A Berlin gallery has closed an exhibition of satirical art by the controversial Danish group Surrend after receiving threats from a group of Muslims. The men were objecting to a picture of the Kaaba at Mecca under the title “Dumb Stone.” Eighteen months ago, the severed head of Muhammad was enough to get an opera…
Integration yes, Assimilation no: Mustafa Sait Yazicioglu, Turkish Vice Prime Minister, pleas for more dialogue between Germans and Turks. In an interview with Spiegel Online, Mustafa Sait Yazicioglu speaks about the Situation of Islam and Turks in Germany.
The German writer G_nter Wallraff proposed reading Salman Rushdi’s ‘Satanic Verses’ in a controversial new mosque in Cologne. The religious foundation building the mosque discussed the project but eventually refused the proposal. G_nter Wallraff doesn’t think of himself as a provocateur, he just wants to get a dialogue going and to put the integration of…
