Minority Groups and Armin Langer

Salaam-Shalom: Langer, a founder of an inter-faith group called Salaam-Shalom committed to fostering dialogue between Muslims and Jews, said his community should never cast an intolerant eye toward other minority groups. "If one minority is treated badly, it won't be long before all minorities will be treated badly,'' Langer, 25, told The Associated Press during an interview in Berlin Neukoelln district, home to many Muslim immigrants, according to Huffington Post Canada. Langer also participated in a small protest outside the Central Council headquarters in Berlin, the day after Joseph Schuster told German newspaper Die Welt last November that "sooner or later, we're not going to get around upper limits .'' Armin Langer said his community should never cast an intolerant eye toward other minority groups. The student, Armin Langer, was kicked out of the Abraham Geiger College in Potsdam after he wrote that the leader of Germany Central Council of Jews was wrong to seek a cap on Muslim immigration. Looking back, Langer says he now regrets the harshness of his language in his newspaper op-ed in daily die tageszeitung criticizing Schuster, but he also says the college was wrong "to try to suppress my personal opinions.'' Many in Germany 250,000-strong Jewish community expressed outrage at Langer remarks following their publication last year as Germany absorbed a wave of 1.1 million overwhelmingly Muslim migrants. Schuster had already warned earlier that Jews shouldn't wear their traditional skullcap, or kippa, in areas with large Muslim populations. "Many refugees are escaping the terror of Islamic State and want to live in peace and freedom,'' Schuster said in his November interview. "At the same time, they come from places where hatred of Jews and intolerance are an integral part of the culture." Jewish fears of Muslim immigration reflect a spike in anti-Semitic attacks and anti-Israel protests by Muslim youths in Germany during Israel 2014 war in Gaza and the more recent mass killings by Muslim extremists in Paris, Copenhagen and Brussels, where Jewish institutions also have suffered deadly attacks. They expressed support for Schuster stance that anti-Semitism was growing once again in Germany, driven by newcomers with attitudes hostile to Jews and Israel. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.