Hamed Abdel-Samad

Hamed Abdel- Samad (Arabic حامد عبد الصمد, DMG ʿ Abd Hamid aṣ -Samad, born February 1, 1972 Cairo, Egypt ) is a German - Egyptian political scientist, historian and author, particularly through popular scientific works and mission Either Broder was known.

• 2.1 Books
• 2.2 TV documentaries
• 2.3 Article

• 4.1 interviews
• 4.2 Multimedia

Life

Abdel- Samad was born the third of five children of a Sunni imam. In his biography he mentions to have been raped at the age of four years of a 15 - year-old and eleven years of a five-member group of young people in a cemetery. In 1995, he came at the age of 23 years to Germany. Soon after, he married a 18 year old " rebellious teacher left with a penchant for mysticism ."

Abdel- Samad studied English, French and Japanese in Cairo as well as politics in Augsburg. He worked as a scientist in Erfurt and Braunschweig as well as in Japan, where he became interested in Shinto and Buddhism. In Japan, he met his second wife, whose father Dane and whose mother is Japanese.

He taught and conducted research until the end of 2009 at the Institute for Jewish History and Culture at the University of Munich ( dissertation topic: "Image of the Jews in Egyptian textbooks ").

Abdel- Samad was appointed in 2010 as a participant of the 2nd German Conference on Islam by the then Interior Minister Thomas de Maizière. Since November 2011, Abdel- Samad is on the advisory board of the Giordano Bruno Foundation.

Call for murder

After Abdel- Samad had accused on June 4, 2013 in a speech in Cairo to the Muslim Brotherhood " Islamic fascism " and said, " that this fascism to be justified in the origins of Islam " is, calls for murder were published against him the next day on the Internet. on June 7, Assem Abdel- Maged called, a leader of the Gamaa Islamiya and ally of President Mohammed Mursi, on Egyptian television on the murder of Abdel- Samad because its statements were an insult to the Prophet. Usual whereabouts of Abdel- Samad in Cairo were published on the Internet. Abdel- Samad called German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle on publicly to criticize the call for murder sharply and prompting the Egyptian President Mursi, these also to condemn. Mahmoud Shaaban, a professor at al -Azhar University in Cairo, repeated the call for murder, and Abdel- Samad demanded in the newspaper al -Ahram his protection by the Egyptian judiciary. The Human Rights Commissioner of the Federal Government turned over the Süddeutsche Zeitung on the Egyptian government and the Foreign Office told the chargé d'affaires of the Egyptian embassy, the Egyptian government to prevent releases of murder calls. Meanwhile, Assem Abdel- Maged announced, at the announced for 30 June demonstrations against President Mursi his colleagues were responsible for violence. Abdel- Samad was meanwhile submerged in Egypt and reported both false equating the opposition with his opinion as well as on the support of dissenters. Neither the President nor the judiciary of Egypt responded to his threat. Finally, Foreign Minister Westerwelle called on Facebook, the Egyptian government to act against the perpetrators of the murder call, the Foreign Office had offered concrete help him in direct contact with Abdel- Samad and have. As announced demonstrations against President Mursi took place, Abdel- Samad was back in Germany, and began a lecture tour. On July 7, 2013 was due to street battles after deposing President Mursi an arrest warrant on Assem Abdel Maged - issued that called for the murder of Abdel- Samad.

Abduction

On November 24, 2013 Hamed Abdel- Samad was kidnapped under mysterious circumstances before the first Al -Azhar Park in Cairo and detained for two days in a unknown place. The federal government asked shortly thereafter " as soon as possible enlightenment" of Egypt. The Foreign Office confirmed that it had just before the disappearance Abdel- Samad with this contact. The brother of Abdel- Samad stated that the latter had told him that he felt persecuted. Shortly afterwards, was no longer accessible Abdel- Samad. On November 26, 2013 dipped Abdel- Samad, according to his brother with injuries to the eye and head back on and went into the custody of the German embassy. It turned out that he had been kidnapped not for political or religious reasons, but because of money disputes.

Work

The general public became famous for his autobiography My farewell from Heaven (2009) Abdel- Samad. It is neither a settlement with its culture nor a call to the loss of faith. He has only to understand the contradictions of his life. Following the publication of a group in Egypt issued a fatwa against Abdel- Samad, and he was under police protection.

Abdel- Samad is of the opinion that only a " Islam Light" in Europe has a future, an Islam without Shari'a, Jihad, gender apartheid, proselytizing and entitlement mentality. He criticizes, out of fear or out of political and economic calculus would be against Islam operated while the fears of their own people would disappear from the political debate ( before Islam ) a policy of appeasement. This behavior suggest to the German population in resentment.

In autumn 2010 he undertook with the journalist Henryk M. Broder for the five-part TV series "Either Broder - The Germany - Safari " a vast 30,000- km-long road trip through Germany with a trip to Denmark to visit with Kurt Westergaard. Both received for the 2012 Bavarian TV Award.

Abdel- Samad is present in the German media, for example, as a guest on talk shows and interviews to Islam. As a native of Egypt, political analyst, he is often asked about the Arab Spring ( " Arab Spring ").

During the revolution in Egypt in early February 2011, he traveled back to his home and stood on the side of the protesters. For German media he stood during the reporting as an interview partner. So he mentioned the issues of the day that Hosni Mubarak " no factor of stability for Egypt and the region" was. He hoped that Mubarak's rule find an end.

The removal of President Mursi by the military in 2013, he advocated significantly. He said the action " is not a real coup, but a hostage rescue operation had been ", and called instead the previous takeover Mursi as a " coup ".

• My farewell to the sky. From the Life of a Muslim in Germany. Torchbearers, 2009, ISBN 978-377-1-64419-2. Knaur, 2010, ISBN 978-3-426-78408-2.

• Knaur, 2011, ISBN 978-3-426-78406-8.

TV documentaries

• Either Broder - The Germany safari. ( with Henryk M. Broder ), ARD 2010/11.
• Either Broder - The European Safari. ( with Henryk M. Broder ), ARD, 2012.

Article

• From belief to knowledge. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung, December 3, 2009
• Islam has a problem with himself In: World Online 29 January, 2010
• An abuser is not enough. In: World Online 30 July, 2011
• In the hostage of Islam, Focus, August 19, 2013

Others

The asteroid 249010 Abdel- Samad, who was initially named the 2007 or 2007 QE5 QK3 is named after Hamed Abdel- Samad.