A Liberal Democrat MP has said the courts should refuse an extradition request from Germany for an Australian schoolteacher accused of being a Holocaust denier.
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Regurgitated raisins: Spiegel interviews a German academic on the controversy surrounding a Muslim scholar whose academic work has put him at odds with mainstream Muslim organisations in Germany.
The Muslim in question, Muhammad Kalisch, is said to support the work of another German academic who has suggested “that the Koran is a Christian text and that Muhammad probably never lived”.
On the face of it, it looks to me like a case of regurgitated raisins.
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Odious racist pricks gather in Germany.
Update: Left-wing demonstrations prevent the conference from going ahead.
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Germany’s main Muslim organisations have cut their links to Germany’s only professor of Islam, saying he has had published articles which contradicted “fundamentals of Islamic teaching”.
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The killers of two men in eastern Germany are thought to be neo-Nazis with previous convictions for similar attacks, “and yet there has been no public outcry about the two cases”.
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Human rights news just coming from Afghanistan: An Afghan police chief has “accused German soldiers of killing two children and a woman in Kunduz after opening fire on a civilian car that didn’t slow down at a checkpoint”.
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Cologne’s city council has “voted in favor of building Germany’s largest mosque”. The mosque had been opposed, primarily, by far-right groups.
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Following Razib’s example of how the law in secular states inevitably support one ‘interpretation’ of religion as ‘essential’ to that identity, compared to other interpretations, here is a brief description of a German court ruling from the mid-90s:
Brandeis University’s Jytte Klausen, in her book “The Islamic Challenge,” provided the perfect example of this quandary. A German court ruled in 1995 that while Jews could be exempted from the strict laws governing animal slaughter, Muslims could not.
The rules governing Kosher slaughter and Muslim customs are similar. The Jewish authorities, when consulted by the court, were adamant that their religion absolutely required ritual slaughter. When it came to the Muslims, however, the court consulted Islamic authorities in Cairo, who told them that, in an emergency, Muslims could do without ritual slaughter.
Muslims in Germany were furious. “We are not lost in the desert, there is no emergency here,” a German Muslim told me as he gestured at the well-stocked Berlin cafĂ in which we were sitting. “If Jews can be allowed their religious customs, why not us?”
