Feridun Zaimoglu's support for neo-Muslims

In the run-up to the Islam Conference scheduled to take place next week in Berlin, the question of who should represent Islam in Germany has triggered a fierce debate. Turkish-born writer Feridun Zaimoglu wants to give up his place at the conference to a "young, self-assured neo-Muslim female who is a second or third-generation immigrant and who self-confidently professes her belief in the Muslim faith. In an interview with Anna Reimann, he explains why. "I'm not a secular Muslim and nor am I an orthodox one. I'm an author. I would like to take part, but I believe it makes more sense if a young woman takes my place at the Islam Conference... I have ... criticised the fact that in their critiques the "female critics of Islam' always blame Islam for all the problems. In my opinion this is an incomprehensible, rather clumsy view of the world... Let there be an end to all the recriminations. People shouldn't act as if the Islam debate were an apocalyptic battle between good and evil, the goal of which is to destroy the bad orthodoxies because they stand for 'non-integration'."

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