Abu Walaa
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Ahmad Abdulaziz Abdullah Abdullah (Arabic: أحمد عبد العزيز عبد الله عبد الله, romanized: Aḥmad ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ʿAbd Allāh ʿAbd Allāh; born 1984), better known as Abu Walaa (Arabic: أبو ولاء, romanized: Abū Walāʾ), is an Islamic preacher based in Hildesheim, Germany. In 2016 he was arrested for supporting terrorism.[1][2]
Born in al-Tamim, Iraq, he immigrated to Germany in 2001. He preached at the Deutschsprachiger Islamkreis Hildesheim e. V. (DIK) mosque founded in 2012, and took part as a speaker in a great number of Salafi events due to his popularity through his online video releases and his Facebook followers. He became known as a "preacher without face" (German: Prediger ohne Gesicht), because in many of his videos, his face would be hidden from the camera.[3][1]