The organisation is the target of a criminal investigation in Switzerland for facilitating the travel of foreign fighters to Syria.(( )) The IZRS has also publicly screened a movie shot by one of its board members while in Syria during the war.
In spite of this seemingly inclusive name, the hard-line Salafi IZRS represents only 0.5 per cent of Swiss Muslims.(( )) Yet the most controversial guest proved to be Nora Illi, converted Swiss Muslim woman serving as women’s affairs commissioner at the ‘Islamic Central Council of Switzerland’ (IZRS). Against this backdrop, the German public broadcaster ARD used its flagship political talk show Anne Will to discuss the reasons behind the foreign fighter phenomenon.((The full show is available at ))ĭebating under the title “My life for Allah – why do more and more youth radicalise themselves?”, guests included Ahmad Mansour, a Muslim sociologist and anti-radicalisation activist Mohamed Taha Sabri, a Berlin-based Imam Sascha Mané, father of a girl who has joined ISIS in Syria and conservative CDU politician Wolfgang Bosbach.((For a portrait of Ahmad Mansour and some of his work, see )) Ties to the Syrian jihad Recent reports indicate that the flow of German recruits to the jihadist groups on the Syrian battlefields is declining.(( )) Nevertheless, among all European countries, Germany comes second in terms of the number of its citizens that have joined ISIS, al-Nusra Front, or related groups.
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