GERMANY’S NEW INTERIOR Minister has sparked a row after claiming that Islam does not belong in the country.
Hans-Peter Friedrich, who took office this week, was responding to a questions about this week’s gun attack at Frankfurt airport in which two US soldiers were killed by a suspected radical Muslim, according to The Guardian.
In his first press conference, Friedrich said that whilst Muslims should be allowed to live in modern Germany, he added:
To say that Islam belongs in Germany is not a fact supported by history.
He was immediately criticised by other German politicians including justice minister Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger who insisted that “of course Islam belongs in Germany.”
Friedrich was appointed to his new post in a reshuffle by Chancellor Angela Merkel which was sparked by the resignation of Defence Minister Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg on Tuesday after he was found to have plagiarised his PhD thesis.
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