A conference starts off today in Germany and will run for a couple of days with speeches, committee talks, and some folks expressing agenda items. The conference? It's the 4th Islamic Conference of Germany.
The primary topic here? Well....a brand of German Islam (yet to be described or identified in any real terms).
ARD (German public TV, Channel One) goes and chats over the efforts of the conference for an article.
Problems? Well, from all the various groups and associations in Germany....only about a quarter of them sent someone to the conference, so it really doesn't represent the nation at large.
What German political figures will say is that they want a path going ahead which has less and less foreign influence upon German Muslims (for that, they are referring to influence from Turkey, Iran, and Saudi Arabia).
What would German Islam look like....if it did exist? The general chatter is that human rights, respect for the Constitution, and open dialog for older traditions (meaning you could talk about things being on a list to change or modify).
The odds that German Islam might come to exist? A couple of weeks ago, there was a documentary piece from Berlin where a different version of Islam was being allowed (at least by German authorities) to exist, and it was centered around a female Mullah-like figure. Yes, it's drawing some negativity from the older traditional types but so far, they've advanced on organizing and developing a different type of Islam.
The issue I see....is that this pace or trail required......involves decades (probably well over 50 years) before you see the bulk of Muslims in Germany under some type of religious umbrella where their German brand of Islam would be far more different from the traditional stuff. Being a threat to the traditionalists? Oh yes. But at this point in the game....where can some evolutionary stage come from?
No comments:
Post a Comment