Gehört der Islam zu Europa? Wie islamisch ist Europa? Wie europäisch der Islam? Wir gehen einen Schritt weiter und wagen die Fragestellung nach einer gegenseitigen Transformation: „Wer wandelt wen?“. Welche Rolle spielen die zentralen Texte, die Religion und die Kultur? Sind es die Mehrdeutigkeiten, auf die es ankommt, oder zentrale Werte? Welche Parallelen, welche Gemeinsamkeiten und Unterschiede würden zur Sprache kommen, oder transformiert? Hamed Abdel-Samad eröffnet die Islamkonferenz mit seinen Thesen und leitenden Fragestellungen, wie es Europa mit dem Islam und der Islam mit Europa halten kann.
Der Politikwissenschaftler und Publizist Hamed Abdel-Samad ist Mitglied der Deutschen Islam Konferenz und zählt zu den profiliertesten islamischen Intellektuellen im deutschsprachigen Raum.
Neues Phänomen: Wie kreativ Musliminnen das Burka Verbot in der Schweiz umgehen. Eigentlich ist das Tragen von Burkas im Schweizer Kanton Tessin verboten. Seit vergangenem Sommer gilt dort ein Gesetz, das Ganzkörperschleier in der Öffentlichkeit untersagt. Wie die „Aargauer Zeitung“ berichtet, haben einige Musliminnen im Tessin nun aber einen kreativen Weg gefunden, um das Burka-Verbot zu umgehen.
Saudi Arabia is investing billions of dollars remodeling Mecca, home of Islam’s holiest site—the Kaaba. Its plans include building the world’s largest hotel. The aim is to double Mecca's capacity to host worshippers, to nearly seven million, by 2040. The redevelopment has destroyed scores of old shrines.
Sebastian Gorka was one of President Trump's most vocal defenders but now he's out of the White House. Krishnan Guru-Murthy quizzes him on whether President Trump has lost control of his administration.
Despite the unprecedented pace of scientific breakthroughs, humanity still seems to be as far away from the age of reason as ever. With religious extremism and political infantilism spreading across the globe, often aiding one another, has governance based on critical thinking already become a delusion? To discuss this, Oksana is joined by Richard Dawkins, evolutionary biologist. The interview was held at the St. Petersburg Geek Picnic 2017
The concept of there being "two Americas" is almost as old as the nation itself. From the outset there were the landowners, the ruling class - the "haves". And then there were the have-nots. That divide has been economic but also racial, with minorities claiming a disproportionately small share of the nation's substantial wealth.
And yet, a 2013 Pew Research Center study showed that half of white Americans surveyed do not feel that African Americans are treated less fairly by the police, employers, doctors and others. Only 13% of blacks felt the same way. Amid the current backdrop of the Black Lives Matter movement and increasing wealth disparity, Clive Myrie from the BBC's This Week's World delves into what white Americans understand - or don't - about race.
United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Prince Zeid Ra'ad Zeid Al-Hussein, commented on US President Donald Trump's recent comments about the press at a rally in Phoenix, Arizona at a press conference in Geneva on Wednesday.
"The president prides himself as a taboo breaker. Indeed, his supporters see him as such, but at the time I expressed my feeling that this was grossly irresponsible because it has consequences, it emboldens those who may think similarly to sharpen their assaults" he said.
The death of Diana, Princess of Wales on August 31, 1997, sent shock waves around the world. Few figures have received as much adulation as Princess Diana.
The Princess of Wales’ legacy lives on to this day. The friendly way in which she approached people, whatever their background, changed the face of the British monarchy forever.
Our documentary 'Princess Diana - The Quiet Revolution' tells her story. For centuries, ceremonial splendor and a tradition of keeping a stiff upper lip had been the main characteristics of the British monarchy. The royal family had grown apart from the people. Then along came Princess Diana and stirred it all up. She lived a life in the public spotlight: not only as a successful ambassador in the campaign against landmines, but also as a woman whose marriage was in trouble, and as the loving mother of two sons. It was a life of glamour and desperation at the same time. With her husband Prince Charles’s affair with his then long-term lover Camilla Parker Bowles, and her own amorous escapades, the paparazzi were never far away. Princess Diana fascinated people with her charm, her beauty and the warm manner with which she approached the sick and the disadvantaged. But the Queen’s relationship with her daughter-in-law was never simple. The two women’s views of the monarchy were just too different. Yet after Diana’s death, the royal family adopted her more modern, open style. Today, 20 years after Diana’s death, the Queen is more popular among her people than ever.
Princess Diana died in a car crash 20 years ago. Here's a small taste of our coverage from the time. Before she became famous for her cookery, Nigella Lawson worked as a journalist. Here she reports for BBC Newsnight on how Diana changed attitudes to motherhood.
The outgoing US ambassador to Russia has given a series of farewell interviews on the state of US-Russia relations, which all comes down to two major points: “we have a problem” and “Russia needs to fix it.” Blaming the other is a common behavioral strategy in kindergarten, but does it stand a chance in today’s global politics? To discuss this, Oksana is joined by Herbert London, president of the London Center for Policy Research.
The Russian foreign Minister has been in Qatar as part of efforts to find a common ground in the Gulf crisis. Sergey Lavrov has already visited the UAE and Kuwait this week and arrived in Doha on Wednesday.
Lavrov is the highest ranking Russian official to come to the Gulf since the crisis began. He says Russia fully supports the Emir of Kuwait's efforts to bring an end to the blockade that began on June 5th. But what can Russia do to help end the blockade?
Presenter: Hashem Ahelbarra | Guests: Fahad bin Mohammed Al-Attiya - Qatar's Ambassador to Russia; Vyacheslav Matuzov - a former Russian diplomat, now Chairman of the Russian Friendship Society with Arab Countries; Abdullah Baabood - Professor of International Relations and Political Economy of the Gulf at Qatar University
France: What is behind Macron's drastic fall in popularity?
When Emmanuel Macron became the fresh, young face of the French presidency four months ago, he did so with a landslide of support from voters who were looking for a new type of leader.
But things have quickly turned sour, according to the polls, which show his popularity has evaporated faster than almost any other leader.
Midnight cry is a unique television program that was established to evangelize to the global Muslim community .It seeks to encourage Muslims about Christianity.
On the trail of the Mooch: Once called Washington's political suicide bomber, Anthony Scaramucci appeared on the Stephen Colbert Show in mid-August, professing he didn't feel betrayed by the president for firing him.
A year ago, almost no one expected ever to say the words: President Donald Trump. But Conrad Black has known the new president for 25 years, and well before Trump even took the stage as the Republican nominee, Black wrote - back in March of 2016 - that Trump ,seems to have become the man whom the great office of president of the United States now seeks., What did he know that so few others did?
From one of Canada's highest-profile social conservatives to supporter of same-sex marriage, Michael Coren discusses his change of heart in his book "Epiphany." The Agenda speaks with Coren about casting off condemnation and embracing compassion for the LGBT community.
Broadcaster and author Michael Coren became famous for his conservative take -- including his opposition to same-sex marriage. Now, Coren says he's changed his mind. He tells Wendy Mesley why.
Michael Coren is a British-Canadian columnist, author, public speaker, radio host and television talk show host. He hosted the television talk show The Michael Coren Show on the Crossroads Television System from 1999 to 2011 when he moved to the Sun News Network to host an evening talk show, The Arena with Michael Coren,from 2011 until the channel's demise in early 2015. He has also been a long-time radio personality, particularly on Toronto talk radio station.
Is Tillerson trying to get fired? Cenk Uygur and Ana Kasparian, the hosts of The Young Turks, tell you why Rex might be the next one to leave the administration.
Donald Trump was in Phoenix Arizona for his first rally after the events in Charlottesville. Anti-Trump protesters and Trump supporters rallied to the city. BBC Newsnight's Gabriel Gatehouse was there too.
North Korea has fired a missile over the northern Japanese island of Hokkaido which prime minister Shinzo Abe has called the ‘most serious and grave ever’ threat to the country.
Ahead of the 20th anniversary of the death of The Princess of Wales, this Sky documentary features moving accounts of those who witnessed the events surrounding her death.
Diana: The People's Princess, looks at Diana's final hours, the extraordinary events leading up to her funeral and the enduring legacy of her charitable work.
Lewis is a widely read expert on the Middle East and is regarded as one of the West's leading scholars of that region. His advice has been frequently sought by policymakers, including the Bush administration. In the Encyclopedia of Historians and Historical Writing, Martin Kramer, whose PhD thesis was directed by Lewis, considered that over a 60-year career Lewis has emerged as "the most influential postwar historian of Islam and the Middle East."
On MSNBC's Morning Joe panel discuss President Trump made headlines Friday evening for his pardon of controversial former sheriff Joe Arpaio of Arizona, with several members of the president's own party criticizing him for the move.
The storm has hurled record rainfall at Houston, forcing thousands to flee their homes and testing flood-control systems to their limits. Parts of the city area saw more than 22in (55cm) of rain in a 24-hour period to Sunday evening; too much for the bayous to handle, too much for roads to remain passable and threatening to overwhelm emergency teams
Kurt Andersen’s cover story “How America Lost Its Mind” argues that “being American means we can believe anything we want.” This is due to a combination of the new-age mentality born out of the 1960s that encouraged Americans to find their own truth and the internet age, which has allowed us to create communities that reinforce our beliefs. According to Andersen, the perfect manifestation of America’s journey away from reality is the election of Donald Trump.
Hurricane Harvey made landfall near Corpus Christi, Tex., on Friday evening as a Category 4 storm. By Saturday afternoon, it had been downgraded to tropical storm. At least one person died.
An estimated half-million people gathered in Barcelona on Saturday in a rally against terrorism.
It comes a week after two Islamist militant attacks in Catalonia left 15 people dead.
Holding placards and banners which read "I am not afraid", the march was led by emergency workers, shopkeepers and residents of the city's Las Ramblas boulevard, where a van was deliberately driven into pedestrians.
Donald Trump has made the decision that science does not matter, and he’s decided to disband the advisory panel for the National Climate Assessment panel, the group that helps monitor climate change and assess the threat that it poses to the United States. Someone needs to tell Donald and the rest of the science-denying members of the Republican Party that just because you disband the panel doesn’t mean that climate change goes away – it just means that we’ll be left unprepared to deal with it. Ring of Fire’s Farron Cousins discusses this.
Jihad Watch director Robert Spencer discusses the House of Representatives' vote against a measure that would require military officials to study the motivating ideology behind the jihad threat.
Extended web-only interview with Islamic scholar Tariq Ramadan about U.S. arms trade, the so-called "democratization" of the Middle East and much more. Ramadan is Professor of Contemporary Islamic Studies at Oxford University. Ramadan was named by Time Magazine as one of the most important innovators of the twenty-first century. In 2004, Tariq Ramadan accepted a job at the University of Notre Dame in Indiana, and Time magazine listed him among the top 100 thinkers in the world. But nine days before Ramadan was set to start teaching here in the United States, the Bush administration revoked his visa, invoking a provision of the PATRIOT Act that allows the government to deny entry to non-citizens who "endorse or espouse terrorism."
The science envoy for the U.S. State Department Dan Kammen has resigned in protest of President Trump’s refusal to quickly condemn the deadly white supremacist violence in Charlottesville, Virginia, earlier this month. In his resignation letter, Kammen, referring to Trump, wrote, "Your presence in the White House harms the United States domestically and abroad and threatens life on this planet." The first letter of each paragraph of his resignation letter spells out the word: "Impeach." We speak with Dan Kammen, professor of energy at University of California, Berkeley.
The US President has signalled more US troops will be sent to fight the Taliban in Afghanistan. He said the United States was no longer “nation-building” and that America will “fight to win”.
Announcing his new strategy he singled out Pakistan, saying it must stop providing safe havens for those he calls terrorists. And he warned Islamabad it had much to lose if it didn't stop harbouring them.
Will the US president succeed in ending America's longest war where others have failed? | Presenter: Hashem Ahelbarra | Guests: Shafiq Hamdam, former NATO Adviser; Ayaz Wazir, former Pakistan Ambassador to Afghanistan; Hardin Lang, senior fellow at the Center for American Progress
On Monday President Trump announced an escalation of the U.S. war in Afghanistan. He also issued a warning to Afghanistan’s neighbor, Pakistan. President Trump went on to say that the U.S. would develop its strategic partnership with India, calling on the Modi government to help in Afghanistan. Observers say that the move might be a signal to Islamabad that the U.S. would back India in the struggle between the South Asian rivals, unless Pakistan severed ties with the Afghan Taliban and the Haqqani network, one of its factions. For more we speak with Pakistani journalist Raza Rumi, editor of the national Pakistani newspaper The Daily Times and a professor at Cornell University and Ithaca College.
Spanish police are continuing to investigate last week’s attack in Barcelona, where 15 people died after a van plowed into a crowded walkway along Las Ramblas—the city’s most famous avenue. On Monday police shot dead the man suspected of driving the van: a Moroccan-born, 22-year-old named Younes Abou-Yaqoub. Police believe he was part of a 12-person cell plotting to carry out a series of bomb attacks. Eight of the cell’s members are now dead, four suspected members have been detained. The events of the past week have shocked many in the Barcelona region. On Sunday, thousands of Muslims, including many from Morocco, marched against violence in Barcelona, chanting, "Islam is peace" and "not in my name." We speak to Tariq Ramadan, Professor of Contemporary Islamic Studies at Oxford University. Ramadan was named by Time Magazine as one of the most important innovators of the twenty-first century. In 2004, Tariq Ramadan accepted a job at the University of Notre Dame in Indiana, and Time magazine listed him among the top 100 thinkers in the world. But nine days before Ramadan was set to start teaching here in the United States, the Bush administration revoked his visa, invoking a provision of the PATRIOT Act that allows the government to deny entry to non-citizens who "endorse or espouse terrorism."
Real News Senior Editor Paul Jay speaks with Truthdig editor-in-chief Robert Scheer on the crisis in the White House and the calls for removing Trump as president
Ahead of Trump’s speech in Phoenix on Tuesday, there was much speculation that Trump would pardon Arizona sheriff Joe Arpaio, who was convicted of contempt of court for defying an order to stop his deputies from detaining people on suspicion of being undocumented. While he didn’t pardon Arpaio on Tuesday, Trump hinted during his speech that a pardon would be coming soon. For more we speak with Francisca Porchas, organizing director of Puente Arizona, a grass-roots human rights movement for migrant justice.
Earlier this week, we sat down with award-winning actor Alec Baldwin, the acclaimed Donald Trump impersonator on Saturday Night Live. Baldwin’s performances have been seen by millions—including President Trump himself. Baldwin is currently preparing for another run of Trump impersonations on the upcoming season of Saturday Night Live. We spoke with Baldwin on Monday at Guild Hall, in East Hampton, New York.
Breitbart editors told a fake Steve Bannon all their plans for the destruction of Jared and Ivanka. Cenk Uygur, host of The Young Turks, breaks it down.
US president blames the media for the widespread condemnation of his response to the Charlottesville protest organised by white supremacists that led to the killing of a counter-protester. Donald Trump was speaking at a rally in Phoenix on Tuesday
Emmanuel Macron is the youngest president in French history. How did he go from banker to economic minister to the President of France?
France’s youngest ever president has now been in office for over 100 days. Emmanuel Macron came to power at the age of just 39. He had no party of his own, but his political movement had thousands of supporters. This documentary follows Macron’s meteoric rise, as seen through the eyes of those who know him personally. Archive footage gives insights into his private life and his unusual marriage.
White House Chief Strategist Steve Bannon has left the White House and rejoined the far-right-wing website Breitbart News as the executive chairman. Bannon has been one of Trump’s closest and most trusted advisers. After departing the White House, he said, "In many ways I think I can be more effective fighting from the outside for the agenda President Trump ran on. And anyone who stands in our way, we will go to war with.” Before his departure, Bannon granted an extraordinary interview to Robert Kuttner, co-founder and co-editor of the liberal magazine The American Prospect. For more on Bannon’s departure and his interview, we speak with Robert Kuttner, co-founder and co-editor of The American Prospect.
President Trump has announced plans to escalate the U.S. war in Afghanistan—already the longest war in U.S. history. While Trump offered few specifics during his prime-time address Monday night, he has reportedly already signed off on a plan to send about 4,000 more troops to Afghanistan. For more we speak with Matthew Hoh, who resigned from the State Department in 2009 over the Obama administration’s escalation of the war in Afghanistan. Prior to his assignment in Afghanistan, he served in Iraq and Afghanistan including time as a Marine Corps company commander in Anbar Province.
