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Khola Maryam Hübsch (2017)

Khola Maryam Hübsch (born October 25, 1980 in Frankfurt am Main ) is a German journalist and publicist. The freelance speaker and blogger is the daughter of the German writer Hadayatullah Hübsch and an Indian mother. She is involved in the Ahmadiyya community for interreligious dialogue.

Act

Khola Maryam Hübsch studied journalism , German , book studies and psychology at the Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz . She writes for German newspapers (including the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , Frankfurter Rundschau , Die Zeit , Cicero and Die Welt ) and scientific publications and gives nationwide lectures on Islam from the Ahmadiyya perspective. In 2012, the ARD morning magazine called her the “public face of Muslim women in Germany” and declared that Hübsch was a “welcome guest on talk shows; their opinion is heard ”. In the discussion rounds of the political talk formats of Anne Will , Menschen bei Maischberger , Phoenix Runde or log in , she appeared several times as a conversation partner. For seven years she was the nationwide commissioner for interreligious dialogue at the international women's organization Lajna Imaillah of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat in Germany and as a moderator for the international Ahmadiyya television station MTA . It supports migrant media projects such as the television series “Aspects of Islam” and the format “Islam in focus”, which was awarded the Schleswig-Holstein state parliament's integration prize.

In April 2019, the Italian Deputy Foreign Minister Emanuela Del Re presented Hübsch with the “Mondoreligioni Award” from the Associazione Italiana di Sociologia (Italian Association for Sociology) for her commitment to human rights.

Lectures

In 2011, as part of the lecture series of the Cluster of Excellence “Religion and Politics” at the Westphalian Wilhelms University in Münster, Hübsch gave a lecture on the image of self and the image of Muslim women. She gave further lectures at the Johannes Gutenberg University as part of the Festival contre le racisme , at the University of Koblenz-Landau , the Philipps University of Marburg , the Justus Liebig University of Gießen , the University of Fulda and at the Goethe University in Frankfurt on the Main . Hübsch is a speaker and podium guest at interreligious dialogues (on behalf of churches, synagogues and mosques as well as equal opportunities officers and the State Center for Civic Education in Hesse) and left-wing alternative institutions such as the Club Voltaire in Frankfurt and at the Frankfurt Book Fair . Her lectures deal with the topics “Islam and Enlightenment”, “Emancipation in Islam” and “Human rights and tolerance in Islam”. In addition, Hübsch gives courses on the media's portrayal of Islam and love and partnership in Islam. Further main topics are integration, Islamophobia in Europe, peace concepts in Islam and "Bio-Islam". In 2013, as part of the women's conference with the bishop of the Icelandic State Church in Iceland, she gave a lecture on the image of mankind of Islam using the example of Muslim women. In 2015 she was an expert in the Committee for Human Rights and Humanitarian Aid of the German Bundestag.

As part of the lecture series “Islam and Islamic Theology in Times of Radicalization” at the University of Gießen, Hübsch dealt with the foundations of IS terror and with it how Islamic theology and the aesthetics of western pop culture from ISIS in the 2015/2016 winter semester -Propaganda can be used.

Positions

Using sources of Islam, Hübsch argues for an understanding of Islam that, in their opinion, is compatible with democracy, tolerance and universal human rights. She is of the opinion “that Islam itself stipulates in the Koran that there must be a secular state. Pluralism is wanted, so I could give you countless verses from the Koran, and this reading of the Koran is widespread in Germany ”. Freedom of belief is manifested in the Koran, and everyone has the right to enter or leave Islam. For Hübsch, Islam is a modern religion that is in harmony with reason and the Enlightenment and represents an important source of inspiration for contemporary issues of postmodernism . She criticizes the one-sided narrowing of Islam to a mindless obsession in the widespread Islamic orthodoxy, which has lost the original core issues of Islam, such as the expansion of human consciousness through a living relationship with God. In her publications, Hübsch denounces the appropriation of Islam by Islamist agitators and letter-believing fundamentalists and "undifferentiated media reporting" about Islam. In her lectures and publications, she advocates a rational, gender-equitable and holistic reading of the Koran.

In September 2016, in the broadcast Maybrit Illner (ZDF), Hübsch refused to shake hands with guest Paul Ziemiak (CDU, Chairman of the Junge Union) behind the scenes. Ziemiak used this to criticize Hübsch during the show. She replied that it was her right to refuse to shake hands.

After the attacks on Charlie Hebdo on January 7th, 2015 , she spoke up for Islam on the program “Hart aber Fair” (ARD) . In it, she criticized, among other things, the fact, without, as the wording goes, “wanting to defend the burqa”, that double standards are measured: “If Muslims have to endure the caricatures, then this should also apply to the burqa in a pluralistic society . ”She regards the law on the prohibition of veiling , which was passed in France in 2011, as counterproductive.

In a public hearing of the Committee on Human Rights and Humanitarian Aid of the German Bundestag, Huebsch was “convinced that an open, friendly refugee policy could help improve the image of the West in the Islamic world. This could also help to contain terrorism ”.

After the sexual assault on women on New Year's Eve 2015/16 in front of Cologne Central Station, Hübsch pointed out that prejudices against Muslim men would be reinforced in the discussion. She said: “The new old resentments against Muslim men are also an expression of a cultural chauvinism that is appropriating feminism in order to divert attention from one's own sexism and racism.” According to Hübsch, most of the perpetrators would come from economically weak milieus.

On the Phoenix Runde program , the Islam critic Sabatina James remarked that Hübsch, as a member of the minority Ahmadiyya community , could not represent the views of Muslims: Ahmadiyya are rejected by many Muslims as non-Islamic and their followers are religiously disadvantaged or persecuted in some countries .

Private

In an interview with Alfred Schier , Hübsch confessed to living in a marriage arranged by her father; the marriage took place without a long relationship. However, she strictly separates between arranged dating agencies and forced marriages. In her book Freedom Under the Veil - What Islam can contribute to a truly emancipated image of women , she wrote:

“The Prophet Muhammad declared forced marriages to be invalid and annulled a forced marriage that he had become aware of. A prerequisite for a marriage must always be the voluntary consent of both partners, given without exertion of pressure. There is no doubt about that. The blanket condemnation of arranged marriages often has something to do with the fact that no differentiation is made between forced marriages, which are clearly un-Islamic, and arranged marriage agencies, which, in modern German, are more likely to be preceded by a service. "

Publications

• Rebellion of longing: Why I will not let my faith be stolen Herder 2018, ISBN 978-3451381102
• Disruptive factor belief? Why a reference to God in a German state constitution is also important to Muslims Bäumer, Beate / Zabel, Frank Ed .: How much faith does the country need? Answers from politics, church and society. Freiburg, 2017
• From "headscarf girls" and "honor killings"  - the image of Muslim women in public discourse. Cheema, Saba-Nur, ed., (K) A question of faith. Religious diversity in educational interaction. Frankfurt 2017.
• For the “Muslimification” of social problems. Information and documentation center for anti-racism work e. V. Ed .: Criticism of Racism. Düsseldorf 2017, ISSN 1616-6027
• A ring on the hand. In: Genazino, Wilhelm, Ed .: Freedom and Responsibility. 95 theses today. Stuttgart 2016., ISBN 978-3476026866
• Handbook Christianity and Islam in Germany , Mouhanad Khorchide , ed., Herder Verlag 2014, ISBN 978-3451311888 .
• Freedom under the veil - What Islam can contribute to a truly emancipated image of women , Patmos Verlag 2014, ISBN 978-3843604734 .
• Tolerance in Islam Yousefi, Hamid Reza and Seubert, Harald: Tolerance in the World Context: Stories - Appearances - New Developments. Springer VS 2012, ISBN 978-3-658-00115-5 .
• Images of self and others by Muslim women , Barbara Stollberg-Rilinger, ed., "He created them as men and women". Religion and gender. Würzburg: Ergon Verlag 2013.
• The sense of life. A theological consideration Dialog - magazine for interreligious and intercultural encounters. Institute for Human and Islamic Studies eV, 2012.
• Islam in the media. The framing of the representation of the Muslim woman Saarbrücken 2008, ISBN 978-3-639-04817-9 .

Web links

• Official website
• Debate about Goethe's “Divan”: In many ways pleasant , FAZ, January 20, 2011 with further links to contributions to the debate
• Khola Maryam Hübsch at phoenix "Im Dialog" , January 24, 2015

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The headscarf as a demonstration of loyalty ( memento of the original from December 29, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at echo-online.de 
2. ↑ “My aim is to denounce a double standard”. Retrieved January 7, 2013 . 
3. ↑ People at Maischberger. Muslims mocked, messages burn: How dangerous is this anger? September 18, 2012, accessed January 7, 2013 . 
4. ↑ PHOENIX round. Don't give a damn - does religion no longer concern us? (No longer available online.) September 25, 2012, archived from the original on October 19, 2012 ; Retrieved January 7, 2013 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
5. ↑ Broadcast of August 7, 2014: "Image of the enemy Israel: Is new hatred of Jews growing in Germany?"
6. ^ Sociologia, a Roma la 2ª edizione di “Mondo Religioni”. In: Daily Muslim. April 3, 2019, accessed April 30, 2019 (Italian). 
7. ↑ "Between Victims of Violence and Harem Fantasy". Retrieved January 7, 2013 . 
8. ↑ Islam and Islamic theology in times of radicalization. November 21, 2015, accessed December 11, 2015 . 
9. ↑ Verbatim statement in the live discussion program “From headscarves to burkini - how much integration does the country need?” ( Memento from October 3, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 342 kB), NDR Kultur, September 26, 2013
10. ↑ in the program “Aspects of Islam” , Sept. 5, 2011, Hamburg local television “TIDE-TV”, discussion with Christa Goetsch , Grüne, Kay Sokolowsky and others. a., from minute 9:08; see. Also mention of Hübsch's positions in “Maischberger Talk: 'What kind of nonsense is that?'” , SPIEGEL ONLINE, Sept. 19, 2012
11. ↑ "Mercy for All Worlds". (No longer available online.) October 6, 2012, formerly in the original ; Retrieved January 7, 2013 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.    
12. ↑ The media convey one-sided image of Muslim women as victims. Retrieved January 7, 2013 . 
13. ↑ Religion is not the problem. April 12, 2011, accessed January 7, 2013 . 
14. ↑ Handshake refused: CDU politician attacks Muslim women during integration talk. In: focus.de . 2nd September 2016.
15. ↑ A burqa ban is counterproductive! In: migazin.de date = 2014-07-21. Retrieved January 30, 2015 . 
16. ^ German Bundestag, current reports. December 3, 2015, accessed December 8, 2015 . 
17. ↑ Quoted from the evangelical press service idea, accessed on January 15, 2016 http://www.idea.de/gesellschaft/detail/journalistin-mohammed-bekaempfte-die-unterdrueckung-der-frau-93346.html
18. ^ Zoff about New Year's Eve in Cologne. In: bild.de .
19. ↑ Phoenix: Murders in the Name of Islam - The Abused Religion - Phoenix Round of October 1st, 2015. October 1, 2015, accessed August 5, 2017 . 
20. ^ Yohanan Friedmann: Prophecy Continuous. Aspects of Ahmadi Religious Thought and Its Medieval Background . 2nd Edition. Oxford University Press, New Delhi 2003, pp. 25-28 .
21. ↑ phoenix: Khola Maryam Hübsch in dialogue with Alfred Schier on January 24th, 2015. January 23, 2015, accessed August 5, 2017 . 
22. ↑ Khola Maryam Hübsch: Freedom under the veil - what Islam can contribute to a truly emancipated image of women . 1st edition Patmos-Verlag, Ostfildern 2014, ISBN 978-3-8436-0473-4 , p. 120.122 .