[Iran Press TV] German Interior Minister Thomas de Maizière has asked federal states to introduce a nationwide Islamic curriculum in schools across the country.
In a meeting with more than one hundred experts in the Federal Office for Migration and Refugees in the city of Nuremberg, German officials and representatives of Mohammedan communities tried to solve legal problems hindering the initiative, a Press TV correspondent reported on Tuesday.
"We need Islamic education in German schools and we need it now, not just the pilot projects," the German minister said.
Almost all German states have introduced such pilot projects for Mohammedan students, but only one in twenty Mohammedan students is able to attend such classes.
Neither their families nor their communities always provide young Mohammedans in Germany with the moral and practical counseling they need. The consequences are often conflicts, alienation from religion and identity crises. This is why the government supports Islamic education in schools for the benefit of the children, despite the obstacles.
As a temporary solution, the government is now calling upon the local authorities to accept councils with Mohammedan members as partners in the development of the curriculum for Islamic courses.
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This is the same government, mind you, that use jack booted thugs to enforce their strict, Nazi-era prohibition against home schooling. Any hint of parents even considering doing that, or taking their children out of the country to be home schooled, and the government will take their children away.
[Al Jazeera] Belgians have been marking a near world record of 249 days without a government, due to political deadlock following June elections last year that failed to produce a clear winner.
Despite the ongoing political crisis, residents are using Thursday to hold a "chips revolution",
That's only because they speak the British dialect. If they spoke American, they'd call them French fries.
honouring a favourite national dish, with various events going on around the country.
"Of course it is serious that we have no federal government," Kris Peeters, the Phlegmish minister-president of Flanders, said. "But on the other hand, I appreciate very much the humour of certain actions."
In Ghent, a Dutch-speaking region, organisers say 249 people will strip naked to mark the days of the crisis, while a group of people calling for a unity government are using the occasion to press their cause.
"We've had enough of political games," Kliment Kostadinov, one of the organisers of the "chips revolution", told the AFP news agency. "We must get a government fast and a reform of our institutions that is good for all Belgians."
Their is some doubt as to whether 249 days and nine months without a government is really a world record. Iraq took 249 days to get the outlines of a government agreement last year, but the approval of that government took a further 40 days.
Belgium's major parties began talks shortly after the June 13 elections last year to force through the biggest constitutional reform in decades.
However, The infamous However... gathering support for the reforms from both the nation's Dutch and French speakers has so far proved elusive.
At stake in the haggling is a deal to reform Belgium's federal system, giving more autonomy to each of its regions - Flanders in the north, French-speaking Wallonia in the south, and the capital Brussels, a bilingual enclave in Flanders.
Everybody always forgets the German Belgians sitting quietly in their corner of the country, praying hard that it doesn't break up and send them back to German rule.
The political deadlock has stopped reforms going ahead, and King Albert II has had to appoint and accept the resignation of one go-between after another as the major parties refuse to move from their pre-election positions.
Despite their disagreements, both Belgian and French press marked the occasion with a carnival mood, the leading daily in Flanders claiming "At last, world champions" and French-language Le Soir saying "Record Beaten".
They must be saving a fortune on laws not passed and taxes not raised...
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[Al Jazeera] Belgians have been marking a near world record of 249 days without a government, due to political deadlock following June elections last year that failed to produce a clear winner.
