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14 Oct 2020 | Individuals

Factsheet: Ahmad Mansour

IMPACT: Ahmad Mansour is an Arab-Israeli psychologist based in Germany. Mansour is a former program director and current advisor at the Brussels-based European Foundation for Democracy, and research associate at the Centre for Democratic Culture... read the complete article

Factsheet

07 Apr 2020 | Politics

Factsheet: ALTERNATIVE FOR GERMANY (ALTERNATIVE FÜR DEUTSCHLAND/AfD)

IMPACT: Alternative for Germany (Alternative für Deutschland/AfD) is a far-right political party in Germany and the first far-right nationalist party to enter the German parliament since World War II. AfD is widely regarded as an... read the complete article

Editorial

03 Apr 2020 | Politics

Racism and the Terrorist Attacks in Hanau, Germany

On 19 February, 43-year-old Tobias Rathjen killed nine people of color at two shisha bars in Hanau, a small city near Frankfurt. He then returned home, killed his own mother and, finally, committed suicide. Before... read the complete article

Factsheet

12 Mar 2020 | Individuals

Factsheet: Hamed Abdel-Samad

IMPACT: Hamed Abdel-Samad is a German-Egyptian journalist and award winning author who has helped shape the public discourse on Islam in Germany. He has written seven books that are not only critical of Islam and... read the complete article

Article

24 Feb 2020 | Terms/Tropes

Remembering Auschwitz, Deploying Islamopohbia?

Last month, political and religious leaders around the world commemorated the end of the Nazi cruelty, the 75th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz extermination camp, the Konzentrationslager. The systematic industrial killing of six... read the complete article

Factsheet

10 Oct 2019 | Individuals

Factsheet: Seyran Ateş

IMPACT: Seyran Ateş is a lawyer and author of five books on Islam, violence, and sexuality. Ateş uses her personal experiences to make generalized claims about Islam and “Muslim culture,” often reinforcing the “good Muslim/bad... read the complete article

Article

04 Sep 2019

The Rising Far-Right in Eastern Germany

This weekend, two major German states will go to the ballots. Sachsen and Brandenburg, two politically quite different states, will elect the next state parliament. And the last polls made by the ZDF Polit Barometer reveal no good... read the complete article

Factsheet

22 Aug 2019 | Organizations

Factsheet: PI-News

IMPACT: The most influential anti-Muslim blog in Germany, Politically Incorrect (known as PI-News) criticizes what it perceives as the “Islamization of Europe” and “political correctness” towards Muslims in German politics and media. PI-News has connections... read the complete article

Editorial

18 Jul 2019 | Individuals

Sarrazin and the German Social Democrats’ stance on Islamophobia

It is the third attempt by the Social Democrats to exclude Thilo Sarrazin from their party on allegations of racism. A chance for the Social Democrats to sharpen their profile? Sarrazin was leading as a... read the complete article

Article

05 Jul 2019 | Individuals

Remembering the Murder of Marwa El-Sherbini: A Symbol of Deadly Anti-Muslim Racism in Germany

It was the 1st of July 2009, 11.07 a.m., when Marwa El-Sherbini was stabbed to death by a white nationalist in the court of the German city of Dresden. The 31 year old observant Muslim... read the complete article