19:00
Club Commune, Kassel
The 1928 Hasan al-Banna, founded in Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood is one of the most influential organizations in the world of the Islamist spectrum. Twenty years after its foundation it built in Munich its first branch on German soil. The Brotherhood is not a mass movement, but strictly organized hierarchically. Its members are well networked within the civil society and occur eloquently on the outside. Public activists academically trained deny their membership in the Brotherhood.
The West German policy promotes during their desperate search for potential allies, successfully counteract the radicalization of young Muslims, often projects of clubs from the action network of the Muslim Brotherhood. Thanks to this financial support and the concomitant public recognition, the legalistic Islamists in recent years could have a broad base of young, use of academic cadres, currently in foundations, march parties and civil society successfully through the institutions of power.
The greatest success zeitigten Islamist networks in the SPD. The camaraderie between the German Social Democracy and legalistic Islamists peaked 2014 in the creation of the national working group of Muslims in the SPD (AKMS). This network of Muslim Social Democrats developed very quickly became a rallying Islamist actors.
But even in the lowlands of local politics, the networking of the Muslim Brotherhood is successful, as can be seen by the example of Marburg. Here, the cronyism between social democratic local princes and the action braid made of the Muslim Brotherhood for, the Protection of the Constitution refers to the university city as one of seven national centers of the Muslim Brotherhood in Germany.
The speaker Ralf Fischer will show in his presentation the ideological history of the SPD from a political representation of foreign players in the 70s and 80s, to a willing backers of the Muslim Brotherhood. The journalist writes regularly for the left-leaning weekly Jungle World.