Word for Friday

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The word for Friday is an analogue television program to the Christian word for Sunday on Das Erste. It was requested by the Turkish community in Germany as part of a “14-point plan for a better coexistence of Christians and Muslims” and suggested by some media representatives and politicians becomes. The broadcast date fixation on Friday expressed in the title is derived from the Friday address ( Chutba ) in Islam .

Since April 20, 2007, Südwestrundfunk (SWR) has had the Islamic word , which can be heard and read on the Internet, and since July 6, the ZDF broadcast Forum on Friday on the Internet and on ZDFinfo (Fridays at 7.45 a.m. ). These Internet offers are in fact not broadcasts of preaching like their Christian counterparts: The Federal German State Broadcasting Treaty allows such religious communities only recognized in Germany. None of the Islamic organizations in Germany had this status until April 2013 , but the Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat was the first to achieve this status in April 2013 in the state of Hesse. In April 2014, the Muslim community in Hamburg became a recognized religious community.

discussion

There were quite different opinions in politics and society about the idea of ​​a Muslim broadcast Word on Friday . While the managing director of the Group of the Greens , Volker Beck , saw a word on Friday in February 2006 as a means “to improve the integration of Muslims in Germany” and to achieve equality between Islam as a religious community and Christianity, ARD declined - Chairman Thomas Gruber categorically rejected the idea at the time. When ZDF published specific plans for a broadcast in February 2007, the orientalist Hans-Peter Raddatz criticized this approach. The Bishop of Mainz and chairman of the German Bishops' Conference Cardinal Karl Lehmann is also skeptical about this program. The “Word for Sunday” has its very own tradition and cannot be copied at will, there is no binding representative testimony of faith for Islam in Germany. In the course of the introduction of the word for Friday , the demand of the Central Council of Jews for a word on the Sabbath could also be heard. His Vice President Salomon Korn suggested setting up a word for the weekend as an alternative , which should be open to all major religious and ideological communities in Germany.

Forum on Friday on ZDF

At the beginning of February 2007 it was announced that from May 2007 on, ZDF would initially include a word on Friday in its online offer. It will be produced in German and offer imams and Islamic scholars a forum in which current issues can be taken up, put up for discussion and commented on from a religious point of view. Different interpretations of the Koran should also be taken into account.

If there is a positive response to the program, which will initially only be published on the ZDF online service, broadcasting on the television program is also an option, according to ZDF. On July 6, 2007, the ZDF program Forum started expressly on Friday as an “offer for Muslims and non-Muslims” (editor-in-chief) on the Internet. In the first edition, the Muslim religious educator Lamya Kaddor was presented.

The editors of the show are the German-Persian Kamran Safiarian and the German-Afghan Abdul-Ahmad Rashid. It is moderated alternately by Nazan Gökdemir , Abdul-Ahmad Rashid and Dilek Üşük .

Islamic word in SWR

On April 20, 2007, Südwestrundfunk was the first broadcaster to present the “Islamic Word” on its homepage as an audio and text file. The first author was the then general secretary and current chairman of the Central Council of Muslims in Germany , Aiman ​​Mazyek .

The first “Islamic Word” of April 20 was about the grace and mercy of God and related to the current debate about the release of the last former RAF members who are in prison.

Alternating authors are responsible for the content of the series: in addition to Aiman ​​Mazyek, Emina Čorbo-Mešić , Lamya Kaddor , Hussein Hamdan , and Bekir Alboğa also write .

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  1. ↑ Turkish Muslims want “Word for Friday” ( Memento from November 9, 2011 in the Internet Archive ), Netzeitung September 25, 2006
  2. ^ Rüdiger Heimlich: From the medial parallel world; Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger , July 5, 2007
  3. ↑ Raddatz laments "Dominance of radical Islam" , DeutschlandRadio February 15, 2007
  4. ↑ Jews want “Word on the Sabbath” , RP online from February 16, 2007
  5. ^ Forum on Friday - The makers of the forum introduce themselves