Hamburger Lektionen plot
In January 2000, the Moroccan imam Mohammed Ben Mohammed al-Fazazi gave a series of lectures at the end of Ramadan in Hamburg's Al-Quds mosque. Some of these meetings were videotaped by an unknown person. These tapes were later offered for sale as the 'Lessons of Sheik Fazazi II' in the bookshop of this and other mosques. After the 9/11 attacks, it was revealed that three of the suicide pilots, including Mohammed el-Amir Atta, were visitors to the Al-Quds mosque and must have had regular confidential conversations with Fazazi. Director Romuald Karmakar reconstructs two of these lectures. Actor Manfred Zapatka sits on a chair and reads the full text, which discusses, among other things, whether a believer can go on a pilgrimage with a false passport, under what conditions it is allowed to steal from unbelievers and why anyone who follows the Universal Declaration of human rights is at war with Islam. 'Hamburger Lektionen' offers an unrelenting look at the so-called logic of incitement and the circular reasoning strategies of any form of radical thinking.