Discrimination against Muslims is expanding in Germany

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In Germany, hatred and discrimination against the religion of Islam and Muslims manifests itself in the roughest form in various areas of society. The results of various sociological surveys, scientific studies, as well as the reports of official state bodies show that Muslims face discrimination and violence from time to time because of their religious identity. Despite the fact that Germany is also the homeland of Muslims, discrimination against them has reached the level of state policy, and the government does not have the political will to serve a concrete result in order to fundamentally eliminate this problem.

These ideas are contained in Anar Allahverdi's article entitled "Discrimination against Muslims is expanding in Germany".

The article also mentions: “It is possible to understand this clearly only by looking at the 2022 report. Thus, according to the report of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Germany, 569 attacks and acts of violence against Muslims and mosques were carried out in the country during the year. Only one case of violent and criminal acts was investigated and the perpetrator was brought to justice. No action was taken on the remaining 568 cases of crime and violence.

One of those cases of psychological-criminal violence happened on June 8 of this year in Maulbronn, Baden-Württemberg. An unidentified group of people drove a passenger car in front of the mosque in that city and threw the burnt "Quran-Karim" in their hands into the courtyard of the mosque. This incident was recorded by the security cameras of the mosque belonging to the Turkish-Islamic Union (DITIB). The incident was officially registered at the city police department based on the video materials and the written request of the representatives of the mosque. It should be noted that the same mosque was attacked by the opponents of Islam on March 14, 2014, and at that time the walls, windows and entrance door of the mosque were painted with Nazi swastikas.

In general, in 2022, compared to previous years, a significant increase in the number of applications made by individuals to the Federal Anti-Discrimination Agency was registered. Thus, in 2022, the Anti-Discrimination Agency received 8,827 applications, and this number is 14 percent more than in 2021. When we compare the number of applications in 2022 with 2019, we see that the growth rate has more than doubled. One out of every twenty appeals is related to religious discrimination.[4]

The rapid spread of anti-Islamic racism in Germany is a serious threat to every Muslim living in this country. Current research suggests that the expansion of religious racism against Muslims is a trend in German society. A short time ago, a team of ten independent experts conducted a study containing a 400-page report[5] on "Muslim hostility in German society". The report notes that one in two Germans agree with calls for Muslim hostility in one way or another, and accept outright anti-Muslim calls as normal. In addition, the study found that those belonging to the Muslim religious identity face more oppression than other groups of people who are discriminated against. In particular, women who wear headscarves say that they are subjected to brutal pressures because they are Muslims. According to the report, there is a continuous increase in the occurrence of such cases in the media, public and government offices.

There is an approach to Azerbaijan and the territorial problem, which it has been exposed to for a long time, precisely in the context of the above-mentioned religious discrimination. Thus, in addition to the press, which plays a key role in the formation of public opinion in German society, the fact of Armenia's occupation is constantly presented in the political science literature as "the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict between Christian Armenia and Muslim Azerbaijan". The nature of the conflict and legal-political identification suggest that the Karabakh conflict has never had a religious character. This was the result of Armenia's territorial claims against Azerbaijan and the biased "efforts" of some forces trying to realize the dream of "Greater Armenia". Displacing more than one million Azerbaijanis from their homeland, Armenia occupied 20 percent of the territory of Azerbaijan for 30 years, destroyed the cities and villages there, and looted the natural resources.

In such a case, a serious question arises as to what purpose the presentation of the conflict in a religious context serves. Finding the answer to the question is not so difficult considering that the absolute majority of the population in Germany is not Muslim. Thus, it becomes clear what the real purpose is. Those sources that influence public opinion in German society try to manipulate the position of people who do not have access to information on the conflict as much as possible. In addition to the above, the related analysis of the research conducted in this direction and the reports presented suggests that not only the approach to people, their beliefs and worldviews, but also the approach to interstate conflicts is formed based on the context of religious discrimination in German society. The above-mentioned facts in themselves create serious grounds for the claim that religious discrimination is a state policy in Germany."

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