Berlin teachers call for punishment of “mini-Islamists” who intimidate classmates into following religious rules
More and more Christians, Jews and also liberal Muslims are falling victim to religious pressure in Berlin schools. The president of the Teachers« Association is calling for a clear political response to »Islamist mobbing.".
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Berlin's schools are once again at the centre of the debate on Islamism, integration and educational authority. According to the German newspaper B.Z. Berlin, more and more teachers They warn of the pressure exerted by political Islam on non-Muslim students. and about Muslims who do not follow strict rules. The denunciation is made by the president of the Teachers' Association, Stefan Düll, who calls for the “Islamist mobbing” to be punished firmly and for political support to be given to teachers who report these cases.
Students pressured to convert to Islam
Numerous educators express a growing concern: In schools with a high proportion of Muslim pupils, some students who do not follow the strict precepts of political Islam are marginalised, harassed, intimidated and even pressured. to convert to Islam. The pressure does not affect only Christian or Jewish pupils, but also Muslims who do not want to live under a rigid interpretation of the religion. Now, the liberal Muslim, the young person who is integrated or The pupil who does not want to live under strict religious rules may also end up being singled out..
B.Z. Berlin's article also includes a politically inconvenient fact: The threats mainly come from “children whose parents or grandparents come from Palestine, the Gaza Strip, Syria, Iraq and the West Bank.”. It is a statement that forms part of the diagnosis the spokesperson puts on the table. The denunciation therefore points to family environments marked by conflicts in the Middle East and by a religious or political socialisation which, according to this interpretation, would be entering German classrooms.
They demand not to cover up “Islamist mobbing” for ideological reasons.
The president of the Teachers“ Association, Stefan Düll, has also called for a clear political response. In remarks to B.Z. Berlin, Düll warns that politicians ”must not make the mistake of hiding the problem for ideological reasons" and calls for support for teachers who detect cases of pressure or religious harassment in schools. According to him, Islamist mobbing must be punished firmly., just like any other form of bullying.
Düll points out one of the most delicate points of the European debate: the tendency of many institutions to act swiftly when harassment fits into politically convenient categories, but to curb, qualify or silence the problem when it is linked to political Islam. Düll is not asking for an exception, but quite the opposite: that the school applies the same criteria to any form of intimidation..
This warning comes after several recent incidents in Germany that have fuelled the debate about the institutional response to conflicts related to political Islam, schooling and youth spaces. One of the most serious cases erupted a few days ago at a youth centre in the neighbourhood of Neukölln of Berlin. The controversy grew because Officials and politicians did not report either the groping or the rape in order not to «stigmatise communities».». The news of the rape reached the police from the victim's father, and the prosecution is now investigating the role of all the authorities involved.
Insults against a gay teacher and gender segregation
Another strictly school-related case shook Berlin in 2025. A teacher He reported having suffered homophobic harassment after telling his pupils that he was married to a man.. According to the Süddeutsche Zeitung, Some students of Muslim background insulted him and singled him out because of his homosexuality.. Among the phrases that were said to have been directed at him were expressions such as “you're a disgrace to the family” or “Islam rules here.” The case was not limited to a one-off conflict between teacher and pupils. The teacher He/She denounced a lack of support from the centre's management and the education administration..
The same school had already accumulated other complaints from teachers. Several teachers They explained that the centre was experiencing a climate of violence, intimidation and religious exclusion.. A teacher reported that she had been “constantly a victim of some kind of violence” for four years and that, as a woman, I had to put up with obscene gestures and sexual noises from some students during the lesson.. According to her account, this led her to often wear trousers or long dresses to avoid further provocations.
Episodes of religious separation or exclusion among pupils were also described. Some Muslim children were said to have refused to play with Christian children because their parents had forbidden it. They have even encountered Muslim teenagers demanding gender segregation at graduation ceremonies.
These cases show that Stefan Düll's warning is not an abstract hypothesis: in Berlin there have already been homosexual teachers insulted by pupils, teachers who report being intimidated for being women, school activities blocked with shouts of “haram” and cases of religious exclusion among minors. And the authorities have decided to do nothing.
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