker Assem, news.at Monday, January 24, 2011 
3. ↑ integrationsnet.de: Shaker Assem
4. ↑ Stephan Braun, Alexander Geisler, Martin Gerster (eds.): Strategies of the extreme right: Background-Analysis-Answers ; VS Verlag, 2009, ISBN 9783531159119 ; Page 441-443
5. ↑ tvthek.orf.at: CLUB 2, October 12, 2011. ( Memento from October 16, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
6. ↑ Politics Insider - Scandal about hate preachers in ORF Austria (newspaper) , October 14, 2011
7. ↑ Afro-Asiatic Institute Vienna: Clarification ( memento of the original from March 1, 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. (February 24, 2012) 
8. ↑ Der Standard: ORF defends "Club 2" with radical Islamists (October 14, 2011)
9. ↑ Verfassungsschutzbericht Germany: Constitutional Protection Report 2010 ff opinion on "Hizb ub-Tahrir" S. 245th ( Memento of 10 May 2012 at the Internet Archive ) (PDF, 4.3 MB)