Shams ul Haq

Shams ul Haq

Shams Ul Haq Qudoos (born August 20, 1975 in Pakistan ) is a German journalist and author.

Life

Shams Ul-Haq grew up poor in a town near Lahore . In order to be able to pay for the school, he sold watermelons and drinks at the bus station in the evenings. At the age of 15 he came to Germany as an unaccompanied minor asylum seeker and moved to Bad Marienberg with the help of a scholarship . After training as a welder , he worked for various companies, including as head of a call center . He took on German citizenship in 2001, moved to Offenbach and ran a mobile phone business with a postal agency in Frankfurt-Nordend .

Ul-Haq has been working as an investigative journalist in Libya , Syria , Afghanistan , Pakistan and other countries since 2007 , including for WeltN24 and the Wiener Zeitung . He is considered a terrorism expert .

research

He started his journalistic career in 2007 with Die Welt with an interview with Benazir Bhutto . Since then he has been working as a freelance journalist with a focus on the Middle East . He is currently working or has worked in the past for, among others, SonntagsZeitung , Kleine Zeitung n-tv , ZDF and ARD , Die Welt, Wiener Zeitung , Tiroler Tageszeitung , FAZ , Huffington Post and The Nation . As an investigative journalist, he has traveled to many countries. These are u. a .: Afghanistan, Egypt, Bangladesh, Burma, India, Iraq, Iran, Canada, Libya, Morocco, Nepal, Pakistan, Syria, USA, Uzbekistan.

He held various conversations with politicians and important people around the world. The list of these includes a .: Angela Merkel, Frank Walter Steinmeier, Olaf Scholz, Thomas De Maiziere, Holger Münch, Arsenij Jazenjuk, Imran Khan, Pervez Musharraf, Benazir Bhutto, Hamid Karzai, Nawaz Sharif, Asia Bibi, Ahmet Davutoglu, John McCain, David Petraeus, Kofi, Annan, Anders Fogh Rasmussen, Mohammad Jawad Zarif, Tawakkol Karman, Masoumeh Ebtekar, Sebastian Kurz, Bill Mc Dermott, Abdul Sattar Edhi, Vitali Klitschko, Riyad Farid Hijab, Tammam Salam, Thomas Gottschalk,

He works as an Asia correspondent for N24 (WELT).

In 2016, Ul-Haq, as an investigative journalist, used 35 different identities to uncover the conditions in refugee shelters. Ul-Haq then published the book The Breeding Grounds of Terror , for which he spent several months undercover in 35 different refugee shelters in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. The book is currently ranked 78th on the bestseller list in the History of Terrorism category. His conclusion: "Fundamentalist Islamists are recruited in refugee camps primarily in two ways: through the poor food and the equally frequent lack of opportunities to devote oneself to one's religious practices." In this context, Ul-Haq revealed for Frontal21 that refugees are apparently being forced into prostitution.

While he was investigating the refugee shelters, Ul-Haq began his covert work in 150 European mosques on the subject of radicalization. The result of this activity was the book Your laws do not interest us , which appeared in October 2018 and with which he was represented at the Frankfurt Book Fair 2018. For this book and his research article "Hass aus der Moschee" for ZDFzoom, Ul-Haq received the award "Media Person of the year in Europe 2018/2019" in 2019. In 2020, Ul-Haq reported for the ZDF website on the situation around the coronavirus in India and Iran. In addition, Ul-Haq also reported on the production of protective masks in India in the context of the Corona crisis and pointed out the lack of hygienic standards. As a terrorism expert, Ul-Haq and his colleague Susana Santina reported for ZDF from the Taliban's deradicalized camp in the Afghan-Pakistani border area (Peshawar). As a terrorism expert, he also reported for n-tv from Kabul on the question of how the Taliban are using the corona crisis for themselves.

Works

• The breeding ground of terror. Südwestbuch, Waiblingen 2016. ISBN 978-3-945-76997-3 .
• We are not interested in your laws! Undercover in European mosques - how Muslims are radicalized. Orell Füssli Verlag, Zurich 2018. ISBN 978-3-280-05682-0 .

Web links

• official website
• Literature by and about Shams Ul Haq in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ^ Wiebke Rannenberg: Between Soldiers and Taliban , Frankfurter Rundschau, October 22, 2010.
2. ↑ Correspondents' reports by Shams Ul-Haq for World N24 .
3. ↑ Shams Ul-Haq: "We will win - Inshallah" , Wiener Zeitung, May 10, 2013.
4. ↑ "Germany breeds terrorists itself" , WeltN24, January 5, 2017.
5. ↑ Top terrorism expert Shams Ul-Haq: How has the IS strategy changed? , Stern , June 13, 2017.
6. ↑ Hidden and In Perpetual Fear , Cicero , April 5, 2019.
7. ↑ Shams Ul-Haq Asia Correspondent N24. In: youtube.com. August 21, 2016, accessed August 9, 2020 . 
8. ↑ The wrong refugee: journalist smuggled into accommodation as an asylum seeker. In: op-online.de. October 27, 2016, accessed November 7, 2018 . 
9. ↑ Refugees forced into prostitution. In: zdf.de. October 24, 2020, accessed June 21, 2020 . 
10. ^ Undercover in the Essen mosque. In: derwesten.de. November 20, 2018, accessed August 9, 2020 . 
11. ↑ Hatred from the mosque. In: zdf.de. March 20, 2019, accessed August 9, 2020 . 
12. ↑ Shams Ul Haq Pakistan Achievement Award. In: youtube.com. August 20, 2019, accessed August 9, 2020 . 
13. Jump up ↑ A Hopeless Fight - India in Times of the Corona Crisis. In: zdf.de. March 30, 2020, accessed April 1, 2020 . 
14. ↑ Iran's citizens are desperate. In: zdf.de. April 16, 2020, accessed May 7, 2020 . 
15. ^ Masks made in India. In: sn.at. April 28, 2020, accessed May 7, 2020 . 
16. ↑ Protection against infection from the kitchen table. In: neue-deutschland.de. April 29, 2020, accessed May 7, 2020 . 
17. ↑ A Life After Terror - Pakistan and the Ex-Taliban. In: zdf.de. May 29, 2020, accessed June 21, 2020 . 
18. ↑ How the Taliban use Corona for themselves. In: n-tv.de. June 14, 2020, accessed June 21, 2020 .