Elke Müller is fighting for her daughter. Anna converted to Islam because she fell in love with a Afghans. Your mother told: of Overwork, alienation and their fear of losing the daughter.
Getting closer to the day fear comes out in July, before the Elke Müller* so much. The day Anna 18 years old. “If she is of full age, no longer can I hold back legally.” Anna* would like to marry their first love. Abdul*. When that happens, so Elke believes Müller, could you lose your daughter.
Anna knows that her mother speaks with DW. That was Elke Müller is important. She feared that Anna would take this step bad. However, the mother wanted to talk about their Fears. And so that other parents in a similar situation and the courage to seek help. Mrs Müller shows photos of her daughter: Anna as a child, with long hair, laughing. And Anna today: with a serious look on her identity card photo, the hair under a head scarf hidden.
Elke Müller lives alone with her two daughters in a big city in the most populous state of North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW). From the father of the girl, they parted ways, as Anna is still in the Kindergarten went. Anna is growing up Evangelical, but regularly in the Church, the family is not.
The great love
When Anna was 14 years old, she met a young Afghan boy. Abdul, a good-looking Teenager with large brown eyes. He came in the fall of 2015 as a unaccompanied minor refugee to Germany. A total of over 22,000 Minors who fled, according to the Federal office for Migration and refugees in the year 2015 alone, according to Germany.
In addition to his native language of Pashto Abdul-dominated at the time, only a smattering of English. A high school diploma, he has not. His asylum application was rejected, he is only tolerated in Germany. With now 19 years of age, he is no longer a minor and can be deported at any time.
The Boy had done to their suffering, says Elke Müller. “I felt for him something almost like a maternal instinct.” She was the new friend of your daughter with open arms, invited him to his home. Anna had been enchanted by Abdul literally. “In your eyes only, sweetheart,” recalls Elke Müller.
For her, a queasy feeling came soon. Because Anna changed. She suddenly started to wear a headscarf and pray to Allah. “I spoke to Abdul on it. He said they would do it voluntarily, he would have demanded to the never of her.” With 15 years of Anna, her mother announced that she had converted to Islam. To this point they have been for a good nine months with Abdul. For Elke Müller, Islam was a foreign Religion, with the help of which you had no points of contact. The Strangers scared her. Her own child-her third-was.
Anna had the need to learn quickly as much as possible about their new Religion and have started to do research on the Internet about it. Also on “any of the comic pages,” recalls her mother, as, for example, of the well-known converts Pierre bird. The Protestant baptized bird is now 40 years old. He was regarded for years as a leading figure in the radical Islamist scene in Germany and will be monitored.
Early bird occurred in pedestrian zones, in front of hundreds of his followers as preachers, today, he is mainly active on the Internet. His Youtube channel has around 30,000 Followers. Anna ended up at some point with him. And Elke Müller, as she looked at the pages where their daughter on the Internet was on the way. Müller knew the name Pierre Vogel from the media, which referred to him often as a preacher of hate. Therefore, all of the alarm were heard in the case of your bells. “I was wondering how I should conduct myself. If I can do something to prohibit or to. It was all too much for me.”
The stranger, of your own child
The overburdened mother sought help. In the case of a Protestant educational Advisory centre. In the case of the “advice radicalisation centre” by the Federal office for Migration and refugees. And finally, in the case of “frontier workers” in the city of Bochum in the Ruhr area. There can turn to relatives or teachers, have to do with adolescents, where the signs of religious extremism show. The project is financed from Federal funds.
The “frontier”Team learning consists of social workers, psychologists and Islamic studies. Since 2012, she supervised several hundred cases, estimates pedagogue Susanne Wittmann in an interview with DW. “Mrs Müller has turned very early on to us”. It had quickly been clear that, even if Anna is a real danger that the deduction forward. If young people want to learn on the Internet “on their own about Islam, they end up always in the Wrong,” says Wittmann.
The Wrong – mainly Salafists Pierre Vogel are meant to represent a particularly conservative current of Islam. They advertise in the net target new trailer for their harsh Interpretation of the Koran. Some are also looking for recruits for the armed struggle. In North Rhine-Westphalia, the Salafist scene has about 3000 followers. According to data from the country’s constitutional protection of around 70 women were among the 255 people, the most from NRW in the IS areas in Syria and in Iraq to leave.
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After Elke Müller was reported to “frontier workers”, visited a social pedagogue Susanne Wittmann family in your home. It was here she met Anna. And experienced you are as a search. “She was not strengthened, but still open – for the scene, but also for us.” The goal of the Consultation was to hold Anna, with radical to come to Salafi-inspired ideology in touch. At the same time, the girl should have the opportunity to see their new Faith to live out.
On the search for a suitable starting point for Anna, the “frontier”-the Team also won the Council with the police. There is an official who maintains close contact with Muslim institutions recommended that a mosque in Anna’s home town, in which there is a separate women’s and girls ‘ group. This group was for Anna first of all, to a fixed starting point. And the head of a kind of personal mentor. Some of them have had almost daily with Anna the contact details to the DW.
At the first Meeting, the Manager still remembers it well. “I have admired Anna from the beginning, how determined she was in her age. You want to really deal very intensively with Islam.” Anna got rides asked a lot of questions, a proper prayer, fasting, behavior in Class. And once you have want to know whether Islam allow a nose piercing.
About a year Anna had come regularly once a week in the girls ‘ group, reported the head of. In the mosque there was also a young group for Abdul, but Anna’s friend have shown no interest. “He came once to a Meeting. But that seemed to him to be rather unpleasant.”
As a radical you would not classify Abdul, says the head of the girl group. “To me he seemed to be rather naive and in need of self-support. He is very traditional. But a lot of Knowledge about Islam, he has not.”
Nightmare Vision Of Afghanistan
Since a few months, Anna is no longer in the mosque. “You mean, you want to put your focus somewhere else.” Reasons not to have called Anna. As before, you would log in via Whatsapp, if you have any questions. Whether Anna was visiting a mosque, do not know you.
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Anna’s mother did not know. Elke Müller continues to live in fear. Also it does not consider that Abdul for a religious fanatic. However, something that leaves her no rest is there. Repeatedly he had been talking about going to Afghanistan to go back to his sick mother. “He sat here with us, and said: If Anna is of full age, then we get married. I just thought: Oh, God! If she goes with him to Afghanistan, then I don’t see them alive again.” Elke Müller doesn’t even know where in the country the native village of the young man is. Afghanistan – for you this means especially war, Terror and Taliban.
Anna herself has assured her mother that she wants to live with Abdul in Germany. In this statement, Elke Müller clings. And the fact that their daughter’s career plans. Nevertheless, it is afraid that Anna may throw after your wedding for the love of all plans overboard.
“That a girl, with great love, follows overseas, is not so unusual,” says social worker Susanne Wittmann of “frontier workers”. A subsequent radicalisation does not preclude the teacher, in the case of Anna yet. “In this age there can always be that you are losing due to a crisis in the Hold.” How would Anna react, for example, if Abdul would be actually threatened by deportation?
Getting closer to the day, before Elke Müller so fear comes. Your day at the Anna full age is. After that, she says, “I will know if I have lost”.
* Note: The editor has changed the names of the Parties.