The Shiite scholar Mohammad Mojtahed Shabestari is regarded as one of the Iran’s most influential Muslim reformist thinkers. In an interview with Jan Kuhlmann, he explains why there is no inconsistency between Islam and democracy. You have stated that Islam is a religion and not a political programme. Many other Islamic scholars, however, say that…
NEW YORK — The West has a problem when dealing with the cultures of the lands that adhered to Islam over time. It begins with apprehending their differences, far greater than those that separate European nations. On the museum scene, the meaningless label “Islamic art” is stuck to works visually and conceptually unrelated. At the…
(*WASHINGTON, D.C., 2/29/12*) — A comprehensive study of mosques and the attitudes of mosque leaders in the United States released today indicates that the number of American mosques increased 74 percent since 2000 and that Islamic houses of worship are ethnically-diverse institutions led by officials who advocate positive civic engagement. A coalition of major American…
30.01.2012 Baden-Württemnerg’s Integration Minister Bilkay Öney (SPD) has called on church-run care institutions to hire more Muslim staff. She is hoping to remove barriers for Muslim caregivers who are not invited to interviews, as their names give away their background. This initiative is one of Öney’s central objectives for 2012.
Le Monde – January 19, 2012 While they regularly experience conflict vis-a-vis the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the Mosque of Paris (Grande Mosquée de Paris) and the French Representative Council of Jewish Institutions (the Conseil représentatif des institutions juives de France) met on 17 January to discuss join concerns for anti-Semitism and Islamophobia in France. The…
