Wikipedia's first sentence called it “german lawyer and muslim feminist born in istanbul”. Today it says “german lawyer and a muslim feminist”.
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Seyran Ateş (born 20 April 1963) is a German lawyer and Muslim feminist born in Istanbul, Turkey of Kurdish descent.1Her family moved to Germany when she was six years old. She studied law at the Free University of Berlin and has practiced law since 1997, specializing in criminal law and family law . She is a single mother. Her views, highly critical of an immigrant Muslim society that is often more conservative than its counterpart in Turkey , have put her at risk. Her German language book Islam needs a sexual revolution was scheduled for publication in Germany in 2009. In an interview in January 2008 on National Public Radio , Ateş stated that she was in hiding and would not be working on Muslim women's behalf publicly (including in court) due to the threats against her. In one particular incident, she and her client were attacked by a woman's husband in a German courthouse in front of onlookers who did nothing. Article originally appeared in German in Perlentaucher , September 2, 2005.2
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The opening as it stood in 2010
Seyran Ateş (born 1963) is a German lawyer and Muslim feminist born in Istanbul, Turkey of Kurdish descent. Her family moved to Germany when she was six years old. She studied law at the Free University of Berlin and has practiced law since 1997, specializing in criminal law and family law . She is a single mother. Her views, highly critical of an immigrant Muslim society that is often more conservative than its counterpart in Turkey , have put her at risk. Her German language book Islam needs a sexual revolution was scheduled for publication in Germany in 2009. In an interview in January 2008 on National Public Radio , Ateş stated that she was in hiding and would not be working on Muslim women's behalf publicly (including in court) due to the threats against her. In one particular incident, she and her client were attacked by a woman's husband in a German courthouse in front of onlookers who did nothing. Article originally appeared in German in Perlentaucher , September 2, 2005.
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She founded the Ibn Ruschd-Goethe mosque in 2017, as Germany's first liberal place of worship for Muslims .Ateş, a civil-rights activist, is best known for demanding equal rights for Muslim women and girls, views which have required her to have police protection.[1] "Islam needs a sexual revolution," interview in Der Spiegel , October 13, 2009.
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German lawyer and Muslim feminist Seyran Ateş (born 20 April 1963) is a German lawyer and a Muslim feminist . She founded the Ibn Ruschd-Goethe mosque in 2017, as Germany's first liberal place of worship for Muslims . Ateş is best known for challenging conventional ideas in Islamic teaching by opening a mosque in Berlin which breaks with traditionalist precepts of what being a Muslim means. "Islam needs a sexual revolution" , interview in Der Spiegel , October 13, 2009.
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German lawyer and Muslim feminist Seyran Ateş (born 20 April 1963) is a German lawyer and a Muslim feminist . She founded the Ibn Ruschd-Goethe mosque in 2017, as Germany's first liberal place of worship for Muslims . Ateş is best known for challenging conventional ideas in Islamic teaching by opening a mosque in Berlin which breaks with traditionalist precepts of what being a Muslim means. " "Islam needs a sexual revolution" " .
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german lawyer and muslim feminist born in istanbul
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german lawyer and a muslim feminist
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