Digitale Lecture in the Summer Semester 2025¹

15. May 2025 / 7:00 - 8:30 p.m. / digital

Islamism is currently one of the greatest challenges to democracy. Not because Islamist groups necessarily threaten with violence, but because the goal of Islamist movements is always the establishment of a state governed by Islamic law. Young people are specifically recruited; many end up in radicalism. Islamist movements exploit democratic freedoms with the aim of ultimately abolishing this democracy and its freedoms. Women's rights and the rights of dissenters only exist within the framework of Sharia law in such a state. This makes Islamism a politically extremist ideology.

While terrorist attacks by jihadist movements are often covered in the media, the more dangerous Islamism as a political extremism receives far less attention. The lecture series "Dimensions of Islamism in Society and State" aims to explore over five evenings the ways in which Islamist forces are effective in state and society and what counter-strategies and solutions might look like.

The series is organized in cooperation with the Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom, the Konrad Adenauer Foundation, the Institute for Oriental and Asian Studies at the University of Bonn, and the Society for Security Policy e.V. - Bonn Section.

Registration is available through the Friedrich Naumann Foundation at https://shorturl.at/ONbMI²

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