The Jihadists of Bümpliz – Qaasim Illi and the Islamic Central Council (Swiss Press Text 2017, by Daniel Ryser) - Swiss Press Award
Wochenzeitung WOZ
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2017
Daniel Ryser
This 100,000-character report, for which I was awarded "Journalist of the Year 2016," sheds light on the life and contradictions of Islamist and jihadist jet-setter Qaasim Illi, spokesman for the Islamic Central Council of Switzerland, in the aftermath of the Paris attacks of November 2015.
