Islamic Community of Germany: Difference between revisions

It is part of the umbrella organization [[Federation of Islamic Organizations in Europe]] which has its headquarters in Brussels.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://euobserver.com/news/25444|title=400 groups sign charter for European Muslims|website=euobserver.com|date=14 January 2008 |language=en|access-date=2018-12-16}}</ref>

The IGD had its origins in the [[Munich Mosque Construction Commission]], a German organization established in the 1950s whose goal was the construction of a mosque in [[Munich]]. [[Said Ramadan]], the son-in-law of [[Hassan al-Banna]], founder of the [[Muslim Brotherhood]], took over control of the commission in 1958 and used his position to travel throughout the Muslim world with his Syrian assistant [[Ali Ghaleb Himmat]]. Ramadan was assisted significantly by the US [[Central Intelligence Agency]] which allegedly paid for his travel and backed his efforts to take over the mosque although suspicions that Ramadan was a CIA operative have never been proven.<ref>{{Cite journal|url=http://www.meforum.org/3059/europe-islamists|title = Europe's Underestimated Islamists|journal = Middle East Quarterly|date = September 2011|last1 = Johnson|first1 = Ian}}</ref> By the mid-1960s, Ramadan was no longer in control of the Commission which was taken over by Himmat.<ref name="hudson.org">http://www.hudson.org/content/researchattachments/attachment/1333/johnson_vol6.pdf {{Bare URL PDF|date=March 2022}}</ref> During the 1960s, under Himmat's leadership and together with Egyptian businessman [[Youssef Nada]] the newly built Munich Mosque became the nucleus of a network of mosques, centers and associations in all major West German cities.<ref name="fpri.org">http://www.fpri.org/docs/chapters/201303.west_and_the_muslim_brotherhood_after_the_arab_spring.chapter5.pdf {{Bare URL PDF|date=March 2022}}</ref> In 1963, the Mosque Building Commission was renamed [[The Islamic Community of Southern Germany]] and in a 1982 meeting was renamed the Islamic Community of Germany (Islamische Gemeinschaft in Deutschland (IGD).<ref name="hudson.org"/><ref>http://www.fpri.org/docs/chapters/201303.west_and_the_muslim_brotherhood_after_the_arab_spring.chapter5.pd{{Dead link|date=January 2020 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>