Islamic Commission of Spain


Islamic Commission of Spain is the legitimate representative organ of Islam and Muslims before the citizenship and the Administration for the representation, negotiation, signature and follow-up on the Islam - State agreements adopted in Law 26/1992.
The Islamic Commission of Spain meets periodically with representatives of the Administration in the Mixed Paritary Commission; in addition to the conjunctural communications with the Ministry of the Presidency on legislative initiatives, and with the Main Directorate of Religious Affairs of the Ministry of Justice.

Presidents

President of the Islamic Commission of Spain, Riay Tatary Bakry, has been linked by Spanish media to an Al-Qaeda network uncovered in June 2019. He died in April 2020.

Historical summary

In 1967 the first law allowing Muslims to organize themselves, after a gap of centuries, was promulgated in Spain, leading to the establishment in 1968 of the first local Muslim Association in Spain in Melilla, and in 1971, the first national association, the Association of Muslims in Spain, which has its headquarters in Madrid.
Under the Spanish Constitution the Statutory Law of Religious Freedom is promulgated, now in force, and the Union of Islamic Communities of Spain was constituted, as well as the Spanish Federation of Islamic Religious Entities, which together constitute the Islamic Commission of Spain, which is a member of the Muslim Council for Cooperation in Europe in Brussels, which is a consultative body to the European Union.

Links with Al-Qaeda financiers

In June 2019, 350 Spanish police officers dismantled a network of Al-Qaeda financiers in Spain, including Al-Qaeda's historic financier Mohammed Zouaydi, as part of "Operation Wamor".
According to Spanish media, the head of the Al-Qaeda network was Fares Kutayni, described as a "close relative" of Riay Tatary Bakry, President of the Islamic Commission of Spain. Fares Kutayni and his daughter Hayfa Kutayni were directors of the Muslim Brotherhood-related Union of Islamic Communities of Spain, founded by Riay Tatary Bakry, and one of the main components of the Islamic Commission of Spain.
In a press release, the President of the Islamic Commission of Spain, who is said to be "ideologically linked to the Muslim Brotherhood", trusted the arrested Al-Qaeda members were innocent. However, Europol stated that the network was "part of a huge international clandestine structure, with the aim of attacking the Western economic system as a form of terrorism ".

Representatives

Previous to the statutes of 2015, the direction of CIE was made up by the presidents of these two federations, UCIDE and FEERI. However, the current statute has two main representative bodies: the governing body and the permanent committee. The governing body comprises the president, the secretary, and the treasurer.
Governing body:
Permanent Committee: