February 10, 2016 If one were to judge from the bulk of current news reporting on the rise of xenophobia and Islamophobia in Germany, one might be tempted to think that the far-right opposition to the ‘Islamisation of the Occident’ is above all a secularist affair. To be sure, the marchers at Pegida rallies ritually…
February 10, 2016 In the current German debate on immigration, reservations and fears about the new arrivals are not confined to the ethnically German population. In November 2015, according to a YouGov survey commission by the Welt am Sonntag newspaper, 40 per cent of Germans with a migration background asserted that Germany ought to take…
February 10, 2016 In an interview with Qantara.de, Ahmad Milad Karimi, professor for kalam in the Faculty for Islamic Studies at Münster University, offered a survey of the state of Islamic thought and theology in Germany. Karimi, who published a German translation of the Quran in 2009 that sought to capture the book’s poetic spirit…
Full PDF of Poll Study: [Ipsos]
January 31, 2016 A survey gauging racist sentiment polled the French on how they would react if their children married Muslims and whether they think that there are too many Jews in France. The results have turned out to be shocking. It was conducted over the course of 18 months by Ipsos which asked 1,000 random…
