In our second part, Ahmet Kuru is talking about current challenges and dangers inflicted by the influence of religion and Islamism in statehoods, not only in relation to the MENA region, but also in Europe and America.

In this episode, we are talking about the protests against the new law proposal against Quran burnings, the cut for German integration courses, a German journalist, who no longer wants to say anything related to Islam and the sentence against the mastermind of the Brussels terror attacks.

Heute geht es um Proteste gegen den dänischen Gesetzentwurf zum Verbot von Koran-Verbrennungen, den finanziellen Einschnitt von Integrationskursen in Deutschland, einem Journalisten, der sich nicht mehr zum Islam äußern will sowie um das Strafmaß gegen den Strippenzieher der islamistischen Terrornacht in Brüssel.

In our first part of the tea time talk with the Turkish-American scholar Ahmet Kuru, we are discussing the historical roots of Islamization in the statehood of many countries in the MENA region.

Ahmet T. Kuru is the director of the Center for Islamic and Arabic Studies at San Diego State University. He was a postdoctoral scholar at Columbia University. Kuru is the author of Secularism and State Policies toward Religion: The United States, France, and Turkey, co-editor of Democracy, Islam, and Secularism in Turkey. His recent book, Islam, Authoritarianism, and Underdevelopment: A Global and Historical Comparison co-won the American Political Science Association's International History and Politics Section Award and was included in Times Literary Supplement's Books of the Year.

Today, we cover a new law in Denmark on Quran burning, the discrimination of male migrants in Belgium, the legal fight of a Belgian terrorist fighting his extradition and the ruling of the highest court in France regarding the abaya ban in French schools.

In unserer ersten Folge nach der Sommerpause schauen wir auf ein neues Gesetz zur Vermeidung von Koran-Verbrennungen in Dänemark, die Diskriminierung von männlichen Migranten in Belgien und die dortige Klage eines verurteilten Terroristen gegen seine Auslieferung sowie das Abaya-Verbot in Frankreich.

Heute berichtet MENA Research Center über die EU-Reduzierung von Hilfen an Syrien, den Rücktritt des Untersuchungsrichters im "Katargate"-Fall, eine neue Koran-Verbrennung in Schweden und das richterliche Ausweisung von Asylsuchenden in Großbritannien nach Ruanda.

Today's first summer edition covers the EU decision to cut funds for Syria, the resignation of the "Qatargate" judge in Brussels, new Quran burnings in Sweden and a UK court decision forbidding deportations of asylum seekers to Rwanda.

Today, we cover the debate on a new mosque in the German city of Wuppertal, the fight of Turkish associations against a memorial for the Armenian genocide in Turkey and two news on the "Qatargate" scandal involving the European Parliament.

Heute geht es um den Streit um eine neue Moschee der Ditib im deutschen Wuppertal, den Widerstand türkischer Verbände gegen ein Mahnmal zur Erinnerung an den armenischen Genozid in der Türkei und um zwei EU-News zum Skandal rund um "Katargate".