Icon: enlarge
Imam with audience in Cologne (archive picture): Preventing radicalization - but how?
Photo:
A3508 Rolf Vennenbernd / dpa
According to Federal Interior Minister Horst Seehofer, the latest series of Islamist attacks in Europe does not hinder cooperation between state institutions and Muslim associations in Germany.
Projects that have already started would be continued - and "we will not let terrorism and extremism get us off track," said the CSU politician in Berlin before a meeting of the German Islam Conference (DIK) began.
The new course for German-speaking imams in Osnabrück, which is sponsored by his ministry, is also a contribution to preventing radicalization and thus "money well spent for social cohesion in our country," said Seehofer.
It is crucial that the clergy trained there are then actually deployed as preachers in the mosque parishes, said CDU interior politician Christoph de Vries.
Because it is "fundamentally important" that the Islamic religious communities in this country are not organizationally, financially or personally dependent on foreign governments.
The German Islam Conference this year deals with the question of who should preach in which language in German mosques.
Due to the corona pandemic, the meeting will take place as a video conference.
Icon: The mirror
mxw / dpa