Our researcher, Jacob Lypp, spoke to The Breakfast Show on Voice of Islam Radio UK about Islam in Germany. He discussed recent comments by the newly-appointed German Interior Minister and the integration of Muslims into German society.
Disavowing the attacker Following the truck attack on a busy Christmas market at Breitscheidplatz in the heart of former West Berlin on December 19, German Muslims have sought to dissociate themselves from the presumed attacker. The suspected jihadist, Anis Amri, remains at large at the time of writing. Muslims gathered on the square where the…
9 December 2010 An Islamic centre in Berlin was hit by an arson attack on Thursday, with an assailant hurling a petrol bomb against the building’s facade. It was the third such incident involving a Muslim building in the capital in a fortnight. The assailant threw a bottle filled with flammable liquid against the front…
14 October 2010 Education Minister Annette Schavan announced on Thursday that the universities of Tübingen, Münster and Osnabrück would offer Germany’s first Islamic studies courses — part of the government’s effort to curb extremist views. The university courses will allow Muslims to do their religious studies at a mainstream university, where a new generation of…
