Curious - What percentage of the population is practicing Muslim? Also, do kids of Muslims born in Germany tend to remain Muslims? When you say they become Germanized what does that mean religion-wise?
They don’t carry iron-clad numbers on religion, but generally say that Muslims make up 4-million out of the 82-million. The thing is...then you have to break it up...Sunni, Shiite, Kurd, etc. Kurds are an ethnic group and Muslim, but they don’t typically associate with Turks (who usually are Muslim but not always).
On Muslim kids staying Muslim...no one says much. I’ve watched interviews with anonymous ex-Muslims who said as soon as they got finished schooling and moved out...they went to zero activity with the religion. You end up with different levels...will say they are Muslim but drink alcohol, smoke pot, and don’t take anything about the rules serious. Some fall into the moderate group. Some more extreme.
When I use the word ‘Germanized’, it typically means that you grew up in the German school system, you speak the language and even the regional accent of German, you watch mostly only German TV, and you rarely go visit dad’s ‘old’ country. There are a fair number of German-Turk kids who have no real relation to the family in the old country. They might speak a hundred words in Turk but they see themselves as fully integrated, working, paying taxes, and happy.
I would say this as well, which is one of the odd prospectives. If you were a Turk or Syrian, and living in rural communities (out in the ‘sticks’ as you and I would say)...they are part of the community and less likely to fall into some hardline episode. But less mosque activity falls into this as well. In the urbanized areas, people want to peer-review your life and draw you back into their special status-group. If they had required a lot of these incoming folks to go spend two years in some rural region or town, I think a lot of them would be better off.