November 01, 2006
German MP Threatened Over Headscarf Remarks
All religions are the same alert. A German parliamentarian of Turkish background, Ekin Deligöz, has received police protection after encouraging other Muslim women to stop wearing headscarves.
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She received death threats by some Turkish men. I'm assuming they are all radical Buddhists, but who can tell?
The Green party member has received death threats for calling on Muslim women to take off their headscarves and to embrace German society and values two weeks ago. "You live here, so take your headscarf off," Deligöz was quoted by the Bild am Sonntag newspaper as saying.It's interesting how the article frames the debate as one of conflict between immigrants and German values and not one of Muslims and Western values.In addition to the threats, she has also been the victim of a negative media campaign in Turkey with tabloid stories comparing her to the Nazis. In a letter of complaint written to the Turkish Ambassador by the head of the Green Party Renate Künast, she indicated that Deligöz had been "insulted in writing, by telephone, and also in person ... overwhelmingly by Turkish men."
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