Does it make sense to fight Islamophobia together with radical Islamists? Some people in Berlin seem to think it’s a good idea.
However, Güner Balci, who is the integration commissioner of the Berlin district of Neukölln, is not one of them. She recently criticised a publicly funded study on discrimination against young Muslims in schools. The survey had been conducted in cooperation with mosque communities that were classified as Islamist in constitutional protection reports of the state. “The mosque associations involved in the study represent a ‘who’s who’ of political Islam,” Balci lamented the survey in the newspaper Die Welt on Sunday.
The mosque communities surveyed in the study seem to be exclusively those that, according to Balci, spread a reactionary understanding of Islam. These include, for example, the Teiba mosque in Spandau, which is close to the Muslim Brotherhood and was described in a report by the domestic intelligence service as a “meeting place of Hamas supporters”.
The study, initiated by the “Anlaufstelle Diskriminierungsschutz an Schulen” (ADAS), had asked 274 Muslim youths in different mosque communities about their experiences of discrimination at school. The mayor of Neukölln, Martin Hikel ( Social Democratic Party, SPD), also criticised the methods used by the study’s authors. “With a politically coloured study in cooperation with associations that are under surveillance by the Office for the Protection of the Constitution, Ms. Yegane discredits herself and endangers the credibility of the contact point for protection against discrimination in schools,” he said about the head of ADAS, Aliyeh Yegane. In addition, there are Muslim pupils in Berlin who are treated derogatorily by strict Muslim fellow pupils because they eat or drink during the day during the fasting month of Ramadan.
Yegane himself defended himself against the accusations. “Our study was focused on ensuring protection against discrimination and freedom of religion and belief in Berlin schools. Against this background, questions of past or current assessments of the Office for the Protection of the Constitution were irrelevant,” she said. Young people who pray in Islamist mosque communities also have a right to basic and human rights at school, Yegane argues.
On the other hand, they did not say why they necessarily claim this in Germany. A majority of the young people interviewed about experiences of discrimination stated that they strictly observe the Muslim fasting commandments and dietary rules. A third said that they pray during breaks between classes and that they practice gender segregation in class. So let’s analyse the whole thing a little more closely: the Muslim migrants who feel discriminated against because of their religion are probably discriminating themselves, at least in part, against fellow Muslim pupils who do not take their religion so seriously. So it’s only natural that they get a reaction.
And if they absolutely want to be in a gender-segregated school: no problem. No one is discouraging them from emigrating to an Islamic country and going to a segregated school there. Quite apart from the fact that, in my experience, about 100 per cent of pupils are discriminated against in public schools. Thanks to the left-wing multicultural ideology of today’s Federal Republic of Germany, it is mainly Germans who get a raw deal. It is doubtful that the German minority in Berlin schools is discriminated against. At most in the form of counter-discrimination after they themselves have been attacked once again.
Usually, however, the locals at Berlin schools tend to try to stay out of trouble. Admittedly, this does not mean peace between the primary and secondary school pupils sentenced to ten years in school. If this questionable study was good for anything at all, it was to point this out and confirm that once again the cat has been set among the pigeons, because if anyone is responsible for Islamophobia at all, it is the Islamists, who take their religion excessively seriously and expect everyone else to do the same. By the way, the ADAS is supported by the Berlin Senate with 210,000 euros a year.
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