Lamya Kaddor

Lamya Kaddor (born 11 June 1978 in Ahlen) is a German scholar of Islamic studies of Syrian ancestry, a writer and founder and chairwoman of the Liberal-Islamic Association (LIB e.V.).[1] She is known for introducing Islamic education in German in public schools in Germany.[2]

Lamya Kaddor, 2018

Career in academia

Together with Rabeya Müller, she has published the first German Qur'an translation for children and adults: "Der Koran für Kinder und Erwachsene".[3] Furthermore, she is the initiator and editor of the first German school book for Islamic education, called "Saphir".[4]

Especially since 2014, she works on the subject of Salafism and Islamism. Five of her former students volunteered for jihad in Syria, which Lamya Kaddor perceived as a personal defeat.[5]

She taught Islamic education in a secondary school in Dinslaken in North Rhine-Westphalia.[6]

Political career

In the negotiations to form a so-called traffic light coalition of the Social Democratic Party (SPD), the Green Party and the Free Democratic Party (FDP) following the 2021 German elections, Kaddor was part of her party's delegation in the working group on homeland security, civil rights and consumer protection, co-chaired by Christine Lambrecht, Konstantin von Notz and Wolfgang Kubicki.[7]

References
  1. "Liberal-Islamischer Bund". Retrieved 3 January 2016.
  2. "Koran ohne Schleier" (in German). Retrieved 18 August 2008.
  3. "Der Koran für Kinder und Erwachsene". Archived from the original on 19 May 2017. Retrieved 3 January 2016.
  4. "Saphir". Retrieved 3 January 2016.
  6. "Religion Research". Retrieved 18 August 2008.
  7. Britt-Marie Lakämper (21 October 2021), SPD, Grüne, FDP: Diese Politiker verhandeln die Ampel-Koalition Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung.
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