The German conservative party CSU recently held a closed meeting where the talk was of „our values“ and „integration“. But it centred ultimately on a ‚duty‘ – of „all (Muslim) children, women and men to attend language and integration courses“. A possible sanction was added: failure to meet this requirement could mean losing out on material provision (Süddeutsche Zeitung 27.12.15 / 07.01.16). British Prime Minister David Cameron, who was there too, when back in England also talked of the value of learning languages (in his case of course English) – and here it got blunt – in order to counter ‚radicalisation‘ (Guardian 18.01.16). Weiterlesen →