German Islam researcher sees worrying alliances in anti-Semitism

(DPA) Goethe University Islamic scholar Susanne Schröter fears that anti-Semitism will continue to grow in Germany.

Three social groups are preparing the ground for this, said the director of the Frankfurt Research Centre for Global Islam in Frankfurt: Muslim, left-wing and right-wing circles.

“There are worrying opportunities for alliances. I fear that lasting synergy effects are being created. That is quite explosive for our society.”

All three groups are on the same side in their interpretation of the Middle East conflict, according to Schröter.

“There is a religiously based anti-Semitism in Islam,” Schröter told dpa. This is very obvious in Islamist groups such as the Muslim Brotherhood, from which Hamas also emerged.

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