Comparable situation in Bavaria, like in Italy. Bavaria is in Germany what Texas is in the US, strong economy, conservative, patriotic (for Bavaria first, Germany only second), and sometimes quite excentric
. The German Constitutional High Court has banned crucifixes in the whole German republic. In Bavaria they released then a law in reply, making them mandatory in Bavaria - in explicit violation of the German constitution.
Meanwhile, in Berlin a Muhammedan family has won a court case that makes it mandatory for the school to offer their son a separate room for prayers. That's what he does there now - together with some friends that he made converting to Islam. The school on its part voluntarily already allowed it to him before, but they wanted to make it a mandatory thing, so that there is no way back and serves as a precedence at other schools. The senate in Berlin is a coalition of SPD-Socialists and SED-Communists who have banned Christian religious classes from school and replaced it with general classes on morals, which I think in principal is a good thing (I am against relgious classes at public, state-run schools in general, no matter what religion). But it is now thought about allowing Muslim religious classes nevertheless, also adding them to public schools in all Germany, not just Berlin.
We are considered to be a secular country with a separation of religion and politics, church and state.
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