"The Satanic Verses" in a Cologne mosque?

The German investigative journalist Günter Wallraff plans to read Salman Rushdie's "Satanic Verses" in a mosque in Cologne. In an interview with Germany's tageszeitung he explained that he doesn't see this as an act of provocation but as in keeping with his personal motto, "Be realistic and demand the impossible". Sonja Zekri is annoyed about what she calls the journalist's "hypocritical lecturing airs". "That of all people old lefties like Wallraff or Cap Anamur founder Rupert Neudeck have identified Muslim immigration as the greatest threat to freedom and justice is one of the absurdities of the current discourse on Islam. Wallraff's profession of commitment-cum-blackmailing, by which he hopes to pass off maximum demands as concessions, is a perfect example of the hypocritical lecturing airs and populist cheap valour that instead of going against the spirit of the times only supply his camp with more ammunition."

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