Robert Collier, Chronicle Staff Writer In the streets of Kreuzberg, a Berlin neighborhood known as Little Istanbul, a cultural tug-of-war is plain to see. Women with Muslim head scarves and long cloaks linger in doorways of kebab and spice shops, young Turkish men play video games in Internet parlors, while German hipsters sip espresso in…
MUNICH, Germany — Local officials have started taking steps against one of the historic centers of Islamism in the West, after years of tolerating and even supporting it. At the center of attention is the Islamic Community of Germany, which has its headquarters in a Munich mosque that also has been a key base for…
Female Muslim teachers in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia will be banned from wearing hijab at schools from next summer, according to a German press report. Officials in the State told Wednesday’s edition of the Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung that the hijab ban would take effect from August 2006, Reuters reported. “Female and male teachers…
Federal Minister of the Interior Otto Schily pleaded the case for preventive detention of terrorism suspects in Germany. Although he said he knew that at present there was not majority support for the measure, he felt that it was a necessary step for the safety of the country. Schily said that there were a number…
The London bombings have rekindled a debate on radical Islam and Muslim immigrants in Europe. German-Turkish politician Cem _zdemir told DW-WORLD that tightening security alone wouldn’t work in the fight against terror. Germany is home to some 3.5 million Muslims, the majority from Turkey. German Interior Minister Otto Schily has warned that “immigrant generations in…
