New Surveillance Rules in Germany: Muslim Leaders Fear Imams Could be Targeted

    Germany’s top security and law officials have agreed to a plan to enact new computer surveillance regulations. But Muslim leaders fear imams could face more scrutiny than their Christian counterparts. Top security and law officials in Germany this week established new guidelines on surveillance of computers in cases of terrorism or serious crimes. The framework,…

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      A Call for a Muslim Luther in Europe

      The feminist Seyran Ates has just provided a new book about the failure of integration of muslim migrants in Germany. But her book is more than just a critique – it is a pleading for a European core culture. Anna Reimann reports.

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        Merkel’s 400 Integration Promises

        By Anna Reimann in Berlin As German Chancellor Angela Merkel admitted on Thursday, this year’s integration summit, overshadowed by ultimatums and boycotts, didn’t go quite the way she had expected. Despite its disappointing outcome, Merkel presented a mammoth concept for improving the integration of foreigners, a plan she hopes will finally bring progress to the…

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          Justifying Marital Violence: A German Judge Cites Koran in Divorce Case

          By Veit Medick and Anna Reimann He beat her and threatened her with murder. But because husband and wife were both from Morocco, a German divorce court judge saw no cause for alarm. It’s a religion thing, she argued. The case seems simply too strange to be true. A 26-year-old mother of two wanted to…

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