About a German Islam Critic

I found an interesting article in today's issue of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ) ... here is the link [text in German]. The article talks about Rainer Grell, a lawyer and former head of the immigration division within the Department of the Interior of the German Land Baden-Wuerttemberg. As an incumbent, Grell developed the Gespraechsleitfaden fuer Einbuergerungswillige (which could be translated as "Interview Guide for Persons Who Would Like to Become German Citizens"). Grell eventually enforced the implementation of a questionnaire to test applicants' orientation towards the German Grundgesetz (which can be translated as "basic law" and is the German Federal Constitution). The test consists of the following type of questions:

Please assume the following situation: your son of full age tells you that he is homosexual and would like to live with another man. How do you react?

Grell's test was his reaction to a statement by the President of a German administrative court who argued that a teacher who insisted on wearing a headscarf was unable to act in consistence with the German Grundgesetz and its values. The 'history' of Grell's test can now be downloaded from Grell's website "Politically Incorrect" [in German]. By the way, the slogan of the website is "News Against the Mainstream - Pro-America - Pro-Israel - Against an Islamization of Europe - For a Basic Law and Civil Rights".

To put everything in perspective ... Grell is no longer in office ... and, according to the FAZ, Grell's test is currently under revision. Personally, I can only hook up with the bottom-line of the above-mentioned FAZ article: We should refrain from politicizing religion. Not every Muslim is a fundamentalist ... and not every Christian adheres to democratic values. Moreover, the stigmatization of Muslims because of their beliefs may very well be counter-productive and be prejudicial to international understanding.