A nationwide campaign portraying Muslims as an ‘inseparable part of everyday German life’ has recently been launched with financial support from a federal programme, placing at least part of the cost indirectly on German taxpayers.
CLAIM gGmbH (German acronym for non-profit limited-liability company) launched its ‘Action Weeks Against Anti-Muslim Racism’ on 17 June under the slogan ‘Muslims: A part of you!’ The initiative, running until 1 July, presents 30 Muslims as doctors, teachers, entrepreneurs, artists, athletes, and neighbours who ‘shape German society’. Posters, social media material, and events encourage schools, universities, sports clubs, libraries, and other institutions to join the campaign.
CLAIM describes the initiative as an ‘attempt to make Muslim life visible and combat discrimination.’ According to its website, the Action Weeks are funded by the Federal Ministry for Education, Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth through the ‘Live Democracy!’ programme.
The ministry’s official database records a €624,997.44 grant to CLAIM for 2026, following €625,000 in 2025. The money is formally allocated to the ‘development of a nationwide central infrastructure’ in the field of racism, rather than solely to the posters and events. When asked by Apollo News how much was being spent specifically on the current campaign, however, the ministry reportedly provided no separate figure.
‘CLAIM describes the initiative as an “attempt to make Muslim life visible and combat discrimination”’
The latest grants continue years of extensive federal support. Between 2020 and 2024, CLAIM operated under the legal sponsorship of Teilseiend, a Heidelberg-based Muslim civil-society association founded to ‘promote Muslim participation, dialogue between Muslims and non-Muslims, and the establishment of a Muslim academy’. As CLAIM’s formal project sponsor, Teilseiend received and administered federal grants on its behalf; the government has stressed that these funds financed CLAIM’s work, not Teilseiend’s unrelated activities.
Under ‘Live Democracy!’, the amounts channelled through Teilseiend for CLAIM’s competence network rose from €459,997.80 in 2020 to €555,501.55 in 2021, €555,119.92 in 2022, €599,500 in 2023, and €600,000 in 2024.
Other funding streams came on top of those sums. A Bundestag response recorded €60,000 from the Interior Ministry in 2024 and €373,000 in 2025 for CLAIM gGmbH. The Federal Commissioner for Migration, Integration and Anti-Racism also supported CLAIM-related project work with €54,770.22 in 2022, €281,610.90 in 2023, €202,283.33 in 2024, and €230,450.18 in 2025. Across the three disclosed federal funding streams, support connected to CLAIM exceeded €1.22 million in 2025 alone.
CLAIM originated in 2017, with Teilseiend becoming its legal and administrative sponsor in 2020, while CLAIM retained its own team, structure, and Berlin office. CLAIM gGmbH was incorporated as a separate non-profit company in July 2024 and became fully independent of Teilseiend at the beginning of 2025.
The wider CLAIM alliance brought together more than 50 Muslim and non-Muslim organizations but repeatedly faced scrutiny over some of its members’ close links to political Islam. Inssan, a co-founder of the alliance, appeared in Berlin intelligence reports between 2007 and 2009 as being close to Muslim Brotherhood networks.
Later reporting identified personnel links involving individual Inssan members and the Islamic Cultural and Educational Centre, which Berlin authorities described as a ‘meeting point for Hamas supporters’. Inssan denied Islamist connections, while CLAIM said in 2023 that Inssan was no longer part of the alliance and denied that its own organization was connected to either movement.
‘Following the repeated scandals, CLAIM dissolved the alliance on 19 November 2025’
Questions were also raised about other former participants, including Muslim Youth in Germany and organizations connected through broader Islamic umbrella networks. The federal government said in both 2022 and 2025 that the Interior Ministry possessed isolated intelligence findings of varying seriousness and currency concerning alliance participants.
Following the repeated scandals, CLAIM dissolved the alliance on 19 November 2025, acknowledging that the allegations threatened the gGmbH’s funding eligibility. It nevertheless said the professional structures built under the former network had already been transferred to its monitoring operation and the present company. The reorganized body then entered 2026 with almost unchanged Family Ministry funding.
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