Ahmed Akkari

Ahmed Akkari (Arabic أحمد عكاري, DMG Aḥmad ʿ Akkari, born 1978 in Lebanon ) is a Danish political activist who became famous for his participation in the Akkari - Laban dossier, a report on the controversy over the Muhammad cartoons. He is regarded as a Muslim Imam.

Biography

Ahmed Akkari was born in 1978 in Lebanon. In 1985, Akkari at the age of seven years with his family to Denmark and received asylum. He returned with his family back to Lebanon in 1990, a year later, enter again to Denmark. On re -entry to the family of refugee status has been revoked since the Lebanese civil war was over. Because of the intense coverage in the local media Danish Ahmed Akkari was still the right of abode. Akkari graduated from the school and then trained as a teacher in Aarhus. 2005 Akkari won the Danish citizenship.

In the controversy over the cartoons of Mohammed Akkari is involved with Imam Ahmad Abu Laban by writing the Akkari - Laban dossier (or in Arabic ملف عكاري لبن, to German: Dossier about championing the prophet Muhammad ), in which he claimed that the climate in Denmark after the publication of the Mohammed cartoons strip feed racism .. it was also an alienated agency photo of a comedian that imitates a pig output as alleged Muhammad cartoon in the dossier.

End of July 2013 Akkari insisted in several interviews that he while ' Muhammed - crisis ' regret his behavior. In the under permanent police protection cartoonist Kurt Westergaard, he personally apologized. As a result, Akkari was itself the target of threats.