tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18600181.post8905003015246768288..comments2024-03-22T00:51:38.986-07:00Comments on Islam in Europe: Germany: Muslim Youth and Puzzling IdentitiesEstherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06697128144253268996noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18600181.post-8220393426504649732008-08-19T05:48:00.000-07:002008-08-19T05:48:00.000-07:00Now they found someone else to blame.Now they found someone else to blame.FreeSpeechhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06957216642010560757noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18600181.post-68490607373179177132008-08-18T19:48:00.000-07:002008-08-18T19:48:00.000-07:00Instilling kids with an Islamic identity is ot the...Instilling kids with an Islamic identity is ot the job of a school system in a secular society. It's also incredibly counterproductive because it detracts from real education and the students who would be taught this curriculum are, at least in the States, almost without exception in special education and are already way behind the ball. It's also using tax dollars and government infrastructure to ultimately turn kids seditious, which will be Germany's undoing. Religious education has absolutely no place in public schools. The reason these kids feel that a Muslim identity is incompatible with a German identity is because the two are essentially incompatible. The German identity is one which is hard-working, industrious, and places a high value on literacy, education, personal responsibility, and individual agency; it is nationalist and still kinda Christian. It is everything that a Muslim identity is not and could never aspire to be. It's not a coincidence that 2nd- and 3rd generation Muslim immigrants feel isolated from German society. They are completely different in their belief systems, work ethic, and social values.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com