Islamic authorities in Germany said they had ended talks with a maverick German author who wanted to read aloud Salman Rushdie’s controversial novel, The Satanic Verses, inside a mosque.
Guenter Wallraff, 64, announced in July that he was seeking an invitation from Ditib, an Ankara-funded foundation which maintains Turkish-speaking mosques in many German cities, to conduct the reading in Cologne.
He lacks understanding for the feelings and needs of members of our Muslim community,” said a spokesman, without detailing what Ditib had proposed to Wallraff.
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