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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...

The new publication of Mathias Rohe "Islam in Germany. A Stocktaking" will be released on the 19th of September 2016. Muslims have been living in Germany for decades, but still many of them are seen as alien, sometimes even as a threat. With his profound survey on Islam in Germany, Mathias Rohe c...

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...

At the founding event of the Munich "Council of Religions" on July 13, 2016, Mathias Rohe, Director of EZIRE, spoke in his testimonial lecture about how the cohabitation of religions can succeed. He appealed to maintain openness. "The unpleasant truth is that all religions have potential for violenc...

How can religious people act out their beliefs at a German University? In how far can – and should –this ideologically and religiously neutral institution support its students and employees in their free exercise of religion? Apart from others, this question was discussed by Professors of different ...

All participants of the 4th workshop on June 16 and 17, 2016, had the option to discuss relevant topics, such as Islam, communication of values and radicalization, with Jörn Thielmann, managing director of EZIRE. The objective is to develop the teaching in professional integrated classes at vocat...

Since the beginning of the so-called 'refugee-crisis', more and more under-aged girls enter Germany accompanied by their full-aged husbands. It is impossible to capture how many of them there actually are, since not all German federal states register under-age-marriages. "A reliable estimate of the ...

The authors of the books show the immense importance of all kinds of migration for the central Alpine region in the last 300 years, contradicting the fixed self-image of a supposedly settled community. The variety of migration is surprising and doesn’t stop with the well-known Bündner Zuckerbäcker (...

On the 10th of June 2016, the research group on "Islam in Bavaria", headed by the Islamic Scholar and jurisprudent Mathias Rohe, presented its initial findings in the Water’s Hall of the Orangery of Erlangen. Aim of the project, which has been initiated by the Bavarian ministry of education and cult...