Despite the shift in domestic policy priorities regarding Islam, the Federal Republic of Germany continues to try to integrate its Muslim community into the existing legal system. In a country without a native Muslim population, long before the 2015 refugee crisis, prolonged political inaction and misguided migration policy led to the emergence a diaspora so extensive and diverse that the state was forced to seek dialogue with it. However, the Muslim diaspora in Germany is too heterogeneous to share a common identity and act as a single entity for the purposes of a dialogue. There are various ethnic groups and various, sometimes conflicting, branches of Islam. The state integrates moderate Islam into the existing legal system, at the same time cutting off and marginalizing radical part of the diaspora. The change of government, however, brings internal security issues to the fore.
Islam in Europe; Muslim diaspora in Germany; dialogue with Islam; German migration policy.