Spore hosts: Zeit zu reden: Marginalized and Stigmatized - Muslims in Germany

The consequence: Anti-Muslim racism and Islamophobia have increased dramatically. A cancelled job interview, a push in the supermarket, an apartment that has allegedly already been rented, assaults in the schoolyard, pigs' heads placed in front of mosques - 72 percent of Muslims in Germany experience racism in their daily lives. They are subjected to violent attacks, insults and structural and institutional discrimination. The state claims to take the problem seriously, but instead of using the results of studies as a basis for action, leading politicians resort to exclusionary rhetoric. The result is widespread alienation. 76 per cent of Muslims born in Germany no longer trust the country's politicians.

 
This frustration benefits extremists who recruit young Muslims online - groups such as Generation Islam or international terrorist organisations such as ISIS. What can be done to combat online radicalisation? How and with whom can violent Islamists be countered without discrediting Islam as a whole? What is the role of Muslim organisations that are regularly criticised? And how significant is the influence of Turkey, the Islamic Republic of Iran or Saudi Arabia on certain mosque communities? Is there, as in Christianity, a religiously rooted anti-Judaism in Islam? And what distinguishes politically motivated hostility to Israel from "Islamic antisemitism"?