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The Circumcision Debate in Germany: A Miscalculation

Euro-Islam12 years ago11 years ago02 mins

Is it possible to justify a Cologne court’s ruling on the legality of circumcision on the basis of Germany’s Basic Law? In this essay, Patrick Bahners takes a closer look at both the Basic Law and the ruling and concludes that the judges in Cologne must have made a serious error of judgement Anyone who…

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Long-Awaited Response to Sarrazin’s Book Hits German Bookshelves: A Review

Euro-Islam13 years ago13 years ago01 mins

25 March 2011 Patrick Bahners, editor-in-chief of the arts and culture pages of the conservative FAZ, has published a book about the hysteric German debate around Islam. In this article, the reviewer of “Die Panikmacher” (“The Alarmists”) finds that Bahners shrewdly dismantles the arguments of prominent Islam critics like Thilo Sarrazin, Henryk M. Broder and…

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