Tag Archives: Europa

(Deutsch) Pressemitteilung zur islamischen Da‘wa

(Deutsch) B O N N (03. Mai 2010) – Auf die systematischen Anstrengungen internationaler islamischer Organisationen, die Einladung (da‘wa) zu einem universal und politisch verstandenen Islam weltweit zu verstärken, macht Albrecht Hauser vom Institut für Islamfragen aufmerksam. Dabei gehe es nicht nur darum, den islamischen Glauben zu verkünden, sondern auch darum, zunehmend islamischen Rechtsvorstellungen Einfluss zu verschaffen und sie in der Gesellschaft zu verankern.

(Deutsch) Türkei: Dialog-Konferenz der Minderheit der Mihellemi aus Sorge vor Missionsverdacht nach Europa verlegt

(Deutsch) (Institut für Islamfragen, mk, 21.09.2009) Wegen des Vorwurfs, Mission zu betreiben, wurde die Dialog-Konferenz der Religionen, Sprachen und Kulturen von der Türkei nach Schweden verlegt

IFI Press Release on the Occasion of an Interview with Tariq Ramadan from May 20, 2009

BONN (May 29, 2009) – When, in the Internet portal qantara, a “modern understanding of religious belief on the basis of a separation of state and church” is attributed to Tariq Ramadan, the Egyptian-born Swiss scholar of Islam, then one should pay attention to the exact meaning of the individual key concepts and catchwords used by him in order better to place Ramadan’s understanding of Islam in his overall concept, so the assessment by the scholar of Islam Dr. Christine Schirrmacher from the Institute of Islamic Studies of the German Evangelical Alliance.

Honor Killings and Ideas of Honor in Societies of Islamic Character

Honor killings take place today not only in the eastern part of Turkey. In Germany, too, and in the other countries of Europe, women die “for reasons of honor”. Till now, German criminal investigative departments do not compile any separate statistics, but unofficial statistics quote at least 49 honor killings or attempts at such in Germany between 1996 and 2005. The United Nations estimate that ca. 5000 honor killings (along with a high number of unreported cases) have been committed world-wide.

Islamic Human Rights under scrutiny

The frequent human rights abuses which take place in nearly all countries of the Muslim world are often the result of corrupt or dictatorial regimes and not necessarily due to either Islam or these countries’ view of human rights. Less widely known, however, is that international associations in Muslim countries have formulated their own human rights declarations in opposition to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights adopted by the Plenary session of the United Nations in 1948.

Tobias Mörschel (Ed.): Does Faith make Politics?

Does faith pursue a policy? Whoever follows the last years of US-american policy or reflect upon Islam and its future role in Europe can hardly avoid this question. This book addresses the question in light of sociological models in the context of a transatlantic comparison.