Well, and that same anti-Muslim sentiment happens here, too, in addition to a large Turkish immigrant community who were brought to Germany in the 1960s when the economy boomed beyond the ability of the native population to supply enough workers, and they stayed and live here in the third generation now, still occupying a socio-cultural niche similar to Hispanics in the US, with attempts to emulate black culture from there as to rap, hip-hop, ghetto style etc. But they're all Muslim, and many of the younger ones consciously turn back to Islam for cultural identity, as the Germans still won't let them 'arrive' the way the Ruhr Polish immigrants, for example, had completely arrived after a generation or two at most.
It is not a good situation. There is a certain conservative anti-Islamic set of opinions that's popular in several middle and north European countries which is pro-Europe, pro-Israel and anti-Islam, a muddled right-wing populism supported by people from Henryk M. Broder through Thilo Sarrazin to Anders Behring Breivik -- look up those names in Wikipedia if they don't mean anything to you. That court ruling came out of that spirit, one would assume.-
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It is not a good situation. There is a certain conservative anti-Islamic set of opinions that's popular in several middle and north European countries which is pro-Europe, pro-Israel and anti-Islam, a muddled right-wing populism supported by people from Henryk M. Broder through Thilo Sarrazin to Anders Behring Breivik -- look up those names in Wikipedia if they don't mean anything to you. That court ruling came out of that spirit, one would assume.-