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Salam-Online: Preventive Measures against extreme online messages among Muslims in Germany. Insights into a pilot project at the Center for Islamic Theology, Münster

  • Marcel Klapp

    Marcel Klapp is associate at the Research Center for Online Discourses, Islam and Narratives located at the Center for Islamic Theology at the University of Münster, Germany. He is currently working on a three-year research project on counter-narratives against Islamism funded by the Ministry for Culture and Science of the Federal State of Northrhine-Westfalia. Marcel is currently conducting ethnographic fieldwork on Islam discourses and Muslim youths for his doctoral studies in Social Anthropology at the University of Cologne.

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From the journal Lodz Papers in Pragmatics

Abstract

The article sheds light on programs and measures against Islamist-extremist messages both by governmental and non-governmental institutions in Germany. The “German way” for the most part is characterized through its renouncement of counter-terrorist narration through campaigns. Instead, decentralized, horizontal and “value-based” forms of strategic communication are being established. Therefore, German governmental as well as non-governmental institutions are currently developing educational programs in order to not only debunk extremist myths but rather to enable youngsters to critically reflect on mechanisms of ideologically charged communication. Although the field of practices is multi-branched and diverse, we will make an effort to concisely map areas of action, structures of sponsorship and (educational) measures concerning Islamism in Germany.

The educational material ‘Salam Online’ which was developed and produced by staff and students of the religious education department of Zentrum für Islamische Theologie Münster will be presented as one approach to countering Islamist-extremist ideology through debunking, critical reading and the proposition of social models of coherence and commonality.

About the author

Marcel Klapp

Marcel Klapp is associate at the Research Center for Online Discourses, Islam and Narratives located at the Center for Islamic Theology at the University of Münster, Germany. He is currently working on a three-year research project on counter-narratives against Islamism funded by the Ministry for Culture and Science of the Federal State of Northrhine-Westfalia. Marcel is currently conducting ethnographic fieldwork on Islam discourses and Muslim youths for his doctoral studies in Social Anthropology at the University of Cologne.

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Published Online: 2018-09-21
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