Germany Islam: CSU head Scheuer calls for German in mosques

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Source: BBC

Germany Islam: CSU head Scheuer calls for German in mosques

13 April 2016 Europe

Senior German conservative politician Andreas Scheuer has said German must become the language of the country's mosques and that foreign funding from Turkey and Saudi Arabia must stop.

The general secretary of the CSU, sister party of Chancellor Angela Merkel's CDU, said political Islam was undermining integration.

His remarks came amid a German freedom-of-speech row involving Turkey.

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Asked about Turkey's role in funding German mosques, he called for an Islam law that prevented foreign and sometimes extreme values from being imported from abroad.

"Financing of mosques or Islamic kindergartens from abroad, such as from Turkey or Saudi Arabia, must be stopped," he said. "All imams have to be trained in Germany and must share our values. German must become the language of the mosque."

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1. "Senior German conservative politician"

It's worth pointing out the CSU occupies only 56 seats in the Bundestag. He's Germany's answer to Pat Buchanan.

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2. I think that's only because the CSU is what the CDU party is called in Bavaria.

It's kind of like here in Minnesota where the Democratic Party is officially called the Democratic-Farmer-Labor (DFL) Party. So "officially" the DFL is a fringe party with only 2 Senators and 5 Representatives. But they caucus with Democrats, so they count as part of the large party.