BERLIN – German Chancellor Angela Merkel plans to have talks later this year with leaders of the country’s 3.3 million Muslims, a report said Wednesday. Merkel is due to invite the heads of 16 Islamic groups to the chancellery before parliament’s summer recess to boost dialogue after worldwide protests over cartoons depicting the Muslim Prophet…
Despite the protests of residents, the mosque in the Pankow section of Berlin will be built. Police were forced to end an overcrowded citizens gathering about the mosque, but the meeting will be rescheduled. Berlin (ddp-bln). Trotz Protesten von Anwohnern sieht die Ahmadiyya Muslim Gemeinde keinen Grund, von ihren Baupl_nen f_r eine Moschee in Pankow-Heinersdorf…
BERLIN — German intelligence officials have acknowledged that they are monitoring the audiences of a new Turkish film with anti-Semitic and anti-US themes. Valley of the Wolves, by director Serdar Akar, shows crazed US soldiers massacring innocent guests at a wedding party and scenes in which a Jewish surgeon removes organs from Iraqi prisoners. Showings…
As a rule, German schools offer three hours of sports instruction each week. In Berlin, many students are refusing to partake — especially Muslim girls. Berlin Senator for Youth, Education and Sports Klaus B_ger is back in the hot seat, this time for implying that Muslim society is behind the steady decrease in girls taking…
BERLIN – Islamic groups on Monday vowed to fight a test introduced by a German state this month for potential immigrants which they said singled out Muslims for discrimination. “We will not rest until the state government withdraws the questionnaire,” the spokesman for the Central Council of Muslims in Germany, Mounir Azzaoui, said. The conservative-ruled…
