Germany to open first center to report crimes against Muslims
Wire desk byline Sourced from Xinhua, Dawn, Arab News, Anadolu and Minute Mirror. Translated and abridged by the GSRRA Desk.
MEDAR center to be set at North Rhine-Westphalia where more than 1.7 million Muslim live
A populous western German state will open the country’s first anti-Muslim racism reporting center in spring 2025, local media reported.
The state of North Rhine-Westphalia, home to more than 1.7 million Muslims, will establish the center, called MEDAR, to document and report attacks and crimes targeting Muslims.
The center, which will be set up by the state government, will also track other racist activities directed at non-Muslim foreigners, public broadcaster WDR reported on Friday.
Planned to open by March or April 2025, MEDAR is the fruit of three years of preparations.
North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany’s most populous state with a population of over 18 million, will become its first to launch a dedicated reporting center for anti-Muslim incidents.
The state has witnessed several attacks on Muslims and their places of worship. In January 2022, numerous Muslim graves in the city of Iserlohn were vandalized, with headstones broken and overturned.
In April 2022, North Rhine-Westphalia also launched the Research and Information Center on Anti-Semitism aimed at documenting antisemitic incidents across the region.
Reference Link:- https://tribune.com.pk/story/2518754/germany-to-open-first-center-to-report-crimes-against-muslims
Zamir Ahmed Awan is the founder and Chair of the Global Silk Route Research Alliance, a think tank in Islamabad. He studied engineering at Shanghai University in the 1980s, and years later he went back to China as Pakistan's science counsellor in Beijing, from 2010 until 2016, working on science and higher education cooperation between the two countries.…
