Mon, Apr 10, 2017
A journalist and a writer went on a journey through Europe to talk to Muslims and find out how they live, what moves them and how they see themselves. Among other things, there were discussions with the Berlin-based Islamologist Bassam Tibi, with the author Sineb El Masrar, the Brussels policeman Hamid Benichou and the former Grand Mufti of Marseille Soheib Bencheikh.
Mon, Oct 1, 2018
n the summer of 2016, journalist Nazan Gökdemir and the Islam critic and writer Hamed Abdel-Samad have already embarked on a journey through Europe to speak with the people, the Muslims themselves. Over a year later, after experiences in Germany, France, Belgium and Spain, the two have now set off again. With Bosnia-Herzegovina Gökdemir and Abdel-Samad now travel to one of the centers of European Muslims. In the country still suffering from the Kosovo war, they visit the memorial in Srebrenica, the site where Bosnian Serb militias murdered 8,000 Muslim boys and men in July 1995, face a confrontational encounter with Saudi Arabian-funded Palestinians. King Fahd Mosque in Sarajevo and then meet with the Imam of the Imperial Mosque one of the most influential clergy in the country. It is a reconnaissance trip accompanied by bodyguards. For over the writer Abdel-Samad in 2013 a fatwa was imposed, he is threatened with death and travels only with bodyguards.
Mon, Oct 1, 2018
This time, she led her expedition to Denmark, the country where in 2005 cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad caused a conflagration. In Copenhagen, they talked with Sherin Khankan, one of the first imams in Europe. They discovered the discredited Copenhagen district Nørrebro and spoke with the controversial Member of Parliament Naser Khader. It was a reconnaissance trip accompanied by bodyguards. Because over the writer Abdel-Samad 2013 a fatwa was imposed, due to death threats he travels only with bodyguards.