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Germany launching multi-million dollar program to teach imams locally

Nov 23, 2019 11:00 am By Christine Douglass-Williams

“The government has long struggled with foreign involvement when it comes to the education of imams who lead Muslim communities across Germany. Now, a new educational association, with start-up funding from Germany’s interior ministry, is set to launch at the University of Osnabrück.”

The German Ministry of Education and Research has already invested $49.5 million USD to finance seven Islamic theology institutes across the country, courtesy of German taxpayers who have nothing better to do with their money.

There are many unanswered questions in this expensive proposition. Who is doing the teaching? If the teachers were taught by foreign influencers, they will simply pass on the same theology. Is Germany also prepared to dismantle all foreign-funded Islamic schools, mosques and Islamic centers that are currently in existence?

In another case of wishful thinking (or political posturing), Angela Merkel said: “These Muslims belong to Germany and in the same way their religion belongs to Germany, that is to say Islam.” But then she added that “the form of Islam practiced must conform to the country’s constitution.”

Germany has served as an example of how not to manage migration. Its leaders have offered no suggestions on how they intend to make sure that Islam conforms to the German constitution. One thing for certain: imams will not take instruction from kaffirs on how to teach Islam.

Germany has irrationally swung its doors open to mass and unvetted Muslim migration, and intends to do more of the same. The country’s migration and assimilation plans have no rhyme or reason to them: Germany has even lost track of a significant number of its asylum seekers. This latest venture “to take charge of imam education locally” is a face-saving gesture to appease the public, which is increasingly dissatisfied with Merkel’s mass migration policies. Germany is lost. Its public schools are already teaching Islam to students. Its future is clear.

“Germany set to take charge of imam education locally,” by Seda Serdar, DW, November 19, 2019:

The government has long struggled with foreign involvement when it comes to the education of imams who lead Muslim communities across Germany. Now, a new educational association, with start-up funding from Germany’s interior ministry, is set to launch at the University of Osnabrück on Thursday.

Even though some Muslim organizations have been training imams for their own communities in Germany, the majority of imams working in the country are affiliated with the Turkish-Islamic Union for Religious Affairs (DITIB).

Among Germany’s nearly 4.5 million Muslims, around 3 million are of Turkish origin.

Long awaited financing

It was precisely this influence that moved the German government to take such a bold step, Green party parliamentarian Filiz Polat told DW. It was a measure her party “had long been asking for,” she added.

DITIB is Germany’s largest Islamic umbrella group, with 900 affiliated mosques. Its imams are educated, financed and sent from Turkey….

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Filed Under: dhimmitude, Featured, Germany, Muslim clerics, Useful idiots Tagged With: Turkish-Islamic Union for Religious Affairs (DITIB), University of Osnabrück


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  1. Philis O'Shaughnessy says

    Nov 23, 2019 at 11:02 am

    Germany is proven to be a godless nation. Kill the wrong ones in ww2 , embrace the wrong ones in 2019. No respect for germany.

  2. Angemon says

    Nov 23, 2019 at 11:07 am

    Germany set to take charge of imam education locally

    Yes, I’m sure the imams will line up to learn islam from the infidels…

  3. Walter Sieruk says

    Nov 23, 2019 at 11:34 am

    . “The government has long struggled with foreign involvement when it comes to the education of imams who lead Muslim communities across Germany. Now, a new educational association, with start-up funding from Germany’s interior ministry, is set to launch at the University of Osnabrück.”
    Then this jihadwatch article further gave the information that “Angela Merkel said: “These Muslims belong to Germany and in the same way their religion belongs to Germany, that is to say Islam.” But then she added that “the form of Islam practiced must conform to the country’s constitution.”

    Merkel is very unrealistic and also ignorant especially in the last above, statement .For any “form of practiced, in Germany, must conform to the country’s constitution” would only be a “form of Islam “ that is a watered down from of Islam that is not completely on the Quran and is therefore non-violent.

    That form, type , of mild non- violent “Islam” would ,of course , be in strong contrast to the non-watered down hard core Quran based Islam of violence and killing , as found in the Quran in ,for example 2:191. 4:89. 5:33. 9:5,111,123. 47:4. Which is taught by many imams in the Middle East and Indonesia.

    • Westman says

      Nov 23, 2019 at 3:25 pm

      Yes, Walter, Merkel’s expecting, “the form of Islam practiced must conform to the country’s constitution.”, was another moment of coffee in the nostrils and a fit of laughter. What does she read, romance novels? Merkel certainly does not read the Quran.

      What will Germany pay these Imams to attend? And if it’s enough to bring them, can’t we just see these Imans reading something they brought, inserted into the handout material, like some school student with a comic book?

      The whole notion of “educating” Imams to alter their instruction to conform with the German Constitution, is hilariously absurd.

  4. Antiislamicman says

    Nov 23, 2019 at 11:43 am

    Just send them back before they kill you. Don’t mess about and be nice with Islam their plan is to dominate you and take over

  5. Ian Featherstone says

    Nov 23, 2019 at 11:54 am

    This is all well and good, but to my mind it’s a waste of time and cash!! When are these governments going to realise that this isn’t going to work!?? Everyone knows what the muslim agenda is, and that is a worldwide caliphate, so all this ‘integration’ is a wasted effort? Appeasement doesn’t work and never will with the muslim mindset!! It’s the equivalent of taking in a rattlesnake and hoping that it doesn’t bite you!! I remember someone wrote in about a python this guy had as a pet, and he mentioned that the python was laid out along his body length, and was cuddling him, he inquired was this a sign of affection?? The answer was no, the snake was checking out whether he was big enough so he could make a meal of his owner!!

  6. John C van Doodewaard says

    Nov 23, 2019 at 12:13 pm

    Germany’s government under headed up by Angela Merkel, is totally blind for the reality. Germany is being conquered by Islam. All countries allowing multitudes of Muslims to come into their lands will see their societies being destroyed and ultimately conquered by them.

  7. underbed cat says

    Nov 23, 2019 at 12:15 pm

    Nothing says conquered mission of the jihadist (isis, alqueda, daesh, boko haram, Saudi finance or turkey terror) it is mission accomplished. I couldn’t get through reading this article before getting upset by this insanity. Add to that Germany will pay $49.5 million for the privelage of future Islamic terror and life under sharia. How about they exit from NATO. We know Hilter was first influenced by cooperation of muslim soldiers. they had similar percieved enemies…so I guess they should build that wall quick, ooppps too late. You are cordially invited to the OIC, just one question, are the Germans thinking or was she Merkal a subversive or is this a case that ignorance kills she appears to be ignorant of what consequences she has placed her non muslim citizens, has she not noticed Syria?

  8. Student of History says

    Nov 23, 2019 at 1:05 pm

    Better late than never is a commonly heard phrase.
    But, in this case I think it just too late and may as well have been never.

    NEVER should the borders have opened like they were, but then again Merkel needed the Coudenhove-Kalergi prize so badly she opened them. . .
    . .
    . . .and got the prize in 2017

  9. crawford421 says

    Nov 23, 2019 at 1:22 pm

    They still going to use the Koran? Is Mohammed still the “perfect man”? If yes to either question, it will make no difference.

    • rubiconcrest says

      Nov 23, 2019 at 1:50 pm

      They will have to burst the Mohammed is perfect,intolerance of others and sharia being compatible with the constitution falsehoods ….. but then there won’t be much left to teach these new Imams. And who will force the young Turks to attend the Mosques headed by them?

  10. David says

    Nov 24, 2019 at 4:48 pm

    Just think how much money Germany could have saved, not to mention German lives, if there were no Muslims in the country? Check out the example of Hungary.
    Teaching imams to suck eggs? Silly idea.

  11. Giacomo Latta says

    Nov 24, 2019 at 4:56 pm

    So Germany is going to take over Islam? Just Islam or all other religions as well? Is the solution unireligion like unisex is for gender? Is this Baha’i 2.0? Do I now have to become religious or am I allowed to think for myself? This is an uncertain step forward that is to be quickly followed by a face-plant.

  12. gravenimage says

    Jan 8, 2020 at 6:19 pm

    Germany launching multi-million dollar program to teach imams locally
    ………………

    As long as they will be teaching Islam it will not help.

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