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(Deutsch) Fatwa zu der Frage, ob die Schließung oder der Abriss einer Kirche in einem muslimischen Land als Unrecht gewertet werden darf

(Deutsch) Frage: „Darf die Schließung oder der Abriss einer Kirche in einem muslimischen Land als Unrecht bezeichnet werden?“

Andreas Feldtkeller: Die ‘Mutter der Kirchen’ im ‘Haus des Islam’

This comprehensive post-doctoral thesis by religion and missiological theologian A. Feldtkeller, who now chairs at Humboldt University of Berlin, examines the coexistence of Christians and Muslims in Jerusalem and surrounding area from the time of the Arabic-Islamic conquest to the present.

Defection from Islam: A Disturbing Human Rights Dilemma

The discussion of human rights flares up when Muslims in an Islamic country convert to Christianity and are threatened with death, as happened a few years ago in Afghanistan and as happens from time to time in other Muslim countries. In the West we immediately regard this as an attack on human rights and a restriction of the freedom of religion, but, in fact, almost all of the Islamic countries signed the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights of 1948, and they regard their actions as consistent with their understanding of human rights. Obviously we face a huge divergence of opinions on the nature of human rights and what it means to protect them, but what is the source of such fundamentally different ways of thinking?