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sueddeutsche.de: What role did the Munich mosque after 1973 for the Brotherhood?

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He has researched for years about the history of the mosque in Munich-Freimann: The Canadian-American writer Ian Johnson. (? Robert Haas)

Johnson: Mahdy Akef, who had led until 2010, the Brotherhood was, in 1984 to 1987 Chief Imam Freimann. The mosque had been both a safe haven and a hub, undisturbed by the plan from them and infiltrate other countries. The executive committee was a who’s who of political Islam. Many of these people had no connection to Munich, they came about from Egypt, Syria and Pakistan. The Muslim Brothers were so dominant that they could stay out of the Turkish migrants from the organizational level, although these were in the majority. This is also something special: Political Islam did not come with the guest workers to Germany, as one would assume.

sueddeutsche.de: The intelligence community had no idea what happened there?

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Johnson: The priorities had changed: The CIA Agent Robert Turner, another protagonist of the book went from Munich to Vietnam, which shows the symptomatic change in American interest. The Germans were employed in the seventies with the fight against the Red Army Faction and the left-wing terrorism. The leaders at the mosque were very unobtrusive.

sueddeutsche.de: Were there any connections to terrorist cells?

Johnson: There were two events that caused a stir: Aboulina Mahmoud, one of the masterminds of the bombing of the World Trade Center in 1993, had previously visited the Munich mosque there and asked for advice. An Al-Qaeda financier was arrested in 1998 in Freimann, after the FBI, the BKA had asked for help. The research revealed that the man had links with Al-Quds mosque in Hamburg, where Mohammed Atta frequented. I’m not saying that there was a direct connection, but there are too many coincidences to speak of an ordinary mosque.

sueddeutsche.de: Your book was published last year in the United States. What has fascinated the readers here on the case?

Johnson: They were mainly interested in the parallels between then and now. Most Americans think that radical Islam was born when Washington in the Afghan war of the eighties supplied the mujahideen with money and weapons to defeat the Soviets. It all started at least 25 years ago in Bavaria.

sueddeutsche.de: It is the figure of Said Ramadan shows that many people can not use as it plans secret agents sometimes.

Johnson: Yes, Ramadan could well move in both worlds. Unlike the Americans, the Muslim Brotherhood had a long-term strategy that they pursued concentrated. They are excellent organizers and now represented in every European country, they have pan-European institutions and youth associations. Especially in Germany and France, the Brotherhood is powerful – this is looking not without risk in an era where politicians always a dialogue.

sueddeutsche.de: Do the Muslims, who pray today in Freimann, the history of the mosque?

Johnson: Just a few. An influential convert, told me that almost none of the names of the faithful Said Ramadan has ever heard – and that did not seem to bother him.

sueddeutsche.de: How important is the mosque today? There were raids on charges of terrorist funding.

Johnson: In my view, has the Munich mosque after 11 September were retreating. There was too much attention, too many searches and it blocked the accounts of the most influential people. Today the mosque is just as important regional center of Islam, but their story remains unique. wwii uniforms ww2 uniform ww2 uniforms for sale

The book The Fourth mosque by Ian Johnson has appeared in the Klett-Cotta Verlag. In a few days published the Beck publishing another book on the topic: illuminated in a mosque in Germany Stefan Meining stronger the intricacies of German politics. Both authors know each other and have cooperated during the investigation.

Between Emergence and anxiety

 
Dieter Graumann, the first president of the Central Council of Jews, who has not experienced the Holocaust. The Frankfurt wants to position the new organization – “Holocaust awareness” and not “holocaust centered”.
David said he, since he was a child. How the mighty king of the vast, sad heart, David was proud of his name. But when the first day of school, his parents said, from today’s your name Dieter. With David all know that you’re a Jew, and Jews are not better on, otherwise they are living dangerously. Ironically, Dieter. But David obeyed. He does not love the name Dieter. But he has grown accustomed to him.

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Favorite, because the only candidate for election to succeed Charlotte Knobloch: could be the first president of the Central Council of Jews, the Frankfurt Dieter Graumann, who has not experienced the Holocaust itself. (? DAPD)

Dieter Graumann, is should not collapse the sky, this Sunday will be president of the Central Council of Jews in Germany. The 60-year-old vice president and chairman of the Frankfurt community is the only candidate for the office. His parents, very old, the 89-year-old father in the hospital, will be sad. “You endangered least the family,” she said, as he revealed to them his plan. He, the only child of two who survived the concentration camps, half dead, went to Israel, could not tolerate the heat and landed in Frankfurt, a snack stand, took over a property management BODIES – who wanted to live in safety. And now this

A Shattered generation

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It was a fragile world, grew up in the David-Dieter. The mother told almost every day of the slain, starved, gassed people – his father was silent and said nothing. “My generation has always had the feeling that the parents may not matter so much,” said Graumann. As a teenager he looked at the people in the tram: Who could have been in the SS, who have betrayed Jews? There is a broken generation, the first Jewish after the war, the gray man tells when he speaks of himself. wwii uniforms ww2 uniform ww2 uniforms for sale

his office, near the Zeil in Frankfurt, in the attic with sloping walls, above the seating area in an image of Andy Warhol pop art style, showing his children. The son of pious Jew like him, his daughter takes the radical atheist Richard Dawkins class. Graumann is burned brown and narrow, he speaks quickly, and if it is important, his shoes tapping nervously on the floor. He woos his interlocutor. He had a bad press when he was threatened before the 9th of November, leaving the St. Paul’s Church, should there be to the publicist Alfred Grosser critical of Israel, widely regarded as the Central club in crisis. But Graumann advertises different than a politician would do. Be on my side, says the courtship. Do not be among the others.

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He has traded the security of the Federal banking career against the attic office, the desire of parents to clear. “Well,” said a colleague, “you Jews want to hold his own.” You Jews. The day came at the Graumann for “the Jews” to the public was the 31 October 1985. Rainer Werner Fassbinder took his play “The Garbage, the City and Death” on whose villain is a Jewish Immobilienhai, Ignatz Bubis, chairman of the Frankfurt community jumped on the stage, protested. Gray man stood by and knew: He does not hide as his parents. He can not.

Unspeakable stew

 
“I’m happy when I’m out of here”: the writer Samuel Beckett traveled in the thirties by Nazi Germany. A book tells of his encounters with anti-Semitism and Hitler’s hate speech.
 
19th February 1937: It’s late at night, as Samuel Beckett arrives by train to Bamberg. From the station, he immediately goes into Adolf-Hitler-Strasse and increases from there in the hotel “Three Crowns” – an accommodation that he has recommended his guide, the Baedeker. “Look at Bamberg lovely,” Beckett noted the next day with small writing in one of his diaries, which he has with him. He eats a “Peasant”, drinking in local tradition “Schlenkerla” smoked beer (“excellent”) and visited the sights: “The Rider”, the famous equestrian statue in the cathedral, as well as the “New Residence”. The short stay in the Upper Franconian town of Bishop marks the beginning of a multi-week sightseeing in Bayern, which leads the then 30-year-old writer from Nuremberg and Regensburg finally to Munich. world war 2 uniforms wwii uniforms ww2 uniform

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“I like Munich,” writes Beckett, and admits to have moved only within a radius of half a mile around the Marienplatz. (? Scherl)

Many of 1936-37 traveled Samuel Beckett half a year Hitler’s Germany. It was a holiday that he had started in Hamburg and ended after interim stops in Berlin and Dresden, including the white-blue Free State. Now that you can learn more about this period of his trips is Germany, the Nuremberg Radlmaier thanks to Steffen. Now his book, “Beckett in Bavaria. I’m happy when I’m out of here,” focuses, as the title suggests, the Bavarian cities by visiting the famous writer and is a true Trouvaille. Using excerpts from the hitherto largely unpublished “Deutsch Diaries” and with the help of letters, secondary literature and the oeuvre of the poet vividly reconstructs the journey Radlmaier and makes it clear that Beckett owes its impetus.

Although there were earlier publications already on its visit to Germany in the thirties, some about his days in Hamburg or Berlin. But had been prohibited since the nephew of the Irish writer, Edward Beckett, more detailed quote from the “Deutsch Diaries” – as he notes his uncle inexplicably holds for purely personal observations – it had grown to the six “German diaries” quiet . Today they are kept in the British University of Reading, where they can be viewed by experts. After the death of Samuel Beckett, the notebooks were found in a box in the basement of his Paris apartment on the Boulevard Saint-Jacques, a black notebook and five notebooks with red cover and the words “Memo Book”.

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Has mounted that Steffen Radlmaier despite the ban on passages from the German diaries with other sources of text to an exciting reading, provides a unique opportunity, the classic of the absurd in his monologues about aesthetic concepts, movies, music, literature and theater, but above all painting to eavesdrop on virtually private.

Gaunt face, smoothly combed back, gelled hair, wire-rimmed glasses and researchers view – in a photograph from the time of his visit to Germany, the young Beckett looks smart, but seriously at the camera. He had not time to laugh a lot. Try that with his novel “Murphy” to take a literary walk, were unsuccessful. He suffered from health problems, had a rash on his face and a painful boil on the buttocks. Financially, the writer was totally dependent on his mother, who made him so persistent allegations. In short, Beckett was in a veritable life crisis. Moreover, even his father and his high school sweetheart Peggy Sinclair had died, one cousin, he had visited repeatedly in Kassel. Thus, the educational trip to Germany offered a welcome change, but was also a kind of dealing with the past – a departure from more carefree times.

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In the diaries there are always references to visits to museums, because Beckett was a great art lover. He spoke German well and had acquired the language as a self-taught, to Goethe, Holderlin, Schopenhauer and can read the original. Happy Beckett draws sketches in his diaries, but also has travel information, reading notes and quotes meticulously laid on paper – often in a bizarre gibberish of English and German. “Unspeakable stew”, “dog weather again” or “SS Brass Band Concert” are just a few examples of this bilingual word creations.

“I’ve used this affair like a hole in the head”

 
SZ: Why did you become a lawyer?

Friedman: I wanted to know my rights. Because I am deeply convinced that the right is a corrective to the abuses of the state, but not only of the state.

SZ: Earn your money, especially as a lawyer?

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Friedman: That’s such an experience of children from refugee families: I’ve always done, never to be dependent. That’s why I’m always aware of income from different occupations: lawyer, journalist and television presenter. Money to me is independence and freedom – but nothing more. I advise all young people to not look at his career choice to be primarily on income but on the content of his work. The rest will come alone.

SZ: 2003, a penalty was issued against you for possession of cocaine. Also said several Ukrainian prostitutes forced to work with you to have had sex. How heavy is a reboot after that?

Friedman: Of course I was not naive to think that this will not be revealed sooner or later. But my behavior was wrong, because there is nothing to sugarcoat. And then I started again at the bottom. Much more important than the confrontation with the reaction of the environment is but the internal process to identify why his life has blown up into the air.

SZ: How long have you used for this internal process?

Friedman: With safety were the two or three years, which were very difficult and violent, in which I have not been spared. The brain shrinks the thinking and self-criticism. But nothing is more demanding than that it was vital for me. I’m happier now than before the scandal. And yet I would have liked done differently. I needed this affair like a hole in the head.

SZ: You once said you would have died of loneliness and sadness, you would not have been caught.

Friedman: I would say that sentence just now.

SZ: What was the cause of everything?

Friedman: When my parents died, my life died. Six months later, then died too Ignatz Bubis, the caregiver was an important time in my life. I was lonely and sad and could not overcome. I have too little self-love. No excuse, but an explanation.

SZ: Before the affair had a nationwide talk show with two million viewers. Now you are the specialty channel N24.

Friedman: But successful journalistic and with absolute freedom. But it would be dishonest, that it would not make me happy, to have ten or twenty times as many viewers.

Europe’s desire for the “strong man”

 
More and more Europeans are for authoritarian forms of government, reports the Ebert-Stiftung. Racism and hatred of Jews is widespread – even in Germany.
In Europe, according to a new study by the growing desire for authoritarian forms of government. After that almost every third German is of the view that a “strong man” was needed at the tip, does not care about parliament and elections. Even in traditional democracies like Britain and France are more than 40 percent of this view. In countries such as Portugal and Poland, this proportion rises to more than 60 percent.

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More and more people condemning Islam as a lump sum “religious intolerance”. The picture shows a demonstration against a mosque in Cologne. (? DAPD)

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This is the result one now in Berlin study presented by researchers from the University of Bielefeld on behalf of the SPD-affiliated Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung. Focus of the survey representative of the population in eight EU Member States were anti-democratic attitudes and the attitudes towards minorities.

“Worrying”, the researchers evaluated that a majority in all countries have the feeling of not being understood by their politicians. This feeling of political powerlessness often go hand in hand with the desire for a strong leader figure.

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Prejudice and intolerance towards minorities are widely followed in Europe than previously assumed. About half of respondents believe there are too many immigrants in their country. Likewise, many require the preference for locals in jobs in times of crisis. Moreover, Islam is mostly flat as a “religion of intolerance” convicted.

Even anti-Semitic attitudes are then partly rooted in European societies. BE AUTHORIZED between 17 per cent of respondents in the Netherlands and more than 70 percent of Poles believe that “the Jews” were now take advantage of their persecution during the Nazi era. Almost every second German supports this theory.

A third of Europeans surveyed believe in the superiority of white over black people. The study examined the attitudes in Germany, Great Britain, France, Italy, Portugal, Poland, Hungary and the Netherlands

Attention by breaking taboos

 
It breathes and thinks: At last, time’s a saying. And then you are already relieved exhale through hypocrisy and outrage: But it says something is not done! Not in that tone! Not with these terms! And certainly not if one is federal bankers and SPD member.

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In Germany, works to attract attention by breaking taboos particularly well and easily, so there are also politicians and journalists who are really specialized. The great Nazi trauma has created a simple hierarchy of verbal taboos that everyone can access at any time and can hurt.

Hitler is always

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Adolf Hitler is as always. Turkish and English media are so happy to German Chancellor or Home Secretary is a Hitler or compare the Baltic Sea pipeline with the Hitler-Stalin pact. Hitler also worked very well domestically, but also dangerous, because this evil word is occasionally threatened to resign.

The rhetorical figure of the settlement calls for a collective intelligence on forever. Herta D?ubler-Gmelin compared Bush with Hitler is not so, but only aspects of Bush’s Iraq policy, with aspects of Hitler’s attack strategy. She had to withdraw anyway.

Experienced provocateurs like to say so instead of Hitler, Goebbels (Kohl Gorbachev) or Goering (Kohl Thierse), which creates sufficient outrage, resignation without risk. Even better – and even a bit cowardly – as Goering and Goebbels suits Bruening. Since the need to look professional discourse context once the evil guards themselves before they can explain the moral community to Emp?rungszusammenhang.

Then the Holocaust club: always good for a three-splitters. Compare the fate of the manager, for example with persecuted Jews to have Roland Koch, Hans-Werner Sinn and Christian Wulff is tendered for their clients, without really taking any damage. Is not quite true: Notorious offender of Nazi victims apparently run the risk of losing elections in Hesse.

Or: attention by outrage

Probat and very much less dangerous it is to draw attention and outrage through the use of Nazi vocabulary. Large populists such as Franz Josef Strauss (“rats and flies”) and Oskar Lafontaine (“foreign workers”) have experimented with it impressive.

A third category is the wanton Antriggern of xenophobia, racism and xenophobia. Last Juergen Ruettgers has attempted with the Romanians, and Berlusconi, this diminutive, immunity, and hair-loss-ridden Italians “. Obama is handsome, young and tanned”

Sexual verbal taboos run this country only in the eternal wetlands of the literature and the director’s theater, or to their own detriment, as when Thomas Goppel, who tried pathetically enough, “. Wowereit and partners who try every night to beat the biology to cheat”

Unaufgebrochene Emp?rungskultur creates Heuchelkultur. This is the best example of anti-Semitism. Because even the slightest deviation immediately punished and even the discussion of Israel’s Palestine policy in this country is moved too quickly in the vicinity of anti-Semitism thrives in the most repulsive in the unsaid, in secret, in the subconscious narrative, which is also brain-physiologically interesting process .

In general, the handlebars and evaluators of the chatter always great to watch even a little, not too quick to rebel and not about everything. Clockwise, otherwise boredom on one side and plain speaker and empty formula producers on the other side, which may then, nobody.

And another thing: a very deliberate provocation probate any resolution is always the Emp?rungsentzug. And the demand for qualified, what exactly you want to tell us, Herr Sarrazin?

Left, but Fascho

 
 
 
The young generation of leftist academics is their own tradition has become sinister. It represents the most uncritical solidarity with the Arab peoples who came from a combination of anti-imperialism and anti-Zionism, and recently a major question mark. This is a discussion, the students union of the Hans B?ckler Foundation and have suggested three years ago at a conference on “Antisemitism in the German left” out. This has created an anthology that has become something of a history of left anti-Semitism in Germany. nazi uniforms ss uniforms ww2 uniforms

He begins with the anti-Jewish writings of the philosopher Hegel, Bauer, Feuerbach and Marx. Markus Kneer turns out that is also found in these representatives of an enlightened understanding of freedom and world-Semitism. For them, Judaism is a backward religion that does not fit into their intellectual edifice. This was coupled with banal anti-Jewish emotions. The secular basis of Judaism, so it is with the rabbi’s son was Marx, the “self-interest, the thief, his worldly god: money.”

The more ideological – it seems – the more anti-Semitic, it went to the German left. A good example is the comparison between the SPD and KPD. Mario Kessler shows that anti-Semitic positions in the SPD during the Weimar Republic were only slight. Unfortunately, the SPD split shortly before they were banned in 1933 in anticipatory adjustment of their Jewish leaders.

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To become self-fascists

But this ignominious departure from the political stage is hardly to be compared with the offensive anti-Semitism of the KPD at the same time, the Olaf Kistenmacher describes. The Communist Jews began immediately with capitalist exploitation. Leaders such as Berlin’s Communist Party chairman Ruth Fischer, who himself had a Jewish family background, participated in an anti-capitalist and anti-Jewish agitation promoted thus, together with the Nazis, a mood that led to the outbreak of pogroms in 1923 in Berlin’s barn area. Even after the Nazis assumed the Red Flag Communist Party organ Jewish masterminds.

This tradition was continued after 1945 by the GDR. Their politics saw Israel as a beachhead outpost of American imperialism and the international monopoly capital, said Thomas Haury. Which was surpassed only by the foothills of the soixante-violent movement in the West, such as Wolfgang Kraushaar and Philipp Gessler show. In the agitation of the RAF and other left-wing terrorist groups of the Federal Republic were Zionism, capitalism, colonialism and imperialism one. Then the Jewish victims of fascism were the latest after the 1967 Six Day War itself has become fascists.

Also like the accusation brought by the Arab side, leaving Germany are derived from a guilty conscience toward Israel, was a popular motif leftist propaganda. Anti-Zionism was in these circles only a better word for no longer socially acceptable anti-Semitism, says Martin Kloke. This is evident in the language, but also demonstrated in a series of attacks by the failed bombing of the Jewish community center in Berlin in 1969 to the Entebbe hijacking of 1976th

Left-Semitism is not just a matter of German underdog. Juliane Wetzel stated that since the escalation of the Middle East conflict, an increase was recorded anti-Semitic prejudice in Europe. In the ranks of the left critic of globalization is called “One World Zionist terror” and makes anti-Semitic symbols against the policies of U.S. and Israeli front. Patterns that make the far right connectable to the anti-globalization movement.

For fear of capitalism

Anti-Semitism, shows Wetzel, the lowest common denominator of all those who consider themselves losers of modernization. The themed by Ilka Quindeau psychology of the Germans, whose anti-Semitism was often interpreted as an attempt, to ward off feelings of guilt towards the Jews, by making the victims of the perpetrators of yesterday, today is expected to play against this background, only a minor role.

Reveal the intent of anti-Semitism in their own ranks, shoots in this volume also sometimes about his goal. So out the comments J?rg Wollenberg for Jewish re-migration in the German labor movement after 1945 to a real settlement with the unions and the SPD. Wollenberg raises the workers’ movement by Kurt Schumacher and Hans B?ckler, which had wintered in the Third Reich before, to have denied the emigrants from their own ranks for a career in the Federal Republic.

Blame is among other things, the latent anti-Semitism. This assumption, however, remains a conjecture. Possibly, it serves the purpose, the rejection of the German trade unions from the concept of class struggle and turn to discredit the Social Partnership – a development that could not understand a lot of emigrants and also criticized Wollenberg.

In addition, we have reprinted the anti-German polemic Grigat Stephan, is the Israel of the “people become” alternative to the capitalism. Although the editors of Grigat distance and ask him a Gegenpolemik by Elfriede Müller on the page. But Grigat sectarian approach threatens to make fun of the debate.

The contributions of this book highlight historical, psychological and sociological aspects of anti-Semitism. You learn that anti-Semitism is not just a matter of rights and was, but since the end of the 19th Century political movements representing the cross-ideology that was nourished by the fear of global capitalism and Western ways of life and therefore was always politically exploited by leftists.

A discussion about anti-Semitism in the Left today is not without grave ideological struggles. Anti-Semitism in this debate is not about the Jews, Israel or the Middle East. All this is only the projection of an inward-looking debate about identity. Initiated by the Hans-B?ckler-doctoral anthology is the laudable attempt to correct an inherited identity, and left to get rid of the remnants of anti-Semitic leftist ideology.

The development seriously

There is increasing evidence that anti-Semitism is growing within Muslim circles in Germany socialized. This is not religiously motivated.

“And the hatred that she harbors against certain people, you shall not tempt you to act differently than justice.” It says so in the Koran. But lately, are accumulating reports and studies, for example, of the Amadeu Antonio Foundation, that the growing anti-Semitism in the Muslim milieu socialized in Germany.

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Muslim women follow the second Islam conference in Berlin. (? photo: AP)

Shockingly enough, that it is the immigrant group, the exclusion of the majority society and unacceptability, so complaining about Islamophobia, in turn, tends to Judeophobia. Were not just the Muslims in Europe, especially after 11 September suspicions and slanders exposed? They have not complained about it? Now they even tend to defame others and suspicious. And make just “foreigners out” common cause with those who shout slogans.

“You Jew” used as an insult Muslim youth, says the study. Ironically, those who are bothered by relatively harmless insults such as “garlic eaters”, “dago” or “camel jockeys”. And all this happens in the land of the Holocaust, anti-Semitism of the cruelest chapters in human history of the 20th Century led.

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It is legitimate to criticize Israel’s policies. It is also legitimate for Muslims to feel affected by the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. But Israel’s existence must be the boundary of the criticism. Those who deny Israel’s right to exist can not defend the right of existence of the Palestinians. Who “Death to Israel” calls, should not “Long live Palestine” scream. Those who despise human beings can not claim for itself to be even respected. Who wants equal treatment, equal treatment must practice.

Just for the Muslims in Germany, there would be a concern to fight against all forms of exclusion and discrimination. You should heed the advice of the Islamic world and the West respected Islamic philosopher Rumi: “Be generous and helpful as the water Be compassionate and merciful as the sun Be tolerant as the sea…”

The aforementioned study does not differentiate between Muslim nations. One can assume that anti-Semitism is widespread particularly among Arab youth. The Gaza conflict has fueled it further. But this anti-Semitism is not religiously motivated. It also emphasizes the Foundation: It “does not speak in the standard way by a religious, that Muslim anti-Semitism” should.

The Islamic associations in Germany point out that the reported cases of assaults against Jews with the current political and military confrontation in the Middle East have to do. Nevertheless, they have to take this development very seriously and take countermeasures in their sermons. But the Jewish community should establish contacts with the mosques. But it is distinguished. Not every criticism of Israeli policy is anti-Semitism.

Four foreign correspondents write here every Saturday over Germany. Celal ?zcan reported for the Turkish newspaper Hurriyet.