ஜெர்மன் தலைநகரத்தில் இரண்டு இந்துக்கோவில்கள் கட்ட திட்டமிடப்பட்டுள்ளது. ஒன்று பிள்ளையார் கோவில், மற்றொன்று முருகன் கோவில்
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Mike Swanson, Indo-Asian News Service
Berlin, February 24, 2008
First Published: 22:17 IST(24/2/2008)
Last Updated: 22:29 IST(24/2/2008)
After years of praying in a cellar in a west Berlin street, the German capital's 6,000 Hindus can look forward to worshipping in two brand new temples.
A local Hindu group this week announced plans to build a temple to Lord Murugan, just three months after other Hindus conducted a groundbreaking ceremony for one dedicated to the deity Ganesha.
"We want to create a religious place for worshippers from the south of India and Sri Lanka," said Nadarajah Thiagarajah, chairman of the Sri Mayurapathy Murugan Temple Association.
The association has agreed on terms with local officials in the Berlin suburb of Neukoelln to buy a 744-sq m plot of land for the temple for 170,000 euros ($260,000).
Total cost of the project is expected to be around 600,000 euros ($890,000), with the bulk of the funding coming from donations from Hindus in Germany, Britain and other countries, said Thiagarajah.
"We hope that construction work can start in July when a festival dedicated to Murugan takes place," he said.
When completed at the end of 2009 the temple will be able to accommodate 120 worshippers. It will have an 11-metre-high tower that its designers say will symbolize the link to heaven.
"Our present quarters in the Urbanstrasse are too small," said Thiagarajah, a 62-year-old former radio officer in the Sri Lanka navy who has lived in Germany since 1981.
Thiagarajah says the new temple is not meant to rival the larger one dedicated to Ganesha, which will also be built in Neukoelln, a working-class district with a large immigrant population and widespread unemployment.
"We are on very friendly terms and often meet up together," he said of the two groups.
Vilwanathan Krishnamurthy, vice president of the Sri Ganesha Hindu Temple Committee, said the Murugan temple backers were asked if they wanted to join forces for a single project.
But they declined because they wanted one to their own god, who stands for war as well as beauty and family values. Most of the Murugan worshippers are Tamils from southern India and Sri Lanka.
Work on the Ganesha temple is expected to begin in April. Original plans called for it to be completed in 2009, but it looks as though it will not be finished until a year later.
The temple trustees say they have already amassed the 900,000 euros ($1.33 million) needed for the complex from donations made by Indian businessmen and other worshippers.
The temple will be constructed in a corner of the 84-hectare Hasenheide Park after officials in Neukoelln allowed the Hindu community to use the land rent-free until 2080.
The original design comes from an Indian specializing in temple architecture. German architects had to vet the drawings to make sure they conformed to German building requirements.
A 17-metre high ornamental tower dominates the entrance to the complex, which will contain one large temple with seating capacity for more than 350 and four smaller temples.
"Work on the tower and its ornamental carvings will take more than one year," said Krishnamurthy, who also chairs Berlin's Tamil Cultural society and gives dance and music classes in his spare time.
Stone carvings decorating the entrance will be imported from India.
The Berlin sites will bring to three the number of Hindu temples in Germany after the one in Hamm, a city of 150,000 in the populous western state of North Rhine-Westphalia. When completed, the Ganesha temple will be the second biggest in Europe after the Shri Venkateswara, which opened near Birmingham, England, in August 2006.
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Monday, August 25, 2008
ஜெர்மனியில் இந்துகோவில் கட்ட நாஸிகள் எதிர்ப்பு
ஜெர்மனியில் இந்து கோவில் கட்டுவதற்கு நவ நாஸிகள் எதிர்ப்பு தெரிவித்துள்ளனர்.
Neo-Nazis protest Hindu temple
23/08/2008 21:05 - (SA)
Berlin - About 150 supporters of Germany's far-right National Democratic Party demonstrated on Saturday in Berlin against the building of a Hindu temple.
A member of an extreme-right group, who had been subject to an arrest warrant, was seized during the neo-Nazi rally, according to a Berlin police spokesperson.
At the same time, about 500 people staged a protest against the NPD demonstration.
In total, eight people were arrested during the two rallies, for which 800 policemen were mobilised.
Construction work on the Hindu temple is scheduled to begin early next year, in the multi-ethnic district of Neukoelln in south Berlin.
Neo-Nazis protest Hindu temple
23/08/2008 21:05 - (SA)
Berlin - About 150 supporters of Germany's far-right National Democratic Party demonstrated on Saturday in Berlin against the building of a Hindu temple.
A member of an extreme-right group, who had been subject to an arrest warrant, was seized during the neo-Nazi rally, according to a Berlin police spokesperson.
At the same time, about 500 people staged a protest against the NPD demonstration.
In total, eight people were arrested during the two rallies, for which 800 policemen were mobilised.
Construction work on the Hindu temple is scheduled to begin early next year, in the multi-ethnic district of Neukoelln in south Berlin.
Wednesday, September 05, 2007
பெண்குறி வெட்டுவதிலிருந்து சிறுமிகளை ஜெர்மன் போலிஸார் காப்பாற்றினர்
பிரெமன் , ஜெர்மனியில் ஒரு அபார்மண்ட்டில் கைக்குழந்தைகளுக்கு பெண்குறி வெட்டுவது நடக்கப்போகிறது என்று தெரிந்து அதனை முற்றுகையிட்டு அந்த பெண்களை காப்பாற்றியுள்ளனர் ஜெர்மன் பெண்கள் உரிமை அமைப்பினர்.
இதற்கு ஜெர்மன் போலீஸாரும் ஒத்துழைத்துள்ளனர்
Barbarism in Bremen
By Stephen Brown
FrontPageMagazine.com | 9/4/2007
It was an anti-terrorism raid with a big difference.
Police in Bremen, Germany, raided an apartment recently not to arrest any terrorists but rather to prevent two of its occupants from being terrorized by another form of barbarism: female genital mutilation. In what has been described as “a first” by a German women’s organization, authorities in the northern, port city were able to intervene and thwart a planned, female circumcision of two girls aged one and four. The infants, taken into state care, were to have undergone the horrifying procedure in their 25-year-old mother’s native country of Gambia at a female circumcision ritual.
However, the girls’ German father discovered the mother’s gruesome plan when he returned home one evening and found two packed bags and his daughters missing. Very fortunately for the girls, their father was vehemently opposed to the hideous ordeal his wife of five years, whom he had married “according to Muslim law”, was planning for them. Already aware of the father’s fierce opposition to her scheme, the mother had hidden the intended victims among countrymen at another apartment, from which at least the one-year-old was slated to leave the next day for the West African country.
An ensuing, loud argument between the two parents about the mother’s scheme luckily drew a visit from the police, now keen on finding the two little girls. The mother, however, refused to help the authorities and was taken into custody for obstructing police. But other Gambian women indicated where the toddlers were hidden, leading to their timely rescue.
It is estimated that 30,000 women living in Germany have undergone female genital mutilation, most in their native countries, and are part of the one hundred and thirty million women worldwide who have suffered the same, tragic fate. In addition, three million females, mostly girls aged four to ten, but babies as well, undergo this savage “operation” every year, while in Germany alone as many as 5,000 girls are in danger annually of joining that number.
According to one German publication, female genital mutilation is carried on especially in Africa where about 90 to 100 per cent of the women in such countries as Somalia, the Sudan and Gambia are circumcised. It is also practiced in the Middle Eastern countries of Oman, Yemen and the United Arab Emirates, but does not exist in any North African country except for Egypt. Muslims in Indonesia and Malaysia also subject women to it. But while Muslim women are the main victims of female genital mutilation, African animist tribes, Coptic Christians and Ethiopian Jews also are guilty of the horrid practice, which pre-dates Islam. As well, many of these countries have launched their own campaigns to eradicate this terrible social blight.
The reasons given for the revolting practice are that it is traditional and prevents women from having sexual feelings, thus “saving” them from their own sexuality and leaving them “pure” for a future husband. An impure, or uncircumcised, woman would never be able to marry in some of the above-mentioned countries’ cultures. The practice, therefore, ensures the girl’s future standing as a wife and mother.
Female genital mutilation first came to the attention of western nations, including the United States and Canada, in the 1990s. Immigrants and refugees from the approximately 25 countries where it is practiced brought this anti-civilizational custom with them. One writer stated that hardly anything at that time shook western states more deeply than the realization that this brutal habit was being carried on within their borders.
Since then, western countries have introduced legal measures to fight the practice. It is now grounds for an asylum claim in some industrial states. As well, in 1999 in France, for the first time a woman was also given a long, prison sentence for having performed “innumerable” female circumcisions, while the parents were given probation. France and Germany have also made it illegal not only to have the offensive procedure done within their borders, but also abroad, since parents were flying their daughters back to their native countries after its proscription in the West.
One such victim, Fatou Bah, who now opposes the practice, gave a poignant account to a French newspaper about how she flew with her father back to her parents’ native Guinea in Africa, ostensibly to get to know her grandmother before she died. Fatou, now a mother of a girl herself, was 11-years old and had been born in France and grown up French, which naturally left her completely unprepared her for her the terrifying ordeal.
Her first week in Guinea was calm, Fatou related, with unknown women passing by, who talked with her father. One afternoon during the next week, however, she found herself stretched out in a room beside six other small girls for the “operation”, done without anesthetic. A girl lying beside Fatou died from it. Once back in France, her mother showed her daughter off “like a trophy” to the cousins who congratulated the parent for not forgetting the traditions. And when Fatou cried, the little girl’s mother warned her not to denounce her parents to the authorities or they would go to jail and she would be put in a home where she would be beaten and receive nothing to eat. Her father simply threatened to kill her if she did so.
Now joining the fight against this barbarism fit for a medieval torture chamber are European Muslim women who have themselves been genitally mutilated. The most prominent among them is Dutch-Somali Muslim dissident, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, the former Dutch Member of Parliament whose best-selling autobiography, Infidel, outlines in painful, excruciating detail her own terrible genital mutilation experience as well as that of her younger sister’s, who, she claims, was never the same person afterwards. Both sisters had their inner labia and clitoris cut off by a man with a pair of scissors, causing her indescribable, piercing pain and “bloodcurdling howls” from her sister.
But the brutality Hirsi Ali and her sister underwent is often only the victim’s first experience in what will afterwards become a life of physical pain and psychological torment. While five to ten per cent of the girls who undergo the often unhygienic procedure die, many others will suffer for years from various medical complications from the mutilation.
Nevertheless, despite all efforts to prevent it, Hirsi Ali and others maintain that female genital mutilation is still being carried out on kitchen tables in Western Europe. Ten per cent of German gynecologists in a 2005 survey said they had heard of female circumcisions performed in Germany, while almost half of them stated they had treated women who had undergone the cruelty. Some European nations like Germany are now also considering legally required medical examinations of girls before and after they visit countries where the practice is carried on. But more education, experts say, is needed for prevention and a good place to start is with those circumcised women treated by medical professionals.
Another good start is books to inform the general public like Die Traenen der Toechter (The Tears of the Daughters), an autobiography by the Senegalese woman, Khady, who describes her genital mutilation at age seven like “a rat attacked my body.” It was seventh on the bestseller list in France when published in 2005 and was on Germany’s bestseller’s list last July. Like Hirsi Ali and Fatou Bah, what Khady wants is that “women do not let this barbarism be repeated on their daughters, who are already born or are still to be born, from which they will have to suffer their whole lives.”
And you can bet these three compassionate women, who have had to suffer so much from this barbaric practice and know firsthand the terrible fate that awaited the two innocent Bremen girls in Gambia, appreciate very much the efforts of their German father and the Bremen police in saving their precious lives from ruination and perhaps even from death.
Stephen Brown is a columnist for Frontpagemag.com. Email him at alsolzh@hotmail.com.
இதற்கு ஜெர்மன் போலீஸாரும் ஒத்துழைத்துள்ளனர்
Barbarism in Bremen
By Stephen Brown
FrontPageMagazine.com | 9/4/2007
It was an anti-terrorism raid with a big difference.
Police in Bremen, Germany, raided an apartment recently not to arrest any terrorists but rather to prevent two of its occupants from being terrorized by another form of barbarism: female genital mutilation. In what has been described as “a first” by a German women’s organization, authorities in the northern, port city were able to intervene and thwart a planned, female circumcision of two girls aged one and four. The infants, taken into state care, were to have undergone the horrifying procedure in their 25-year-old mother’s native country of Gambia at a female circumcision ritual.
However, the girls’ German father discovered the mother’s gruesome plan when he returned home one evening and found two packed bags and his daughters missing. Very fortunately for the girls, their father was vehemently opposed to the hideous ordeal his wife of five years, whom he had married “according to Muslim law”, was planning for them. Already aware of the father’s fierce opposition to her scheme, the mother had hidden the intended victims among countrymen at another apartment, from which at least the one-year-old was slated to leave the next day for the West African country.
An ensuing, loud argument between the two parents about the mother’s scheme luckily drew a visit from the police, now keen on finding the two little girls. The mother, however, refused to help the authorities and was taken into custody for obstructing police. But other Gambian women indicated where the toddlers were hidden, leading to their timely rescue.
It is estimated that 30,000 women living in Germany have undergone female genital mutilation, most in their native countries, and are part of the one hundred and thirty million women worldwide who have suffered the same, tragic fate. In addition, three million females, mostly girls aged four to ten, but babies as well, undergo this savage “operation” every year, while in Germany alone as many as 5,000 girls are in danger annually of joining that number.
According to one German publication, female genital mutilation is carried on especially in Africa where about 90 to 100 per cent of the women in such countries as Somalia, the Sudan and Gambia are circumcised. It is also practiced in the Middle Eastern countries of Oman, Yemen and the United Arab Emirates, but does not exist in any North African country except for Egypt. Muslims in Indonesia and Malaysia also subject women to it. But while Muslim women are the main victims of female genital mutilation, African animist tribes, Coptic Christians and Ethiopian Jews also are guilty of the horrid practice, which pre-dates Islam. As well, many of these countries have launched their own campaigns to eradicate this terrible social blight.
The reasons given for the revolting practice are that it is traditional and prevents women from having sexual feelings, thus “saving” them from their own sexuality and leaving them “pure” for a future husband. An impure, or uncircumcised, woman would never be able to marry in some of the above-mentioned countries’ cultures. The practice, therefore, ensures the girl’s future standing as a wife and mother.
Female genital mutilation first came to the attention of western nations, including the United States and Canada, in the 1990s. Immigrants and refugees from the approximately 25 countries where it is practiced brought this anti-civilizational custom with them. One writer stated that hardly anything at that time shook western states more deeply than the realization that this brutal habit was being carried on within their borders.
Since then, western countries have introduced legal measures to fight the practice. It is now grounds for an asylum claim in some industrial states. As well, in 1999 in France, for the first time a woman was also given a long, prison sentence for having performed “innumerable” female circumcisions, while the parents were given probation. France and Germany have also made it illegal not only to have the offensive procedure done within their borders, but also abroad, since parents were flying their daughters back to their native countries after its proscription in the West.
One such victim, Fatou Bah, who now opposes the practice, gave a poignant account to a French newspaper about how she flew with her father back to her parents’ native Guinea in Africa, ostensibly to get to know her grandmother before she died. Fatou, now a mother of a girl herself, was 11-years old and had been born in France and grown up French, which naturally left her completely unprepared her for her the terrifying ordeal.
Her first week in Guinea was calm, Fatou related, with unknown women passing by, who talked with her father. One afternoon during the next week, however, she found herself stretched out in a room beside six other small girls for the “operation”, done without anesthetic. A girl lying beside Fatou died from it. Once back in France, her mother showed her daughter off “like a trophy” to the cousins who congratulated the parent for not forgetting the traditions. And when Fatou cried, the little girl’s mother warned her not to denounce her parents to the authorities or they would go to jail and she would be put in a home where she would be beaten and receive nothing to eat. Her father simply threatened to kill her if she did so.
Now joining the fight against this barbarism fit for a medieval torture chamber are European Muslim women who have themselves been genitally mutilated. The most prominent among them is Dutch-Somali Muslim dissident, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, the former Dutch Member of Parliament whose best-selling autobiography, Infidel, outlines in painful, excruciating detail her own terrible genital mutilation experience as well as that of her younger sister’s, who, she claims, was never the same person afterwards. Both sisters had their inner labia and clitoris cut off by a man with a pair of scissors, causing her indescribable, piercing pain and “bloodcurdling howls” from her sister.
But the brutality Hirsi Ali and her sister underwent is often only the victim’s first experience in what will afterwards become a life of physical pain and psychological torment. While five to ten per cent of the girls who undergo the often unhygienic procedure die, many others will suffer for years from various medical complications from the mutilation.
Nevertheless, despite all efforts to prevent it, Hirsi Ali and others maintain that female genital mutilation is still being carried out on kitchen tables in Western Europe. Ten per cent of German gynecologists in a 2005 survey said they had heard of female circumcisions performed in Germany, while almost half of them stated they had treated women who had undergone the cruelty. Some European nations like Germany are now also considering legally required medical examinations of girls before and after they visit countries where the practice is carried on. But more education, experts say, is needed for prevention and a good place to start is with those circumcised women treated by medical professionals.
Another good start is books to inform the general public like Die Traenen der Toechter (The Tears of the Daughters), an autobiography by the Senegalese woman, Khady, who describes her genital mutilation at age seven like “a rat attacked my body.” It was seventh on the bestseller list in France when published in 2005 and was on Germany’s bestseller’s list last July. Like Hirsi Ali and Fatou Bah, what Khady wants is that “women do not let this barbarism be repeated on their daughters, who are already born or are still to be born, from which they will have to suffer their whole lives.”
And you can bet these three compassionate women, who have had to suffer so much from this barbaric practice and know firsthand the terrible fate that awaited the two innocent Bremen girls in Gambia, appreciate very much the efforts of their German father and the Bremen police in saving their precious lives from ruination and perhaps even from death.
Stephen Brown is a columnist for Frontpagemag.com. Email him at alsolzh@hotmail.com.
Thursday, July 26, 2007
இஸ்லாமை நவீனப்படுத்துவது சாத்தியமில்லை - முன்னாள் முஸ்லீம்
ஜெர்மனியில் முன்னாள் முஸ்லீம்கள் இணைந்து Central Council of Ex-Muslims in Germany என்ற அமைப்பை தோற்றுவித்துள்ளனர்.
இந்த அமைப்பின் நிறுவனரான மினா அஹாதி (ஈரானில் பிறந்தவர்) இஸ்லாமை நவீன்படுத்துவது சாத்தியமில்லை. இஸ்லாமிய பெண்கள் இஸ்லாமைவிட்டு வெளியேறுவதை தவிர வேறு வழியில்லை என்று கூறினார்.
ஜெர்மன் போன்ற நாடுகள் இஸ்லாமுக்கு சகிப்பதன்மையுடன் நடந்துகொள்கின்றன. அது தவறு என்றும் குறிப்பிட்டார்.
இவருக்கு பலரிடமிருந்து கொலை மிரட்டல்கள் வந்ததால் போலீஸ் பாதுகாப்புடன் இந்த அமைப்பு இயங்குகிறது.
INTERVIEW WITH FOUNDER OF "COUNCIL OF EX-MUSLIMS"
"Not Possible to Modernize Islam"
Human rights activists have formed a "Central Council of Ex-Muslims in Germany" to help women renounce the Islamic faith if they feel oppressed by its laws. Its Iranian-born founder Mina Ahadi, under police protection after receiving death threats, talks to DER SPIEGEL about its goals.
Mina Ahadi has received death threats after founding the group.
An Iranian human rights activist living in Germany has formed a "Central Council of ex-Muslims in Germany" with 40 others and has received anonymous death threats after declaring she wants to help people to leave the religion if they so desire.
Iranian-born Mina Ahadi, 50, said she set up the group to highlight the difficulties of renouncing the Islamic faith which she believes to be misogynist. She wants the group to form a counterweight to Muslim organisations that she says don't adequately represent Germany's secular-minded Muslim immigrants.
Ahadi has been put under police protection in recent days. Renouncing Islam can carry the death penalty in a number of countries including Iran, Saudi-Arabia, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Sudan and Mauritania. In other countries people who turn their backs on the faith aren't punished by courts, but they are often ostracized by family and friends. It's a difficult subject among Muslim communities in Europe too.
Ahadi said she wants the new organization to help women who feel oppressed by the rules of the faith to find a way out. The Council will hold a news conference in Berlin on Wednesday to outline its goals.
DER SPIEGEL spoke to Ahadi.
SPIEGEL: Together with 29 other immigrants from Muslim countries you have declared that you have renounced Islam. The campaign is similar to one launched in the 1970s by women who declared publicly that they had had abortions. What is your purpose?
Ahadi: I haven't been a Muslim for 30 years. I'm also critical of Islam in Germany and of the way the German government deals with the issue of Islam. Many Muslim organisations like the Central Council of Muslims in Germany (ZMD) or Milli Görüs engage in politics or interfere in people's everyday lives. They were invited to the conference on Islam (hosted by the government in Berlin last year). But their aims are hostile to women and to people in general."
SPIEGEL: Why?
Ahadi: They want to force women to wear the headscarf. They promote a climate in which girls aren't allowed to have boyfriends or go to discos and in which homosexuality is demonized. I know Islam and for me it means death and pain.
SPIEGEL: What will your organization do?
Ahadi: One example: One representative of the Central Council of Muslims in Germany said that a carnival procession float (during the recent carnival in Germany) showing Islamists with explosive belts had offended Muslims. But there was no evidence of that. The associations pretend that they represent everyone and to some extent are acknowledged as such by the German side. That's bad. We have to give a signal against that and say: Not in our name. We are secular humanists. We want to give these people a voice. Someone has to make a start. We're advocating human rights.
SPIEGEL: Some of your members are also active in communist organizations in their home countries.
Ahadi: Yes, many were active in left-wing groups. We have received more than 100 membership applications in recent days. We want to create a new movement, in other European countries too. We hope that soon there will be 10,000 of us representing many more people.
SPIEGEL: Won't your campaign just harden the battle lines?
Ahadi: I don't think it's possible to modernize Islam. We want to form a counterweight to the Muslim organisations. The fact that we're doing this under police protection shows how necessary our initiative is.
இந்த அமைப்பின் நிறுவனரான மினா அஹாதி (ஈரானில் பிறந்தவர்) இஸ்லாமை நவீன்படுத்துவது சாத்தியமில்லை. இஸ்லாமிய பெண்கள் இஸ்லாமைவிட்டு வெளியேறுவதை தவிர வேறு வழியில்லை என்று கூறினார்.
ஜெர்மன் போன்ற நாடுகள் இஸ்லாமுக்கு சகிப்பதன்மையுடன் நடந்துகொள்கின்றன. அது தவறு என்றும் குறிப்பிட்டார்.
இவருக்கு பலரிடமிருந்து கொலை மிரட்டல்கள் வந்ததால் போலீஸ் பாதுகாப்புடன் இந்த அமைப்பு இயங்குகிறது.
INTERVIEW WITH FOUNDER OF "COUNCIL OF EX-MUSLIMS"
"Not Possible to Modernize Islam"
Human rights activists have formed a "Central Council of Ex-Muslims in Germany" to help women renounce the Islamic faith if they feel oppressed by its laws. Its Iranian-born founder Mina Ahadi, under police protection after receiving death threats, talks to DER SPIEGEL about its goals.
Mina Ahadi has received death threats after founding the group.
An Iranian human rights activist living in Germany has formed a "Central Council of ex-Muslims in Germany" with 40 others and has received anonymous death threats after declaring she wants to help people to leave the religion if they so desire.
Iranian-born Mina Ahadi, 50, said she set up the group to highlight the difficulties of renouncing the Islamic faith which she believes to be misogynist. She wants the group to form a counterweight to Muslim organisations that she says don't adequately represent Germany's secular-minded Muslim immigrants.
Ahadi has been put under police protection in recent days. Renouncing Islam can carry the death penalty in a number of countries including Iran, Saudi-Arabia, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Sudan and Mauritania. In other countries people who turn their backs on the faith aren't punished by courts, but they are often ostracized by family and friends. It's a difficult subject among Muslim communities in Europe too.
Ahadi said she wants the new organization to help women who feel oppressed by the rules of the faith to find a way out. The Council will hold a news conference in Berlin on Wednesday to outline its goals.
DER SPIEGEL spoke to Ahadi.
SPIEGEL: Together with 29 other immigrants from Muslim countries you have declared that you have renounced Islam. The campaign is similar to one launched in the 1970s by women who declared publicly that they had had abortions. What is your purpose?
Ahadi: I haven't been a Muslim for 30 years. I'm also critical of Islam in Germany and of the way the German government deals with the issue of Islam. Many Muslim organisations like the Central Council of Muslims in Germany (ZMD) or Milli Görüs engage in politics or interfere in people's everyday lives. They were invited to the conference on Islam (hosted by the government in Berlin last year). But their aims are hostile to women and to people in general."
SPIEGEL: Why?
Ahadi: They want to force women to wear the headscarf. They promote a climate in which girls aren't allowed to have boyfriends or go to discos and in which homosexuality is demonized. I know Islam and for me it means death and pain.
SPIEGEL: What will your organization do?
Ahadi: One example: One representative of the Central Council of Muslims in Germany said that a carnival procession float (during the recent carnival in Germany) showing Islamists with explosive belts had offended Muslims. But there was no evidence of that. The associations pretend that they represent everyone and to some extent are acknowledged as such by the German side. That's bad. We have to give a signal against that and say: Not in our name. We are secular humanists. We want to give these people a voice. Someone has to make a start. We're advocating human rights.
SPIEGEL: Some of your members are also active in communist organizations in their home countries.
Ahadi: Yes, many were active in left-wing groups. We have received more than 100 membership applications in recent days. We want to create a new movement, in other European countries too. We hope that soon there will be 10,000 of us representing many more people.
SPIEGEL: Won't your campaign just harden the battle lines?
Ahadi: I don't think it's possible to modernize Islam. We want to form a counterweight to the Muslim organisations. The fact that we're doing this under police protection shows how necessary our initiative is.
Tuesday, July 17, 2007
எது அமைதி மார்க்கம்?
எது அமைதி மார்க்கம் என்று சர்வே நடத்தியதில் பெரும்பாலான ஜெர்மானியர்கள் பௌத்த மதத்தையே அமைதி மார்க்கம் என்று கூறியிருக்கிறார்கள்.
தற்போதைய போப்பாக இருப்பவர் ஜெர்மானியரான போப் பெனடிக்ட் . ஆனால், ஜெர்மானியர்கள் தலாய லாமாவையே மிகவும் பிடித்த ஆன்மீக தலைவராக குறிப்பிடுகிறார்கள்.
எது அமைதி மார்க்கம் என்ற கேள்விக்கு 43 சதவீத ஜெர்மானியர்கள் பௌத்த மதத்தையே அமைதி மார்க்கம் என்று கூறியிருக்கிறார்கள். 41 சதவீதத்தினரே கிறிஸ்துவ மதத்தை அமைதி மார்க்கம் என்று கூறியுள்ளனர். 1 சதவீதத்தினரே இஸ்லாமை அமைதிமார்க்கம் என்று கூறியுள்ளனர். (ஜெர்மனியில் 10 சதவீதம் முஸ்லீம்கள் உள்ளனர்)
நன்றாக படித்தவர்கள் இளைஞர்கள் ஆகியோர் மத்தியில் தலாய் லாமா புகழுடன் விளங்குகிறார். 44 சதவீதத்தினர் தலாய் லாமாவை சிறந்த ஆன்மீக தலைவராக கூறுகின்றனர். 41 சதவீதத்தினரே போப்பை அவ்வாறு கூறுகின்றனர்.
Germans think Buddhism is peaceful
July 16 2007 at 07:25AM
Germans like the Dalai Lama more than they do their native-born Pope Benedict XVI, according to a survey published on Saturday.
A study carried out for Der Spiegel showed that 44 percent of those questioned saw the Tibetan spiritual and secular leader as a role model, while only 42 percent attributed the same qualities to the pope.
The Dalai Lama enjoyed a particularly high popularity rating among the young and better educated.
Half of those questioned in these groups believed the Buddhist leader was able "to provide advice on how to live", according to the study, which showed that Germans found Buddhism a more sympathetic religion than Christianity or Islam.
Asked what they thought was the "most peaceful religion", 43 percent opted for Buddhism, while 41 percent chose Christianity. Only one percent picked Islam.
The Bavarian-born pope was criticised by German Protestants for endorsing a Vatican document reaffirming the primacy of the Catholic Church and dismissing other Christian denominations as either "defective" or "not proper churches."
The Tibetan spiritual leader, awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1989 for his efforts to achieve a non-violent solution to the Tibetan problem, will arrive in Germany on Thursday for a 10-day visit.
During his stay, he will deliver a series of lectures and philosophical talks at the Hamburg tennis stadium and attend an international congress of Buddhist monks and nuns. - Sapa-dpa
தற்போதைய போப்பாக இருப்பவர் ஜெர்மானியரான போப் பெனடிக்ட் . ஆனால், ஜெர்மானியர்கள் தலாய லாமாவையே மிகவும் பிடித்த ஆன்மீக தலைவராக குறிப்பிடுகிறார்கள்.
எது அமைதி மார்க்கம் என்ற கேள்விக்கு 43 சதவீத ஜெர்மானியர்கள் பௌத்த மதத்தையே அமைதி மார்க்கம் என்று கூறியிருக்கிறார்கள். 41 சதவீதத்தினரே கிறிஸ்துவ மதத்தை அமைதி மார்க்கம் என்று கூறியுள்ளனர். 1 சதவீதத்தினரே இஸ்லாமை அமைதிமார்க்கம் என்று கூறியுள்ளனர். (ஜெர்மனியில் 10 சதவீதம் முஸ்லீம்கள் உள்ளனர்)
நன்றாக படித்தவர்கள் இளைஞர்கள் ஆகியோர் மத்தியில் தலாய் லாமா புகழுடன் விளங்குகிறார். 44 சதவீதத்தினர் தலாய் லாமாவை சிறந்த ஆன்மீக தலைவராக கூறுகின்றனர். 41 சதவீதத்தினரே போப்பை அவ்வாறு கூறுகின்றனர்.
Germans think Buddhism is peaceful
July 16 2007 at 07:25AM
Germans like the Dalai Lama more than they do their native-born Pope Benedict XVI, according to a survey published on Saturday.
A study carried out for Der Spiegel showed that 44 percent of those questioned saw the Tibetan spiritual and secular leader as a role model, while only 42 percent attributed the same qualities to the pope.
The Dalai Lama enjoyed a particularly high popularity rating among the young and better educated.
Half of those questioned in these groups believed the Buddhist leader was able "to provide advice on how to live", according to the study, which showed that Germans found Buddhism a more sympathetic religion than Christianity or Islam.
Asked what they thought was the "most peaceful religion", 43 percent opted for Buddhism, while 41 percent chose Christianity. Only one percent picked Islam.
The Bavarian-born pope was criticised by German Protestants for endorsing a Vatican document reaffirming the primacy of the Catholic Church and dismissing other Christian denominations as either "defective" or "not proper churches."
The Tibetan spiritual leader, awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1989 for his efforts to achieve a non-violent solution to the Tibetan problem, will arrive in Germany on Thursday for a 10-day visit.
During his stay, he will deliver a series of lectures and philosophical talks at the Hamburg tennis stadium and attend an international congress of Buddhist monks and nuns. - Sapa-dpa
Friday, July 13, 2007
ருஷ்டியின் சாத்தானின் கவிதைகள் புத்தகத்தை மசூதிக்குள் படிக்க ஜெர்மானியர் விருப்பம்
குந்தர் வால்ராஃப் என்ற ஜெர்மன் எழுத்தாளர் ஜெர்மனியில் உள்ள துருக்கியர்கள் கட்டிய மசூதியின் உள்ளே ருஷ்டியின் சாத்தானின் கவிதைகள் புத்தகத்தை படிக்கப்போவதாக தெரிவித்துள்ளார்.
ஜெர்மனியில் உள்ள கருத்து சுதந்திரத்தை தான் பயன்ப்டுத்தப்போவதாகவும் இவர் தெரிவித்துள்ளார். தனக்கு பயமில்லை என்றும் அறிவித்துள்ளார்.
இந்த விஷயத்தை மசூதி தலைவர்களுடன் பேசி வருகிறார். அவர்களும் இதனை எவ்வாறு செய்வது என்று பேசிவருவதாக கூறியிருக்கிறார்.
German aims to read Rushdie Satanic Verses in mosque
Posted : Wed, 11 Jul 2007 12:34:21 GMT
Author : DPA
Cologne, Germany - A maverick German book author said Wednesday he wants to read aloud inside a mosque from The Satanic Verses, the 1988 novel by Salman Rushdie which some Muslims consider blasphemous. Guenter Wallraff, 64, said he proposed to do the reading at a landmark mosque which is to be built in Cologne by the western city's Turkish community.
He said the Ankara-funded Ditib religious foundation had not been insulted and was discussing his proposal.
Asked for comment, Bekir Alboga, the secretary for dialogue at Ditib, said Wallraff's request had not been rejected outright, but it was up to Ditib's board, not himself, to respond.
Plans to build the mosque have been opposed in recent months by some Cologne residents and an atheist novelist of Jewish heritage, Ralph Giordano, 85, who said Muslims should learn secular values and integrate into Germany.
"I'm not a passionate supporter of the new mosque," said Wallraff. "But we have freedom of religion here. What I respect are the efforts of German Muslims to integrate into society."
Wallraff, a gadfly writer who often attacks the German establishment, said he would demand police protection if need be so that he could read the Rushdie book aloud.
"I'm not a scared person," he told Deutsche Presse-Agentur dpa. He first made his proposal in a radio interview.
Rushdie, who stayed in Wallraff's apartment in Cologne during visits to Cologne in the 1990s, was put under police protection after the late Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini of Iran called in 1989 for him to be killed.
Britain announced last month that Rushdie would be knighted, but the ceremony has yet to take place
ஜெர்மனியில் உள்ள கருத்து சுதந்திரத்தை தான் பயன்ப்டுத்தப்போவதாகவும் இவர் தெரிவித்துள்ளார். தனக்கு பயமில்லை என்றும் அறிவித்துள்ளார்.
இந்த விஷயத்தை மசூதி தலைவர்களுடன் பேசி வருகிறார். அவர்களும் இதனை எவ்வாறு செய்வது என்று பேசிவருவதாக கூறியிருக்கிறார்.
German aims to read Rushdie Satanic Verses in mosque
Posted : Wed, 11 Jul 2007 12:34:21 GMT
Author : DPA
Cologne, Germany - A maverick German book author said Wednesday he wants to read aloud inside a mosque from The Satanic Verses, the 1988 novel by Salman Rushdie which some Muslims consider blasphemous. Guenter Wallraff, 64, said he proposed to do the reading at a landmark mosque which is to be built in Cologne by the western city's Turkish community.
He said the Ankara-funded Ditib religious foundation had not been insulted and was discussing his proposal.
Asked for comment, Bekir Alboga, the secretary for dialogue at Ditib, said Wallraff's request had not been rejected outright, but it was up to Ditib's board, not himself, to respond.
Plans to build the mosque have been opposed in recent months by some Cologne residents and an atheist novelist of Jewish heritage, Ralph Giordano, 85, who said Muslims should learn secular values and integrate into Germany.
"I'm not a passionate supporter of the new mosque," said Wallraff. "But we have freedom of religion here. What I respect are the efforts of German Muslims to integrate into society."
Wallraff, a gadfly writer who often attacks the German establishment, said he would demand police protection if need be so that he could read the Rushdie book aloud.
"I'm not a scared person," he told Deutsche Presse-Agentur dpa. He first made his proposal in a radio interview.
Rushdie, who stayed in Wallraff's apartment in Cologne during visits to Cologne in the 1990s, was put under police protection after the late Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini of Iran called in 1989 for him to be killed.
Britain announced last month that Rushdie would be knighted, but the ceremony has yet to take place
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