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Islamic radicalism is on the rise, especially in the second generation of young Muslims living in Europe. A Europe that has traditionally defined itself as Christian is being forced to address uncomortable questions. How do we want to live together? What are the limits of our tolerance? And on the other hand, how does it feel to be a Muslim growing up in Europe? To what extent is compromise possible?
We have put together a series of articles that try to answer these questions.
Notes on a post-secular society
Last year secularists and multiculturalists converged at signandsight.com to debate Islam in Europe. Both parties want a liberal society where autonomous citizens live peacefully side by side, but the slightest political provocation is enough to unleash an intellectual Kulturkampf. Jürgen Habermas considers both positions and points beyond them to a post-secular society, where religious and secular mentalities are open to a complementary learning process.
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The "Islam in Europe" debate
Who should the West support: moderate Islamists like Tariq Ramadan, or Islamic dissidents like Ayaan Hirsi Ali? Are the rights of the group higher than those of the individual? With a fiery polemic against Ian Buruma's "Murder in Amsterdam" and Timothy Garton Ash's review of this book in the New York Review of Books, Pascal Bruckner has kindled an international debate. By now Ian Buruma, Timothy Garton Ash, Necla Kelek, Paul Cliteur, Lars Gustafsson, Stuart Sim, Ulrike Ackermann, Adam Krzeminski, Halleh Ghorashi, Bassam Tibi and Margriet de Moor have all stepped into the ring.
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Tolerance for the tolerant
A combative response to Jutta Limbach's article on "Making multiculturalism work" by the Turkish-German lawyer and activist Seyran Ates.
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Making multiculturalism work
Should
Islamic schoolgirls be excused from gym class in German schools? Should
the Muezzin's call to prayer ring as loudly as the church bells in
German towns? Jutta Limbach, former President of Germany's
Federal Constitutional Court, sees multiculturalism on the wane in
Germany. In view of the growing terr orist threat, she makes a plea for
the protection of the rights of the minority, not the majority.
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Born again to kill
Islamic terrorism has nothing to do with tradition. It's a brand new direction in the faith. And it's rooted in Europe. By Olivier Roy
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Neither whores nor submissive
In
the fractured suburbs of France, young Muslim men are increasingly
acting as the guardians of public morals. Girls who don't conform to
Islamic behavioural codes are threatened with rape or death. Fadela
Amara's organisation "Ni putes ni soumises" ("neither whores nor
submissive") is fighting back. By Rebecca Hillauer
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Between the Sex Pistols and the Koran
In
the wake of terrorist attacks, people who plead for a dialogue between
religions are avoiding the key question: why do Muslims become
terrorists? By Zafer Senocak
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Islam in its new Habitus
The public face of Islam is changing. A new collection of essays tries to understand how and why. By Moritz Behrendt
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Why the Russian youth have tolerated the political situation in their country for so long and why they are no longer tolerant. The poet Natalia Klyuchareva explains the background to the protests on Bolotnaya Square in Moscow on December 10th. Image: Leonid Faerberg
Filmmaker and theatre director Andres Veiel disagrees with the parallels currently being drawn between left-wing and right-wing violence in Germany. The RAF is the wrong model for the Zwickau neo-Nazi group, the so-called "Brown Army Faction" responsible for a series of murders of Turkish small business owners. Unlike the RAF, this group never publicly claimed responsibility for their crimes. Veiel is emphatic - you have to look at the biographies of the perpetrators. An interview with Heike Karen Runge.
Germany has been rocked by the disclosures surrounding the series of neo-Nazi murders of Turkish citizens. In the wake of these events, Former GDR dissident Freya Klier calls for an honest look at the xenophobia cultivated by the policies of the former East Germany, where the core of the so-called "Brown Army Faction" was based. And demands that East Germans finally confront a long-denied past. (Photo: © Nadja Klier)
In response to the arson attack on the offices of the Parisian satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo on November 2, Danish critic and semiotician Frederik Stjernfelt is nauseated by the opinions voiced against the publication, especially in the British and American media. Why don't they see that Islamism is right-wing extremism?
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The malice of the American media in the case of Dominique Strauss-Kahn is a symptom of sexual uptightness that borders on the sinister, and the feminists have joined forces with the religious Right to see it through. We can learn much from America, but not when it comes to the art of love. By Pascal Bruckner
Published a year ago, the controversial book "Deutschland schafft sich ab" (Germany is doing away with itself) by former banker and Berlin Finance Senator Thilo Sarrazin sparked intense discussion. Hamed Abdel-Samad asks: what has the Sarrazin debate achieved beyond polarisation and insult? And how can Germany avoid cultivating its own classes of "future foreigners"?
A Dutch action group for free will wants to give all people the right to assisted suicide. But can this be achieved without us ending up somewhere we never wanted to go? Gerbert van Loenen has grave doubts.