Cologne has become synonymous with culture shock. The whole world asks itself: What really happened that New Year’s Eve?
Alice Schwarzer has investigated the ten hours in which the main station was a legal vacuum in the minutest detail. She analyzes how it could come to this and draws parallels between the main station in Cologne, the Tahrir square in Cairo and Khomeini’s Iran. She criticizes the false tolerance towards politicized Islam. Alexandra Eul researches the consequences for the women. Two Algerians also speak of a “Tahrir square in Cologne”: the writer Kamel Daoud and the sociologist Marieme Hélie-Lucas. Necla Kelek demands a reform of Islamic family law. Islamic studies scholar Rita Breuer analyzes the fatal role of the Central Council of Muslims regarding the spread of Sharia Islam. And Bassam Tibi explains the true background of the conflict in Syria: why bombs are useless.
