Muslims angered at depiction in German carnival
Some two million people took to the streets of Germany's Rhine region for the climax of the carnival season Monday but Muslim representatives were angered by floats featuring bearded men in turbans and explosives belts.
The depiction of Islam was "barefaced lies" and the float was "using negative images to seek attention," the Central Council of Muslims' secretary general Aiman Mazyek told Tuesday's edition of the Westdeutsche Zeitung daily.
Deutsche Welle, 19 February 2007 (Via Muslim News)
Meanwhile the German newspaper Spiegel blames divisions not on racism but on Muslims themselves, who are accused of creating "A parallel Muslim universe".
Martin Sullivan