Muslims in Germany do not want to be Germans – Research – News –
January 31, 2010 – 11:51 pm
75 percent of Muslims in Germany do not consider themselves Germans. These data published in London Open Society Institute. However, 45 percent of them – the citizens of Germany.
In Germany, the concept of “nationality” and “nationality” is not separated. Every person who received the citizenship of Germany, regardless of its origin, is considered a German. In the passport and it is written: the bearer is a German. But if almost every other Muslim in this country has a German passport, that is officially the number of Germans, and identifies itself with Germany, only one out of four, the result can be only one: there is something wrong in the integration.
How many Muslims in Germany
The number of Muslims in Germany differ. Until recently, the generally accepted figure is considered to 3,5 million people. It still stands on the site of the Federal Office for Migration and Refugees. In June 2009 the Ministry of Internal Affairs conducted its own survey and found that in Germany, home to 4 300 000 Muslims. This is more than 5 percent of the population.
According to the Open Society Institute, which is part of the Soros Foundation, the EU countries are between 15 to 20 million Muslims. The Institute predicts that by 2025 Muslims in the EU will be twice as much. The total population of Germany in recent years, not growing, and even declining. Of course, mechanically forecast Open Society Institute, one single country is incorrect and unacceptable. But we can assume that the proportion of Muslim population in Germany will grow fast enough.
Multifaceted Islam
The largest group Muslims in Germany today – people from Turkey: 63,2 per cent. Following are immigrants from the former Yugoslavia, the Middle East and North Africa. Increasing number of ethnic Germans who embraced Islam. Now they are, according to the Islamic Archives, 25 thousand. Two-thirds of them – women.
According to the Office for Migrants and Refugees, more than three-quarters of Muslims in Germany – the Sunnis, 7 per cent – the Shiites and 13 per cent – Alawi. Greatly simplified, Alawis can be attributed to “secular” toward Islam. There are also representatives of other religious communities. And because in Islam there is no ecclesiastical hierarchy, such as in Christianity, then represent the interests of Muslims in Germany a number of organizations. Some of them compete with each other and claim the right to speak on behalf of all Muslims in the country.
“Islamophobia” or fears of ignorance?
But back to the study of the London Open Society Institute. In the survey, many Muslims point out that they do not identify themselves with Germany because, despite all their efforts, most so-called “native” Germans do not perceive Muslims as part of German society. Chairman of the Turkish community, Kenan Kolat (Kenan Kolat) even warns against the rise of Islamophobia in Germany.
In December 2009, Institute of Sociology Dimap commissioned socio-legal channel ARD has conducted a survey on the subject the Germans feared the expansion of Islam. 36 percent of respondents have “serious concern” about this, 39 – “mild concern, 22 percent do not see any threat. Prohibit the minarets in Switzerland, or chador, as in France, nobody in Germany is not going to. But the fears and the debate it stirs.
Should the German study Islam?
“And where, strictly speaking, Christian majority in our society gone to self-confidence, if it is so terribly afraid of these 5 per cent of its population? Let’s not forget, the vast majority of these 5 per cent – the same respectable, nice and boring burgers, like their German neighbors, “- TV host Michel Friedman is outraged (Michel Friedman).
Islam – a religion of peace, never tire of repeating the representatives of Muslim organizations in Germany. Now if the Germans had taken the trouble to learn a little bit closer to Islam, all the fears they would be dispelled. Secretary-General of the Central Council of Muslims in Germany, Aiman Mazek (Aiman Mazyek) acknowledges that yes, there are a handful of madmen, who again and again trying to use Islam for their purposes. But you can not overdo, and should consider how few of them. A politically correct German politicians to call for rigid distinction between Islam and Islamists.
Religion or totalitarian ideology?
There is a “correct”, peaceful and tolerant Islam, assured the German philistine, and everything else – is a perversion. And he, philistine, turns on the TV and sees the spittle spraying President of the Islamic Republic of Iran, who on behalf of Islam requires wipe the Jewish state. Or a message that in Denmark, young Muslims with an ax broke into the house of the artist Vestergarda Kurt (Kurt Westergaard), which five years ago published the controversial cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad.
But and simple household level German man in the street is difficult to understand where the “real” Islam, and where his perversions. For example, sharia law, which some Muslims blyudut and Germany, are incompatible with the Constitution and laws of the country. Chador, burka, servile status of women, killing “in defense of family honor” – a Muslim or belch medieval patriarchal? It is difficult to German man in the street in this whole deal. Even more difficult to account for the vast majority of peaceful, law-abiding Muslims in Germany who are hostages of the Islamists and jihadists.
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