Tag: recognition
As Germany recruits Jewish military chaplains Muslims remain side-lined
Just like the population at large, the German Bundeswehr has undergone a remarkable trajectory of religious pluralisation in recent years. As of 2012, over 48,000...
Germany mulls ‘mosque tax’ to enhance control over Islamic places of...
German policy-makers are debating the introduction of a so-called ‘mosque tax’, to be paid by German Muslims and collected by the German state in...
New figures: Jews, Muslims face rising levels of religious hate crime...
2017 marked the first year that the German Interior Ministry officially registers Islamophobic (islamfeindliche) hate crimes. The authorities have now released preliminary figures on...
Muslim MPs unanimously support gay marriage in Germany, Islamic associations split...
On June 30, the German Parliament voted to legalise gay marriage – or, as it has become known in Germany, the “marriage for all”...
