Arzu Toker

Arzu Toker (born 1952) is a German-speaking writer, journalist, publicist and translator of Turkish descent.

Arzu Toker in 2008

Biography

Toker was born in 1952 in Halfeti, Turkey. She moved to Germany in 1974, where she has lived ever since.

Early 2007, she and Mina Ahadi were amongst the founders of the Central Council of Ex-Muslims, a German association that aims to represent people who have renounced Islam.[1] Toker opines that Islam is inhumane, contrary to the German Constitution and both misogynous and misandrous: according to her, women in Islam are being "degraded to breeding machines". She warns that in many Dutch cities there are women's and day care centres in the hands of Islamists.[2] By allowing this Islamic pillarisation, the Netherlands are too tolerant in Toker's view. For her, Islam stands for oppression, and one should be allowed to say that, naming Ayaan Hirsi Ali as their example.[3]

Recent works
  • Kein Schritt zurück ('No step back'), Alibri, Aschaffenburg, 2014, 157 p. ISBN 978-3-86569-166-8

References
  1. Ahmet Olgun (18 May 2007). "Ex-moslims willen afzweren islam bespreekbaar maken". NRC Handelsblad (in Dutch). Retrieved 12 April 2019.
  2. Petra Sjouwerman & Antoine Verbij (11 September 2007). "'Islam maakt fokmachine van man'". Trouw (in Dutch). Archived from the original on 26 February 2014. Retrieved 22 February 2014.
  3. "Duitse ex-moslims zweren islam af" (in Dutch). NOS. 2 March 2007. Archived from the original on 6 March 2014. Retrieved 6 March 2014.
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