German university starts training imams...

Ahmed Sami spoke only Arabic when he moved from Morocco to Germany eight years ago to work as an imam. During his Friday prayer services at a mosque in western Germany, he soon noticed that many of the listeners could not understand him.

"The children and teenagers don't speak a lot of Arabic anymore," the 31-year-old imam said. "German is their native language."

Now Sami's part of a pilot program at the University of Osnabrueck that started this week to train imams — not only in the German language but also to steer them to preach about Islam in a way consistent with Germany's democratic values and religious tolerance. More...

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