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A campaign by a German Muslim group to distribute free copies of the Noble Qur\u2019an as part of efforts to educate people about Islam is inviting anger from German politicians, The Local newspaper reported Wednesday, April 11. \u201cWherever possible, this aggressive action must be stopped,\u201d G\u00fcnter Krings, vice chairman of Chancellor Angela Merkel\u2019s Christian Democratic Union party (CDU) told Die Welt newspaper.
The Salafist Muslim Group \u201cThe True Religion\u201d has launched a campaign to hand out free translated copies of the Qur\u2019an to Germans.
\u201cQuran in every house campaign should be stopped,\u201d Krings said.
\u201cThis Islamic group\u2019s move threatens religious freedom.\u201d
Organizers say the initiative aims to educate Germans about the Islamic teachings.
The campaign, titled \u201cRead\u201d, has already distributed more than 300,000 Qur\u2019an copies.
Ibrahim Abu Nagie, a Salafist preacher, has urged all German Muslims to hand out copies of the Qur\u2019an to their neighbors.
“If every Muslim does that then within a year we will have supplied every person in Germany with a Qur\u2019an translation and they will not label us as terrorists or radicals or anything else, when they read Allah’s book,” he said in an undated video on the group\u2019s website cited by Reuters.
Abu Nagie said the first phase of the free Qur\u2019an campaign was funded by two Turkish people, and that he had rejected financial support from organizations in Bahrain as they wanted to “write their names in the book”.
Germany has between 3.8 and 4.3 million Muslims, making up some 5 percent of the total 82 million population, according to government-commissioned studies.<\/p>\n