In the last year, Islamic religion has been discussed among people, countries and media all over the world with much more intensity than ever before. There are many reasons why Islam became discussed on daily basis in western world, such as increasing number of Muslim immigrants in western European countries, or recent actions and terrorist attacks of radical group of Islamic State. Although immigrants were highly welcomed by governments of several western European countries in the past, nowadays, population`s opinion had significantly changed. For example, German people are now aware of the huge number of Muslim immigrants in their country, which may cause not only cultural problems, but economical issues as well. Majority of German population
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These people have different origin and came during a different period of time. However, the biggest percentage of Muslims came to Germany from 1960s to 1970s. There was lack of labor force in the rising economy after WWII, which forced German government to make treaties with several countries about labor recruitment. One of these countries was Turkey. The original agreement stated that those workers would return home after some period of time, but German businesses suffered from high costs of new hires trainings, so the law was changed, and most of the workers did not come back to Turkey. According to demographers: “the Turkish population in Germany will increase exponentially in coming decades, largely due to a high birth rate and Germany 's continuing high demand for foreign workers” (Kern). Furthermore, German population is getting old with low birthrate, which will be the reason of Muslims population growth in the future. Due to this fact, many people started to be worried about their whole culture. A lot of people also see immigrants as people who “steal” the jobs that could be provided to German people. Increasing dissatisfaction of German population resulted in showing their opinion by establishing movements and organizing protests and demonstrations in several German …show more content…
Although German politicians called this organization Islamophobic and xenophobic, it did not stop tens of thousands of middle-class, well educated people to go to the streets every week and protest against spreading Islam in Germany, as well as Europe in general. As Financial Times published in their article: “Pegida people are looking for Heimat - the sentiment of feeling safe at some place in Germany or German society. They want to turn their backs to all winds of change because they are fed up with constant political pressure to adapt to globalization” (Blome). These people are not xenophobic. They are just sick off the actions of European Union and German government, which enforce many limiting laws and rules in favor of globalization and multicultural cocktail that destroys traditional German culture. Furthermore, the report of Pegida`s leader does not sound xenophobic at all: “We respect Islam here. We want to keep our culture, to keep our traditions, to keep our Christian values” (RT.com). And there have already been some limitations of German traditions. In February of 2015, the traditional carnival parade in Braunschweig was cancelled because of possible terrorist attack with Islamic background. This carnival has a huge tradition with over 250 thousand visitors every year. In addition, demonstrations of Pediga were
These people have different origin and came during a different period of time. However, the biggest percentage of Muslims came to Germany from 1960s to 1970s. There was lack of labor force in the rising economy after WWII, which forced German government to make treaties with several countries about labor recruitment. One of these countries was Turkey. The original agreement stated that those workers would return home after some period of time, but German businesses suffered from high costs of new hires trainings, so the law was changed, and most of the workers did not come back to Turkey. According to demographers: “the Turkish population in Germany will increase exponentially in coming decades, largely due to a high birth rate and Germany 's continuing high demand for foreign workers” (Kern). Furthermore, German population is getting old with low birthrate, which will be the reason of Muslims population growth in the future. Due to this fact, many people started to be worried about their whole culture. A lot of people also see immigrants as people who “steal” the jobs that could be provided to German people. Increasing dissatisfaction of German population resulted in showing their opinion by establishing movements and organizing protests and demonstrations in several German …show more content…
Although German politicians called this organization Islamophobic and xenophobic, it did not stop tens of thousands of middle-class, well educated people to go to the streets every week and protest against spreading Islam in Germany, as well as Europe in general. As Financial Times published in their article: “Pegida people are looking for Heimat - the sentiment of feeling safe at some place in Germany or German society. They want to turn their backs to all winds of change because they are fed up with constant political pressure to adapt to globalization” (Blome). These people are not xenophobic. They are just sick off the actions of European Union and German government, which enforce many limiting laws and rules in favor of globalization and multicultural cocktail that destroys traditional German culture. Furthermore, the report of Pegida`s leader does not sound xenophobic at all: “We respect Islam here. We want to keep our culture, to keep our traditions, to keep our Christian values” (RT.com). And there have already been some limitations of German traditions. In February of 2015, the traditional carnival parade in Braunschweig was cancelled because of possible terrorist attack with Islamic background. This carnival has a huge tradition with over 250 thousand visitors every year. In addition, demonstrations of Pediga were