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"Wenn Integration ernst gemeint ist, muss auch nichtchristliche Religiosität sichtbar sein können, ohne als Bedrohung empfunden zu werden. Der Umgang mit islamischen Symbolen ist von Vorurteilen geprägt, die es vor allem muslimischen Frauen erschweren, ihren Platz in der Gesellschaft zu finden. Es gibt noch viel zu tun für die Deutsche Islamkonferenz." (Autorenreferat)

Abstract
This article looks at the emergence of Muslims as a category of knowledge in surveys and opinion polls that have been conducted as a reaction to the rising demand for data about Muslim populations in Western Europe within the last ten years. The most prevalent feature of the conceptualization of Muslims is that they are inherently immigrants, or of immigrant descent, who are living within a certain nation state. This creates a continuous statistical invisibility of certain Muslims, for instance those without immigration backgrounds, as well as Muslims with national backgrounds other than Muslim majority countries. Further, this identification of the Muslim as immigrant, even if unintended, contributes to upholding a subtle exclusion of Muslims from the national community as always foreign and always potentially in need of integration.

This paper investigates representations of the Roma Holocaust in European textbooks on history, civics, and geography for pupils in upper primary to the end of secondary education. By applying critical discourse analysis (CDA) to a dataset of 472 passages and images referring to the Roma Holocaust from 869 textbooks, this paper reveals educational discourses of in/exclusion by focusing on narratives and linguistic tools, such as speech acts, level of detail and specificity, perspectives in semantic and grammatical forms, vocabulary and syntax. Most knowledge disseminated on the Roma Holocaust concerns numbers and technicalities of murder while Roma-specific details, survivor stories, and individual voices, as well as Romani terminology for the Holocaust (Porrajmos) are rare. Generally, the textbooks show little commitment to circulating knowledge about the Roma Holocaust, or specifically focusing on civic or human rights education. Portrayals of the Roma Holocaust are permeated by both explicitly and implicitly racist discourses, coupled with a distinct lack of critical tools withwhich to deconstruct these narratives. Overall, current textbook representations of the Roma Holocaust mirror social discourse and possibly serve to reproduce Romani exclusion and risk reinforcing antigypsyism attitudes.

"Salafismus in Deutschland rückt immer stärker in das öffentliche Interesse, Zahlen und Fakten werden zunehmend nachgefragt: Wie viele Salafisten gibt es, wie viele salafistische Gemeinden? Welche Daten liegen dazu tatsächlich vor und wie kommen die Zahlen zustande, die ausgiebig von Medien, Wissenschaft und Politik genutzt werden? Der Report widmet sich diesen Fragen und den politischen, ethischen und methodischen Herausforderungen für Datenerhebungen und Datenverwertung in diesem Feld. Handlungsempfehlungen an Medien, Politik und Wissenschaft schließen den Report ab." (Autorenreferat)