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Integration Struggle Persists for Muslims in Germany
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The German government's response to a new coalition of major Muslim organizations — that the coalition doesn't represent enough Muslims — set the stage for little progress in a three-year discussion. And many Muslims there disagree on the meaning of integration.
Four major Muslim organizations in Germany have banded together in an umbrella group in hope of answering one of the government's complaints: that it has no one to talk to on issues involving integration, religion and combating extremism.
But the government's response to the group — that it doesn't represent enough Muslims — set the stage for little progress in the three-year-long discussion among government officials and Muslims in Germany, which has the second largest Muslim population in Europe.
Islamic groups want mosques to get the same recognition as churches, to be able to teach Islam in public schools, as Catholicism and Protestantism are taught. Some also want girls and boys to be separated for P.E. in schools. But many Muslims disagree on the meaning of integration.
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