Interior Minister De Maizière has called for establishing Islamic degree programmes at German universities. Politics, academia and Muslim associations should aim for progress and compromises. In the long run, the minister would like to see an institutionalised cooperation with Muslims on the basis of the constitutional law on religion. The science council had proposed to…
Germany’s Science Council has proposed anchoring Islamic theology at the German universities – rightly and fortunately so, writes Matthias Drobinski for Qantara.de. In the juncture of religion and science Islam has the chance to win back the ability for reflection and self-restriction that the faith once had. The author argues that Islam has forgotten and…
In an interview with Sueddeutsche Zeitung, the new German minister for the interior, Thomas de Maizière, speaks about his stance on Islam in Germany. He affirms the continuous education of imams and religious teachers at German universities. A second area of support will be gender equality and women’s rights. Finally, de Maizière will continue the…
A German court Tuesday gave a life-imprisonment sentence to a Lebanese man who planted bombs on two trains that would have caused mass carnage if they had exploded. Youssef al-Hajj Dib, 24, was convicted by the court in Dusseldorf of multiple attempted murder. His accomplice, Jihad Hamad, was convicted at a separate trial in Lebanon…
