Harun Nasrullah
According to a survey by Germany’s largest Muslim group, anti-Muslim hate crimes have grown dramatically since the onset of the Israel-Hamas conflict.
Eyüp Kalyon, Secretary General of the Turkish-Muslim group the Turkish-Islamic Union for Religious Affairs (DITIB), has said propaganda by far-right politicians, and biased media coverage of the recent developments, have fuelled anti-Muslim sentiment in the country.
“According to a report from our anti-discrimination office, there have been 81 attacks against mosques since the beginning of this year.
Nearly half of them were recorded after October 7,” he told Anadolu, adding that more and more mosques are receiving racist threats.
alyon said that in northwestern Germany, unknown perpetrators sent anti-Muslim messages, burned pages of the Qur’an, threw pig’s meat and faeces towards the mosques, and drew Nazi symbols on the walls of several mosques.
He called on the government and authorities to take effective measures to ensure their security.
“We expect from the state to ensure the security of our mosques, as they are expected to do for other places of worship, churches, and synagogues. For us to practice our religion freely, the security of our mosques must be ensured,” he stressed.
Kalyon also said that they are receiving reports of growing racist incidents and verbal attacks against Muslim women in hijab on the streets.
With a population of over 84 million people, Germany has the second-largest Muslim population in Western Europe after France.
Among the country’s nearly 5.3 million Muslims, 3 million are of Turkish origin.
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