Tag Archives: human rights

IfI Press Release on the Cairo Declaration of Human Rights in Islam from August, 1990

Bonn (August 23, 2010) Twenty years ago, the “Cairo Declaration of Human Rights in Islam” was signed by the forty-five foreign ministers of the “Organization of the Islamic Conference” (OIC). Therein, human rights are subjected to Sharia. The scholar of Islamic studies, Prof. Christine Schirrmacher, from the Institute of Islamic Studies, calls for a stronger commitment on the part of the liberal-democratic states in the rejection of Islamic-defined restrictions of human rights. Universal human rights, so Schirrmacher, may not be undermined through particularistic “human rights”.

(Deutsch) Vermehrter Widerstand gegen Heiraten von Minderjährigen in islamisch geprägten Ländern

(Deutsch) (Institut für Islamfragen, dh, 31.05.2010) Menschenrechtler fordern eine Heraufsetzung des Heiratsalters

IfI Press Release on the UN Resolution Against the Defamation of Religions

Bonn (February 22, 2010) – Islamic forces in the UN Human Rights Commission emphatically support a definition of human rights according to the Islamic understanding of that concept. Prof. Christine Schirrmacher from the Institute of Islamic Studies draws attention to this fact on the occasion of the recently renewed UN resolution against the defamation of religions.

IFI Press Release on the Discussion Concerning Islamophobia

BONN (October 26, 2009) – On the occasion of the trial beginning on Monday, October 26, 2009, in the Marwa el-Sharbini murder case, the scholar of Islam Christine Schirrmacher, from the Institute of Islamic studies, speaks out in favor of the necessary distinction to be made between legitimate criticism of the ideology of political Islam and justified criticism of deficits in integration on the one hand, and a general rejection of all Muslims or even xenophobic offenses against Muslim fellow citizens on the other.

(Deutsch) Eine sudanesische Journalistin verschickt 500 Einladungskarten zu ihrer Auspeitschung: Als Begründung wird das Tragen einer Hose angegeben

(Deutsch) (Institut für Islamfragen, dh, 25.08.2009) Sie will ihren Fall öffentlich machen, um über den Grund ihrer Auspeitschung zu informieren