udo konstantin ulfkotte (20 january 1960 – 13 january 2017) was a german journalist and political scientist. he was an assistant editor for the main daily frankfurt newspaper, "frankfurter allgemeine zeitung" ("faz"). between 1986 and 1998, ulfkotte lived in the middle east mostly, inlcuding iraq, iran, afghanistan, saudi arabia, oman, united arab emirates, egypt and jordan. he was became a muslim while living in afghanistan. he later became a born-again christian. he later held conservative and anti-muslim views and was against immigration. he was born in lippstadt, north rhine-westphalia (then in west germany).