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Eve: Role Model for Western and Muslim Women
Review on Juliana Geran Pilon: Soulmates Resurrecting Eve
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Understanding Youth Who Become Radicalized to Violent Extremism
Book Review on Kathryn Seifert: Youth Violence
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Sharia and the Children Act
Seminar on 22 November 2011 in London One Law for All will host a seminar on Sharia Law and the Children Act on 22 November 2011 from 18.30-20.30 hours at Conway Hall to explore
Read More »Muslims and Political Participation
Call for Papers: Conference at John McIntyre Conference Centre, Edinburgh 20th and 21st April 2012 This conference focuses on the involvement of Muslims in all aspects of political life in Britain with a particular
Read More »Shame Honor Cultures: The Root Cause of Radicalization
Review on Rik Coolsaet: Jihadi Terrorism and the Radicalisation Challenge
Read More »The Mother of All Anxieties – Muslim Attitudes towards the Jews
Book review: Moshe Ma’oz: Muslim Attitudes to Jews and Israel Ma’oz has done an outstanding job giving us a timely compilation of essays. Considering the current uprising across the Arab Muslim world and its
Read More »An Overview of Islamic Finance in Germany
In a few days, the German Federal Financial Supervisory Authority, BaFin will send two representatives on an Islamic finance congress. Dr. Johannes Engels, senior advisor and Robert Elsen, deputy head of the section for
Read More »Pew Research Center: The Future of the Global Muslim Population
Institution: Pew Research Center (Forum on Religion & Public Life) Titel: The Future of the Global Muslim Population Veröffentlicht: 28.01.2011 Download: Website (html), full report (PDF), interactive maps (html), sortable data tables (html)
Read More »To build a world where no opportunity for connection or collaboration is missed
Active Civil Society is the counterpart the our German column on organizations and people, who devote their life and power to the best of all. What is your organization and how was it founded?
Read More »“You can’t fight Islamism with ideas coming out of Europe”
Interview with the American Islamic Scholar Daniel Pipes
Read More »Voltaire's "Mahomet": Still Controversial After All These Years
In February 1778 when Voltaire returned to Paris after an absence of several years, he wanted to see that the performance of his play, Irène, went smoothly. This was to be performed by the
Read More »Has the mosque in your "hood" been brought to you by the Muslim Brotherhood?
The subject of the mosque has currently taken the U.S. by storm with the central focal point on the Cordoba House at Ground Zero. We tend to equate mosques with churches and synagogues. This is
Read More »"To stop suicide bombing we must focus on the devalued little Muslim girl"
A few days ago, we reviewed the book “The Banality of Suicide Terrorism. The Naked Truth About the Psychology of Islamic Suicide Bombing” here at Citizen Times (in German). Now, we speak with the
Read More »Glorification of Islam vs. Enmity of Islam
“Islam means peace” vs. “Islam is the greatest threat to the free world”. Between these two extremes a hot debate is developing for years, in which left and right wing, populists and scientists, do-gooders
Read More »Islam itself is the problem – as the Muslim use of sex, money and violence prevents integration
“Islam is not just a belief, it is a way of life, a violent way of life.”, and “I believe that the subjection of women within Islam is the biggest obstacle to the integration
Read More »“The one thing Muslim immigrants fear is being deported”
Nearly monthly, new studies and books about the problems with the integration of Muslims in Germany and whole Europe are published. In France, Great Britain and the Netherlands the problems seem to be most
Read More »Who integrates successfully – outstanding study distinguishes migrants by their country of origin and seals the fate of multiculturalism!
“Immigrants tend on average to be more poorly educated and more frequently unemployed and to participate less in public life than the native population.” This first finding of the study “Unutilised Potentials” of the
Read More »Why is Germany, as it is, or the disastrous consequences of the 1968-generation – a splendid and polemical analysis
“Who is left, lives in the beautiful awareness, to be in the right, yes, simply to be allways right. In Germany, leftists don’t have to justify their view.” This general absolution of any (mis-)behavior
Read More »"I was the perfect object of hate"
Jan Fleischhauer is a well known editor of the German magazine “Der Spiegel”. In 2009, he published one of the most disputatious books regarding the political situation in Germany over the last 40 years.
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