Özdemir worried by Muslim anti-Semitism

The Local
February 23, 2009

http://www.islamist-watch.org/1377/ozdemir-worried-by-muslim-anti-semitism

Excerpt:

Germany should take anti-Semitic tendencies among its Muslim population seriously, Turkish-German Green party leader Cem Özdemir warned in an interview with daily Frankfurter Rundschau on Monday.

"We must unfortunately acknowledge that there are anti-Semitic mindsets not only in the right-wing or among the so-called left-wing anti-imperialists, but also in the Muslim community – particularly among male Arabic, Turkish and Kurdish youths," Özdemir, the country's first leader of a major political party with Turkish roots, told the paper.

These young men feel "marginalised" in German society and are identifying with the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, he told the paper.

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