Radicalisation
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Arsalan Iftikhar is the Muslim Guy
″Scapegoats: How Islamophobia helps our enemies and threatens our freedoms″
Human rights lawyer Arsalan Iftikhar is a well-known face on US television networks. Usually pitted against right wing commentators calling for crusades against Islamic countries or tarring all Muslims with the same terrorist brush, he attempts to be a voice of reason. Richard Marcus interviewed him on his recently published ″Scapegoats: How Islamophobia Helps Our Enemies and Threatens Our Freedoms″
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Mass shooting in Orlando
Sounding the death knell
Terrorists have more than their immediate victims in their sights - they aim to destroy liberal, open societies. This election year, writes Ines Pohl, the Orlando killer could succeed
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Muslims: in defence of religious freedom and the German constitution
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Europe′s response to the refugee crisis
"Ugly, feckless and dysfunctional"
A failure to appreciate the potential scale of the problem and a marked lack of interest in addressing the refugee question at a European level, meant that Europe′s heads of state were in utter disarray when the migration tsunami hit last September. Unfortunately little appears to have changed since. An opinion piece by Ana Palacio, former Spanish foreign minister
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Alice Schwarzer: "The Shock – New Year's Eve in Cologne"
Curious bedfellows
In her new book, Alice Schwarzer is the first to finger a definite culprit in the New Year's Eve incidents in Cologne: "sharia Islam". In her reasoning she adopts the same interpretation of the Koran favoured by Muslim extremists, while providing fodder for Islamophobic right-wing populists. By Khola Maryam Hubsch
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Education in the Arab world
Stop corrupting the next generation!
With curricula still focusing on fighting Christians, the torments of the grave, not to mention children being burnt in Hell, a revolution in Islamic religious education would appear to be long overdue. Mousa Barhouma argues in favour of teaching pupils noble Islamic ideas and humane values without overtaxing their intellectual maturity
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The National Theatre showcases Gillian Slovo's documentary piece
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Tonight on Channel 4: What British Muslims Really Think
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Interview with the social scientist Edit Schlaffer
Mothers Schools challenge extremism
The Austrian "Mothers Schools" programme aims to prevent the recruitment of potential jihadists. Edit Schlaffer, founder of the organisation "Women without Borders", has spent the last ten years researching the root causes of Islamist radicalisation. Her core finding: mothers play a key role. Interview by Iris Mostegel
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Tim Sebastian interviews the leader of Germany's populist AfD
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Interview with French extremism researcher Olivier Roy
″Radicalisation is not the result of failed integration″
After the attacks in Brussels, Olivier Roy cautions against rashly linking Islam with terrorism. In interview with Michaela Wiegel, the Islam researcher explains the real problem with jihadism
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Racial profiling in the US
Muslim bashing: the new American norm
In the wake of the Brussels attacks, Republican frontrunner Donald Trump yet again repeated his call for a ban on all Muslims entering the United States of America. With ABC News primary exit polls on 15 March revealing that two-thirds of Republican voters feel Muslims would be better off elsewhere, the current tide of anti-Muslim sentiment has yet to turn. By Joseph Mayton