Author: Götz Nordbruch

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Teenager with smartphone (photo: picture-alliance/dpa/K. Hildenbrandt)

Online education project for young Muslims

Google - the online authority?

These days young Muslims are increasingly seeking answers to their everyday faith queries online rather than in the mosque. The Berlin association ufuq.de recently launched a project called ″Was postest Du? Politische Bildung mit jungen Musliminnen und Muslimen online″, aimed at stimulating debate among the younger generation and suggesting alternative means of social interaction. A report by Götz NordbruchMore

Curriculum initiative by British Muslims: Using religion to fight terrorismQuilliam Foundation: A Muslim think tank to counter extremismThe Trojan Horse scandal in the UK: Claims and counterclaims
Young Muslim women (photo: picture-alliance/dpa)

Raising awareness about Salafism in German schools

Symbolic acts alone are not enough

What is the appropriate way to inform young Muslims in schools about the dangers of Salafism? In co-operation with the Hamburg University of Applied Sciences, the association ufuq.de provides teaching materials on Islam, Islamophobia, Islamism and democracy. Gotz Nordbruch provides a personal account of preventive work in this fieldMore

Interview with the Islam scholar Lamya Kaddor: Jihad as a form of youth protestYoung Muslims in Germany: Forget, but don't forgetStudy on attitudes in "Post-migrant Germany": Do you love Germany?German jihadists: Turning their backs on the West
Hitler and Mussolini June 1940 (source: Wikipedia)

Fascism and National Socialism in Egypt

Dynamite for Social Relations

The political developments in Europe in the inter-war period were closely monitored and discussed in Egypt at the time. However, because of their racist base, Fascism and National Socialism were rejected by most leading intellectuals in the country. By Götz NordbruchMore

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