(Ahlul Bayt News Agency) - “Wherever possible, this aggressive action must be stopped,” Günter Krings, vice chairman of Chancellor Angela Merkel’s Christian Democratic Union party (CDU) told Die Welt newspaper.
The Muslim Group “The True Religion” has launched a campaign to hand out free translated copies of the Qur’an to Germans.
“Quran in every house campaign should be stopped,” Krings said.
“This Islamic group’s move threatens religious freedom.”
Organizers say the initiative aims to educate Germans about the Islamic teachings.
The campaign, titled “Read”, has already distributed more than 300,000 Qur’an copies.
Ibrahim Abu Nagie, a Muslim preacher, has urged all German Muslims to hand out copies of the Qur’an to their neighbors.
"If every Muslim does that then within a year we will have supplied every person in Germany with a Qur’an translation and they will not label us as terrorists or radicals or anything else, when they read Allah's book," he said us.
Abu Nagie said the first phase of the free Qur’an campaign was funded by two Turkish people, and that he had rejected financial support from organizations in Bahrain as they wanted to "write their names in the book".
Germany has between 3.8 and 4.3 million Muslims, making up some 5 percent of the total 82 million population, according to government-commissioned studies.
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