The central challenge today is: integration by education, explained North-Rhine/Westphalia Prime Minister Juergen Ruettgers (CDU). Earlier, the cabinet approved a twenty-point “plan of action on integration”. The plan includes the development of an Islamic religious curriculum, in co-operation with Muslim organisations, to be taught in German by trained religious teachers and falling under the official…
BERLIN – As part of the Integration Summit, Chancellor Merkel and the Ministry of the Interior invited experts to give testimony on forced marriages to the family committee in the Bundestag. Heiner Bielefeldt, director of the German Institute for Human Rights, was one of many who argued that forced marriage is not a typically Islamic…
Integrationspapier der Gr_nen stellt Forderungen an die Zuwanderer und die Gesellschaft. Ein Gespr_ch mit Renate K_nast * Renate K_nast ist Fraktionsvorsitzende von B_ndnis 90/Die Gr_nen im Bundestag. Von 2001 bis 2005 war sie Bundesministerin f_r Verbraucherschutz, Ern_hrung und Landwirtschaft F: Sie haben am Dienstag abend in Berlin-Neuk_lln ein neues Integrationspapier der Gr_nen-Bundestagsfraktion vorgestellt. Darin werden…
Many adults in the Netherlands hold strong views on the way Muslims adapt to the European continent, according to a poll by Motivaction released by GPD. 63 per cent of respondents believe think Islam is incompatible with modern European life. In September 2004, Dutch lawmaker Geert Wilders quit the liberal People’s Party for Freedom and…
A majority of British Muslims say clerics should preach in the English language, a BBC survey suggests. The Mori poll for the BBC found 65% of Muslims backed such a move, compared with 39% of the national population. More than half of UK Muslims were born in the country and younger generations, backed by progressive…
