The Turkish-Islamic Union for Religious Affairs in Germany (DITIB), a satellite religious organisation for Turkey’s religious affairs department, has removed a series of Jew-hating remarks from its website, following criticism.
The DITIB is a member of the German government’s conference on Islam and is a satellite organisation for Turkey’s religious affairs department. It influences over 900 mosques in Germany, holds services at the mosque in Mattenberg and sits on the city of Kassel’s council for religion.
Screeenshots from the DITIB’s site for the city of Melsungen display a slew of anti-Jewish quotations, thirty in total, some from the Quran and the Prophet Muḥammad. These included statements such as: “[the Jews] lie and cheat,” “The Jews are cruel and malicious,” “the Jews are stingy,” “Jews violate contracts and promises,” and “they [the Jews] falsified the Torah.”
The posting led to a series of criticism from journalists and Volker Beck, MP for Germany’s Green Party. The Jersulam Post reports that the DITIB has since “distanced itself” from the remarks made on its website and that the person responsible has resigned.
Source: The Jerusalem Post
