{"id":6605,"date":"2016-07-26T03:49:51","date_gmt":"2016-07-26T02:49:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/soerenkern.com\/?p=6605"},"modified":"2016-08-01T03:55:29","modified_gmt":"2016-08-01T02:55:29","slug":"germany-christian-names-muslim-migrants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/soerenkern.com\/web\/2016\/07\/26\/germany-christian-names-muslim-migrants\/","title":{"rendered":"Germany: Christian Names for Muslim Migrants?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/soerenkern.com\/2016\/07\/26\/germany-christian-names-muslim-migrants\/germany-polenz\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6606\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6606\" src=\"https:\/\/soerenkern.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/germany-polenz.jpg\" alt=\"germany-polenz\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/soerenkern.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/germany-polenz.jpg 600w, https:\/\/soerenkern.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/germany-polenz-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Muslim migrants in Germany who feel discriminated against should be given the right to change their legal names to Christian-sounding ones, according to a senior German politician.<\/em><!--more--><\/p>\n<h3>Germany: Christian Names for Muslim Migrants?<\/h3>\n<p>Soeren Kern | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gatestoneinstitute.org\/8547\/germany-muslims-names\" target=\"_blank\">Gatestone Institute<\/a> | July 26, 2016<\/p>\n<p>Muslim migrants in Germany who feel discriminated against should be given the right to change their legal names to Christian-sounding ones, according to a senior German politician.<\/p>\n<p>The latest innovation in German multiculturalism is being championed by Ruprecht Polenz, a former secretary general of the ruling Christian Democratic Union (CDU). He believes the German law which regulates name changes (<em>Namensrecht<\/em>) should be amended to make it easier for men named Mohammed to become Martin and women named Aisha to become Andrea.<\/p>\n<p>German law generally does not allow foreigners to change their names to German ones and German courts rarely approve such petitions. By custom and practice, German names are only for Germans.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gatestoneinstitute.org\/8547\/germany-muslims-names\" target=\"_blank\">Continue Reading Here<\/a>\u00bb<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Muslim migrants in Germany who feel discriminated against should be given the right to change their legal names to Christian-sounding ones, according to a senior German politician.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[34,48],"tags":[46,179,21,195],"class_list":["post-6605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-germany","category-islam-in-europe","tag-european-multiculturalism","tag-germany","tag-immigration","tag-migration-crisis"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Germany: Christian Names for Muslim Migrants? 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