Turkish community warns of continued racism in Germany Posted: 2008/05/30
Germany's Turkish community warned of continued racism in the country, while marking the 15th anniversary of an anti-foreigner arson attack in the western city of Solingen which killed five Turkish women and girls, the press reported Thursday.
There is still a high degree of xenophobia in Germany society which has to be combated through better education, stressed the Turkish community of Germany (TGD) and the Foundation of Turkish Studies (ZfT) in a statement.
"Aggressive behaviour and prejudices are already being taught at the age of a child. Therefore, one must act pedagogically at an early stage," ZfT director,Faruk Sen was quoted saying.
There are 7.5 million foreigners living in Germany of which 2.5 million are Turks.
A recent confidential government report revealed widespread xenophobia among millions of teenagers in Germany.
Almost every German youth said there are too many foreigners living in Germany.
Nearly every 9th grader has Islamophobic tendencies while every 13 teenager admits to having committed a right-wing motivated criminal act.
Germany has been the scene of a series of vicious neo-Nazi attacks in recent months, especially against foreigners.
German Interior Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble has repeatedly warned of a growing far-right problem in his country, branding it a "steadily growing danger."
Schaeuble had voiced concern that the number of far-right crimes between 2005 and 2006 rose from 15,000 to 18,000 offenses, indicating a 9.3 percent increase.
Meanwhile, the number of anti-foreigner attacks hovered at 511 in 2006, showing a 37 percent rise from the previous year.
Political observers link the dramatic rise in the number of far-right crimes to the recent success of neo-Nazi parties in key regional elections in several east German states.
Young neo-Nazis feel also more and more emboldened to commit hate crimes, knowing that police won't charge them with an offense.
Most of the suspects implicated in far-right crimes are juveniles.
Hate crime experts and sociologists have repeatedly stressed that Germany's political leadership lacked a clear and effective strategy to fight neo-Nazi and racist crimes. --IRN ---------------------------------------------
What a tragedy. The rise of xenophobia and racism in Europe and the spread of antsemitism in the Arab world.
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These people need to leave Germany for their own good. Sooner or later this is going to blow up and it could get very ugly. Germany does not have a multi ethnic tradition. It's clear that Islam and western culture are not compatable at this point in history.
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One cannot come to someone's else's country and demand they stop their cultural process for those who refuse to drop medieval practices! It just aint't done! I take that back!
It is only in USA that this happens and the supporters are many who support this way! my bad!
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