(AhlulBayt News Agency) - German police recorded 1,075 Islamophobic crimes in 2017, according to new government figures announced on Tuesday.
Far-right extremists or groups carried out some 994 attacks against Muslims and mosques, which made up 92.5 percent of all Islamophobic crimes, the report by the Interior Ministry said.
Last January, police began registering Islamophobic crimes under a special category, after calls by the country’s Muslim community to take more serious measures against the growing number of anti-Muslim hate crimes.
Germany, a country of 81.8 million people, has the second largest Muslim population in Western Europe after France.
Among the country’s nearly 4.7 million Muslims, 3 million are of Turkish origin. Many of them are second or third-generations of Turkish families who migrated to Germany in the 1960s.
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source : Anadolu
Tuesday
8 May 2018
2:21:29 PM
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German police recorded 1,075 Islamophobic crimes in 2017, according to new government figures announced on Tuesday.