September 4, 2014 -

Scottish private schoolgirl Aqsa Mahmood is latest UK youth to join ISIS

Euro-Islam10 years ago10 years ago03 mins

Just weeks before Scotland’s independence referendum, the country joins the rest of the UK with the growing crisis of disenfranchised, and subsequently radicalized, Muslim youth. After disappearing from her Glasgow home in November 2013, 20 year-old schoolgirl Aqsa Mahmood, now known as “Umm Layth,” resurfaced in Syria apparently married to an ISIS fighter and living…

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Interview with Maha El-Kaisy-Friemuth, “We urgently need reform within Islam”

Euro-Islam10 years ago10 years ago01 mins

In an interview with Professor Maha El-Kaisy-Friemuth, professor of Islamic Religious Studies at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg in Germany, Qantara writer Claudia Mende asks, “What is the focus of a feminist theologian’s work?” In her interview, Professor El-Kaisy-Friemuth emphasizes the need for reform within Islam. She notes that within the newly created academic departments on…

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