Salafists and jihadists: Goethe Lecture on 25.4.2016
On April 25, 2016, Prof. Dr. Susanne Schröter, Professor of Ethnology of Colonial and Postcolonial Orders from the Cluster of Excellence "Normative Orders" at Goethe University Frankfurt, spoke on the topic: Salafists and Jihadists - the 'young savages' of UMMA.
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Salafism and jihadism are varieties of a globally operating, religiously based extremism that has also found many followers in Germany in recent years. Although the Salafist ideology is often shared by older people, it mainly takes the form of a youth movement with its own music, language, clothing and symbolism. In provocative statements, young Salafists present themselves as rebels against the non-Muslim majority society and against traditional or progressive Muslims, whom they accuse of having distanced themselves from the fundamentals of Islam. They reject democracy, the rule of law and gender equality and strive for a totalitarian order, which they hope will solve social and political problems and bring about more justice.
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Susanne Schröter is Professor of Anthropology of Colonial and Postcolonial Orders, Director of the Institute of Anthropology, Director of the Cornelia Goethe Center for Gender Studies and Board Member of the German Orient Institute.
In 2014, she founded the Frankfurt Research Center Global Islam (FFGI) at the Cluster of Excellence "The Formation of Normative Orders", of which she is also the director. Her most recent publications include the study "Closer to God than your own jugular vein" on devout Muslims in Germany, for which she spoke to 130 Muslims in Wiesbaden between 2011 and 2015, as well as to those responsible in politics, schools, youth work, churches, the police and administration.