A debate on the Quran between Mouhanad Khorchide and Hamad Abdel-Samad

Two controversial contributors In a new book – Zur Freiheit gehört, den Koran zu kritisieren: Ein Streitgespräch (It is a part of freedom to criticise the Qur’an: A disputation) – two of the most prominent voices on Islam in Germany, Hamed Abdel-Samad and Mouhanad Khorchide, debate the nature of the Quran and of the Islamic…

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French Council of the Muslim Faith creates ‘theological council’ to counter radical discourse

May 8, 2016 The CFCM, the organization that governs the 2,500 mosques in France but is often criticized by French Muslims for its lack of concrete action, has taken steps to increase its religious presence. The 2015 attacks and the success of Daesh in recruiting hundreds of youths shed light on the need for a…

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Muslim girl sent home from school in France over long skirt

May 6, 2016 A teenage Catholic girl who converted to Islam has been banned from attending a school in the eastern Paris suburbs because her skirt is too long. The principal of the school in Montereau-Fault-Yonne told the 16-year-old that the length of her skirt meant that it was an “ostentatious religious symbol” – something…

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Gay imam helps young Muslims balance religion, sexuality

March 11, 2016 Growing up in Algeria, Shaira had almost everything a young man could wish for. But he also had a big secret. In a land where homosexuality is still a crime and a sin, he was forced to live a secret life, hiding that he was gay from everyone — even his closest…

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With Noorassur, Sonia Mariji takes a chance on Islamic finance

February 28, 2016 Sonia Mariji constantly repeats the phrase, stating it was the “greed crisis” of 2008 that pushed her to become involved in Islamic finance. At age 44, Sonia Mariji refuses any communitarian association with her business. In 2012, she created Internet Noorassur, her insurance brokerage company based on the principles of Islamic finance….

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