Inside Islam - What is preached in Germany's mosques

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Inside Islam - What is preached in Germany's mosques is a factual literary work by the ARD journalist and Grimme Prize winner Constantin Schreiber from 2017. He attended the Friday prayer in 13 mosques . The book was published by Econ- Verlag in 2017 . It went to number 1 on the Spiegel bestseller list.

history

The trigger for the publication was a visit by Schreiber to the Wilmersdorfer Mosque on April 29, 2016, during which he found Roger Garaudy's book Promise Islam , which calls for an Islamic revolution, displayed. From the book idea, Schreiber also made a three-part television documentary called The Mosque Report .

content

In the introduction, Schreiber reports on the background of the book and gives a lot of information about Islam in Germany. He attended Friday sermons in 13 German mosques. In addition to the Wilmersdorfer Mosque, this included the Berlin mosques Omar-Ibn-Al-Khattab-Mosque , Al-Furqan-Mosque, Dar-Al-Heckmah-Mosque, Şehitlik-Mosque , Yanus-Emre-Mosque, Risala-Mosque, Mehmed Zahid Kotku Tekkesi and Imam Riza Mosque. Furthermore the Centrum Mosque in Hamburg, Eyup Sultan Mosque in Leipzig, Al Rahman Mosque in Magdeburg , Hagia Sophia Mosque in Karlsruhe and the Al Farouq Mosque in Potsdam . For each mosque visit, it is listed what politically important happened during the week. The exact translation of the Friday sermons follows. Then the content is discussed with the imam of the mosque, if he was ready for an interview, or interviews were conducted. This is followed by a conversation with experts such as Verena Klemm or Abdel-Hakim Ourghi about the content of the sermons. The book concludes with a résumé: “At best, the sermons were dense, religious texts that keep the audience in another world, at worst, life in Germany, democracy and our society were rejected. I would like to cite a positive example, a sermon that radiates cosmopolitanism, builds a bridge to life in Germany. Unfortunately, my visits to the mosque did not produce such an example. "

reception

The book received positive reviews on Deutschlandfunk and Focus Online , but criticism of a shortened perception was also expressed in another broadcast on Deutschlandfunk. The Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung gave the book a positive review, calling it “a snapshot with interesting insights”.

The taz journalist Daniel Bax accuses Schreiber of approaching the phenomenon like an ethnologist from the colonial era who traces "a supposedly wild Indian tribe". The Islamic scholar Johanna Pink , who complained in an open letter about one-sidedness and the lack of depth of reporting, was similarly critical .

Schreiber had the opportunity to present his project in ZEIT as well as on ZDF and MDR .

In an interview with Bento , Schreiber commented on both the criticism of his book and of the series of documentaries based on it. He said that he would have asked Islamic scholars for their professional opinion and that this was also included in the presentation. He attributed the criticism to the fact that "a book about Islam in Germany is never easy". However, he does not want to polarize, but rather to encourage “to deal more with Muslim life here”.

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  2. ↑ a b "Inside Islam" Imams preach so conservatively in Germany's mosques. In: Kölnische Rundschau . March 29, 2017, accessed March 31, 2017 .
  3. ↑ Constantin Schreiber: Inside Islam: What is preached in Germany's mosques. Econ, Berlin 2017, p. 245
  4. ↑ http://www.deutschlandfunk.de/inside-islam-moscheen-in-der-kritik.886.de.html?dram:article_id=382665 , accessed on April 3, 2017.
  5. ↑ "Inside Islam": This is what Constantin Schreiber experienced at the first Friday sermon. In: Focus Online . March 28, 2017. Retrieved October 14, 2018 .
  6. ^ "Inside Islam" - Canan Topcu on the book by Constantin Schreiber , deutschlandfunk.de, April 11, 2017, accessed on April 11, 2017
  7. ↑ printed in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung on April 12, 2017
  8. ↑ Daniel Bax, Court of Mistrust Culture , taz, accessed on April 3, 2017.
  9. ↑ Johanna Pink; Open letter , published in Der Tagesspiegel , accessed on April 3, 2017.
  10. ↑ Markus Lanz , ( page no longer available , search in web archives: talk show on April 4, 2017 ) @1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.zdf.de
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  12. ↑ Interview at Bento.de , accessed on April 26, 2017.