[8] Die wahre Religion's founder is Gaza-born Palestinian Ibrahim Abou-Nagie (Arabic: إبراهيم أبو ناجي), an immigrant Salafist preacher.
[10] The group's most well-known activity is a campaign of distributing Qurans published in German in Germany and also in Austria and German-speaking areas in Switzerland.
The word is derived from اقرأ باسم ربّك الّذي خلق (pronounced Iqraa' bismi rabbika allathi khalaq, meaning Read in the name of your God that created).
The arrest on 8 November 2016 of Abu Walaa, a 32 year old Iraqi-born Hildesheim-based Salafi preacher, heralded a nationwide police crack down in Germany the following week on Islamist organizations including Die Wahre Religion.
The police raids spanned ten cities and regions, including Die Wahre Religion offices in Berlin, Hamburg, Bremen, Bavaria, Baden-Württemberg and North Rhine-Westphalia.
[2][3][4] securing material used in the promotion of "violent jihad," According to German government sources, 140 of Die Wahre Religion members are known to have traveled to Iraq or Syria to fight for ISIS.