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Islam of the 21st century: to overcome misunderstandings

© Association Islam in the 21st Century

By: Geneviève Delrue

1 min

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World religions - Sunday, March 13, 2022 - 10:10 a.m. to 11 a.m. (Paris time)

On February 16 and 17, 2022, Unesco hosted the second Paris Conference of the association

on the theme

For two days, about thirty speakers, Islamologists, philosophers, historians, sociologists, anthropologists from both shores of the Mediterranean, promoters of a progressive and open Islam, crossed their work with actors in the field.

How to articulate faith, identity, religion and culture so as not to fall into the trap of confinement and separatism?

How to get out of Islamo-centrism which exalts the primacy of Islam as the last revealed religion?

Why can Islam be a way of “re-qualification” for young people with low self-esteem?  

How to value, in Western societies, the quality of social and family ties inherited from Arab-Muslim culture?

These are the themes selected from the numerous communications.   

Common thread of this program,

,

in Paris, co-founder of

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Eva Janadin is the general delegate of the association “Islam in the 21st century”.

Speakers 

: Syrian-born philosopher

 Tunisian essayist

 ; 

Doctor of Educational Sciences; 

, Turkish-born German imam and human rights lawyer.

In 2017, she founded the liberal Ibn Rush-Goethe mosque in Berlin, open to the LGBT community, and launched the “Love is halal” campaign in 2021.

She lives under police escort.

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