Bassam Tibi knows the obstacles a Muslim faces in Germany, where he has lived for 45 years and has been a citizen for two decades. As an internationally acknowledged expert on Islam, Tibi often appeared in the German media to discuss the Gulf War and was introduced as a Syrian holding a German passport. But…
The President of the church office of the Protestant Church in Germany (EKD), Hermann Barth, opposes a common prayer of Christians and Muslims. In doing so, Barth argued, important traditions would get lost.
Fundamentalist Christians are using populist slogans to incite against Muslims, whom they see as the new source of danger for Europe. The number of internet users who visit their websites is alarmingly high. Claudia Mende reports.
Members of the Qaeda propagandists of the Globalen Islamischen Medienfront, who had recently released a video threat against Germany and Austria, were associated with a Vienna Mosque before the community dismissed them. Marion Kraske and Yassin Musharbash report.
Islamic headscarves ought to be banned at workplaces and in schools – that’s the view of half the people surveyed in a new Swedish poll. The poll, the third of its kind taken by Uppsala University to measure Swedes’ views of diversity, shows a rising number of people supporting a headscarf ban.
