Will Efforts To Train Homegrown Muslim Leaders Fail? -- Andrea Brandt and Maximilian Popp, Spiegel Online
The German government plans to enlist imams educated at German universities to improve the integration of young Muslims in the future. The program, however, threatens to create a conflict between Germany and Turkey and with Muslim organizations.
The man with the moustache and neatly ironed shirt raises his eyebrows. With which names does he associate Germany? "Ballack, Hitler," he replies.
Ahmet Aktürk, 35, is standing in front of a mosque in Istanbul's Maltepe neighborhood. Men are hurrying into the prayer room. He has been an imam in the Turkish city for the past six years, leading prayers, delivering sermons and listening to his congregation. His people will miss him, he says -- and he will miss them.
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