Press review

In his newly published book "Inside Islam", Journalist Constantin Schreiber draws a negative picture of mosques in Germany. Many of the prayers visited by him contained anti-democratic ideas. In conversation with Deutschlandradio Kultur , Mathias Rohe, Islamic scholar and director of the Erlangen Centre for Islam and Law in Europe, comments on Schreibers work.

On April 16, Turkey holds a referendum on a planned constitutional reform. The research unit for Turkish Law at the FAU, cooperation partner of EZIRE, has translated all affected text passages of the constitution from Turkish to German and highlighted the planned changes. Their aim: providing an objective basis for debate.

Terrorism, burqa, child marriage – this have only been some of the "Islamic" subjects that German society has been occupied with throughout last year. But do these bad news really bear with scrutiny? With regard to Islam, which challenges are awaiting Germany in 2017 and how can those challenges be dealt with, while including Muslims in the process? Mathias Rohe debates stock of Islam in Germany in 2016 in conversation with Christiane Florin from Deutschlandfunk.

The Salafist association “Die Wahre Religion” alias “Stiftung LIES” (“The True Religion” alias “Foundation LIES”) was prohibited by the German Federal Minister of the Interior, Thomas de Maiziere, in mid-November. During raids in ten different federate states, more than 200 flats were searched and a...

How is Islamic pastoral care organised in prisons? How is the situation of Muslims under arrest? How can it be improved? And which projects deal with Islamic Pastoral Care at all? Islamic pastoral care in prisons is still in its very early stages, even if there are (improvised) cooperations betwe...

Parallel justice, child marriage, terrorism and general doubts about Islam’s ability to accept the European principle of separation of religion and the state – these topics currently determine the discussions of the European public sphere.

According to the German Ministry of Interior, on July 31, 1475 underaged foreigners, and 1152 girls (76,27 %), were registered as married in the Ausländerzentralregister. The biggest group of them is from Syria (664). But many married children also come from Afghanistan (157), Iraq (100), Bulgaria (65), Poland (41), Rumania (33) and Greece (32).

A couple of weeks ago, the interior ministers of the Christian Democratic Union put a burka ban on their agenda. Ever since, Germany discusses the Islamic garment for women once again - probably also influenced by the current events in France, where some communities have enforced a burkini ban on th...

With regard to the several headlines on this topic in recent german newspaper articles, we want to take the opportunity and gather Mathias Rohes statements on radicalization and Islamist extremism. Many have questions in mind like: Why is Islam so prone to violence? What does Sharia mean? And which ...

From time to time, flustered media articles diagnose the implementation of Sharia in Germany due to the fact that Muslim minorities have the right to experience German jurisdiction following their international private law. Jurist and Islamic scholar Mathias Rohe has already stated some time ago tha...