Paper chase to Mecca

Paper chase to Mecca

Upon entering the stage two requisites catches my eye: a dormat that read: “Please take off your shoes” and a camel run by a battery, tied to a palm tree and lapping around it. Whereas the first item could also mark the entrance of a Swabian flat, the combination of both makes clear that this is about a theatrical excursion

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„The atomic bomb is supposingly safer in Iranian than in Pakistani hands“

„The atomic bomb is supposingly safer in Iranian than in Pakistani hands“

The 16th Herrenhäuser Gespräche, initiated by the VolkswagenStiftung and the radio station NDR Kultur, picked out ‚Islam today – a religion in transition‘ as a central theme. The small-sized studio of the NDR broadcasting centre located at the Rudolf-von-Benningsen-Ufer is packed. Presumably, a factor not only due to the Finger-Food-Buffet in connection with the discussion. It becomes obvious real soon

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The three religions are from the same factory!s

Sunday evening. My inner voice reels between the beautiful spring weather outside and the lecture given inside on a vastly discussed topic. The mere drive (by bicycle) would have been worth the effort. So far, I considered my current city as boring if not narrow-minded. Suddenly I discovered „Little Neukölln“ just some metres off the city centre. At the venue

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Al-dschihad al-akbar ua al-dschihad al-asghar

Have you heard about the “big” and “small” jihad by now? In German language the surch for both terms generate 133.000 hits. Since last tuesday (14.09) or at least after part two on wednesday every TV-watching German knows the difference between the big and the small effort. The two-parts documentation “Whereto does the Islam drift”, Part 1 and Part 2,

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Look behind the scenes

Even though the former Middle East Messenger nominally commited oneself to the regions of Middle and Near East, a look at the wider picture – literally to the second biggest Islamic country, India, – should be justified. The history of Islam in India is both, changeful and woebegone. The separation of Pakistan from India in 1947, for example, was gory,

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Are there any female careers in Arabic countries? Yes!

The often-quoted picture of oppressed women in Arabic countries that leave their houses only fully covered, black gloves on their hands ist much used in Western press. At the same time it does not take much to find out that career women also exist in the Arabic world. An article of the online-service „Qantara“ gave me an idea. The report

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Daimler’s swabian pockets

It is generally known that Swabians can do everthing but standard German. So why shouldn’t there be a solution for the Islamic ban on interest in the land of inventors where a national sanctuary, the “Holy iron sheet”, as Daimler is called in common parlance, is flaggering. No sooner said than done. At the latest since october 7th we know

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The judge and the fanatic

There is no sympathy for terrorists. There is no pity or understanding either. We agree on that. We, that’s the tenor of the report “In the camp of the prissy terrorists”, published in the magazine GEO, vol. 5/2009 and the author of this article. Anthony Horrowitz, the author of the GEO article describs an unusual prison in his story and

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