The Jewish-Christian tradition, upheld in the German Islam debate, is an invention

22 Oct 2010 There is only one main opponent on the current battleground — Islam. It is therefore necessary that Jewish intellectuals and Muslims in Germany engage in a new relationship, writes the philosopher Almut Shulamit Bruckstein Coruh in this essay. Every day in Germany, one hears talk of the Jewish-Christian tradition in the West….

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Discord at the German Islam Conference: Interview with Abu Bakr Rieger

Abu Bakr Rieger, the president of the EMU Foundation, an umbrella organization for informing about and promoting Islam in Europe, comments in an interview on the German Islam conference. According to him, the whole project has had its downsides from the beginning, when former German Interior Minister Wolfgang Schäuble invited “liberal Muslims”, who were very…

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Lamya Kaddor publishes book on her interpretation of a contemporary German Islam

Lamya Kaddor, a prominent teacher of Islamic education, has published a book on her interpretation of a contemporary German Islam. The book with the title Muslimisch — Weiblich — Deutsch! (Muslim, Female, German!), subtitled “My path to a contemporary Islam”, comes at a time of strong debate in Germany on whether and how to criticise…

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