Muslim students tend to force their religious practices on their peers in classrooms.

More than six per cent of the entire population identifies as Muslim, including millions of Germans who will soon be celebrating Ramadan. In many schools with a high proportion of children and young people from conservative Muslim families, problems related to religious practices become evident, especially during the fasting month. Teachers have been reporting for years that concentration and academic performance decline when even the youngest children go all day without food or drink. Some fasting students refuse to participate in physical education or take exams.

Reports also indicate increasing pressure on other children with Muslim backgrounds to adhere to religious dietary rules. Religious freedom is at risk here. After all, religious freedom should also encompass the freedom from religion, put it differentl, the freedom not to be forced into certain religious practices, writes Frederik Schindler, a political commentator for the German Die Welt, in an opinion piece.

This makes it impossible for these students to study on equal terms. Schindler believes it is an important task for politicians to protect such children from the pressure of religious communities and to train teachers accordingly.

The so-called „Sharia police” consists of groups of Muslim students who appear in a growing number of schools and impose their religious rules on others—while teachers are powerless to stop it.

Secular and atheist migrants have had similar experiences in refugee centres. Some fled Islamism, only to encounter Islamists again in these centres, who deny them the right to lead autonomous lives.

Members of this group, aged 17 to 19, openly stated during classes that they rejected democracy and even argued in favour of stoning. On social media, they circulated videos from various Salafist preachers.