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The City Council of Wuppertal, a municipality in Germany with a substantial Muslim population, has voted to approve the construction of a controversial mega-mosque that will be controlled by the government of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, a tireless propagator of political Islam in Europe.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Erdogan Builds Another Mega-Mosque, This Time in Germany<\/h2>\n

Soeren Kern | Middle East Forum<\/a> | April 6, 2023<\/p>\n

The City Council of Wuppertal, a municipality in western Germany with a substantial Muslim population, has voted to approve the construction of a controversial new mega-mosque that will be controlled by the government of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, a tireless propagator of political Islam in Europe.<\/p>\n

The new mosque will be controlled by the Turkish government\u2019s Directorate for Religious Affairs, known in Turkish as\u00a0Diyanet<\/em>, which Erdogan wields<\/a>\u00a0to spread Turkish\u00a0Islamism<\/span> worldwide.<\/p>\n

Diyanet<\/em>\u00a0operates<\/a> hundreds of Turkish-funded mosques in Germany and other Western countries that Erdogan uses to promote Islamism, spy on political opponents, and spread pro-regime propaganda. In the United States, a $110 million Diyanet<\/em> mega-mosque just outside<\/a>\u00a0Washington, DC has been\u00a0described<\/a>\u00a0as a \u201cTrojan horse\u201d because it is used by the Turkish government to influence American politics and help Muslim candidates win elections \u2014 under the guise of a religious institution.<\/p>\n

City officials in Wuppertal say the new mosque will revitalize a heavily blighted neighborhood at no cost to German taxpayers, but critics counter that the move \u2014 which comes less than six months after neighboring Cologne\u00a0approved<\/a>\u00a0the public sounding of the Muslim call to prayer \u2014 will further strengthen Erdo?an\u2019s power projection in Germany and ensconce Turkish Islamism in the country.<\/p>\n

At its meeting on March 6, the Wuppertal City Council (Wuppertaler Rat<\/em>)\u00a0approved<\/a>, with full support from all mainstream parties, an application to build a mega-mosque and community center in a dilapidated part of the Elberfeld district. In addition to the mosque, the complex will\u00a0include<\/a>\u00a0residential buildings for senior citizens and students, commercial space and office towers as well as a clubhouse and a kindergarten. The 30-million-euro project, which has been in the planning stages since 2009, will encompass 6,000 square meters (65,000 square feet), making it one of the largest Islamic facilities in Germany.<\/p>\n

The Wuppertal mosque project is generating heated controversy because it will be\u00a0controlled<\/a>\u00a0by the Turkish-Islamic Union for Islamic Affairs (T\u00fcrkisch-Islamische Union der Anstalt f\u00fcr Religion, DITIB<\/em>), the largest Islamic umbrella organization in Germany. DITIB,\u00a0described<\/a>\u00a0as an \u201cextended arm\u201d of the Turkish state, is\u00a0financed<\/a>\u00a0by\u00a0Diyanet<\/em>\u00a0and used by Erdo?an to control the sizeable Turkish diaspora in Germany.<\/p>\n

The Turkish government pays the salaries of almost 1,000 Turkish clerics in Germany who lead more than 950 DITIB-controlled mosques across the country,\u00a0according<\/a>\u00a0to an investigative report published by the German newspaper\u00a0Die Welt<\/em>. Turkish imams in Germany \u2014 many of whom do not speak German \u2014 are effectively Turkish civil servants who do the bidding of the Turkish government. They are trained at state-run theological seminaries in T\u00fcrkiye and sent to Germany for a period of five years. The imams\u00a0answer directly<\/a>\u00a0to so-called religious attach\u00e9s (Religionsattach\u00e9s<\/em>) at Turkish consulates across Germany. The composition of DITIB\u2019s Executive Board is determined by Ankara and DITIB\u2019s statutes ensure that\u00a0Diyanet<\/em>\u00a0exerts political and theological influence over German mosques.<\/p>\n

In recent years,\u00a0Diyanet<\/em>\u00a0and DITIB have attracted attention for Islamic radicalism. In January 2016,\u00a0Diyanet<\/em>\u00a0ruled<\/a>\u00a0that, in accordance with Islamic jurisprudence, it is halal (permissible) for a father to feel sexual lust for his own daughter. In April 2016, Diyanet\u2019s monthly children\u2019s magazine\u00a0included<\/a>\u00a0a comic strip that glorified martyrdom. In 2017, several DITIB imams in Germany were\u00a0accused<\/a>\u00a0of spying on opposition figures for the Turkish state. In 2018, children at a DITIB mosque in Herford were\u00a0required<\/a>\u00a0to dress in military uniforms emblazoned with Turkish flags and re-enact an Ottoman military victory over European forces. In February 2022, the leader of a DITIB mosque in G\u00f6ttingen was\u00a0handed<\/a>\u00a0a suspended prison sentence for posting anti-Semitic insults on social media networks. In June 2022, the German newspaper\u00a0Welt<\/em>\u00a0reported<\/a>\u00a0that the imam of a DITIB mosque in Hamburg is an acolyte of the founder of the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas.<\/p>\n

DITIB maintains close ties with the Muslim Brotherhood and other\u00a0Islamist<\/span>\u00a0groups. In June 2019, the\u00a0K\u00f6lner Stadt-Anzeiger<\/em>\u00a0revealed<\/a>\u00a0that a three-day \u201cIslamophobia<\/span>\u201d conference organized by the Turkish government and held at DITIB\u2019s Central Mosque in Cologne was attended by leading operatives of the Muslim Brotherhood. A spokesman for the Interior Ministry of North Rhine-Westphalia\u00a0said<\/a>\u00a0it was worrying \u201cthat DITIB, which has come under criticism in the recent past for Turkish nationalist activities, does not distance itself from the Islamist Muslim Brotherhood, but openly maintains relationships with people from this spectrum.\u201d<\/p>\n

Erdo?an currently is using DITIB mosques to garner votes from the Turkish diaspora ahead of Turkish presidential elections scheduled for May 14. During the past 18 months, DITIB mosques in Germany have sponsored more than 650 campaign events for Erdo?an\u2019s ruling AKP party,\u00a0according<\/a>\u00a0to the German newspaper\u00a0M\u00fcnchner Merkur<\/em>.<\/p>\n

German Islam expert Eren G\u00fcvercin compared the mosque controversy in Wuppertal to a years-long\u00a0debate<\/a>\u00a0about Cologne\u2019s Central Mosque, a DITIB-controlled mega-mosque. \u201cThe DITIB Central Mosque in Cologne was praised at the time for its open architecture,\u2019 which was supposed to symbolize DITIB\u2019s \u2018transparency,\u2019\u201d he\u00a0said<\/a>\u00a0in an interview with\u00a0M\u00fcnchner Merkur<\/em>. \u201cThe opening of the Central Mosque was actually a demonstration of power (Machtdemonstration<\/em>) by Erdo?an, to the exclusion of Cologne civil society.\u201d<\/p>\n

Volker Beck, a former German lawmaker who is now a professor at the University of Bochum,\u00a0said<\/a>\u00a0that DITIB habitually serves as \u201cErdogan\u2019s espionage or election campaign agency.\u201d This behavior, he told the German newspaper\u00a0Bild<\/em>, \u201cshould not be rewarded by the city of Wuppertal.\u201d Beck\u00a0warned<\/a>\u00a0against na\u00efvet\u00e9 when dealing with DITIB: \u201cMy experience from Cologne shows that if they want something from the city, they become transparent. When they have what they want, they go back to acting as a Turkish state agency.\u201d<\/p>\n

Officials in Wuppertal \u2014 where self-appointed Sharia Police have\u00a0attempted<\/a>\u00a0to enforce Islamic law on public streets \u2014 dismissed concerns about DITIB. Social Democrat Stefan K\u00fchn\u00a0rejected<\/a>\u00a0accusations that the mosque project would further Turkish Islamism in Germany and said that Wuppertal has \u201ca trusting relationship\u201d with the local DITIB community. Christian Democrat Rolf K\u00f6ster\u00a0said<\/a>\u00a0that the mega-mosque is a \u201cgreat opportunity\u201d for the neighborhood. He added that while meddling by the Turkish government \u201ccannot be ruled out,\u201d the city has \u201cfirm faith in the promise of openness, transparency and financial independence from Turkey.\u201d Wuppertal City spokeswoman Martina Eckermann\u00a0said<\/a>\u00a0that the existing mosque currently used by the community is \u201cbursting at the seams and can no longer remain in this cramped space.\u201d<\/p>\n

German Islam expert Susanne Schr\u00f6ter\u00a0said<\/a>\u00a0in an interview with the German newspaper\u00a0Bild<\/em>\u00a0that it is \u201cunbelievable\u201d that politicians from all the mainstream parties are committed to DITIB, whose mosques \u201cpreach against integration, spread war propaganda, support military actions in Syria that violate international law, and host election campaign events by AKP politicians.\u201d<\/p>\n

The chairman of DITIB\u2019s Wuppertal branch, Ersin \u00d6zcan, insists that the organization is completely independent from Turkey. \u201cNothing from Turkey is whispered in our ears,\u201d he\u00a0told<\/a>\u00a0Westdeutsche Zeitung<\/em>. The project will reportedly be funded entirely by the local Muslim community, but skeptics doubt that they can raise 30 million euros on their own without help from abroad. FWI reached out to \u00d6zcan for comment on how the mega-mosque will be financed and if it will be independent from the Turkish government. He did not respond.<\/p>\n

The most vocal criticism of the mosque project is coming from hard-left anarchists who have\u00a0threatened<\/a>\u00a0violence if the city, to make space for the mosque, demolishes an abandoned building in which they are squatting. The so-called Autonomous Center Wuppertal (Autonome Zentrum Wuppertal, AZ<\/em>)\u00a0warned<\/a>\u00a0against the \u201cErdo?anization\u201d of Germany and\u00a0described<\/a>\u00a0the mosque\u2019s approval as an \u201celection campaign gift\u201d for the Turkish president.<\/p>\n

In an\u00a0open letter<\/a>, AZ said that it was \u201clong overdue that we from the left more resolutely fight the influence of the Erdo?an regime in Wuppertal.\u201d The letter described DITIB\u2019s Wuppertal branch as \u201cErdo?an\u2019s extended arm\u201d which \u201cstands for the extremely authoritarian, repressive and warlike policies of the regime.\u201d It concluded: \u201cWe want the municipality\u2019s trivialization and support of DITIB to stop!\u201d<\/p>\n

Soeren Kern is a Middle East Forum Writing Fellow.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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