Just today, several prominent Germans with Turkish origin (Muslims all of them, BTW) have called the Muslim women in Germany to lay down the veil and the headscarf.

It is not right that the Turkish man walks down the street donning the newest fashion and the wife at his side wears a long coat and the veil (Social Democrat MP Lale Akgün)

The quarrel about the scarf is not only about a piece of cloth but about belonging to the society or consciously turning the back to it. (Mehmet Daimargüler, honorary chairman of the liberal German-Turkish association)

The veil is a symbol of oppression of the women. Whoever demands of women to cover face or hair makes them to a sex object...Arrive in the Today, arrive in Germany. You are living here, so take down the scarf (Ekin Deligüz, (MP of the Green Party)

The Muslims liberals in Germany often feel left in the lurch by German liberals and left who do not support their difficult fight against a very out of date understanding of religion. Non-Muslim liberals in this discussion often do not see or do not want to realize that they support the most extrem Muslim fundamentalism that they would never dream of supporting if it would be coming from the Christian side.

Wolfgang