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Muslim Converts to Christianity - People and Politics, 03.03.2008

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Michael BärMarch 4, 2008

Leaving Islam … converting to another religion … is punisheable by death … at least in the eyes of fundamentalist Muslims. Scholars are still arguing over exactly what the Koran says. But it´s a simple fact that the roughly 200 Muslims who convert to Christianity every year here in Germany are subject to all sorts of harassment … including death threats. Many of them suffer in silence. Others are more open about it … like the small community of converts we visited, in the western city of Cologne.

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