A Salafi (Arabic: سلفي) is a Muslim who emphasises the Salaf ("predecessors" or "ancestors"), the earliest Muslims, as model examples of Islamic practice. The term has been in use since the Middle Ages but today refers especially to a follower of a modern Sunni Islamic movement known as the Salafiyyah, which is related to or includes Wahhabism, so that the two terms are sometimes erroneously viewed as synonymous. Salafism has become associated with literalist, strict and puritanical approaches to Islamic theology and, in the West, with the Salafi Jihadis who espouse violent jihad against civilians as a legitimate expression of Islam. Academics and historians use the term to denote "a school of thought which surfaced in the second half of the 19th century as a reaction to the spread of European ideas," and "sought to expose the roots of modernity within Muslim civilization."
Pierre Vogel (b. July 20, 1978 in Frechen), Islamic name Abu Hamza is a German Islamic preacher and a former professional boxer.
Vogel converted to Islam in 2001 and shortly thereafter began courses on Islamic studies in Germany. For two years he studied Arabic and the Quran at the private school Om Al-Qura in Mecca.[citation needed]
In 2006 he returned to Berlin and started teaching Islam at the Al-Nur-Moschee mosque Neukölln, in universities and even among Christians.[citation needed]
After 66 amateur fights[citation needed] he turned professional at the age of 22, fighting briefly (for two years) as a cruiserweightfor the Sauerland club and was undefeated in seven bouts.
Vogel is married to a Muslim Moroccan woman and is father of three children.
He has been described in one German report as a "radical Muslim".
When he appeared at a Muslim meeting in Ferihegy[when?], he said that polygamy is legitimate due to the fact that there are more women than men in Germany.
"Deso Dogg", birth name Denis Mamadou Cuspert, is a German former rapper. Since he converted to Islam he began using the name Abou Maleeq.
Deso Dogg was born in Berlin to a German mother and a Ghananian father. The father left his family while Deso Dogg was a baby. In 1995 he began his rap career. In 2010 he ended his rap career.
After he converted to Islam, "Deso Dogg" became a singer of German language nasheeds. German officials say that his videos and speeches contain inflammatory rhetoric that promotes violence.Guido Steinberg has stated that Dogg's music "support[s] a radicalisation process."
Inger Støjberg (born 16 March 1973) is a Danish member of parliament since the 2001 elections for the party Venstre. She has been Minister of Employment.
In 1999 she graduated from InformationsAkademiet, and was editor of Viborg's local newspaper from 1999 until 2001 when she became a freelance journalist in her own company, Støjberg Kommunikation.
Støjberg's first elected office was as member of the city council of Viborg Municipality, a position she occupied 1994—2002. She served as chairman of Liberalt Oplysnings Forbund (LOF) from 1996 to 1999.
Støjberg has previously called herself "an trained journalist" but was forced to revise her resume, as she does not have such an education.
Sir Hugh Ashley Roberts, GCVO, FSA, is an art historian and curator.
He was a director of the Royal Collection, the art collection of the British Royal Family, and is a Surveyor of the Queen's Works of Art, whose office is responsible for the care and maintenance of the royal collection of works of art owned by the Sovereign of the United Kingdom in an official capacity.
Roberts was closely involved in the restoration of Windsor Castle, a medieval castle and royal residence located in Windsor, Berkshire, England, notable for its long association with the British Royal Family and its architecture after its 1992 fire.
He was previously a director of Christie's, an art-business and a fine-arts auction house, and was the head of its Decorative Arts Department. His particular area of expertise is French and English furniture and interior decoration of the 18th and 19th centuries; he has written extensively on these subjects in Royal Collection exhibition catalogues and major journals.
On 20 April 2010, on his retirement as Director of the Royal Collection, Roberts was appointed a Knight Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order.