Tag: Germany
Honour killings and Emancipation – Gender roles in Immigrant Culture against the backdrop of a Middle East understanding of “Honour” and “Shame”
As part of the symposium “Honour Killings and Emancipation” from the Post-Graduate Seminar “Perception of Gender Differences within Religious Symbol-Systems”, Julius-Maximillian-University, Wuerzburg, 19.01.2006.
(Deutsch) Pressemitteilung zum Tag der Offenen Moschee am 3. Oktober 2010
(Deutsch) B O N N (30. September 2010) 532 deutsche Moscheen laden am Sonntag, 3. Oktober 2010, zum „Tag der offenen Moschee“ (TOM) ein. Der verantwortliche Koordinierungsrat der Muslime in Deutschland (KRM) rechnet mit rund 100.000 Besuchern.
(Deutsch) Pressemitteilung zum Liberal-Islamischen Bund und seiner Suche nach einem zeitgemäßen Islam
(Deutsch) B O N N (05. Juli 2010) Eine „dogmafreie Auslegung“ des Korans unter Berücksichtigung historischer und sozialer Kontexte, eine umfassende Gleichberechtigung von Mann und Frau und eine dem Grundgesetz entsprechende „Akzeptanz unterschiedlicher und selbstbestimmter Lebensgestaltungen“: Nach seinem Selbstverständnis repräsentiert der im Juni 2010 gegründete Liberal-islamische Bund (LIB) mit diesen Zielen die Stimme der aus seiner Sicht schweigenden liberalen Mehrheit der Muslime in Deutschland.
(Deutsch) Necmettin Erbakan in Deutschland
(Deutsch) (Institut für Islamfragen, mk, 26.04.2010) Erbakan kam zum 40-jährigen Jubiläum von Milli Görüs
IfI Press Release on the Radicalization Among Isolated Migrants
Bonn (February 22, 2010) The number of German jihadists (“holy warriors”) in Afghan, Pakistani, and Yemenite training camps is rising. According to a 2007 study by the German Federal Ministry of the Interior titled “Muslims in Germany”, ten to twelve percent of Muslims shows the potential for a politically and religiously motivated radicalization. The Islam scholar Christine Schirrmacher warns: The danger of a “home-grown terrorism” is increasing in Germany, too.
My God is Now Allah and I Gladly Follow His Laws
Cornelia Filter studied German literature and history. She worked for various newspapers and magazines, such as Die Zeit, Frankfurter Rundschau, Brigitte, and above all Emma. Today, she is a public relations consultant for SOLWODI, an organization that is active on behalf of foreign-born girls in Germany, who have fallen victim to forced prostitution, arranged marriages and domestic violence.
(Deutsch) Fatwa zu der Frage, wie sich der Islam gegenüber einer deutschen Frau verhält, die den Koran beleidigt hat
(Deutsch) (Institut für Islamfragen, dh, 13.11.2009) Die arabische Zeitung www.mubasheer.com berichtete am 28.09.2009 über ein Rechtsgutachten, das die Verurteilung einer deutschen Frau fordert, weil sie den Koran beleidigt hat.
The Koran. Arabic-German. Translation and commentary by Adel Theodor Khoury
The text of this further German-Arabic version of the Koran is based on the 1987 translation of the well-known Professor emeritus of Religious Science at the Roman Catholic theological faculty of the University of Münster (Westphalia), T. A. Khoury, published in association with leading Muslim theologians including the General Secretary of the Muslim World Congress.
(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 Influence of Islamic Internet Sites upon Muslim Youth in Germany
BONN (August 17, 2009) – In regard to the question about the factors for integration and de-integration among Muslim youth in Germany, the varied and constantly growing offerings on Islamic websites should be taken into still more stronger consideration, according to the judgement of the Rev. Canon Albrecht Hauser from the Institute of Islamic Studies of the German Evangelical Alliance.
(Deutsch) Zusammenfassung des Bundesverfassungsschutzberichtes 2008
(Deutsch) Nach dem Verfassungsschutzbericht 2008 ist Deutschland weiter „Teil eines weltweiten Gefahrenraums“ und befindet sich im „unmittelbaren Zielspektrum islamistisch-terroristischer Gruppierungen“.
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.
“Islamic Charter” of the Central Council of Muslims in Germany (ZMD) – A Comment
On February 3, 2002, the Central Council of Muslims in Germany (German: Zentralrat der Muslime in Deutschland – ZMD) passed an “Islamic Charter”, which is supposed to be a Muslim “manifesto regarding the German state and society”.
The noble Qur’an and the translation of its meaning into the German language
Always remembering that according to the tenets of Islam the text of the Koran can never legitimately be translated, only its “meaning” (p. xi), this is certainly the most significant Islamic Arabic-German version to date, even if the Introduction (p. xii) implies at the first glance it is the first ever by completely passing over the Ahmadiyya translation which has been available for decades.
Ursula Neumann (Ed.): Islamic Theology: International Contributions to the Hamburg Debate
This book presents a debate from March 2001 that dealt with the issue of establishing a professorship for Islamic Theology at the University of Hamburg. By way of this professorship Muslim teachers would receive academic training in Islam; thus, it was thought, leaders of mosques (Imams), teachers at Koran schools and religion teachers would be trained in Germany.
Seref ve Onur: Honour and Dignity
Turkish-Muslim and German conceptions on the subject of “honour” and “dignity” were the focus of this symposium of the Körber-Stiftung in the year 1999. As a rule violations of honour are perceived by Muslim-Turks to be especially fierce attacks. Non-Muslims most often lack the background knowledge necessary for understanding this conflict.
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.
Gritt Klinkhammer: Modern Forms of Islamic Life
In her doctoral thesis in sociology, Gritt Klinkhammer examines the manner in which young Muslim-Turkish women of the second and third generation live out their Islamic religious affiliation in Germany. Their parents generally belong to the religiously conservative first “guest worker” generation, from whose life and religious practises the young, educated women clearly want to make a break. The parents encouraged their daughters’ Koran school lessons, for example, or observance of Islamic social rules; however, they were often able to give their “enlightened” daughters little justification and explanation for celebrations, manners and religious obligations – justification demanded by the children in the secular environment. Although these parents have now lived in Germany for up to 35 years, they do not see themselves as “Germans”, nor do their children.
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.
(Deutsch) Düstere Bestandsaufnahme für Türkischstämmige in Deutschland
(Deutsch) (Institut für Islamfragen, mk, 22.04.2009) Zweitgrößte Migrantengruppe in Deutschland sind Verlierer im Bildungswettlauf
