| 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 more... 
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| Friday Sermons in Palestine – Signposts of Peace? |
| The conflict in the Near East continues, and an end is not in sight. The apportionment of blame, criticism, condemnation, but also well-meaning proposals for a solution, as well as peace initiatives, more...
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| Human Rights and Islam – Is the “Clash of Civilizations” already pre-programmed? |
| The case of the Afghan Christian Abdul Rahman has created quite a stir in vation of human rights in Islamic countries. Abdul Rahman, who had converted to the Christian faith many years ago, was more...
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| Is Multiculturalism (Multi-Culti) at an End? |
| "Multi-culti" – a catchword we all know. A concept that today is looked at rather critically but, in past decades, was to a large extent a guideline for the shared life of Christians and Muslims in more...
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| Islam Scholar: Not every criticism of Islam is racist |
| 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 more...
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| Islam – Religion of Peace? |
| Is Islam really a religion of peace, as for instance the “Islamic Charter” of the Central Council of Muslims in Germany (ZMD) put it in 2002? Does the very term Islam have or contain the meaning more...
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| Islamic Fundamentalism - Definitions and Relevance |
| For opinion formers and the media in the secular West, where religion has been eliminated from the public sphere and relegated to the private area of free moral choices, it is difficult to understand more...
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| Islamic Fundamentalism: Ideals and Reality |
| Completely veiled women surrounded by swarms of children, faces entirely covered, except for a couple of slits for the eyes, hands hidden by gloves, even in the summer. Men with bushy beards, more...
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| Islamic Human Rights under scrutiny |
| 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 more...
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| Islamisation in Eastern Europe - A case study of Arraid in Ukraine |
| The concept of Wasatiyya has been increasingly promoted in recent years. Originating from the Muslim Brotherhood, it is often referred to as ‘Islamic centrism’ and Yusuf al-Qaradawi is featured as more...
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| Islamism - Arguments for Judgement in Theses |
| 1. Islamism is a modern religious ideology. It arose from the recollection of the idealistically understood early period of Islam – the model from Medina with its unity of religious and political more...
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| Muslim Immigration to Europe |
| Globalization is a subject of great significance for Europe, too. The world has moved closer together. This is true also for the Islamic world and Europe.New chances for the shaping of a shared more...
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| Muslims in Germany |
| IFI Press Release regarding the Study “Muslims in Germany” by the German Federal Ministry of the Interior more...
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| Suicide, Martyrdom and Jihad in the Koran, Islamic theology and society |
| The foregoing verse from the 5th Sure, echoing almost verbatim passages referring to Israel in Mishna and Talmud, has been frequently cited in recent discussion about Islamic suicide attacks. Should more...
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| The Assassins – Suicidal Assailants of Earlier |
| What sort of Muslims are these who are prepared to sacrifice everything for their faith and their conviction? What does Islam say about martyrdom? more...
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| The Challenge of Islam: Are we equipped? |
| It would almost seem as though many people in Germany have only started taking notice of Islam since the terrorist attacks of September 11 shook the world. “Terrorism” and “The West” were, in the more...
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| The “Struggle in the Cause of Allah” according to the Qur’an |
| In Islam, the armed struggle “in the cause of Allah” has been legitimated by the Qur’an, the exemplary conduct of Muhammad (Arabic: sunna), the tradition of his sayings (Arabic: hadith, plural more...
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