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A sign on Bockenheimer Strasse in Frankfurt am Main (D) has been wishing people “Happy Ramadan” since Tuesday. The decoration is probably a novelty. Because: It rarely or never happens that German cities are festively decorated for the Islamic fasting month of Ramadan.
From March 10, at the beginning of the fasting month, the letters, crescents, stars and Fanoos lantern in the street, also called Fressgass, will be extra illuminated. The decoration will hang from five enormous steel cables straight through the pedestrian area until April 9. Costs: 50 to 100,000 euros, so a maximum of 96,000 francs. This was reported by the German Press Agency (dpa).
Mayor: “Light of solidarity”
Last year the decision was made for the special street lighting. The Greens wrote in their application at the time: “With the decorations during Ramadan, the city of Frankfurt sends an important signal for Muslim life and thus appreciates the people of the Muslim faith in this city.”
100-150,000 Muslims live in Frankfurt am Main. They make up almost 15 percent of the population there. “They are lights of solidarity, against reservations, against discrimination, against anti-Muslim racism and also against anti-Semitism. In times of crisis and war, this lighting is a sign of hope for all people and strengthens cohesion in our diverse urban society,” Mayor Nargess Eskandari-Grünberg (59) said in a comment on the campaign. A similar event took place last year in the English capital London at the famous Piccadilly Circus.
The campaign is not well received by everyone: the right-wing populists of the Alternative for Germany (AfD) are furious. AfD politician Beatrix von Storch (52) criticized this in a post on X: “Pure madness. The Islamization of this country is becoming more unbearable every day. We. Want to. The. Not.”
Source: Blick
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