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Islam has been a subject of heated debate in the social and political discourse of Germany ever since the first Muslim foreign workers arrived in the early 1970s. Like elsewhere throughout the world, the debate surrounding Islam has become even more central to the national discourse after the fall of the Soviet Union and the disintegration of the so-called Iron Curtain. After the attacks on the World Trade Centre in New York on September 11, 2001, and the discovery that some of the terrorists involved in these attacks had lived in Hamburg, the debate gained a new, more contentious dynamic.
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Knoblauch, E., Eden-Fleig, W. (2010). Hamburg, Muslims and Imams: The Challenge of Secularism. In: Marranci, G. (eds) Muslim Societies and the Challenge of Secularization: An Interdisciplinary Approach. Muslims in Global Societies Series, vol 1. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-3362-8_12
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