German police have been accused of racial profiling after arresting a group of Muslim men who were said to be chanting “Allah hu Akbar” in front of Cologne cathedral.
According to the Central Council of Muslims (ZMD), the arrest of the ten young men aged between 18 and 28 years old in front of the Cologne main train station was a “massive attack” and blamed the police for not being culturally sensitive enough, saying that the men who were chanting Allah hu Akbar were celebrating the end of the holy month of Ramadan, Die Welt reports.
“We condemn the actions of the Cologne police and expect that cops are culturally better trained and sensitised,” said ZMD chairman Aiman Mazyek who added that the officers should not be so suspicious of those who may look different to them.
Mazyek recommended that police learn a “minimum level of knowledge about religion-specific things such as holidays and traditions”, and went on to say he hoped “that the police have apologised to those affected in any form and are self-critical of their own prejudices”. continues Breitbart
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