Frankfurt / Main (dpa) – The German-Iranian writer Navid Kermani has received the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade in the Paulskirche in Frankfurt.
The Muslim intellectuals and journalist appealed urgently on Sunday to the West, to end the war in Syria and Iraq. For this purpose, a far more decisive diplomatic action and possibly military steps were necessary, the 47-year-old told nearly 1,000 guests at the handover ceremony.
Only if our societies accept
“the madness no longer will the governments move “Kermani, who was born as a son of Iranian immigrants in Siegen and now lives in Cologne said. The war could only be ended by the powers that stand behind the feuding armies and militias. These included Iran, Turkey, the Gulf States, Russia and the West.
The terrorist militia Islamic State (IS) with its maximum of 30 000 fighters and could be defeated, Kermani said. “Probably we will make mistakes, whatever we do now. But the biggest mistake we commit, if we continue to nothing or do so little against the mass murder against our European doorstep, that of the” Islamic State “and to the Assad regime. ”
Kermani called it “gratifying” that so many people inserting especially in Germany for refugees. Then he called at the same time a debate on the causes of terrorism and the movement of refugees. This also included the question of how the policy has promoted in Germany the catastrophe “close to our borders.”
“We do not ask why our closest partner in the Middle East of all Saudi Arabia’s” criticized Kermani, who accused the country to finance the Jihad. The West should not draw the conclusion, stay out better for genocide from the “disastrous” wars in Iraq or Libya. You’ve come to terms with the genocide of the Syrian ruler Bashar al-Assad on his own people and the religious fascism of IS.
The Orientalist complained that in the Middle Ages tolerant multicultural Islamic culture was wiped out in the Muslim countries. All peoples of the East have experienced by colonialism and dictatorships sakuläre “a brutal top-down modernization”. The fundamentalists were destroying the tradition continued.
The Peace Prize honors the German book trade since 1950 personalities, who work for international understanding and humanity. The MTI 25,000 in prize is one of the most important awards in Germany.
Kermani is one of the most important voices in today’s society, when it comes to the peaceful coexistence of people of different national and religious backgrounds, it said in the statement of reasons for the award. Last year, the US Internet critic Jaron Lanier had received the award. 2013 the prize went to the Belarusian writer Svetlana Alexievitch who scored the Nobel Prize a few days ago.
Peace Prize of the German Book Trade
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