In an online article published on 18 February in the magazine zenith, Hüseyin, a political scientist at the University of Vienna and an associate member of EZIRE, writes about the current political situation in Turkey and the associated challenges for the ruling party of Turkish President Recep Tayy...
With reference to the Catholic News Agency (KNA), the news portals domradio.de and qantara.de published on December 14th. an assessment by Prof. Dr. Mathias Rohe, Islamic scholar and lawyer at FAU, and founding rector of EZIRE, on the influence of Sharia law in Germany.
In an interview with the radio station Deutschlandfunk on November 16, Prof. Dr. Mathias Rohe gave an assessment of the plans of the Austrian Chancellor, Sebastian Kurz, to introduce political Islam as a criminal offense in view of the recent terrorist attacks in Europe. The complete interview with ...
In a guest contribution in the Austrian newspaper Der Standard on November 12 Hüseyin Çiçek, associated EZIRE-member and researcher at the Institut für Islamisch-Theologische Studien at Uni Wien, elaborates on the geopolitical context, in which the dispute on the freedom of opinion between the Turki...
The rule of law and the liberal society must not be intimidated by terrorist attacks. This statement is stressed by Prof. Mathias Rohe in interviews with the Hanns-Seidel-Stiftung and the Evangelischer Pressedienst (epd), to be read at evangelisch.de, on the occasion of the terror attacks in Dresden...
On the news page BR24 on September 16 it has been elaborated on the question, why legalistic-Islamists pose a threat to democracy. According to homeland-security agents, legalistic Islamism, as opposed to Jihadism, was characterized by nonviolence. The aim was rather a permanent infiltration of soci...
On August 5 the websites kath.ch and Domradio.de released an article, in which the law professor, Islamic scientist and founding rector of the EZIRE, Mathias Rohe, evaluated the importance of the Cairo Declaration on Human Rights in Islam (CDHRI), which was adopted 30 years ago, on August 5 1990 b...
In the article on web.de, "From cruzifix to headscarf: this is the state of the debate 25 years later," Jörn Thielmann, managing director, and Mathias Rohe, director at EZIRE were among the experts asked for comments about the topic.
The law to put up a cruzifix in every Bavarian classroom was, i...
On July 13, the associated EZIRE-member Hüseyin Çiçek commented in the Austrian newspaper Der Standard the transformation of the Hagia Sophia back into a mosque by the Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.
For Çiçek this transformation does not only imply an attack on the freedom of religion in...
In his commentary on May 14 in the Vienna-based newspaper Der Standard Hüseyin I. Çiçek, political scientist and associated EZIRE-member, elaborates on the possible impact of the Corona Crisis on the governing style of the Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.
According to Çiçek the political m...
