[Germany] Muslims find their voice outside religion / Globe and Mail, 10 March 2007
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DOUG SAUNDERS
Secular movement stirring controversy across Europe
"Arzu Toker noticed recently that her identity had changed. When she arrived in this prosperous German city from Istanbul 30 years ago as a labourer she was known by everyone as a Turk, part of a growing minority in Germany. She struggled to become a German.
But now, this 54-year-old woman has discovered she has a new identity, one that prevents her from being either a Turk or a German. She and all her Turkish, Arabic and Iranian friends are now identified by the government, by their own ethnic communities and by most of their neighbours simply as Muslims, a religious identity that she, like many European Turks, abandoned before she arrived."