Tarafa Baghajati

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Tarafa Baghajati

Tarafa Baghajati ( Arabic طرفة بغجاتي Tarafa Baghadschati , DMG Ṭarafa Baġaǧātī ; * September 1, 1961 in Damascus , Syria ) is chairman of the Muslim Austrian Initiative (IMÖ).

Life

Tarafa Baghajati studied from 1980 to 1986 at the Timișoara Polytechnic University in Romania and graduated with a degree in civil engineering. He has lived and worked as a civil engineer in Vienna since 1986 and has been married to Carla Siebrasse since 1990 .

Public work

Baghajati is a speaker on the topics of migration , integration and anti-racism . Further topics are the Middle East , Islam and Muslims in Austria and Europe .

In 1999 he founded the Initiative of Muslim Austrians (IMÖ) together with his wife Carla Amina Baghajati , Omar Al-Rawi , Mouddar Khouja and Andrea Saleh, who are functionaries of the Islamic religious community in Austria .

Baghajati is a former board member (2001-2007, vice-president between 2004 and 2007) and a member of the honorary advisory board of ENAR ( European Network Against Racism ). As representative of the chairman of the WIIEB (Vienna Islamic Institute for Adult Education), which was founded in 2008, he holds courses on Islam for adult education centers. He is also a board member of the Platform for Intercultural Europe - PIE and a companion of Rüdiger and Annette Nehberg in the Target project in the fight against the circumcision of female genitals . In March 2009, Rüdiger Nehberg and Tarafa Baghajati visited the Islamic legal scholar Yusuf al-Qaradawi , who lives in Qatar and is considered the most important contemporary authority on Sunni Islam. In a fatwa drawn up by the recognized legal scholar, the genital mutilation of girls is described as the “work of the devil” and is forbidden because it is directed against the ethics of Islam. In a speech at the Völkerkundemuseum in Hamburg on February 6, 2011, Baghajati dared to predict that he would be able to celebrate the end of this custom in 2020.

Baghajati is co-founder of the platform Christians and Muslims founded in 2006 as well as co-founder and board member of the initiative EMISCO - European Muslim Initiative for Social Cohesion, founded in 2010. On May 29, 2011, Baghajati was elected to the committee of the IRG (Islamic Religious Community Vienna) as cultural advisor of the IRG-Vienna.

Baghajati is an Islamic prison chaplain and in 2008 demanded that the decision of the defendants in the Mohamed Mahmoud terrorism case to wear a full-body veil ( niqab ) in court should be respected. In January 2009 he appeared as a spokesman for the “Stop the Gaza Massacre” initiative in Vienna and characterized the Israeli operation Cast Lead as a rampage that could not be explained by either Hamas or the Qassam rockets . In July 2009, he threw German media the murder of Marwa El-Sherbini allege that they have "the message systematically oppressed first, and now even tried to make a kind of victim-reversal." In 2010 he defended in a newspaper commentary television preacher Yusuf Al-Qaradawi only "criticized the spread of commercial Christmas kitsch in Muslim society" and that there was no question of a "hate sermon".

In his book contribution on integration, racism and the global economic crisis with the title: New discourse on Islam in Europe and Austria - From a “foreigner debate” to an “Islam debate” , Baghajati criticized the adoption of the term “Islamophobia” from the Anglo-Saxon area. He also speaks out against the use of the term xenophobia in relation to European Muslims and suggests the following definition: “ Islamophobia is a hostile attitude towards Islam and Muslims. It makes use of existing prejudices, generalizations and pseudo-scientific theories and thus justifies the discrimination against Muslims. This discrimination can be reflected directly as well as indirectly, indirectly and directly. The spectrum ranges from an attitude of arrogant superiority towards the culturally inferior group of Muslims and their religion, which prevents contact at eye level, to a conscious reduction in equal opportunities, be it in education, the world of work or in access to housing and goods as well as up to for the use of physical violence as an extreme form of discrimination. "

In a guest commentary on apostasy and apostasy in 2006, Baghajati wrote that a death sentence should be rejected in the event of a change of religion.

Tarafa Baghajati appears in several statements against IS “Daesh / Islamic State”. He sees an overall solution in Syria as the only way to combat them effectively. In this political solution, neither Assad nor the terrorist militia would have a place.

In his book contribution Human-Animal-Relationship and Animal Welfare in Islam in the book Animal-Human-Ethics , Baghajati takes the view that shafts for Jews and Muslims do not contradict animal welfare.

In his presentation of the facts to the Vienna public prosecutor, Tarafa Baghajati suspected Geert Wilders of incitement. As a result, an investigation was initiated against Wilder.

Together with Susanne Heine , Tarafa Baghajati has chaired the "Platform Christians and Muslims", founded in 2006, since 2014. This platform was founded by Paul Schulmeister , Peter Pawlowsky , Carla Amina Baghajati , Omar Al-Rawi , Heinz Nußbaumer and Tarafa Baghajati and was established as an association in 2014.

In the Austrian federal presidential election, Baghajati supported the candidate Alexander Van der Bellen.

Awards

In February 2016 Tarafa Baghajati received the Golden Merit of the State of Vienna

The Muslim Austrian Initiative (IMÖ) successfully applied for the democracy prize of the Margaretha Lupac Foundation under Tarafa Baghajati in 2008 .

In February 2016 Tarafa Baghajati was awarded the Golden Merit of the State of Vienna .

Radio and television reports

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Tarafa Baghajati: A Hymn of Resistance . In: derStandard.at . January 31, 2011. Retrieved July 20, 2011.
  2. ↑ Tararafa Baghajati: The Syrian Experiment . In: derStandard.at . March 29, 2011. Retrieved July 20, 2011.
  3. ↑ 2012 is too late for reforms in Syria . kurier.at. April 7, 2011. Archived from the original on April 10, 2011. Retrieved on October 15, 2013.
  4. ↑ "Vienna could play a key role" . kurier.at. September 9, 2011. Archived from the original on October 5, 2011. Retrieved October 15, 2013.
  5. ↑ Military action in Syria would increase the number of victims a hundredfold . wienerzeitung.at. September 23, 2011. Retrieved April 15, 2015.
  6. ↑ Pray for the Arab Revolution . wienerzeitung.at. December 23, 2011. Accessed December 31, 2011.
  7. ↑ Tarafa Baghajati: System change in Syria - without military intervention . In: derStandard.at . January 4, 2012. Retrieved January 7, 2012.
  8. ↑ amine Elfeshawi: Slovenia: First mosque after more than 30 years of negotiation . m-media.or.at. December 29, 2011. Retrieved January 7, 2012.
  9. ↑ Kreuz und Quer Spezial ORF: Faces of Islam - Peace and Violence . orf.at. May 3, 2011. Archived from the original on May 11, 2012. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved January 8, 2012. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / programm.orf.at
  10. ↑ “An Advisory Council of Eminent Persons was established during ENAR's Board meeting of 28-29 September 2007. It does not constitute a body of the organization but aims to play a general ambassadorial role for ENAR.” About ENAR: Governance ( Memento of the original from January 15, 2009 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. , ENAR annual report 2008 (PDF; 2.3 MB) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.enar-eu.org
  11. ↑ Islam in Vienna  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 159 kB) Event series of the Vienna VHS in cooperation with WIIEB, 2010@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.vhs.at  
  12. ^ NGOs in Vienna Diversity Day, December 3, 2009
  13. ↑ Hope for the Girls of Africa's World Online December 19, 2009
  14. ↑ Yusuf al-Qaradawi writes fatwa - "Female genital mutilation is the work of the devil" . presseportal.ch. March 6, 2009. Accessed on July 20, 2011.  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.presseportal.ch  
  15. ↑ International Day against Female Genital Mutilation (6.2.11) . presseportal.de. February 6, 2011. Retrieved July 20, 2011.
  16. ↑ diepresse.com
  17. ↑ Is the end of female genital mutilation in sight in 2020? In: Islamic Newspaper. February 14, 2011, accessed February 5, 2016 .
  18. ↑ IRG Vienna. In: Islamic Faith Community in Austria (IGGiÖ). 2011, accessed February 5, 2016 .
  19. ↑ Face veil in court Guest commentary by Tarafa Baghajati, Die Presse November 19, 2008
  20. ↑ Germany- wide protests against Israeli aggression in Gaza  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Millî Görüş website January 9, 2009@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.igmg.de  
  21. ↑ Call and declaration of the undersigned organizations
  22. ↑ Tarafa Baghajati: Gaza: rampage with consequences . Wiener Zeitung . January 13, 2009. Retrieved November 28, 2013.
  23. ↑ What else has to happen? Guest commentary by Tarafa Baghajati, Die Presse, July 8, 2009
  24. ^ Sermon by Qaradawi MEMRI - Translation December 2009
  25. ↑ The fairy tale of the Muslim who steals Christmas Guest contribution by Tarafa Baghajati, Welt Online January 10, 2010
  26. ↑ Siobhan Geets: Crisis and Racism - Book Tip . How the economic crisis is influencing debates on values ​​and intensifying processes of exclusion. . diepresse.com. May 24, 2011. Retrieved July 20, 2011.
  27. ↑ Also in Islam: No compulsion in religion!
  28. ↑ Assad cannot be a partner in the fight against IS. In: derStandard.at. September 9, 2015, accessed February 5, 2016 (others' comment).
  29. ↑ Baghajati: ISIS Caliphate “crazy idea”. In: orf.at. July 3, 2014, accessed February 5, 2016 .
  30. ↑ Human-animal relationship and animal welfare in Islam Reading sample on Islaminitiative.at
  31. ^ Public prosecutor investigates right-wing populist Geert Wilders
  32. ↑ Wolfgang Brezinka: Platform Christians and Muslims ( Memento of the original from October 6, 2015 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. . @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.christenundmuslime.at
  33. ↑ dasbiber.at
  34. ↑ youtube.com
  35. ↑ President of the National Council Prammer hands over 2008 Democracy Prize Lupac Foundation honors elementary school and Muslim initiative. November 13, 2008, accessed February 5, 2016 .
  36. ^ Ceremony in the Austrian Parliament
  37. ↑ religion.orf.at
personal data
SURNAME Baghajati, Tarafa
ALTERNATIVE NAMES طرفة بغجاتي
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Syrian civil engineer
DATE OF BIRTH September 1, 1961
PLACE OF BIRTH Damascus , Syria