[6] In 1989, with Salman Rushdie's Satanic Verses grabbing the headlines after Ayatollah Khomeini pronounced a fatwa against the author and his publishers, Siebrasse found herself driven by curiosity to a book shop in order to find out what all the fuss was about.
[5] In 1990 she married Tarafa Baghajati, a civil engineer, writer and anti-racism activist originally from Syria, who has lived in Vienna since 1986.
Other founder members included the SPÖ politician, Omar Al-Rawi and two leading officials of the Austrian Islamic Faith Association, Mouddar Khouja and Andrea Saleh.
[13] Key objectives were media work and inter-faith dialogue: initiatives in which the group took part that captured press attention included, starting in 2013, nationwide "Open Mosque days".
The book deals with topics such as public worship, role models, living together, marriage and family, along with perceptions of honour.
[17] In 2008 Baghajati received the Federal Honor Decoration ("Bundes-Ehrenzeichen") from the Minister for Education, in recognition of her unpaid engagement in inter-cultural dialogue.