Thematic Focal Point I: “Promoting Institutionalized Cooperation and Integration-related Project Work”
- With our first thematic focal point, I am thinking about developing a model concept for educating imams about our country and society. This model concept could then also be employed more broadly with the help of the members of the Islam Conference.
- As far as Islamic religious instruction is concerned, I accord great importance to cooperation between the federal states [Länder] on existing pilot projects. Of interest is also whether a nation-wide model can be developed, and whether the Islam Conference can contribute to this.
- The same applies to the recommendations of the Council of Sciences and Humanities on setting up programs in Islamic theology at universities.
Thematic Focal Point II: “Promoting Gender Equality”
- It is important to me to further encourage and promote the social participation of Muslim women.
- We should take a closer look at gender roles as they are lived and passed down – not only in the Muslim milieu. I am thinking about implementing a study that would examine men’s and women’s respective rights and scope for action, taking into account the role of religion as compared to other influences and factors specific to the milieu.
- It already seems important to bring the topic of forced marriage into the public debate. In classrooms, mosques, and at kitchen tables, it must be made clear that forced marriages are unacceptable.
- Let me add: as you surely know, I am also the “Sports Minister,” and therefore I know that there is already a wide range of sports activities geared specifically toward Muslim women. The German Islam Conference can help spread information about these activities even more broadly.
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