In Europe Islam becomes the second religion after Christianity

PanARMENIAN.Net - The wording "of Islamic origin" is of principle significance in this regard, because as the Ministry of Home Affairs mentions, not all the people having Islamic origins are loyal to their original religion.

In 1961 an agreement about taking on Turkish labor forces for the German market was signed between Germany and Turkey. In 1973 the German government seized the enrollment of the new workers. At the time there were more than 900.000 Turks living in the Federal Republic of Germany. There are completely different viewpoints on how the Germans get along with the large number of immigrants. The politicians have started to use the term "parallel worlds" oftener than before, meanwhile expressing their concern about the growing intolerance of the Muslim immigrants. In fact, the Turks, like all the other national minorities are inclined to self-isolation, which has its impact on all aspects of life. About 800.000 Muslims, mainly originating from Turkey, have German citizenship. At the same time the Turks also make the largest Islamic group not having citizenship of the Federal Republic of Germany; 1.8 million. The Bosnians are in the second place (200.000 people), then come the Iranians (100.000 people), the Moroccans (80.000 people) and the Afghans (70.000).

According to the Federal Department the 1-2 percent of Muslims living in Germany is involved in organizations, whose activities and aims maybe regarded as anti-constitutional. Many believers come together every day to pray in 300 mosques in Germany, where in about 100 mosques extremist tendencies are to be observed.

This is just statistic data. In fact, Muslims in Europe, particularly the Turks possess enough levers to lobby this or that law in Bundestag, or in Parliaments in Belgium, and the Netherlands. Due to their hard efforts the Karabakh issue, as well as the issue of the Armenian Genocide are misinterpreted in Germany, in Turkey's and Azerbaijani's favor. The interviews with German politicians, appearing in Azeri press from time to time clearly show that a very active work of writing a "new history" of Azerbaijan and, to some extent, of Turkey is underway. France makes an exception on account of a strong and organized "old" Armenian Community, which unlike others, has the clear-cut and exact vision of its aims and tasks. At the same time, the main difference between the majority of Muslims of Germany and France is that those living in France at least speak French. In Germany the Muslims originating from Turkey either speak German very poorly or do not speak the language at all.

According to the German Minister of Home Affairs, the Muslim Central Council in Germany condemns the Federal government, which, according to the organization, doesn't seem to be willing to equalize their rights with that of Christians. The government demanded to establish a common institution, which would introduce the interests of all the Muslims living in Germany. The established Coordinating Council, where the 4 largest associations are enrolled, introduces the interests of only 10 percent of Muslims. In Minister's opinion this doesn't allow the Coordinating Council to speak on behalf of all Muslims, with the number of 3.4 million living in the country, Deutshe welle writes. The Coordinating Council demanded from the government to introduce separate physical training classes in schools for Muslim boys and girls. However, the Federal Powers didn't conceal that they were against the request. "Gender equality is one of the most fundamental laws existing in Germany, which is not subject to any change. The bases for any dialogue with the Muslims are provided by the FRG Constitution, where the main regulations are not subject to be revised."

As it has been mentioned many a time the demographic reasons may become one of the most essential barriers for Turkey to be integrated into EU. Turkey, with its population of 70 million people, may "swallow" Europe, like it was about to happen 600 years ago during the Ottoman times. The only difference between those and the present days is that yataghan has been replaced by the demographic factor.