Posted on 03/18/2019 10:55:39 AM PDT by Simon Green
A child care center in the western German city of Düsseldorf has appealed to police after its plan to involve an imam in religious education lessons sparked a hostile backlash.
The Protestant kindergarten announced the pilot project last week, saying it aimed to teach children about different faiths and complement the regular visits they already had from a pastor.
Hartmut Wölk, the pastor behind the initiative, told German media he received dozens of abusive messages accusing him of being a "renegade," an "anti-Christ" and of "paving the way for Sharia law in Germany."
"We expected criticism, but I have never experienced anything like this," he told the Rheinische Post newspaper.
Youth welfare authorities said the hostile response prompted them to involve the police. It also caused the government of the western state of North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW), where Düsseldorf is located, to intervene.
Family Minister Joachim Stamp told the Catholic News Agency (KNA) that the threats and insults were "totally unacceptable," stressing that religious diversity should be seen "as enrichment and not as a threat."
The imam is due to start work at the kindergarten in April as part of the project — a cooperation between Diakonie, the social welfare organization of German Protestant Churches, and a Düsseldorf Muslim group.
The imam's job will be to talk to the 3- to 6-year-olds about Islam and important festivals that Muslims celebrate, including Ramadan and Eid al-Adha. Wölk's visits, which cover Christmas, Easter and Bible stories, will continue as usual.
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As well it should
tell them to take their virtue signaling elsewhere.
He was looking for more dhimini victims for his right hand to possess.
Because nothing enriches the lives of the infidels like a face full of acid or their children being raped.
So now a complaint is considered hate, if from anyone on the Right....
Christianity is on life support in Europe. Islam will have no trouble filling the vacuum left by the church when it abandoned the Bible in favor of secularism. You can’t fight something with nothing.
I CANT STAND the word “diversity”
It’s been poisoned and manipulated by sick evil monsters.
Why don’t they go bother Japan or some asian countries where i’m quite sure there’s not a lot of diversity.
Or some Eastern European countries that were smart enough to lock their country’s doors.
we’re diversified enough. leave us alone.
Pedophiles need to pedophile...
Any accommodation to Islam is seen as submission.
Until they change the Koran (and they can’t), muslims are religiously obligated to make all of us submit.
Or die.
Mad Mo made it so.
Unless they have Catholic priests and Protestant ministers providing similar lessons on Christianity, it isn’t “cultural exchange” - it is cultural oppression.
A Christian kindergarten should be teaching Christianity.
German churches should know better.
The German Lutherans split in the lead-up to WWII.
One side backed Hitler, which was the politically correct thing to do at the time.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s side didn’t.
So, if the imam isn’t white or Christian then it’s hateful to oppose his talking to impressionable children no matter what he preaches despite the fact that his religion inspires the vast majority of hate and murder in the world today. Got it.
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