Preface

• author: Scharbrodt, Oliver
• publishing date: 2019-11-01
• type: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding
• publication status: published
• subject: Religious Studies
• host publication: Yearbook of Muslims in Europe
• series title: Yearbook of Muslims in Europe
• volume: 11
• external identifiers: scopus:85171800714
• ISSN: 1877-1432
• ISBN: 978-90-04-41961-2
• language: English
• LU publication?: no
• additional info: Funding Information: As far counter radicalisation policies are concerned, the Scuole nazionali di polizia penitenziaria (National Schools for Penitentiary Officers) implemented training courses on Muslim culture and traditions. Both Muslim and non-Muslim professors, scholars, practitioners, religious leaders, and intercultural facilitators have taught classes to penitentiary offices, social workers, prison directors, and other personnel throughout the year.32 In particular, in 2018, the projects named TRIVALENT (Terrorism Prevention Via Radicalisation Counter-narrative), PROTON (Modelling the Process Leading to Organised Crime and Terrorist Network), DERAD (funded by the Ministry of Justice), TRAINING AID (funded by the Ministry of Justice), J-SAFE (funded by Ministry of Justice), and MINDB4ACT (funded by the Ministry of Research and the EU funding scheme Horizon 2020) have started. Funding Information: The Qatar Charity Foundation has provided €25 million to build U.CO.I.I. affiliated mosques and Islamic centres in the last three years. They have funded 43 mosques, including those in Ravenna, Catania, Piacenza, Colle Val d’Elsa, Vicenza, Saronno, and Mirandola.12 This financial support has been endorsed by the Ministry of the Interior as part of article 10 of the National Pact for an Italian Islam (Patto nazionale per un islam italiano).13 The Secretary General of the World Muslim League, Mohamed Al-Issa, has also declared that his association is ready to fund more mosques in Italy.14 As for European connections, the Associazione islamica italiana degli imam e delle guide religiose (Islamic Association of Imams and Religious Guides) in Italy is linked to the European Council for Fatwa and Research, and also to the Federation of Islamic Organisations in Europe. Both organisations are close to Funding Information: 1 Esztella Csiszár is a PhD candidate in International Relations at Corvinus University of Budapest, Hungary. Her research interests include contemporary social and politi-cal discourses on Islam. Her dissertation focuses on the future of Muslims in Bosnia and Herzegovina. This report was funded by a scholarship from the Bosnian Centre of Advanced Studies (CNS). Funding Information: – Isma Muhammad Asad Private Comprehensive School (Isma Private Gesamtschule Muhammad Asad, Reschgasse 20–22, 1120 Vienna)108 offers comprehensive education for six-to-14-year-old students. It has been run since 2012 by the Isma Association, a self-governing body financed by a religious foundation. It was founded by the International Organisation for Science and Education (IOSE)109 and has its own curriculum with a comparatively strong focus on Islamic principles. Funding Information: Giovani Musulmani d’Italia (Young Muslims of Italy–GMI) is funded and supported by the U.CO.I.I. It is a no-profit association, founded in 2001 by a group of young Muslims, mostly children of immigrants. Its aim is, among others things, to promote integration and commitment to Italian society by young Italian Muslims.41 Most members are Italian citizens, born to families of an immigrant background, mainly from North Africa and the Middle East. They communicate most effectively through their Facebook page, Twitter and Instagram accounts.42 The association is very active and organises summer camps, meetings with young Catholics and young followers of other religions, both at the local and national levels.43 They have worked with other Muslim and some non-Muslim associations to organise one-off activities, as well as creating longer collaborations with organisations such as AVIS, ACLI, Emergency, ARCI, Islamic Relief, Comunità di Sant’Egidio, and others.44 Their 17th annual meeting took place in Lignano Sabbiadoro between 23–26 December. During this three-day long gathering, besides institutional Funding Information: headquarters of the Fundația de susținere a Culturii și Tradițiilor Islamice în Republica Moldova (Foundation for the Support of Islamic Culture and Traditions in Moldova), an impressive building constructed with financial support from the Turkish government, and opened in 2015. Funding Information: and the Gulf region, COREIS is involved in halal market networks through its halal agency, Halal Italia.20 Three of the main Moroccan organisations in Italy maintain links to Morocco. The Istituto culturale islamico d’Italia (Islamic Cultural Institute of Italy), the only Islamic organisation that has been legally recognised by the Italian state,21 is led by Abdallah Redouane,22 who was directly nominated by Morocco. The Confederazione islamica italiana (Italian Islamic Confederation– CII), a network of Moroccan mosques, is funded by Morocco and is supported by the Moroccan embassy in Italy. The majority Moroccan Italian Islamic Confederation has relationships with other European Muslim confederations of Moroccans. Members of the Partecipazione e spiritualità musulmana (Muslim Participation and Spirituality–PSM) are linked with the Moroccan Al-Adl wal-Ihsan movement. Funding Information: announced that religion courses would continue to be compulsory for fourth and fifth year students, but would only be an elective course from the sixth to eighth year. In addition, the Ministry announced that the teachers assigned to the course would be chosen among those who had graduated from a university in North Cyprus.5 While this decision was supported by teachers’ unions, NGOs, and Alevi associations, the Islamist-rooted associations and various right-wing political parties in Cyprus reacted against it.6 The strongest reaction came from the AKP government. As a result of this decision, combined with the tensions mentioned above, the Turkish embassy reduced the financial support it provided for the budget of the Ministry of Education. Following this, the Ministry had to find funds from other sources to meet many needs, including having school notebooks printed.7 Despite the embassy’s attitude, the Ministry did not change its stance, and the practice of offering religion as an elective course from the sixth to eighth year continued. Funding Information: The situation is different in Turkish mosques funded and supported by the Belgian-based branch of the Turkish Presidency of Religious Affairs (Belçika Diyanet Vakfi). Turkish officials are present at mosque openings and, when Funding Information: Print: – Islamische Zeitung. Monthly journal, founded by Andreas Abu Bakr Rieger, www.islamische -zeitung.de – Al-Fadschr–Die Morgendämmerung. Quarterly journal, published by Islamische Akademie Deut-schland e.V. (IAD), www.al-fadschr.com Online: – The qantara.de project promotes dialogue with the Islamic world, and is funded by the German Foreign Office, www.qantara.de – The website ufuq.de promotes civic education and prevention, www.ufuq.de.
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