Around a thousand mosques in Germany at the 3. October for the “day of the Open mosque”. However, under Germany’s Muslims, there is growing concern in the face of numerous Attacks.
Open doors in times of uncertainty. 23. Times Muslim houses of worship shop in Germany at the 3. October for the “day of the open mosque”. Under the Motto “people make the home/s” a load around a thousand institutions, to get an own picture of the mosques in your neighborhood. But the day is overshadowed this year by Concerns.
“The Muslims in Germany are in accordance with the continuous hostility and attacks on them and their places of worship very insecure and scared”, says the Secretary-General of the Central Council of Muslims (ZMD), Abdassamad El Yazidi, of the German wave. Reliable Figures for 2019 there isn’t. In the year 2018, according to the Federal Ministry of the interior nationwide 813 Attacks against Muslims and mosques. Somewhere the Koran are ripped copies, a pig’s head located in front of the door.
The arson attack on a mosque in Ulm, Germany in March 2018
“Freeloaders”
The Al-Nour mosque in Hamburg Horn, in the midst of a residential area in the East of the city. An unusual Muslim house of worship, one of the nicer in Germany. Until 2002, the building was the Lutheran Capernaum Church. Now Muslims pray here, after the building was extensively redesigned (the title picture shows the mosque at the “day of the Open mosque” in 2016). At the beginning of September last year, smeared the unknown perpetrators of the mosque with nationalist and anti-Muslim slogans.
Daniel Abdin, Chairman of the Islamic center Al-Nour in Hamburg
The fact was informed, as the Chairman of the Islamic center Al-Nour, Daniel Abdin, says, never. The police – “the guard was a stone’s throw away from the mosque” – was on site, took photos, and neighbors interviewed. Abdin “occurs suspected free riders”. The graffiti were short takes place after the clashes in the Saxon town of Chemnitz, which attracted nationwide attention.
Fear and anger
“The attacks on mosques and Muslims have reached an unprecedented intensity,” says the 56-year-old Abdin of the German wave. Also on the mosque in its center, “even though Hamburg is regarded as the capital of the inter-religious Dialogue”. The reactions in the community? “Many are scared, worried. Some of them are angry. They say: We are citizens of this country. Freedom of religion is enshrined in the basic law. If you attack us just because we are Muslims and the Religion to pursue.”
Abdin is also a Director of the charity organization society”, the integration point Hamburg”, he organized integration and prevention projects against radicalism, anti-Semitism and Islamophobic racism are well-connected. After the attack on the mosque neighbors and other religious representatives came on the solidarity visit. But to belongs to his everyday also like this: “I also get to constantly threaten-Mails. Because: Today, there is a bloodbath with you. Of course, state protection, and the police informed that I am in knowledge.”
Safety concept
For the protection of religious facilities, the Federal States in Germany are responsible. Following the carnage in two mosques in Christchurch, new Zealand with over 50 of the dead were not just a few mosques on Friday, police officers prayer.
To Christchurch – the police in Berlin protects a Friday prayer
But a complete security there are anywhere. In Bremen, the citizens decided a few days ago, a security concept for mosques. But their application relies mainly on prevention work in educational institutions, to break down prejudices against Islam. Also, Abdin says, there is almost no day that is not a school class or other group, the Al-Nour mosque visits. To do this, the “day of the Open mosque”, in which the municipality involved in strong fits.
ZMD General Secretary, Abdassamad El Yazidi
Secretary-General El-Yazidi affirmed in front of the 3. October the call of the Central Council of political and security authorities, “to protect our prayer sites”. It was shocking that “attacks on Muslims on the open road and the desecration of their mosques have become part of the sad reality of Germany in the year 2019, and hardly any outrage trigger”.