The German Muslims are suffering more and more of the suspicions around them because of the growing wave of enmity between the west and Islam, formed after the terrorist attacks carried out against the Madrid railways stations, resulting in killing more 200 people. No doubt that such attacks have deepened the worries of the Muslim communities in Europe and Germany , in particularly, lest they may be badly marked as �criminal groups�.


�We are victims of the daily oral attacks and aggressive actions resulting from a growing wave of hatred and insulting�, Nadeem Elias, Head of the Central Council of the German Muslims, said. Nafiz Karmany, an expert in the Islamic studies, believes that these cases � are still in a phase which is not worrying�, but he warns that they may be worsened if the prejudice and hatred would be used in the coming elections or the debates about Turkey joining to the EU.

The Head of the Social and Cultural Islamic Institute in Colon, Norbert Muller, warns that the proposal submitted by the Bavaria Interior Ministry, G�nter Steinbeck, about using video cameras inside the mosques would make the German Muslims �under more suspicion from the public that would consider all Muslims as criminals�.

A great number of German Muslims feel isolated from the surrounding society, preferring to be self- centered to the extent that communicating their calls to the Islamic organization for opening to the values of co-existence and democracy has become more difficult.


Notwithstanding, a study carried out by the pro-Social Democratic Party Fredrisch- Ebert Establishment, has suggested that the majority of the German Muslims, about 3 million people, is not so abided with the rules of Islam, indicating that about 15 % belong to one of the Islamic organizations inside Germany.

Further, the Director of the Turkish Studies in Ibsen, Andreas Goldenburg, said that about 500 thousand Muslims perform the prayers regularly in the mosques, indicating that a Muslim per two ones does not go to the mosque for praying.

This indication reinforces the significance of the Muslims� participation in the civil and political society, provided that this participation covers �all fields from politics to the municipal councils�.

On the other hand, the government should strengthen its co-operation with the Muslim representative organizations and develop an informed policy for containing the Muslim community within the whole German society.

A great number of German Muslims stress the readiness to open an active and positive dialogue with the society, but the German public opinion seems conservative about containing the Muslim community as Norbert Muller stated that this mechanism has remained in complete isolation from debating on the matter of security, specially after the terrorist actions related by the western mentality with Islam. He continued that the debate on banning the Islamic headscarf (Hijjab) in the public schools, shown by many states that try to prohibit Hijjab, is another evidence to the misunderstanding between the two parts, indicating that Hijjab is considered an Islamic symbol for some German and a badge of the Islamic extremists for others.

Muller has called the conservative opposition to avoid the debate on Turkey joining to the EU in the forthcoming elections, warning that employing the card of defending Christianity and West against Islam will lead to deepen the hatred felt by the Europeans, not only against the foreigners, but against Islam itself.