Did the general public faculty system in Hamburg, Germany ban music classes to keep away from offending Muslims who view them to be forbidden or ‘haram’? No, that is not true: The Hamburg public colleges did no such factor. A German language information report has been misrepresented in social media posts. The report adopted the signing of a joint assertion by spiritual representatives and faculty officers towards intolerance and exclusion — a transfer which was prompted by some incidents of religiously motivated bullying.
The 33-second video clip appeared in a submit (archived right here) revealed on X by @realMaalouf on Sept. 29, 2025. The submit was captioned:
GERMANY: In Hamburg, music classes (singing, piano, guitar) are now not allowed in public colleges as a result of music is ‘haram’ in Islam, and it could be thought-about Islamophobia to impose them on Muslim college students. Ideas?!
Muslims Threaten Classmates
Hamburg takes a transparent line towards discrimination
This information report was revealed by welt.de (archived right here) on June 25, 2025. The screenshot beneath exhibits the German language webpage translated to English. The subject is “Bullying in Hamburg’s colleges”. The headline, initially, “„Musikunterricht kann nicht stattfinden, weil man im Islam nicht singt”” reads:
“Music classes can’t happen as a result of singing will not be allowed in Islam.”
These are nonetheless remoted circumstances, however apparently so quite a few that the Hamburg Schooling Senator is now reacting along with Christian, Jewish, and Muslim spiritual associations. The problem is assaults and discrimination, predominantly by Muslim college students. For instance, remoted German women are attacked – they do not belong right here – whereas others are prevented from attending music classes as a result of it’s haram. These assaults won’t be tolerated, not a single one, based on Senator Bekeris.
The Hamburg Catholic Faculties Fb web page revealed a submit (archived right here) concerning the signing of the joint assertion on June 18, 2025. One photograph within the submit (pictured beneath) has a textual content caption (translated by Google) which reads:
Non secular communities take a stand
towards intolerance and exclusion
The Fb submit consists of the textual content of the joint assertion (translated by Fb):
Promote and shield Hamburg’s range – Hamburg and its spiritual communities present a stance for a respectful dialogue
Hamburg is a metropolis of cultural and non secular range.
From this wealth we form the way forward for our metropolis. Kids and adolescents develop up collectively and apply with one another early in kindergarten and faculty. Right here they get to know and recognize one another with their peculiarities and similarities. They notice variations and apply in dialogue resolving conflicts peacefully and constructively.
In Hamburg’s nurseries and colleges, there isn’t a place for abuse and discrimination of any type. Everybody who’s accountable in nurseries and colleges present perspective when individuals are abused or are pressured by others themselves. Kindergarten and faculty present perspective when complete teams are subjected to basic suspicion on account of unacceptable incidents or people are excluded and even defamed due to their belonging to a bunch.
This perspective corresponds to the values shared by the spiritual communities and town, and formed each day in spiritual schooling for all. Mutual respect prohibits any sort of overbearing: irrespective of who, towards whom and particularly when coercion is practiced beneath the duvet of supposed spiritual rules. All spiritual communities concerned communicate out clearly towards discrimination and extremism, irrespective of who they belong to. The spiritual communities stand for a respectful mutual understanding – with an perspective that pulls clear boundaries.
As cooperation companions, the spiritual communities work intently with the authorities within the context of faculty and past, to form life within the Hanseatic metropolis by holding a dialogue. That is how they counter discrimination and radicalization. In spiritual schooling for all, college students be taught collectively, fully no matter their spiritual and secular background. They acknowledge similarities, discover variations, and apply appreciative interplay with cultural and non secular range. That is how mutual understanding and respectful cooperation are created, which guarantee cohesion in our metropolis.
