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30JAN 2018
Interview
Mathias Rohe comments on “Sharia Police”-Verdict
In an interview with the broadcasting station Deutsche Welle, Mathias Rohe, lawyer, Islamic scholar and director of EZIRE, welcomes the verdict of the German Federal Supreme Court on the Wuppertal “Sharia police”. The court ruled that public presence with reflective vests marked “Sharia police” can indeed be prosecutable. The verdict referred to the approach of […]
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10JAN 2018
FAU EZIRE in the Media
Mathias Rohe debates: Religions as Fire Accelerants?
Just how peaceful is religion? In a debate with the German newspaper Nürnberger Nachrichten, Mathias Rohe, director of EZIRE, debates the violent potential of Islam and Christendom together with Tarek Badawia, professor for Islamic-Religious Studies and Islamic education at FAU, and Stefan Ark Nitsche, regional bishop of Nuremberg. Taking the most recent turning point in […]
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11OCT 2017
FAU EZIRE in the Media
Power and Resources – Hüseyin Çiçek comments on the Kurdish Referendum in Iraq
Since the beginning of the Arab spring, it has become apparent that borders in the Middle East are redrawn. The struggle for power and resources has also framed the Iraqi-Kurdish referendum for independence. In the Neue Zürcher Zeitung, Hüseyin Çiçek comments on the backgrounds of the election. For Çiçek, political scientist and scientific researcher at EZIRE, the […]
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26SEP 2017
FAU EZIRE in the Media
“Focus on the People”: Mathias Rohe on Applying Islamic Legal Frameworks in Europe
Based on the so-called “Rome-III-Regulation”, the Danish advocate general at the European Court of Justice has spoken out against the recognition of private divorces based on Islamic law within the EU. He argues that women were not granted the same access to divorce as men. The final judgement of the Court is still missing, however, […]
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24AUG 2017
Interview
Child Marriage in Germany: Mathias Rohe calls for Legal Readjustments
In an interview with the German newspaper Allgemeine Zeitung, Mathias Rohe, Islamic Scholar and director of the EZIRE, talks about the phenomenon of child marriage. In Islamic countries, child marriage was first and foremost a phenomenon of poverty and often took place in combination with patriarchal family structures. In these cases, underaged girls were married to […]
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09JUN 2017
FAU EZIRE in the Media
Mathias Rohe: What can be done against criminal clans?
The debate on how to deal with criminal clans that are up to mischief in Germanys main cities and because of whom certain quarters have dwindled to so-called “No-Go-Areas”, is not new. Internal security has also been one of the main campaign issues in the state legislature elections of the German federal state North Rhine-Westphalia. […]
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