A major academic survey of Muslims in Germany seeks to measure and describe their attitudes to integration, religion, democracy and violence in order to identify the 'problem group' of those who are at risk of radicalisation into Islamist extremism. Yet the design of the survey and its categories of interpretation tell us more about the assumptions of the researchers than about the cultural, religious or political life of Muslims in Germany.
Katrin Brettfeld and Peter Wetzels, Muslime in Deutschland - Integration, Integrations-barrieren, Religion und Einstellungen zu Demokratie, Rechtsstaat und politisch-religiös motivierter Gewalt (University of Hamburg, Faculty of Law, 2007), <http://www.bmi.bund.de>.
