Islamic Community of Germany
The Islamic Community in Germany ( IGD ) is one of the oldest Muslim institutions in Germany. The religious community founded in 1958, has adopted since its founding the German Muslims and was until 2005 the German -language magazine Al Islam out.
History and work
It was founded as a mosque building committee in Munich, later renamed the Islamic Community in Southern Germany, and 1982 in the Islamic Community in Germany eV. The IGD is a founding member of the Central Council of Muslims in Germany (1993 ), the Islamic Council in Germany ( 1989) and the Federation of Islamic Organisations in Europe ( 1989). The acting president since 2002 Ibrahim El -Zayat was chairman of the Muslim Student Association in Germany ( MSV ).
The IGD has issued over the years extensive publications on Islam in German language, including a series of publications founded by her center in Munich. She is also an amalgamation of other Islamic centers in many German cities, including Berlin, Nuremberg, Marburg, Frankfurt, Stuttgart, Cologne, Münster and Braunschweig. The Community maintains mosques and educational institutions and holds an annual meeting of the German Muslims. Their creation story is intended to indicate a proximity to the Islamist Muslim Brotherhood. The " Islamic Center of Munich ", founded by Said Ramadan, the Muslim Brotherhood based in Egypt is close and represents a strictly conservative Islam.
The IGD is cooperating with Islamic centers in Berlin, Bielefeld, Bonn, Bremen, Darmstadt, Dresden, Dusseldorf, Erfurt, Erlangen, Gelsenkirchen, Gottingen, Greifswald, Hanover, Iserlohn, Karlsruhe, Kassel, Kiel, Leipzig, Mainz, Munich, Plauen, Siegen, Sinsheim, Solingen, Trier, Tübingen and Wolfsburg. The Islamic Centre Aachen split in 1981, the Islamic Center of Cologne broke up in 2001.
The magazine Al -Islam was founded in Cologne in 1958 by Malik Assmann and H. Ahmed forge and continued until 1979 in Munich by forging. Since then the editor Ahmad of Denffer. There are now only a web edition.
Observation by the Protection of the Constitution
The extremist Muslim Brotherhood in Germany uses a variety, Islamic centers ' for their activities. The IGD is among the strongest member organization. According to the Bavarian State Office for the Protection of the Constitution, the IGD has Germany's 600 members, 120 in Bavaria. It is considered " German headquarters of the Egyptian branch of the Muslim Brotherhood ." Now he lives in Cairo many years supreme leader of the Islamist Muslim Brotherhood, Mohammed Mahdi Akef, described the then president of the IGD, Ibrahim El -Zayat, in an ARD television report as " head of the Muslim Brotherhood in Germany ." El -Zayat denied this
According to the CDU Bundestag Kristina Schröder (now Federal Minister for Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth ), which it claims to be based on information from the North Rhine-Westphalian Ministry of Interior, "rich compounds of the organization in the field of Islamic extremist groups and to an Islamic charity that is suspected of secretly supporting Islamist terrorism. "