400-year-old witchcraft trial resumes in Germany
The trial of a woman burnt at the stake 400 years ago for witchcraft resumed in Germany on Monday in an effort to clear the woman’s name. Katharina Henot suffered […]
Thousands hit streets to protest copyright law
Source: The Local Tens of thousands of people demonstrated on the streets of Germany over the weekend to voice their opposition to a copyright law which they fear the government […]
Cologne witchcraft trial reopens after 400 years
Source: The Local A witchcraft trial is re-opening in Cologne on Monday in the hope that one woman will have her name cleared, centuries after being burned at the stake. […]
SPIEGEL Interview with the King of Bahrain – ‘Arab Spring? That’s the Business of Other Countries’
Source: Spiegel International One year ago, Arab Spring protests briefly gripped the tiny Gulf country of Bahrain. Just as quickly, however, they were crushed. SPIEGEL spoke with Bahrain’s King Hamad […]
‘The Risk that Nuclear Weapons Will Be Used Is Growing’
Credit: Spiegel International AFP A Russian intercontinental ballistic missile is driven through Moscow’s Red Square in 2009. Anxieties are mounting as nuclear weapons make their way into unstable regions. In a SPIEGEL ONLINE interview, US disarmament expert Richard Burt discusses the growing risk of their use, why allowing Iran to […]
Styleislam: Fun, creative and unifying
By LISA KAAKI, LISAKAAKI@ARABNEWS.COM Published: Dec 27, 2011 23:32 Updated: Dec 28, 2011 01:21 Styleislam.com has become in a record time, one of the most successful online retail stores and […]
Spreading the message of peace in Metropolis Frankfurt
Source: Ahmadiyya Muslim Community Germany Frankfurt is the finance metropolis of Germany. The international airport and the huge railway station attracts thousands of people daily. As some months ago, Ahmadiyya […]
Radical Critics of Islam and Islamophobia – Denying the Individuality of Minority Members
Source: Qantara.de At a recent conference in Germany looking at radical critics of Islam, there was consensus that it was about time that politicians and society looked more seriously at the growing defamation of Muslims. By Claudia Mende For a long time, nobody took hate propaganda against Muslims very seriously […]
Minister calls for school ‘Facebook lessons’
Source: The Local Family Minister Kristina Schröder has called on Germany’s high schools to teach the dangers of social networks on the internet. As part of a “Safer Internet Day […]
Stefan Weidner’s Book on Islam and the West – The End of Imperialism
Source: Qantara With his new book, Stefan Weidner would like to straighten out our simplified, cliché-ridden perception of Islam by looking at phenomena such as Sharia from an unusual perspective. […]
Omar Hamdan, Professor of Islamic Theology – The First of His Kind
Source: Qantara Germany’s first Centre of Islamic Theology was recently opened at the University of Tübingen. The head of the centre is the Koranic expert Omar Hamdan, who so far […]
Mecca Turns West – Roads of Arabia Run Through Berlin
Source: The Local It is a premiere for Germany. Never before have artifacts from Islam’s holiest site, the Kaaba in Mecca, been on display in the country. A new exhibit […]
‘Muslim taxi’ offers gender-segregated rides
Source: The Local A German man has created a new website to arrange shared car trips with a twist – it’s targeted toward Muslims, and drivers can only offer transport […]
Asad Leopold Weiss: A prominent scholar
By ABU TARIQ HIJAZI ARABBEWS He was a journalist, a writer, a linguist, a thinker, a reformer, a diplomat, a political theorist, a scholar and translator of the Holy Qur’an. […]
Oppression in Pakistan: Ahmadiyya community flees to Germany
Source: German Turkish News The number of requests for asylum in Germany rose by 11 percent. A country of origin, stands out particularly. The number of asylum seekers from Pakistan has tripled compared to last year. Over 2,500 Pakistanis have applied in 2011 for asylum in Germany. These are not […]
On Munich Railway Station” What a novel idea by Jamaat Germany to spread the teachings of real Islam!
Source: Hafiz Fareed Ahmad Khalid, National Seretary Tabligh AMJ-Germany. By Zubair Khan Under the extremely dynamic leadership of its very energetic/agile Amir ( National Head) Mr Abdullah Uwe Hans Peter Wagishauser, AMJ Germany is quite famous for innovative and novel ideas to present the teachings of real Islam. Since many […]
How to Integrate Europe’s Muslims
Source: NY Times Op Ed. By JONATHAN LAURENCE, Associate professor, Boston College. TWO weeks ago, dozens of cars were set alight in the French city of Clermont-Ferrand after a 30-year-old truck driver, Wissam El-Yamni, was roughed up and then died while in police custody. The uproar underscored the hostility of […]
Elderly Germans intensify their battle against Neo-Nazis
Wielding just nail-polish remover, a camera and an “Against Nazis” tote bag, Irmela Mensah-Schramm is a one-of-a-kind fighter against Germany’s increasingly threatening far-right scene. She works alone but is one of a growing number of grassroots activists stepping in to what they says is the gulf left by the authorities. […]
German FM: give Arab Islamic parties a chance
By AP first published on ARAB NEWS BERLIN: Germany’s foreign minister says the West must avoid the mistake of assuming that Islamic-oriented parties aren’t compatible with freedom and modernization as […]
Introducing the ‘nano-ear’
Source: Physicsworld Physicists in Germany have developed the first-ever “nano-ear” capable of detecting sound on microscopic length scales with an estimated sensitivity that is six orders of magnitude below the […]