Tag Archives: Rassismus

IfI Press Release on the Occasion of the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination on March 21, 2009

Bonn (March 26, 2009) – Islam scholar Prof. Dr. Christine Schirrmacher from the Institute of Islamic Studies, on the occasion of the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, has warned against condemning statements critical of Islam as an expression of racism.

IfI Press Release on the Occasion of the Scandal at the United Nations Conference Against Racism in Geneva

BONN (April 22, 2009) – The Islam expert and Vice-Chairman of the Institute of Islamic Studies, Albrecht Hauser, in view of the most recent statements by the Iranian president, Mahmud Ahmadinejad, at the United Nations conference against racism which took place in Geneva in April 2009, warns about an increasingly growing and more openly promoted anti-Semitism in the Islamic world and also among Muslim youth in Europe.