Islams and Muslim !

Islam and Muslims in Germany

Edited by Ala Al-Hamarneh and Jörn Thielmann

In the European discourse of post 9/11 reality, concepts such as “Multiculturalism”, “Integration” and “European Islam” are becoming more and more topical. The empirically- based contributions in this volume aim to reflect the variety of current Muslim social practices and life-worlds in Germany. The volume goes beyond the fragmented methods of minority case studies and the monolithic view of Muslims as portrayed by mass media to present fresh theoretical approaches and in-depth analyses of a rich mosaic of communities, cultures and social practices. Issues of politics, religion, society, economics, media, art, literature, law and gender are addressed. The result is a vibrant state-of-the-art publication of studies of real-life communities and individuals.

 

Basliyor !

 

global!

Mapping the Global Muslim Population

A Report on the Size and Distribution of the World’s Muslim Population

A comprehensive demographic study of more than 200 countries finds that there are 1.57 billion Muslims of all ages living in the world today, representing 23% of an estimated 2009 world population of 6.8 billion.

While Muslims are found on all five inhabited continents, more than 60% of the global Muslim population is in Asia and about 20% is in the Middle East and North Africa. However, the Middle East-North Africa region has the highest percentage of Muslim-majority countries. Indeed, more than half of the 20 countries and territories¹ in that region have populations that are approximately 95% Muslim or greater.

More than 300 million Muslims, or one-fifth of the world’s Muslim population, live in countries where Islam is not the majority religion. These minority Muslim populations are often quite large. India, for example, has the third-largest population of Muslims worldwide. China has more Muslims than Syria, while Russia is home to more Muslims than Jordan and Libya combined.

Of the total Muslim population, 10-13% are Shia Muslims and 87-90% are Sunni Muslims. Most Shias (between 68% and 80%) live in just four countries: Iran, Pakistan, India and Iraq.

These are some of the key findings of Mapping the Global Muslim Population: A Report on the Size and Distribution of the World’s Muslim Population, a new study by the Pew Research Center’s Forum on Religion & Public Life. The report offers the most up-to-date and fully sourced estimates of the size and distribution of the worldwide Muslim population, including sectarian identity.

 

ve soframızdaki yeri…öküzümüzden sonra gelen

Le World Trade Center Strasbourg accueille l’association des femmes d’affaires turques TIKAD

14 octobre 2009

 

hellénique

Semaine culturelle grecque

Université de Strasbourg

Le Département d’études néo-helléniques de l’Université de Strasbourg avec l’Institut d’archéologie classique de l’Université, l’Association Alsace-Crète, le Cercle d’Amitié franco-hellénique, la Communauté hellénique d’Alsace et environs et le soutien de nombreux partenaires dont le Service universitaire de l’action culturelle présente :

Exposition : Photographies d’Athènes au XIX^e siècle
- fonds de l’Institut d’Archéologie classique de l’Université de Strasbourg -
du mardi 20 au samedi 24 octobre / de 10h à 19h / MISHA : Maison Interuniversitaire des Sciences de l’Homme – Alsace

Documentaire : Les oiseaux dans le marais (A. Dimitriou, 2008)
- témoignages de résistantes grecques -
mardi  20 octobre / 19h / Palais Universitaire, salle 118

Cinéma : El Greco (Y. Smaragdis, 2007)
mercredi 21 octobre / 20h / Cinéma l’Odyssée

Conférence : Dominikos Théotokopoulos dit El Greco (1541-1614) : De Candie à Tolède
- A. Roy, professeur à l’Université de Strasbourg -
jeudi 22 octobre / 20h / Palais Universitaire, salle 112

Concert : Musiques et chants grecs par la Chorale des étudiants de l’Université de Thessalonique
- direction C. Stamoulis -
vendredi 23 octobre / 20h / Église réformée Saint-Paul

Concert : Chorale byzantine de Saint Jean Chrysostome de l’Université de Thessalonique
dimanche 25 octobre / de 10h à 12h / Église réformée Saint-Paul / messe panorthodoxe

Du 19 au 25 octobre à Strasbourg
Entrées libres dans la limite des places disponibles

 

Aux doctorants, avant de commencer

 

conférence

L’immigration turque dans la France d’aujourd’hui

L’immigration turque en France : permanence et mutations récentes, le mouvement associatif, l’identité des jeunes turcs, l’islam transplanté et la vie de quartier.

Animée par Marie Poinsot avec Stéphane de Tapia (CNRS – Université Marc Bloch), Gaye Petek (Elele), Maïtena Armagnague (université de Bordeaux, Gülsen Yildirim (faculté de Droit et de Sciences économiques de Limoges), Samim Akgönül (université de Strasbourg), Bernard Dinh (Migrinter)

Projection de Ata, fiction-documentaire de Çağla Zencirci et Guillaume Giovanetti, prix de qualité du CNC 2009 (2007, 26 min)

Informations pratiques
24 octobre à 15h
Auditorium / gratuit sur réservation

 

Ancres !

 

Agora

 

Cycle Géopolitique ou Sciences
Tous les Jeudis, d’octobre à mai, de 14h30 à 16h
Espace Landowski

LA TURQUIE ACTUELLE

La Turquie est l’invitée de la France jusqu’en mars 2010. Une programmation au niveau national va mettre en lumière les visages traditionnels et contemporains de la Turquie.
Le F.U de l’Ouest parisien s’y associe en lui consacrant 15 conférences dans le cadre de deux cycles : l’un sur la richesse et la diversité de ses racines, le second sur la Turquie actuelle.
Dans ce cycle, guidé par d’éminents spécialistes, le F.U.O.P. s’intéressera, loin des clichés et des a priori, à son évolution actuelle, à l’extraordinaire vitalité de sa jeunesse et à sa position géographique qui lui confère un rôle particulier dans la géopolitique internationale.

- Liens à consulter :
http://www.saisondelaturquie.fr/geopolitique-la-realite-de-la.html http://www.saisondelaturquie.fr/autour-des-grandes-expositions-la.html

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Le 03 décembre 2009
De l’empire Ottoman à la République d’Ataturk
Thierry ZARCONE, directeur de recherches au CNRS-EHESS

Le 10 décembre 2009
La Turquie et l’Islam : pluralisme et réformisme
Thierry ZARCONE

Le 17 décembre 2009
La Turquie, la Russie et le Sud Caucase
Charles URJEWICZ, professeur INALCO, directeur du Centre de recherches russes et euro-asiatiques

Le 07 janvier 2010
L’économie turque, force et faiblesses
Dorothée SCHMID, responsable du programme Turquie contemporaine à l’IFRI

Le 14 janvier 2010
La question Kurde
Hamid BORZARSLAN, directeur d’études à l’EHESS

Le 21 janvier 2010
La Turquie, l’Europe et l’Union pour la Méditerranée
Dorothée SCHMID

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Au-dela des conférences

• Thierry ZARCONE
« De l’empire ottoman à la République d’Ataturk » Découvertes Gallimard 2005 ; « Musulmans et soufis du Tibet » Arche Milan 2005 ; « La Turquie moderne et l’Islam » Flammarion 2004

• Charles URJEWICZ
« Religion et politique dans le Caucase post-soviétique » Maisonneuve et Larose 2007

• Dorothée SCHMID
« Cinéma et monde musulman : cultures et interdits » L’Harmattan 2009

 

Commissioner

Strasbourg, 1 October 2009

REPORT by Thomas Hammarberg Commissioner for Human Rights of the Council of Europe

Following his visit to Turkey on 28 June – 3 July 2009

Issue reviewed: Human rights of minorities

 

. Overview of minorities in Turkey in relation to European and international instruments: Whilst the Commissioner appreciated the positive signs of good will shown by the Turkish authorities for resolving a number of issues concerning human rights of minority groups, he remains concerned by the authorities’ refusal to recognize the existence of any other minorities except for the tripartite non-Muslim one (Armenians, Greeks and Jews), following an over-restrictive interpretation of the 1923 Lausanne Peace Treaty. The Commissioner recommends that the authorities create an effective framework of consultations that would ensure a real dialogue with all minority groups in the country and pursue reforms with a view to fully aligning law and practice with the Council of Europe human rights standards concerning minorities. The Commissioner recommends in particular the prompt establishment of an effective national human rights institution, the creation and implementation of a comprehensive anti-discrimination legislation and the ratification of Protocol N° 12 to the European Convention on Human Rights. Accession to the Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities and of the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages is also highly recommended.

2. Minority languages and the right to freedom of expression: Despite certain efforts made in this area, the Commissioner remains very concerned at a number of persisting restrictions imposed upon education of minority members, including teaching and learning of their mother tongues. The Commissioner recommends the adoption of measures in order to enhance minority group members’ education and teaching and learning of their mother tongues, a precondition of enjoyment by them of their freedom of expression. The Commissioner is concerned about the high number of the freedom of expression-related judgments against Turkey that have been delivered by the European Court of Human Rights and whose execution is supervised by the Committee of Ministers. He calls upon the authorities to take further measures in order to effectively incorporate the European Court of Human Rights’ case law into domestic law and practice. This should include revision of certain provisions of the Criminal Code and of the anti-terrorism law mentioned in the Report, and of their application by prosecutors and courts. It is stressed that hate crimes in general, particularly those committed against persons who have exercised their right to freedom of expression, should be effectively investigated and those responsible should be promptly identified and punished, in line with the established case law of the European Court of Human Rights.

3. Minorities and the right to freedom of association: Recalling the particular importance of the freedom of association, which includes the creation and operation of political parties, for persons belonging to minorities, the Commissioner notes his serious concern about the current Turkish law and practice, especially about the proceedings that were initiated in the near past against two of the major political parties with a view to their dissolution. The Commissioner commends the determination shown by the Minister of Justice to carry on efforts to fully embed the Council of Europe human rights standards in national law and practice. He urges the authorities to follow up on and implement promptly the pertinent recommendations made notably by the Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly and by the Venice Commission.

4. Minorities, freedom of religion and property rights: The Commissioner commends the readiness to dialogue with minority religious communities that the authorities demonstrated during his visit. He remains nonetheless concerned about the uneasiness and insecurity that seems to surround still religious minority groups. The Commissioner urges the authorities in particular to develop awareness-raising activities in order to alert the general public of the benefits of a multicultural society and to create an efficient, specialised body to combat, inter alia, racial and religious discrimination. Periodic, open and substantive consultations between the authorities and religious minority groups should be established, thus ensuring dialogue and solutions to major issues affecting religious minorities’ human rights, such as the one concerning the recognition of the legal personality of religious minority institutions and communities established in the country. The Commissioner notes with interest the latest legislative measures concerning the protection of property rights of non-Muslim minority foundations. A number of shortcomings however are identified in the present Report, which call for the authorities’ attention and necessitate further action in order to fully incorporate the case law of the European Court of Human Rights in the relevant legislation and practice.

5. Forced displacement in and from eastern and southeast Turkey: The Commissioner remains very concerned about the persistent humanitarian and human rights situation of internally displaced persons (IDPs) in and from the eastern and southeast Turkey, the majority of them being of Kurdish origin. The Commissioner recommends the prompt adoption of further measures that would accelerate and make more effective the reparation of the IDP victims, including the facilitation of exercise by IDPs of their right to voluntary return, voluntary resettlement or local integration. Whilst noting with satisfaction the Ministry of Interior’s willingness to resolve the persistent, IDP-related problems, including the positive efforts made in the context of the IDP action plan in the Van province, the Commissioner stresses the need for the authorities to promote a comprehensive, national strategy that would include improvement of living and education-related conditions in IDP-source areas. The Commissioner also urges the authorities to examine the possibility of abolishing the system of village guards and to proceed immediately to the completion of clearance of the mined areas, especially those from or near which IDPs originate.

6. Certain issues concerning human rights of Roma: The Commissioner notes with concern the social marginalization of Roma in Turkey, their serious difficulties in enjoying effectively certain social and civil rights, such as those concerning adequate housing, employment, health care and social assistance, and violence by police and non-state actors. The Commissioner recommends that Turkey adopt and implement promptly a coherent, comprehensive and adequately resourced national and regional strategy with short- and long-term action plans for implementing policies that address legal and/or social discrimination against Roma, in accordance with the Council of Europe standards. The Commissioner remains very concerned about the dislocation of Roma people, including families and children, in various parts of Turkey, in particular in the context of urban renovation projects. Of special concern have been the house demolitions, evictions and dislocation of Roma from the historic area of Sulukule, Istanbul. The Commissioner urges national and local authorities to take immediately measures in order to effectively respect and protect cultural heritage, to review urban renovation legislation and practice and to ratify promptly the 2005 Council of Europe Framework Convention on the Value of Cultural Heritage for Society.