Migrant crisis: Germany segregates Christians as tension increases
Christian migrants are being segregated upon their arrival in Germany as tension and violence among different religious group increase.
The migrant crisis in Europe has given birth to increasing threat to Christian refugees, and many are being threatened by hardline Sunnis who want to enforce the Sharia law even in asylum centers in Germany. There are some Christians saying their living conditions in Germany are similar to "prisons," with some opting to turn around and go back to the Middle East, according to Breitbart.
Because of the series of violent incidents erupting in Germany in recent weeks, police chief Jorg Radek said Christian and Muslim migrants should stay in different places to minimize the tensions, The Telegraph reports.
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In Thuringia, Germany, Prime Minister Bodo Ramelow has been forced to separate one culture from another as soon as the migrants enter Europe. Said, a Christian refugee from Iran, said he has to hide his religion or else be threatened.
"In Iran, the Revolutionary Guards have arrested my brother in a house church. I fled the Iranian intelligence, because I thought in Germany I can finally live freely according to my religion," Breitbart quotes Said's statement to German newspaper Die Welt. "But I can not openly admit that I am a Christian in my home for asylum seekers. I will be threatened."
Said narrated how Muslims in asylum centers wake him before dawn during Ramadan and instruct him to eat before sunrise. If he refuses, they call him an unbeliever, spit at him, and threaten his life.
On Sept. 14, German police in Hemer revealed that an Eritrean Christian and his heavily pregnant wife were rushed to the hospital after Algerian Muslims attacked them with a glass bottle. The Algerians were reportedly "insulted" by the wooden crucifix worn by the man, the report details.
Just this month, a riot erupted among Syrian refugees in Suhl when an Afghan man ripped some pages from the Koran. During Ramadan, a big commotion arose among Christians, Muslims, and Yazidis in Baden-Wurttembert Ellwangen. Last weekend, 14 migrants were hurt in Kassel after hundreds of refugees were involved in a violent fight.
Germany expects to process around 800,000 asylum applications in 2015, but a senior official pegs the number at over 1 million.
