Seyran Ateş: “The far right is growing because it talks about the problems while other parties remain silent.”

She is a woman and an imam. A seemingly contradictory pairing. Seyran Ateş was born in Turkey into a Muslim family but raised in Germany. A lawyer by profession, she has lived under police protection since 2006. She began receiving death threats for helping Muslim women who were being forced into marriage. Then, for publishing the book Islam Needs a Sexual Revolution. And finally, for opening a liberal mosque in Berlin, the Ibn Rushd-Goethe Mosque, where women and men pray together in the same space. The documentary Seyran Ateş: Sex, Revolution and Islam tells her story.