Half of Germany’s four million Muslims lack citizenship and its entitlements.

Evidence

This is quite evident in Germany today. The country now has the second-largest Muslim population in Western Europe. Yet out of the approximately four million Muslims living in Germany, only half of them are legal citizens. Needless to say, this creates a large swath of the Muslim population who are denied access to basic social, educational, and governmental services. — Arsalan Iftikhar, Fear of a Muslim Planet_ Global…, 544

Categorization

• XREF: Concrete Europe-level fact that complements the single-nation studies in the machine cluster. — connects to: Millions of European-born Muslims have been relegated to second-class citizenry. — Arsalan Iftikhar, Fear of a Muslim Planet_ Global…, 468; Being treated as a collective denies Muslims the privileges of citizenship.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Arsalan Iftikhar, Fear of a Muslim Planet_ Global…, 544

Related

• Millions of European-born Muslims have been relegated to second-class citizenry. (similarity 0.87)
• Muslims make up under 5 percent of Europe’s population (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• Being treated as a collective denies Muslims the privileges of citizenship. #expands (0.55)