CLAIM — Alliance Against Islamo­phobia and Anti-Muslim Hate

CLAIM — Alliance Against Islamo­phobia and Anti-Mus­lim Hate is an umbrel­la net­work of over 50 civ­il soci­ety and Mus­lim advo­ca­cy groups in Ger­many work­ing against “Islam­o­pho­bic, anti-Mus­lim and racist ten­den­cies.” It was found­ed in 2018 and oper­ates under TEILSEIEND, a Mus­lim advo­ca­cy and com­mu­ni­ty asso­ci­a­tion. Sev­er­al part­ner orga­ni­za­tions in the CLAIM net­work have ties to the Glob­al Mus­lim Broth­er­hood (GMB) in Ger­many, includ­ing JUMA and the Mus­lim­is­che Jugend Deutsch­lands. Since its found­ing, the CLAIM net­work has exten­sive­ly lob­bied for polit­i­cal influ­ence in supra­na­tion­al rep­re­sen­ta­tive bod­ies, reg­u­lar­ly meet­ing with high-lev­el EU offi­cials and nation­al gov­ern­ment lead­ers. In Sep­tem­ber 2020, the Ger­man Inte­ri­or Min­istry answered CLAIM calls to intro­duce an inde­pen­dent expert group on anti-Mus­lim hatred that fea­tured two CLAIM expert com­mit­tee members.