Turkish "Guest Workers" are barely tolerated in Germany, and if for no other reason than this, it would put a damper on attempts to integrate Muslim Turkey with Christian Europe.
To top it all off we get this news from the Rhineland!
Trier, Germany (ENInews). A European form of Islam needs to develop before a meaningful interfaith dialogue can take place on the continent, the new leader of Germany’s 24 million Protestants has said.
“We are only at the beginning of a serious inter-religious discussion on a theologically high level and that is because there are problems with finding counterparts,” the Rev. Nikolaus Schneider told ENInews in a 17 November interview in Trier.
“The Imams who come from Turkey to Germany can hardly speak German and that means that we need to train Imams in Germany at our universities,” said Schneider, who was elected the new chairperson of the Evangelical Church in Germany (EKD) on 9 November during a meeting of its governing synod in Hanover.
In recent weeks an intense debate has raged in Germany about the willingness of Muslim immigrants to integrate and learn the language. A book claiming that Turkish Muslims are not willing to integrate reached the top of the non-fiction bestseller list.
Referring to Imams, he said, “They don’t know our cultural background, and they cannot preach in such a way so that they can provide orientation to the conditions of our society, but they preach as if the people are still living in Turkey.
Substitute Pakistan for Turkey and you get the situation here in Canada, and most of the Western World.
A twelfth century culture cannot operate within a twenty first century country and not expect major problems, which is what he have!
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