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Shams Ul Haq Qudoos (* 1975 in Pakistan) is a German journalist and writer.

Life

Shams Ul-Haq grew up in a city in the near of Lahore in poor conditions. To pay for school he sold watermelons and drinks at the bus station in the evening. At the age of 15 he came to Germany as an unaccompanied minor asylum seeker and moved to Bad Marienberg. After training as a welder he worked for different companies, among them as a manager of a call center. He took German citizenship in 2001, moved to Offenbach and ran a cell phone store with a post agency in Frankfurt-Nordend.[1]

Ul-Haq has been working as an investigative journalist since 2007 for different media, amongst them WeltN24 and Wiener Zeitung[2] in Libya, Syria, Afghanistan, Pakistan and other countries.[3] . He is known as Terrorismusexpert.[4][5][6]

Investigations

He started his career as a journalist in 2007 at Die Welt by an interview with Benazir Bhutto. Since then he works as a free journalist with focus on Middle East. Media, he currently does or in the past used to work for are: SonntagsZeitung, Kleine Zeitung n-tv, ZDF and ARD, Die Welt, Wiener Zeitung, Tiroler Tageszeitung, FAZ, Huffington Post and The Nation. As investigative journalist he has travelled many countries, among them: Afghanistan, Egypt, Bangladesh, Burma, India, Irak, Iran, Canada, Libya, Morocco, Nepal, Pakistan, Syria, USA, Uzbekistan.

The list of his famous discussion partners is long. In it there are: Angela Merkel, Frank Walter Steinmeier, Olaf Scholz, Thomas De Maiziere, Holger Münch, Arsenij Jazenjuk, Imran Khan, Pervez Musharraf, Benazir Bhutto, Hamid Karzai, Nawaz Sharif, Asia Bibi, Ahmet Davutoglu, John McCain, David Petraeus, Kofi, Annan, Anders Fogh Rasmussen, Mohammad Jawad Zarif, Tawakkol Karman, Masoumeh Ebtekar, Sebastian Kurz, Bill Mc Dermott, Abdul Sattar Edhi, Vitali Klitschko, Riyad Farid Hijab, Tammam Salam, Thomas Gottschalk,

For N24 (WELT) he worked as asia-correspondent.[7]

In 2016, Ul-Haq with 35 different fake identities managed to disclose the conditions of refugee accommodations. Subsequently, Ul-Haq published his book Die Brutstätte des Terrors (engl: The hotbed of Terrorism), for which he had spent several months undercover in 35 different refugee accommodations in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. The book is currently number 78 on the bestseller list in the category history of terrorism. His conclusiion: "Recruitment of fundamentalistic extremists in refugee accommodations primarily takes place in two ways: through the poor food and the missing possiblities to devote oneself undisturbed to one's religious practices."[8]. In this context Ul-Haq discovered for Frontal21, that refugees are apparently forced into prostitution.[9]


During his investigations in refugee accommodations Ul-Haq in parallel started his covered work about radicalization in 150 european mosques [10]. This work resulted in the book Eure Gesetze interessieren uns nicht (engl: we don't care about your laws), which was published in October 2018 and which was presented on Frankfurt book exhibition 2018. For this book as well as for his search report "Hass aus der Moschee" for ZDFzoom[11] Ul Haq was awarded "Media Person of the year in Europe 2018/2019".[12] In 2020, Ul-Haq for ZDF reported about the Coronavirus situation in India[13] and Iran[14]. Also, Ul-Haq reported about the manufacturing of mouth-nose-masks in India and in this context disclosed poor hygienical standards.[15][16] As terrorism expert Ul-Haq with his colleague Susana Santina for German media ZDF reported from the deradicalized camp of the Taliban from afghan-pakistan border area (Peshawar).[17] As terrorism expert for n-tv he also reported from Kabul about how the Taliban are making use of corona crisis for their purposes.[18]. His investigations also led Ul Haq into the deprived area of the German city Dietzenbach, from where he reported about the social wrongs of the Spessartviertel area.[19]

Works of literature

  • Die Brutstätte des Terrors. Südwestbuch, Waiblingen 2016. ISBN 978-3-945-76997-3.
  • Eure Gesetze interessieren uns nicht! Undercover in europäischen Moscheen – wie Muslime radikalisiert werden. Orell Füssli Verlag, Zürich 2018. ISBN 978-3-280-05682-0.

Weblinks

Individual evidences

  1. ↑ Wiebke Rannenberg: Zwischen Soldaten und Taliban, Frankfurter Rundschau, 22. Oktober 2010.
  2. ↑ Shams Ul-Haq: "Wir werden gewinnen - Inshallah", Wiener Zeitung, 10. Mai 2013.
  3. ↑ Korrespondenten-Berichte von Shams Ul-Haq für Welt N24.
  4. ↑ „Deutschland züchtet sich die Terroristen selbst heran“, WeltN24, 5. Januar 2017.
  5. ↑ TopTerrorismus-Experte Shams Ul-Haq: Wie hat sich die Strategie des IS verändert?, Stern, 13. Juni 2017.
  6. ↑ Versteckt und in ständiger Angst, Cicero, 5. April 2019.
  7. ↑ Shams Ul- Haq Asien-Korrespondent N24. In: youtube.com. 21. August 2016, abgerufen am 9. August 2020.
  8. ↑ Der falsche Flüchtling: Journalist schleust sich als Asylbewerber in Unterkünfte ein. In: op-online.de. 27. Oktober 2016, abgerufen am 7. November 2018.
  9. ↑ Flüchtlinge zur Prostitution gezwungen. In: zdf.de. 24. Oktober 2020, abgerufen am 21. Juni 2020.
  10. ↑ Undercover in Essener Moschee. In: derwesten.de. 20. November 2018, abgerufen am 9. August 2020.
  11. ↑ Hass aus der Moschee. In: zdf.de. 20. März 2019, abgerufen am 9. August 2020.
  12. ↑ Shams Ul Haq Pakistan Achievement Award. In: youtube.com. 20. August 2019, abgerufen am 9. August 2020.
  13. ↑ Ein hoffnungsloser Kampf - Indien in Zeiten der Corona-Krise. In: zdf.de. 30. März 2020, abgerufen am 1. April 2020.
  14. ↑ Irans Bürger sind verzweifelt. In: zdf.de. 16. April 2020, abgerufen am 7. Mai 2020.
  15. ↑ Masken made in India. In: sn.at. 28. April 2020, abgerufen am 7. Mai 2020.
  16. ↑ Infektionsschutz vom Küchentisch. In: neues-deutschland.de. 29. April 2020, abgerufen am 7. Mai 2020.
  17. ↑ Ein Leben nach dem Terror - Pakistan und die Ex-Taliban. In: zdf.de. 29. Mai 2020, abgerufen am 21. Juni 2020.
  18. ↑ Wie die Taliban Corona für sich nutzen. In: n-tv.de. 14. Juni 2020, abgerufen am 21. Juni 2020.
  19. ↑ Ein bisschen NSU in Dietzenbach? In: FrankfurtLive. 27. Oktober 2020, abgerufen am 1. November 2020.


Kategorie:Journalist (Pakistan) Kategorie:Journalist (Deutschland) Kategorie:Investigativjournalist Kategorie:Autor Kategorie:Deutscher Kategorie:Pakistaner Kategorie:Geboren 1975 Kategorie:Mann

Personendaten
NAME Ul Haq, Shams
ALTERNATIVNAMEN Ul Haq Qudoos, Shams
KURZBESCHREIBUNG deutsch-pakistanischer Enthüllungsjournalist, Autor und Terrorexperte
GEBURTSDATUM 1975
GEBURTSORT Pakistan
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