Guests
Zana
Ramadani
Film: Der Jungfrauenwahn
In the meantime, she is no longer in the Junge Union, and she also left FEMEN in January 2015. She recognized that the actions of FEMEN would not help anyone directly, that they were only able to attract attention. But she really wanted to make a difference. Making more policy, less FEMEN.
Today, Ramadani lives in Berlin and works for various organizations dealing with Women's Rights and Human Rights. She is also still active in party-politics within the CDU, always with her very own critical attitude to the topics that are dear to her.
Ramadani openly criticizes Islam and the rigid structures that she herself had to experience. "Mothers have a very important role to play in the maintenance and control of traditional islamic values, and the father joins in later, that’s what is often ignored. "
She is particularly critical of the so-called "family honor," a driving force for crimes such as "honor" killings or forced marriage, which are committed in it’s name. "The family honor," says Ramadani when she criticizes the ‘delusion of hymen, of virginity’, "in this culture is located between the legs of women." Her most terrible experience was, when she allegedly stained the honour of her family. "I had no idea why, and I fled to the women's shelter," says Ramadani. Currently, Zana Ramadani writes a book about her life experiences and the insights she gained through them, which is due to be published in March 2017.