The CDU interior politician Christoph de Vries calls for an exclusion of the controversial association Ditib of the German Islam Conference. Its "comprehensive dependence" on the Turkish state promoted the disintegration of Turkish Muslims in Germany.
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"Ditib should be suspended for so long from the German Islam Conference, until the association has made itself constitutionally and personnel independent of Turkey," says de Vries. In addition, the entry of Ditib imams from Turkey, which can come to date in a simplified procedure to Germany to preach, should be prevented, according to the CDU politician. Other Islamic associations have been able to train their imams in Germany for a long time and to finance them themselves.
Confirmed de Vries sees himself from an elaboration of the scientific services of the Bundestag. The experts of the parliament state in it, "that the mosque associations resident in Germany are subject many times foreign influences and a commitment to the basic law is often not to be accepted". As a negative example, Ditib is listed among others, with more than 900 member associations, the largest mosque umbrella organization in Germany. He is controlled by the Turkish State Bureau of Religious Affairs.
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