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Goethe University Islamic scholar Susanne Schröter fears that anti-Semitism will continue to grow in Germany. Three social groups are preparing the ground for this, said the Director of the Frankfurt Research Centre for Global Islam in Frankfurt: Muslim, left-wing and right-wing circles. "There are worrying opportunities for alliances. I fear that lasting synergy effects are being created. That is quite explosive for our society." All three groups are on the same side in their int...

The extent to which official politics, the media and security authorities are disregarding the basic democratic rights to freedom of opinion and assembly is breathtaking.

A new report about "anti-Muslim hostility" commissioned by the German government has faced a barrage of criticism after it was revealed that Islamist groups linked to Iran and Turkey were involved in producing the document. Unsurprisingly, the

A Turkish mega-mosque in Cologne, a historic stronghold of Christendom in Germany, has for the first time begun sounding Muslim calls to prayer over outdoor loudspeakers. City officials say the move is aimed at promoting multicultural diversity and

COLOGNE, Germany (AP) — The Islamic call to prayer was sounded in public for the first time from one of Germany’s biggest mosques on Friday, but at limited volume, as part of a project agreed with authorities in Cologne, which has one of the country’s largest Muslim communities.

The AMU founder’s vision of Islam stands in stark contrast to the political agenda of Islamist thinkers. Why is there is so little space for his thought in the university he founded?

Plan goes forward with or without mohammed bin salsalman. to me, thats where our values really lie. ultimately theres a much longer term goal regarding saudi arabia and that is the course of global islam and regional security. >> lets talk about turkey. turkey is a muslim country that happens to be a nato member, that happens to have the largest land army other than the united states in nato, that. has to host an air base that american and nato planes use when they are dealing with the middle ea...

Have a murder mystery, but on top of that you also have a geopolitical thriller. turkey, which is repairing its relations with the united states at a time when its economy was terribly hurt. its just released pastor brunson, which was a big problem in our bilateral relationship. wants to get a better relationship with the u.s. it wants to weaken the u.s.-saudi relationship, which it sees as a competing relationship. and it wants to be a place that shapes the future of islam more in its direction...

Hes going to reveal the naked truth and say everything they know thats gone on. to the question of values, its not just the question of $110 billion of arms sales or the jobs in the united states. its a question about the future of global islam. what mohammed bin salman, the crown prince told us -- i met with him three times -- is he saw that saudi arabia took a wrong turn in 1979. a lot of the extremist islam, a lot of the terrorism that followed was because of that and there was also a wrong t...

That they were trained elsewhere or guided? >> well, we will know soon enough. typically in these cases authorities come up with a lot of evidence after the fact, but here is what we think, as isis lost its territory in the middle east, global islam really felt impetus that they have to promote attacks to make them relevant and i think theres an argument to be made that this is part of it, campaign that isis and groups like that are still in the fight. i think we can expect more on this until th...