(Reuters) – A leading conservative politician said on Thursday that Islam did not belong in Germany, fuelling tension at a conference on integrating Muslims that also debated a controversial Salafist campaign to hand out copies of the Koran across the country.
“Islam is not part of our tradition and identity in Germany and so does not belong in Germany,” Volker Kauder, head of Chancellor Angela Merkel’s conservatives in parliament, told the Passauer Neue Presse.
“But Muslims do belong in Germany. As state citizens, of course, they enjoy their full rights,” he added.
His remarks added to a highly charged nationwide debate about a campaign by an ultra-conservative Salafist Muslim group to hand out millions of free German translations of the Koran to non-Muslims.
Categories: Extremism, Faith, Germany, Human Rights, Interfaith tolerance, Islam: A Religion of Peace, Islamism, Islamophobia, Politics, Spirituality
“Islam does not belong to Germany, but Muslims do”.
Sorry, I am too stupid to understand this logic.
Let the Germans analyze Goethe and Nietzsche to find out about their debt to Islam. I suggest two books:
Nietzsche and Islam (Routledge Advances in Middle East and Islamic Studies) [Paperback]
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History of Islam in German Thought: From Leibniz to Nietzsche (Routledge Studies in Cultural History) by Ian Almond (Hardcover – Sep 25, 2009)
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