TERROR IN THE NAME OF ALLAH FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF GERMAN MUSLIMS

Abstract

UDK 28:323.28(430)

In this text we give an overview and a concise analysis of the reaction of Islamic organisations in Germany and the public debates in connection with the attack on the editorial board of the satirical weekly “Charlie Hebdo”. The attacks in Paris at the beginning of this year which were committed by attackers who, as Muslims, likely wanted revenge for the caricature of the Prophet, initiated a large wave of solidarity and numerous protests in Germany. The Coordinating Council of Muslims in Cologne (KRM) published a joint statement after the attacks in which it most harshly condemns the “cowardly attack on the editorial board of Charlie Hebdo”. Through these statements, the representatives of the KRM-communities communicated the general mood of the Muslims in Germany to the wider public. The Muslims were, namely, apart from some socially marginalised radical examples, unified in condemning this terrorist act despite the confessional and ethnic intonation and the ideological differences.