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Lecture Whether in medieval or enlightened Europe, Islam always positioned itself as an antithesis. It built its empire on the ruins of the Roman Empire and saw itself as the legitimate leader of the world. The loss of power that accompanied the end of the Ottoman Empire has not changed this. Today, Muslims no longer come to Europe as conquerors, but mostly as peaceful migrants, but Islamism migrates with them. Hamed Abdel-Samad warns urgently: "We must talk about Islam again, because the future of Europe depends on its future." The political scientist and publicist Hamed Abdel-Samad is a member of the German Islam Conference and is one of the most prominent Islamic intellectuals in the German-speaking world. A fatwa was issued against him in 2013 because of his taboo-breaking, and since then he has lived under permanent police protection. Islam (2023) is seen as his most important book to date.