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Sunday 26 Apr 2015 - 13:28 Makkah mean time-7-7-1436
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Berlin, (IINA) – In a bid to fight extremism, German government has announced its sponsorship of the education programs of Islam, placing it in the curriculum on equal footing with Christianity and Judaism.
Over the past years, the government has allocated €20 million to establish the country's four Islamic theology centers in the most respected public universities, OnIslam reported.
“A sound knowledge of Islamic theology and philosophy and psychology, and strategies of discourse and discussion,” is the best antidote there is to extremism, Harry Harun Behr of Frankfurt University, told the Christian Science Monitor on Thursday.
Behr, who is responsible for the training of future teachers of Islam in middle and high schools in Hessen, believes that Islamic lessons became essential in German schools.
"Being part and parcel of a world-famous university” means that “Islam no longer stands on the outside,” said Omar Hamdan, who heads the Islam center at Tübingen University.
"We stand on equal footing with the other theology schools,” he added.
The importance of including Islamic lessons in the school and universities curriculum has been heightened following the latest atrocities committed by extremist groups in the name of Islam.
Germany is believed to be a home to nearly 4 million Muslims, including 220,000 in Berlin alone. Turks make up an estimated two thirds of the Muslim minority.
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