A series of bomb threats against mosques unsettled Muslims in the whole of Germany. Representatives of Islamic associations turning now to the authorities: they feel by the state, is not adequately protected.
The Ditib-Merkez-mosque in Duisburg, Germany, has received a bomb threat
One thing seems clear, Nurhat Soykan, it is sufficient. After it was given alone, in the July bomb threats against mosques in Iserlohn, Germany, Villingen-Schwenningen and Munich, as well as the DITIB Central mosque in Cologne-Germany’s biggest mosque complex, in the past few days, more threats against mosques in Duisburg, Mannheim, and Mainz.
The 49-lawyer Nurhat Soykan is the spokesperson for the coordination Council of Muslims (KRM) in Germany. Founded in 2007, the KRM of the work platform of the four largest Islamic organizations in Germany. Members of the Central Council of Muslims in Germany (ZMD), the Turkish-Islamic Union of the institution for Religion (DITIB), the Islamic Council for the Federal Republic of Germany (IR) and the Association of Islamic cultural centres (VIKZ) are.
For Soykan, the renewed threats are reason enough to send an urgent appeal to the German authorities: “Muslims are deeply insecure. The state is duty-bound to take confidence-building measures,” she said on Tuesday in Cologne, Germany. Germany as well was simply the responsibility that all people can be free from fear and violence to exercise their Religion: “Our life is at risk, our democracy. This is unacceptable.”
With your words, Soykan a run at Aiman Mazyek open doors.
The 50-Year-old Aachen is the Chairman of the ZMD. In an Interview with Deutsche Welle (DW) he made out of his concern for the violence against Muslims is no secret. For him, it is clear that “Islamophobia or Muslim enemy have increased the rule of law is enormous. “We complain almost in a weekly cycle Attacks on mosques or desecration of,” he said. Also, people would increasingly be attacked: “For 2017, the year in which for the first time Islamophobic Attacks on Muslims and the bodies were counted, the number of attacks, in which people take physical damage, the greater.” The quality is become more violent and the number of unreported cases is far greater, because the police and the judiciary aware of this issue and are trained.” To do this would be: Many Muslims did not show criminal.
Reservations against Muslims
Official Figures Mazyeks theses are based. According to the Federal Ministry of the interior (BMI) were 2017 recorded a total of 1.075 as hostile to Islam classified offences. Alone 239 mosques were attacked. Although the final Figures for the Federal government are not available for the year 2018, the Ministry of the interior still. However, there was a little request the left party provisional Figures show that the number of injured in 2018 has increased: 40 people have been injured until September in the case of Islam, the attacks of the enemy. In 2017, we were in the same period, 27, throughout the year 32.
Many Muslims in Germany feel a long time threatened, already in 2016, many have taken to the streets to demonstrate against racism
As far as the reservations in the company are widely used against Muslims, also shows the so-called “mid-study” of the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES). In the representative studies series, the FES since 2006, every two years, the dissemination of extreme right-wing attitudes in Germany are investigating. The researchers compare in it, also prejudice against different groups in the population. The result: Almost every fifth Respondent expressed himself disparagingly about Muslims.
No permanent police protection
Given these Figures, it is hardly surprising that some of the mosque communities had already begun a few years ago, itself with seminars on threats to prepare for, said Mazyek a few months ago. You have introduced security checks in the municipalities, the response of the police is improved, and the problem of consciousness to be trained to prevent in the communities and crime see.
The exception: A police vehicle for the protection of mosque visitors, such as here in Berlin
In the case of all precautions, however, one thing is clear: A permanent police protection for mosques, there is not currently. By the Supreme Masters of the police, the Federal interior Minister, Horst Seehofer, said it has been succinctly. “Even religious institutions can be targets of terrorists. If there is evidence of hazards, protection is reinforced.”
Nurhan Soykut from KRM are not these statements in light of the recent bomb threats, however: “The current threat situation is very underestimated. Our Call for more protection for mosques have not been complied with.” Although the bomb would have been threats were fortunately not realised. However, Muslims are under the current circumstances, it is far from to go in the mosque.