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Islam and Europe
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A podcast series, based on investigations and studies of our institute, dedicated to Islam in Europe, politics and society.
Are European values a contradiction to Islam, how is Islamist extremism threatening our societies, can European policy help in reforming Islam? Those questions will be discussed.
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Tea Time with Ahmet Kuru, Part 2
Oct 9, 202300:35:12Tap to summarizeIn our second part, Ahmet Kuru is talking about current challenges and dangers inflicted by the influence of religion and Islamism in statehoods, not only in relation to the MENA region, but also in Europe and America.
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Europe Monitor 13-23
Sep 27, 202300:15:39Tap to summarizeIn this episode, we are talking about the protests against the new law proposal against Quran burnings, the cut for German integration courses, a German journalist, who no longer wants to say anything related to Islam and the sentence against the mastermind of the Brussels terror attacks.
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Europa Monitor 13-23
Sep 27, 202300:15:36Tap to summarizeHeute geht es um Proteste gegen den dänischen Gesetzentwurf zum Verbot von Koran-Verbrennungen, den finanziellen Einschnitt von Integrationskursen in Deutschland, einem Journalisten, der sich nicht mehr zum Islam äußern will sowie um das Strafmaß gegen den Strippenzieher der islamistischen Terrornacht in Brüssel.
Transcribe →Tea Time with Ahmet Kuru, Part 1
Sep 20, 202300:50:01Tap to summarizeIn our first part of the tea time talk with the Turkish-American scholar Ahmet Kuru, we are discussing the historical roots of Islamization in the statehood of many countries in the MENA region. Ahmet T. Kuru is the director of the Center for Islamic and Arabic Studies at San Diego State University. He was a postdoctoral scholar at Columbia University. Kuru is the author of Secularism and State Policies toward Religion: The United States, France, and Turkey, co-editor of Democracy, Islam, and Secularism in Turkey. His recent book, Islam, Authoritarianism, and Underdevelopment: A Global and Historical Comparison co-won the American Political Science Association's International History and Politics Section Award and was included in Times Literary Supplement's Books of the Year.
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Europe Monitor 12-23
Sep 15, 202300:14:20Tap to summarizeToday, we cover a new law in Denmark on Quran burning, the discrimination of male migrants in Belgium, the legal fight of a Belgian terrorist fighting his extradition and the ruling of the highest court in France regarding the abaya ban in French schools.
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Europa Monitor 12-23
Sep 15, 202300:15:02Tap to summarizeIn unserer ersten Folge nach der Sommerpause schauen wir auf ein neues Gesetz zur Vermeidung von Koran-Verbrennungen in Dänemark, die Diskriminierung von männlichen Migranten in Belgien und die dortige Klage eines verurteilten Terroristen gegen seine Auslieferung sowie das Abaya-Verbot in Frankreich.
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Europa Monitoring 11-23
Jul 6, 202300:14:10Tap to summarizeHeute berichtet MENA Research Center über die EU-Reduzierung von Hilfen an Syrien, den Rücktritt des Untersuchungsrichters im "Katargate"-Fall, eine neue Koran-Verbrennung in Schweden und das richterliche Ausweisung von Asylsuchenden in Großbritannien nach Ruanda.
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Europe Monitoring 11-23
Jul 6, 202300:13:27Tap to summarizeToday's first summer edition covers the EU decision to cut funds for Syria, the resignation of the "Qatargate" judge in Brussels, new Quran burnings in Sweden and a UK court decision forbidding deportations of asylum seekers to Rwanda.
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Europe Monitoring 10-23
Jun 28, 202300:16:53Tap to summarizeToday, we cover the debate on a new mosque in the German city of Wuppertal, the fight of Turkish associations against a memorial for the Armenian genocide in Turkey and two news on the "Qatargate" scandal involving the European Parliament.
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Europa Monitoring 10-23
Jun 28, 202300:16:07Tap to summarizeHeute geht es um den Streit um eine neue Moschee der Ditib im deutschen Wuppertal, den Widerstand türkischer Verbände gegen ein Mahnmal zur Erinnerung an den armenischen Genozid in der Türkei und um zwei EU-News zum Skandal rund um "Katargate".
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