Germany dealing with muslim infestation?
Push to bar hate sermons in Arabic
- Islamic preachers in Germany have been told they may be ordered to deliver their sermons in German instead of Arabic, in an effort to halt racist diatribes.
The move reflects Berlin's fears that ethnic and religious unrest could jump from The Netherlands to Germany, a country with more than 3million Muslims.
- Lawmakers began discussing the language requirement after German state TV broadcast a tape of a Berlin imam delivering a screed against infidel Germans, the Times of London reported Wednesday.
- "Germans can only expect to rot in the fires of Hell because they are non-believers," said the Muslim cleric. "These nonbelievers, these Europeans, they do not even shave under their armpits, so that sweat gathers in their hair and makes them stink."
From the Middle East Online:
German politicians were on Wednesday grasping at solutions to better integrate the three and a half million Muslims who live in Germany in the wake of ethnic tensions in the neighbouring Netherlands.
The anti-Muslim attacks that followed the murder of controversial filmmaker Theo van Gogh have prompted fears that the violence could spread to Berlin and the industrial towns of western Germany where most Muslims live.
- German opposition and government members reacted with anger Wednesday to calls by the Greens party - which serve in Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder's coalition - for establishing a Muslim holiday in the country.
Bavarian state Premier Edmund Stoiber, a member of the Christian Social Union, slammed the idea as "sending out a totally wrong signal."
Opposition Christian Democratic Union (CDU) leader Angela Merkel - who is the daughter of a Protestant pastor, said: "Germany is a country with Christian and Western roots. This identity must be reflected in our holidays."
posted by Veritas at 21:42
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