Muslims are the second-largest religious group in Germany. Feyza Bayraktar and Erdin Kadunić talk about how they practise their faith. Luca Rehse-Knauf, 28.03.2024 Thanks to the vegetarians and vegans, Feyza Bayraktar says […]
‘Every second person in Germany’ backs anti-Muslim resentments, according to Berlin-based human rights activist Oliver Towfigh Nia |08.11.2023 BERLIN Germany’s Muslim community is facing growing attacks since the start […]
Emma Anderson – emma.anderson@thelocal.com Published: 12 May The Muslim community has actually had a presence – though small – in Germany for hundreds of years. Here are more facts you might […]
CULTUREGERMANY Bettina Baumann | Kristina Reymann-Schneider 10/03/2022October 3, 2022 Germany has thousands of mosques, most of them tucked away in backyards or industrial parks. On Open Mosque Day, they open their doors […]
13 October 2022 in Analysis Sigrid Herrmann-Marschall VIEWS Since it was founded, the Islamic umbrella organization, the Central Council of Muslims in Germany, has been predominantly dominated by actors who belong […]
Promoted post: We are all living in the Womb of God-the-Mother, 13.8 billion Years Pregnancy Cologne’s mayor said allowing the muezzin call to be heard was “a sign of respect.” […]
Deutsche Welle (DW) – detikNewsWednesday, 05 Oct 2022 Jakarta – Open Mosque Day has been regularly held in Germany every October 3 since 1997. This year, around 1,000 mosques across […]
NEWS RELEASE 9-JUL-2021 Research from political scientists Nicholas Sambanis, Danny Choi, and Mathias Poertner finds discrimination against Muslim women is eliminated when they show progressive gender attitudes UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA Why […]
BY PETRA LOHO 06 MAY 2021 NEWSSALAAM GATEWAY Muslim life in Germany has become significantly more diverse in recent years and the number of Muslims has grown. In its third edition, […]
Some ten years ago, German President Christian Wulff said Islam was very much part of German society. What about today? It was a short statement that had a […]
DAILY SABAH WITH DPA ISTANBUL 09.07.2019 Germany’s largest mosque in the western city of Cologne was evacuated Tuesday following a bomb threat sent via email. Police cordoned off streets in […]
Germany is looking to sever the financial and institutional ties between local Muslim communities and the Turkish government as part of a campaign to help German Muslims develop their own […]
Many Germans feel foreign in their own country and are afraid that immigration is changing their homeland rapidly. Every fifth person in Germany comes from an immigration background and […]
GERMAN PRESS AGENCY – DPA BERLIN Reuters File Photo Related Articles First Page YPG desecrated a mosque in Afrin to use for terror Diplomacy Turkey’s head of religious […]
ARGUMENT Before the continent started banning hijab, European aristocrats used to change their names to Abdullah and Muhammad, and going to the local mosque was the latest trend. BY MARYA HANNUN, SOPHIE SPAAN MAY 5, 2016 From the outside, with its high minarets and bulbous Mughal-style dome, the Wilmersdorf mosque, […]
Reuters International DEC 7, 2016 – BERLIN (Reuters) – Germany’s highest court ruled on Wednesday that ultra-conservative Muslim girls must take part in mixed swimming classes at school, finding against […]
By REUTERSSEPT. 28, 2016, 6:57 A.M. E.D.T. DRESDEN, Germany — German police are stepping up protection of Muslim institutions in Dresden after two improvised bombs exploded in the eastern city on Monday evening, one at a mosque and one at an international conference center. No one was hurt by the […]
RNS: BERLIN — The anti-immigration party, Alternative for Germany, said Islam is not compatible with the German constitution and vowed to press for bans on minarets and burqas at its party congress in two weeks’ time. The so-called AfD punished Chancellor Angela Merkel’s conservative Christian Democrats in three regional elections last […]
Source: NY Times By JESSE COBURN; JULY 23, 2015 HAMBURG, Germany — There were cracks in the steeple, and the southeastern wall would somehow have to accommodate a niche pointing toward […]
Gregor Zielke In an interview, the heads of Germany’s Protestant and Jewish communities discuss Martin Luther’s anti-Semitism, growing fears after the Paris attacks and whether Islam truly belongs to the country. SPIEGEL: Mr. Bedford-Strohm, Mr. Schuster, when you took over your posts at the end of last year, Europe was […]