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Bonner Querschnitte Bonn Profiles – Press Reports Bonner Querschnitte Bonn Profiles – Press Reports Phone: +49 / 4106 / 804806; Fax: +49 / 4106 / 804807 E-Mail: [email protected]; http://www.bucer.org/bq.html Released for free complete or partial reproduction A joint platform for the following Bonn organi- BQ 422 – No. 27/2016 zations on the basis of the Evangelical Alliance: 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 Bonner Querschnitte Bonn Profiles – Press Reports Text & Technology: Titus Vogt (ViSdP) Vorderer Kamp 52a, D-25479 Ellerau Phone: +49 / 4106 / 80 48 06 Fax: +49 / 4106 / 80 48 07 E-Mail: [email protected] page 1/2 Bonner Querschnitte Bonn Profiles – Press Reports 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. 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