Sunday, October 10, 2010

Berlin: Germanophobia in school

The Local reports that Germany’s commissioner for integration, Maria Böhmer, said that Berlin officials should deal with anti-German views among immigrant students. Böhmer was responding to recent reports of Germanophobia in schools.

Two teachers from a Kreuzberg (Berlin) school recently wrote in the GEW Teachers' Union paper of the anti-German harassment some German students experience in schools. They wrote that German students are threatened and bullied, and that the non-German students often receive help from relatives or friends in conflicts. The German students are asked what they are doing there.

 Berlin youth coach Oliver Lück (44) says such incidents happen every day. For years he's been working with bully-victims and with the harassers. He told BILD of three cases which particularly moved him. 

Interfaith dialog at its best?

Read the full story here.

3 comments:

Unknown said...

How about this "Islamophobia" i wonder how they will whitewash this one?

jeppo said...

Here's some good news from Germany: Horst Seehofer, leader of the Christian Social Union (CSU, the more conservative Bavarian sister party of Angela Merkel's CDU) has called for an end to Muslim immigration to Germany.

This is a big deal because the CSU is no fringe party but a longstanding part of the German establishment, and is a member of the current governing coalition with 45 seats in the Bundestag. Seehofer may be the first mainstream politician anywhere to get to the root of our Islamic problem, Muslim immigration, and come to the obvious conclusion that it must be stopped.

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Always On Watch said...

anti-German harassment some German students experience in schools

Huh?

A school should be culturist.