"The Muslim Next Door
Germany's Muslims are often cut off from society. But a new school for imams aims to change that.
By Paul Hockenos | NEWSWEEK
Published Mar 21, 2009
From the magazine issue dated Mar 30, 2009
The gulf between Europe's 16 million Muslims and the secular societies in which they live all too often breeds misunderstanding, resentment and even violence. And while there's plenty of blame to go around, one reason for many Muslims' difficulty integrating in the European Union countries is that their clerics are usually imported from Turkey or the Arab world, and have such poor language skills and weak knowledge of their host country that they struggle to help their fellow community members adapt and fit in."
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