ألمانيا: دعوة حثيثة إلى منع الحجاب والتضييق على المسلمين

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تاريخ الإضافة: 24/12/2009 ميلادي - 7/1/1431 هجري

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طالب "تايلو سرازين" - عضو مجلس إدارة البنك المركزي الألماني، وأكثر السياسيين دعوة إلى تحرك ألماني ضد ثقافة وشعائر المسلمين - تأييد السياسيين ومسؤولي التعليم لاتخاذ خطوة جادة ومنع المسلمات المحجبات من المؤسسات التعليمية.

كما دعا "سرازين" الحكومة الألمانية إلى وضع قيود شديدة أمام طالبي الهجرة؛ مثل اشتراط تعلم الألمانية، وممارسة الضغط الاجتماعي لضمان دمج المسلمين في الثقافة الألمانية.

وقد أشار عدد من أعضاء حزب رئيسة الوزراء "أنجيلا ميركل" الديمقراطي النصراني إلى التضامن مع "سيرازين" في تلك التصريحات، ومن المعلوم أن "ميركل" نفسها قد أشارت - في تصريح سابق لها - إلى أن مآذن المساجد يجب ألا تكون أعلى من أبراج الكنائس.

وقد لقيت هذه التصريحات انتقادًا من "بدر محمد" - عضو الحكومة الألمانية واللبناني الأصل - وطالب "سيرازين" بالكف عن استثارة العداء ضد المسلمين، ووصف "سيرازين" بأنه داعية نصراني خطر على الآخرين، كما طالب "ميركل" بالتوقف عن إذكاء الحرب الثقافية ضد المسلمين.

الخبر من مصدره الأصلي:

German official's call for Muslim headscarf ban stokes integration debate

Muslim girls should be barred from wearing Islamic head scarves in German schools, a senior official has demanded, fuelling a debate about how to improve the integration of the country’s four million Muslims.

Thilo Sarrazin, a board member of the German central bank and one of the country’s most outspoken politicians, caused outrage in October by saying Turkish and Arab immigrants sponge off the state and “constantly produce little girls with headscarves”.

Those remarks drew widespread condemnation and almost got him sacked. But he won support from mainstream politicians and education officials for saying on December   13 that headscarves should be kept out of schools.

“They are a symbol of men’s claim to power over women,” Mr Sarrazin told a conference on integration in Berlin. “I would ban headscarves in school classrooms. They’re not a religious symbol; they’re a political one”.

The majority of Germany’s Muslims are descendants of Turks who came as “guest workers” between the   1950s and   1970s to make up for a shortage of manpower after the Second World War.

Many Muslims, even those born in Germany, are poorly integrated, live in ghetto-like communities in the big cities and have worse than average educational qualifications and job prospects.

The government is increasingly becoming concerned that the failure to integrate minorities will worsen the expected shortage of skilled labour in the coming decades and harm the economy, which is traditionally dependent on a highly qualified workforce.

Mr Sarrazin said progress could only be made if stricter limits were imposed on immigration and if German society put more pressure on its ethnic minorities to integrate themselves; for example, by learning German. Several members from the chancellor Angela Merkel’s conservative party, the Christian Democrat Union (CDU), said they agreed with Mr Sarrazin. Frank Henkel, the regional leader of the CDU for Berlin, said: “State schools in Turkey don’t allow headscarves. We shouldn’t allow it either. It is an obstacle to integration”.

Sascha Steuer, the education spokesman for the CDU in the Berlin regional parliament, said headscarves were a form of segregation. He said more girls were wearing them in school and getting exemptions from sport and swimming lessons. “That shows that integration isn’t succeeding in many places,” Mr Steuer said.

Legal experts say a headscarf ban would probably breach the right to religious freedom enshrined in the German constitution, which does not have the same strict separation between church and state as France, where headscarves in schools were banned in  2004.

Muslim politicians said it should be left up to women and girls to decide whether to wear headscarves.

Badr Mohammed, a Lebanese-born CDU member who represents Muslim interests in regular talks with the German government, urged Mrs Merkel to put a stop to the “cultural war” being incited by people like Mr Sarrazin, whom he described as a “dangerous preacher on the Christian side”.

“He constantly pours oil on to the fire and is fanning anti-Islamic sentiment,” Mr Mohammed said.

Mrs Merkel herself has been criticised by Muslim leaders for doing too little to improve the status of people from ethnic minorities. Since she became chancellor in   2005  , she has hosted round-table talks to discuss such issues as Islamophobia and integration, but the meetings have achieved little.

She did not help matters by saying in   2007 that minarets should not be as high as church steeples, a statement seen as pandering to the right wing of her party.

Last month’s Swiss vote to ban the construction of minarets reignited a pan-European debate about Muslims, and a recent survey indicated that Germans are divided over whether they would follow suit if they had a referendum on it  .
The survey by the TNS Infratest institute showed  44 per cent of Germans would vote in favour of banning minarets, while   45 per cent would vote against.

Meanwhile, a German far-right group started an anti-mosque campaign last week to attract votes before May’s regional election in North Rhine-Westphalia, which, with   17 million inhabitants, is Germany’s most populous state.

The group, called Pro NRW, said it hoped to unite other European right-wing parties behind the campaign. “We will run a state election campaign that is decidedly critical of Islam,” Markus Wiener, the general secretary of Pro NRW, told Die Welt, a conservative national newspaper. “We see the construction of mosques as an aggressive and powerful symbol of a Muslim conquest”.

Mr Wiener said the Swiss People’s Party, which initiated the anti-minaret referendum in Switzerland, had allowed Pro NRW to use its deeply controversial campaign posters, which feature menacing-looking women in burkas and minarets resembling missiles.

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