A German Muslim female soldier speaks out against bigotry
By Ishaan Tharoor
By Ishaan Tharoor
Nariman Reinke is a 36-year-old daughter of Moroccan
immigrants. She is German, she is Muslim, and she is a soldier in the
Bundeswehr, or the German army. And now she's become a public figure, taking a stand against
what she perceives to be the rather toxic conversation of the moment. That's been fueled by widespread fears over the arrival in
Germany of hundreds of thousands of Syrian refugees and other migrants during
the past year. Migrants and men of Arab and North African descent were
implicated in a grim spate of attacks and incidents of sexual harassment in the
city of Cologne on New Year's Eve. The backlash in Germany and elsewhere in Europe
was pronounced.
