Is there a Euro-Islam?

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Tariq RamadanThat’s the question that Tariq Ramadan will be answering on November 11th in Vienna. The Austrian Association of Academics (Akademikerbund) is sponsoring a forum at which the renowned scholar of Islam will be the guest of honor.

Below is the invitation for the event, as translated by our Austrian correspondent ESW:

Islam and the European Model of Life
Is there a Euro-Islam?

The relationship between the West and the Islamic world has deteriorated since 9/11. This is evident in the fear of terrorist attacks as well as in the problems that European Muslims of the second and third generations face. Furthermore, the differences between Islam and other religions continue to surface:

  • Which of the religious rulings of the Koran are incompatible with European values?
  • Where are these incompatibilities most evident? e.g. education in schools, building of mosques, religious drawings in newspapers.
  • What about the role of the Austrian Islamic Association?

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Introductory remarks:   Franz Fiedler, President of the Austrian Association of Academics
Podium:   Tariq Ramadan, Islamic scholar
    Christian Zeitz, Vienna Akademikerbund
    Wolfram Eberhardt, author of the book Im Auftrag Allahs: Gläubige, Fanatiker, Terroristen
     
Moderator:   Peter Danich, Political Academy

Politische Akademie Wien
Tivoligasse 73
1120 Vienna
November 11, 2008
7:00pm

Registration necessary

This sounds like an unprecedented opportunity for Austrians to get to know Mr. Ramadan a little better. If I were anywhere near Vienna (and could understand German), I’d be there myself.

4 thoughts on “Is there a Euro-Islam?”

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  2. Tariq Ramadan has been exposed by refugee from Iran, Afshin Ellian on Elsevier.nl, as a fanatic in the disguise of moderation.

    His mask has been taken off and his true face has been shown, yet the media ignore this and still portray him as a moderate Muslim (a term which Afshin Ellian also questions) and supplying him with the platform to spread his two-faced lies.

    Islam is as far removed from freedom as possible. Nothing will change that. Only when Muslims move away from the basic Islam they will enjoy some liberties. Liberties which there brethern in Islamic countries cannot enjoy.

  4. At some forty lines, this is the most succinct comment I can make about Tariq Ramadan:

    1. Ayman al-Zawahiri
    2. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
    3. Ayatollah Kahmeini
    4. Mullah Muhammad Omar (possibly snuffed)
    5. Abu Bakar Ba’asyir (Bashir)
    6. Moqtada Sadr
    7. Abu Hamza al-Masri
    8. Fateh Najmeddin Faraj — Mullah Krekar (AKA: Abu Sayyid Qutb)
    9. Khaled Meshal
    10. Sheikh Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah
    11. Ismail Haniya
    12. Mohammed Abbas
    13. Yusuf al-Qaradawi
    14. Tariq Ramadan
    15. Sheikh Taj al-Din al-Hilali
    16. imam Omar Bakri Muhammed Fustuq
    17. imam Abdel-Samie Mahmoud Ibrahim Moussa
    18. imam Sheikh SyeSyed Mubarik Ali Gilani
    19. Sheikh Abdullah al-Faisal
    20. Sheik Muhammad Sayyid Tantawi
    21. Dr. Mahmoud al-Zahar
    22. Prince Sultan Ibn Abd al-Aziz
    23. Prince Bandar bin Sultan bin Abdulaziz
    24. Prince Nayef bin Abdulaziz
    25. Muhammad Taqi Usmani
    26. Yasin al Qadi (Saudi terrorist financier)
    27. Sheikh Abdullah bin Jibreen — top Wahabbi cleric
    28. Sheikh Saleh Al-Fawzan — top Wahabbi cleric
    29. Sheikh Nasser Al-Omar — top Wahabbi cleric
    30. Sheikh Essa
    31. Abu Waleed Ansari
    32. Abu Yahya al-Libbi
    33. Maulana Ilyas Kashmiri
    34. Sheikh Abu Yahya al-Libi (al Qaeda CEO)
    35. Sheikh Abdel-Aziz Al al-Sheikh — Saudi Grand Mufti
    36. Ramadan Shalah — Islamic Jihad leader
    37. Ali Abdullah Saleh – Yemini President
    38. Sheikh Ibrahim Al-Ghaith — head SA’s Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice.
    39. Imad Mugniyah — Iranian master terrorist – Killed 2/13/2008
    Substitute: Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu — OIC Secretary General
    40. Ahmed Abu Laban — DEAD unfortunately of natural causes— 119/2007
    Substitute: Nour al Maliki or Hamid Karzai

    Special Bonus Candidates:

    41. Chabid Benmakhlouf, Marocko/Sweden – new chief of the Muslim Brotherhood in Europe; chairman of FIOE (Federation of Islamic Organizations in Europe).
    42. Doudou Diene, Senegal – former UN Special Rapporteur on Racism

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