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POPSIslam and Secularism Volkhard Krech, professor for religious studies , has come to the conclusion that some religious traditions, such as Judaism and Protestantism, represent "secularization factors." Other faiths, such as Islam and evangelical churches have a tendency to combine a strong sense of both national and religious identity, mixing politics with religion. The Berlin Islamic scholar Gudrun Krämer made clear that a "massive rejection" of secularism prevails in most Muslim countries. In Islamic discourse, secularization is regarded as a "hostile takeover" of Muslim society. Instead of the notion of the separation of religion and state, the idea of "empowerment" is stressed. Islam calls for believers to actively participate in the power structures of the state. As a mixture of nationalism and Islamism, the so-called "national Jihad" is pushing its way into the political arena and has given birth to the notion of the "Islamic welfare state."
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POPSOlivier Roy: Europe's difficulties with its Muslims a subject of oversimplification Olivier Roy is one of the most renowned experts on political Islam. In this interview with Michael Hesse, he talks about religious fundamentalism, Islam in Europe, and explains why the Muslim middle classes in the West ought to be recognized as a western faith community, not as an alien culture: the modern brands of fundamentalism (wahhabism, but also protestant evangelicalism) are not the product of traditional cultures, but on the contrary the product of a crisis of traditional cultures, the product of deculturation and globalization. Religious tensions are linked with the crisis of traditional cultures, and are not their expression. Deutsche Fassung: Interview mit Olivier Roy - "Radikale Muslime sind verwestlicht"
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POPSAufklärung: christlich? Islam: antiaufklärerisch? Aus: Corrina Gomani und Dursun Tan: Die Rolle des religiösen Diskurses in der Erziehung. Aus dem Inhalt: Die Tragweite kultureller Differenzen „Religion als kulturelles System“ Aufklärung versus Nichtaufklärung? Humanisiert versus Nichthumanisiert? Traditionalistisch versus Modernistisch? Die Geschlechtlichkeit des Menschen Religion als „historisches Gedächtnis“ und Diskursform
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POPSWho Passed the Civil Rights Act of 1964? On February 10 , the House passed the bill by a vote of 290 to 130 and on June 19, in the wake of a record-breaking 75-day filibuster, the Senate passed its version of the civil rights bill . Now Lyndon Johnson began pressuring Congress to reach agreement on a bill that he could sign by July 4. At this moment, Johnson benefited not only from the civil rights coalition led by Martin Luther King but from the grassroots work of Bob Moses, then a young organizer for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) . Three of its participants disappeared on June 21 . Their bodies would later be found buried in an earthen dam . The influence of Martin Luther King, Lyndon Johnson, and John Kennedy, along with years of demonstrations and sit-ins, had created a political tide that reached its peak with the disappearance of the three men. On July 2, Congress, under heavy public pressure, agreed to the civil rights bill that Johnson wanted.
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POPSHijab is a personal choice not state law in Turkey In the early eighties, Iran imposed the hijab on its female citizens, while Syria banned it from schools during the same period. Syria gradually came to terms with the hijab, as the number of Syrian women who chose to wear it increased drastically during the nineties. The hijab is enforced today in Iran and Saudi Arabia, and banned in Tunisia . France banned the hijab in 2004, and far right politicians and pundits are calling for similar bans in other European countries . The Turkish parliament passed a constitutional amendment that practically repealed early constitutional provisions that allowed the Turkish government to ban the hijab from government buildings, universities, and schools. Although the lifting of the ban is not in force yet, the confrontation over this issue with secularists who control the military and the courts has already started. Secularist Turks are up in arms, protesting the new amendment .
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POPSWerner Schiffauer on Migration, Youth Violence and Islam If you "Islamicise" a social problem like this, you are distorting reality. You have to look very carefully at who the offenders are. What we urgently need is detailed qualitative studies that give us an impression of the problem situations in migrant families. Deutsche Ausgabe
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POPSLaw and Order Populism Two young thugs beat up and almost killed a 76-year-old in a Munich subway station. They attacked him because he told them to stop smoking in the train. The incident might lead people to ask what price is to be paid for forcing whole social groups and whole generations into an underclass without a future. It would be good for the whole of society if one could ensure that people are safe in parks and in the subway . But that is not what people are talking about: they are talking about "violent foreigners." These people are to be deported or put in re-education camps – such are the imaginative proposals of the Christian Democrats – at the very least, the punishments for young offenders should be drastically increased. The law-and-order populists who are now taking to their soapboxes have to be told: prisons are not appropriate institutions for learning how to live the right life. They are rather academies of violence.
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POPSA Look into the Muslim Headscarf Hysteria in France
The Conseil d'État eventually ruled that students could not be refused admission simply for wearing headscarves, but it also gave teachers and principals the power to decide, on a case-by-case basis, whether such signs of religious affiliation were permissible. In 2003, two teenage sisters were expelled from their high school for refusing to take off their headscarves. The Lévy sisters are the daughters of a lawyer who considers himself "a Jew without God" and a Kabyle teacher who had been baptized a Catholic during the Algerian war. The girls had converted to Islam after their parents' separation and had donned the scarves as part of that process. In an interview with Le Monde, the girls' father declared, "I am not in favor of the headscarf, but I defend the right of my children to go to school. In the course of this business I've discovered the hysterical madness of certain ayatollahs of secularism who have lost all their common sense."
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POPSIslam and the West: Block Thinking Charles Taylor is a Canadian philosopher who has made significant contributions to political philosophy, philosophy of social science, and the history of philosophy.
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POPSMaybrit Illner 2007-07-11: Warum ist der Islam uns unheimlich?" Die Frage "Warum ist der Islam uns unheimlich?" ist eine massenmediendumme Frage. Sie suggeriert ein Wir vs. die anderen. Sie grenzt aus. Sie grenzt die Muslime aus. Sie ist integrationsfeindlich. Und daher dumm. Maybrit Illner - sonst beachtlich -, war dies ein Ausrutscher? Auch in der hohen Eigensensibilität, aber mangelnden intellektuellen Einfühlung in das, was der Vertreter des Zentralrats der Muslime zu sagen hatte?
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POPSWer ein Haus baut, will bleiben. - Zum Kölner Moscheestreit Ralph Giordano sollte die hilflosen Attacken seiner Gegner nicht als Indiz dafür nehmen, dass er selbst richtig liegt. Er hat die bedenkenswerten Elemente seiner Islamkritik unter so viel wütender Polemik versteckt, dass es schwer ist, sie überhaupt noch zur Kenntnis zu nehmen. Gegen die Burka sprechen die Menschenrechte, nicht Regeln des guten Geschmacks. Wer die Bevölkerung über Sakralbauten abstimmen lassen will, der kann nicht nur weitere Moscheen, sondern auch neue Synagogen wie in Leipzig und München vergessen. Giordano lehnt die Ehrenfelder Moschee ab, weil sie »ein falsches Signal« sei. Die Integration der Muslime sei »gescheitert«, eine Großmoschee aber suggeriere, sie sei gelungen. Die Erlaubnis zum Bau einer Moschee ist aber zum Glück kein Gnadenrecht, das die geneigte Mehrheit bei gelungener Integration verleiht, sondern eine Frage der Religionsfreiheit und des Baurechts. http://tinyurl.com/2omoag Siehe auch: http://tinyurl.com/32oqwr
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POPSKölner Zentralmoschee-Bau: Ängste und Vorurteile Siehe auch: Wer ein Haus baut, will bleiben. - Zum Kölner Moscheestreit http://clipmarks.com/clipmark/FCD0E496-BB5B-44CC-9482-E22E05EDB0CC/ Pro Köln verklagt Giordano - Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger http://www.ksta.de/html/artikel/1180163598377.shtml
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