More than one million Muslims in Germany present susceptibility to radicalization | EUROtoday

Every fifth Muslim residing in Germany with a migration background has an emotional structure that favors radicalization. This is the results of a beforehand unpublished examine by the analysis heart of Islam and Politics on the University of Münster below the course of Islamic theologian Mouhad Khorchide, which is on the market to the “Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung” (NOZ). With a complete variety of 5.3 to five.6 million Muslims in Germany, that may be greater than one million folks.

Accordingly, Muslims are affected, who see themselves of their private worldview in a particular means, keep sturdy anti -Western or anti -Semitic enemy pictures and on the identical time present little capability to criticize. The Münster researchers summarize this mixture of attitudes below the time period “resentment”. In a consultant survey within the interval from July 2023 to April 2024, 19.9 % of a complete of 1887 respondents might be assigned to Muslims with a migration background in Germany.

A majority of this “resentment” group affirms questions akin to whether or not Islam needs to be “the only and last political authority” or whether or not the Islamic legal guidelines of Sharia are “much better than German laws”. Violence on supposedly suffered injustice helps each third of the “resentment” group, which corresponds to greater than 300,000 folks in Germany.

According to its personal assertion, each tenth of the “resentment” group would additionally use violence with the intention to work “for the interests of Muslims”. That would correspond to round 100,000 folks.

“With the affect situation of the resentment, we were able to uncover a new and even strong radicalization factor,” stated the Münster spiritual psychologist Sarah Demrich in an interview with the NOZ. Now amongst different issues, “inner Islamic criticism must be strengthened in order to promote reflexive clashes with religious and social issues”.