The German-Iranian author Navid Kermani has urgently appealed to the international community to end the war in Syria and Iraq. Given far more resolute diplomatic and possibly military steps were necessary, the 47-year-old orientalist said on Sunday in the St. Paul Church before nearly 1,000 visitors. There, the writer received the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade.
“Only when our societies accept the madness no longer, and the governments are moving,” 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: The West has come to terms with the genocide
Kermani called it “gratifying” that especially in Germany so many people for Refugees inserting. 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 secular dictatorships “a brutal top-down modernization”. The fundamentalists were destroying the tradition continued.
Aiman Mazyek: Ceremony expression of “Germany’s new diversity”
The Peace Prize honors the German Book Trade since 1950 figures, are committed to understanding and humanity. The prize of 25,000 Euro prize is considered 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.
The Chairman of the Central Council of Muslims in Germany, Aiman Mazyek, congratulated Kermani. “Dialogue is good. Dialogue is exhausting. Dialogue is strength,” said Mazyek against the news agency dpa . Kermani had “treated this way to the tireless efforts of reconciliation between religions and cultures literarily and intellectually in his work”. The award of the prize to him was also an expression of a “new Germany of diversity”.
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