743 Christian Refugees Have Been the Victims of Assaults in German Asylum Centers -- Open Doors Report
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Open Doors makes refugee report. Within 743 attacks are
reported against Christian refugees in German asylum centers.
The majority have been victims of Muslim "fellow refugees".
(Berlin) The Fund for persecuted Christians Open Doors Germany put together with other aid and human rights organizations report the refugee " Lack of protection of religious minorities in Germany " before. This religiously motivated attacks on 743 Christian refugees are documented and analyzed in German refugee centers.
The report quoted German Interior Minister Thomas de Maizière with the
words: "We have underestimated the importance of religion." The Minister
was moved to these words in retrospect on the events of recent months.
The consequences of these findings is reflected "especially in the German refugee centers," says Open Doors.
Through the concealment of these facts, has led to many "wrong
conclusions" about the reasons there are many attacks directed
especially against Christians, which has led to the "neglect in refugee
centers" which fails in the protection of non-Muslim religious
minorities from Muslims.
Last May, various aid and human rights organizations have come together,
"to draw attention to the clustering of attacks against Christians and
other religious minorities in German refugee camps and to demand
effective protection measures for them." The aid and human rights
organizations include the Action for Persecuted Christians and Needy (AVC), the International Society for Human Rights (IGFM), Kirche in Not , Open Doors and the Central Committee for Oriental Christians in Germany .
At a press conference on May 9 in Berlin, reports of 231 refugees were
submitted reporting "of the massive discrimination, death threats and
violent attacks, which refugees in Germany suffer because of their
Christian faith."
This first collection was continued by the participating
organizations. The result has now been submitted to "significantly
extended data base". "The documented cases demonstrate the continuing
unacceptable situation of Christian refugees who are discriminated
against, beaten and threatened with death in the German refugee centers
as a minority, by Muslim refugees and partly Muslim employees (security
guards, interpreters, assistants). Even ten refugees of the Yezidi faith
participated in the survey. Their information has been evaluated
separately in this report."
Among the 231 Christian refugees whose negative experiences were
documented, 512 more cases were added in the months from May to
September. In 743 cases there were religiously motivated attacks against
Christians, in ten cases against Yazidis. All attacks were carried out
in asylum facilities in the Federal Republic of Germany.
The distribution of those affected shows Berlin with 146 assaults at
the top of the negative scale, while in Saxony no assault was revealed.
Of those, there were 314 reported death threats, 44 of sexual assault,
416 of bodily injury. In addition, 615 cases of "other persecution". 83
percent of these affected indicated that "several times" there were
assaults.
The Christian refugees are "used to being treated as second-class
citizens" in majority Muslim homelands. Now they see that they too can
find in Germany no effective protection and reporting the violence and
death threats to the police have no consequences for the perpetrators,
since the Muslim perpetrators are in the majority, and often make
counter charges."
In homes and refugee centers in many cases it is not the perpetrators
but the victims who are perceived and accused of being
"troublemakers". "Lately we are seeing it more and more that Christian
asylum seekers are concerned with house bans, because they interfere
with the supposedly good coexistence in the homes."
A majority of the surveyed Christian and Yezidi refugees, therefore, are
hoping for "separate accommodation". Several also asked for "no
Muslim security personnel".
The overall impression: Muslims are more welcome than Christians or members of other religious minorities in the "Refugee Welcome"-- apparatus.
