In 1961, the West German government signed a ‘recruitment agreement’ (Anwerbeabkommen) with its Turkish counterpart, paving the way for the migration of Turkish workers to the booming Federal Republic. Today, the vast majority of the three million men and women of Turkish heritage living in Germany can trace at least parts of their family history…
Watch Professor Jocelyne Cesari speak at the World Muslim Leadership Forum at Lambeth Palace in London, on December 6 2018. In her talk, she explained why Islam does not reform and discussed the historical and political reasons for the growing fear of Islam in the West.
In the midst of heightened discussions on anti-Semitism, its rise, and the importance of eradicating it, we see a number of strands related to this being raised in the British Muslim community. In May 2018, a group called ‘Muslims against Anti-Semitism’ took out a full page advertisement in major UK newspapers the Telegraph and the…
A survey by the Public Religion Research Institute, titled ‘2018 American Values Survey’, has looked at a range of issues surrounding the 2018 US mid term elections, including how issues are prioritised by voters, views on President Trump, views on the effect of having more diversity in public office will have, and on the travel…
In 2014 and 2015, European publics were kept in suspense by daily press reports on the rising numbers of European citizens travelling to Syria in order to join jihadi groups (and, to a lesser extent, Kurdish rebel forces). By early 2018, security agencies estimated that 960 men and women had made their way to Syria…
