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Commission for Religious Thoughts regarding the Unification of the Freedom of the German and the Austrian Evangelical State and Religion is an Ideal projected back Alliance www.ead.de/akref onto Islamic History Culture and Science Publ. www.vkwonline.com
Lecture Series at Biberach University of Applied Giving Hands – International Charity Sciences www.gebende-haende.de (Bonn, 02.07.2016) The Islamic scholar Christine Schirrmacher has given a lecture as part of the 2016 Lecture Series entitled “The Open Society” at Biberach University of Help Worldwide – International Charity Applied Sciences in Biberach an der Riß on the question of “Islam and Democracy – a www.hilfe-weltweit.de Contradiction in Terms?“ Institute for Prolife and Family The professor holds that when reading Studies the source texts of Islamic theology one www.bucer.de/ilfw finds that it neither advocates nor rejects International Institute for democracy. To quote her, “The text of the Islamic Studies of the World Koran provides no explicit information Evangelical Alliance with respect to the question of which form www.islaminstitute.net of rule is viewed as the ideal in Islam. International Institute for Several movements concluded, however, Religious Freedom of the in light of Mohammad’s unquestioned World Evangelical Alliance paradigm as a military leader,” that ideal www.iirf.eu Islamic rule should at the same time be Martin Bucer Seminary spiritual and worldly.” Indeed, the thought www.bucer.org of unifying the state and religion seems to primarily have to do with an ideal Pro Mundis e. V. projected back onto Islamic history since www.thomasschirrmacher.net
actually very little can be known about the Theological Commission of early days of Islam. In reality, since at the “Hope for Europe” (European latest following the period of governance Evangelical Alliance) of the four Caliphs succeeding www.hfe.org
Mohammad from 632-661 A.D., the Theological Commission of Islamic community has had to grapple the World Evangelical Screenshot of the Invitation with the fact that there has never again Alliance been a single ruler over all Muslims and www.worldevangelicals.org/tc/ there has never again been a unification of worldly and spiritual power. Instead, what has existed in reality has been a wide array of rival families, dynasties, regions, and theological groups wrestling with each other for power, combating each other and bitterly contesting their claim to rule and their superiority as far as the interpretation of
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Islam is concerned. There is no doubt that such theologically justified claims to power A joint platform for the stand opposed to a democratically legitimate form of rule. following Bonn organi- zations on the basis of the Schirrmacher noted her point of view that “Islam,” as a private exercise of religion or Evangelical Alliance: an ethical structure of values, hardly opposes democracy. That would supposedly not apply, however, were the Islamic system of law also possesses validity and Commission for Religious determines laws, values, and norms. Wherever Sharia law shapes laws, the ordering Freedom of the German and the Austrian Evangelical of society, and the administration of justice, there cannot be comprehensive civil Alliance liberties in the sense of the United Nations’ 1948 Universal Declaration of Human www.ead.de/akref Rights. This is due to the fact that in the classical understanding of Sharia law, neither Culture and Science Publ. men and women, nor Muslims and non-Muslims, nor those who change their religion www.vkwonline.com and atheists can be granted equal rights. Giving Hands – The focus of Biberach University of Applied Sciences, which was founded in 1964, is International Charity in the areas of architecture, construction engineering, business administration, www.gebende-haende.de biotechnology, and energy engineering. It currently has about 2400 students. Help Worldwide – International Charity www.hilfe-weltweit.de Downloads and Links: Institute for Prolife and Family Invitation: http://www.hochschule-biberach.de/web/guest/home/- Studies /asset_publisher/ZqSXl7xb3Sdn/content/artikel_ringvorlesung-offene- www.bucer.de/ilfw gesellschaft_prof-dr-christine-schirrmacher/72808/maximized? International Institute for http://www.hochschule-biberach.de Islamic Studies of the World Evangelical Alliance https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hochschule_Biberach www.islaminstitute.net
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