Turks in Germany

Submitted by myth (Germany), May 27, 2014 at 07:06

Violent islamism has no traction within the millions of Turks in Germany. I guess the same is true for the Arabs living in Israel. I have the hope, that Islam can evolve provided the society is free to begin with.

The Turkish population of Germany advanced the subject of Islam significantly after decades of running backyard-mosques. Today they do not seek to extend Islam into politics. It is quite the opposite.

They demanded the German secular state embraces and shapes Islam within its institutions. In practice Germany has extended Islamic education at state-run schools all the way up to higher education. Münster University trains a small number of Islamic teachers. Those teachers will become civil-servants for a lifelong tenure with all privileges granted. Turks here want the stamp of approval from German academia on a new Islam.

That Islam will be taught in German language in secular institutions, will be Turkish by religious practices, Western-academic by legitimation.

Thirty years from now German universities will challenge Kairo's University on religious subjects. Turkish-German teenagers will challenge backyard-mosque-imams in Turkey on the basis of their good grades received after years of religious education in proper schools.

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