Germany plans to set up institutes for Islamic studies to train new generations of imams and religious teachers more attuned to western society, and to exert subtle control over how the country’s growing Muslim population is taught about its faith.
The government has welcomed a proposal by its academic advisory council to set up centres of Islamic theology at two or three state-run universities. “The number of children and young people of Islamic faith in Germany is high and increasing,” said Annette Schavan, the education minister. [The National] Read more [via National Secular Society]
