On Saturday want to go in Cologne, thousands of Muslims against Islamist Terror on the road. Ironically, Germany’s largest Islam umbrella organization Ditib. The political reactions are devastating.
Aydan Özoguz keeps up with your lack of understanding is hardly behind the mountain. The SPD politician is the integration Commissioner of the Federal government. For the attitude of the Ditib has no understanding: “to be Honest, I can’t find at all understandable. I also believe that the Ditib hurts the most, all things of course, their own members, who find some of these call well.” These members would be pushed by the decision of the Board in front of the head, so Özoguz.
Under the Motto “Not with us” want to be Muslims and demonstrate in Cologne on Saturday for peace and against Islamic terrorism. The organizer, around the liberal Islam scholar Lamya puts, expect tens of thousands of participants. Especially on the social media, the event is advertised.
For the leaders of the Ditib, Germany’s largest Islam-an umbrella Association of around 900 mosques and 800,000 members, is the Demonstration of an Affront. In a press release, the Association accuses the organizers, among other things, “media and political grandstanding” and expressed the concern that “Muslim” Anti-terrorist Demos, Muslims would self-stigmatize.
Similar to Aydan Özoguz also Cemile Giousouf with the reasoning of the Ditib can’t do anything. For the integration of the CDU/CSU representative group, there is “no objective reason, the participation in the planned Demonstration against Islamist terrorism, reject”.
Espionage charges and internal squabbles
It is a difficult time for the Ditib imams of the Association are to listen to have spied in Germany, members of the community, were suspected of the Gülen movement suit. The government in Ankara makes the movement for the coup attempt in Turkey last summer. The General office of the attorney General had initiated investigations against the imams. Within the organization there seething. Because “liberal tendencies” are not to be tolerated in the organization, had only thrown in mid-may, the entire Federal Executive of the youth organisation of the Ditib in the towel.
Ditib mosque in Cologne: at the beginning of June, the new mosque’s dome was inaugurated, the new prayer room completed.
For the Turkey-expert Christoph Ramm of the University of Bern in the recent discussions at an inopportune time for the Association: “in the past, the Ditib was, for example, in the case of the Islam conference as a bit of a ‘everybody’s darling’, she was predictable, she came out of this secular-understood in Turkey, you knew the people. In contrast to some of the smaller, intransparent and Islam associations for the policy is a welcome contact.”
In the Wake of the failed coup in Turkey in the summer of last year, the Ditib had become the ‘bad guys’. In particular, the “spying accusations” and the “policy of Erdogan” he had operated on the Ditib in Germany, for example, during the time of the referendum, moved the Association in a bad light, piling.
Ditib gets money from the public purse
In the political Berlin, the criticism of the Ditib party makes borders disappear. Cem Özdemir, Chairman of the Greens, and his colleagues, Özoguz and Giousouf and referred to the justification of the Ditib-cancellation as “more than a flimsy”. Özdemir continued: “It is not a mystery to me, that Ditib uses this opportunity to send a clear Signal of cohesion.”
Aydan Özoguz: No sympathy for the attitude of the Ditib.
For the integration of the Federal government Commissioner, Aydan Özoguz, the Problem lies in the fact that the decision-makers had arrived in associations such as Ditib never really in Germany, “although there are members to a large extent for a long time. I mean, many of them are born and grown up. But the Association is docked but in many Places, and especially in the Board of Directors then in Ankara, and trying, somehow, to a certain extent, of course, in terms of foreign policy influence.”
Only with the support of Ankara and without help from Germany, the Association seems to want to, however, do not get along. After the payments to the Association were suspended due to the spying affair, in the meantime, the money goes for some time. When the responsible Federal Ministry for family Affairs, stated: “taking into consideration all relevant aspects, it was decided that the Funding for already approved projects will continue”. Since 2012, the Ditib has received from the German government, a total of around six million euros.