Accordibng to a new study posted in British site Express, half of Germans can feel like a stranger in their own country after over a million migrants arrived there last year.
Islamophobia has risen markedly in German, according to a new study, underscoring the tensions simmering in German society.
Every second respondent of the 2,420 people asked said they sometimes felt like a foreigner in their own country due to the many Muslims here, up from 43 per cent in 2014 and 30.2 per cent in 2009.
The number of people who believe Muslims should be forbidden from coming to Germany has also risen, the study showed, and now stands at just above 40 per cent, up from about a fifth in 2009.
The study was conducted by researchers at the University of Leipzig in co-operation with the Heinrich Boell Foundation, the Rosa-Luxemburg Foundation and the Otto-Brenner foundation.
It also examined extreme right-wing views towards other groups in Germany.
“While general prejudice against migrants fell slightly, the focus of resentment towards asylums seekers, Muslims as well as Sinti and Roma, increased,” the study’s authors said
The number of those surveyed that believed Sinti and Roma peoples tended towards criminality rose to nearly 60 per cent, while slightly more than 80 per cent of respondents wanted the state not to be too generous when examining asylum applications.
Almost 40 per cent of those surveyed in east Germany agreed with the statement that foreigners only came to Germany to take advantage of its social welfare benefits, compared to about 30 per cent of those in the west of the country.
The influx of migrants has fuelled support for the anti-immigrant Alternative for Germany (AfD) party that wants to ban minarets and the burqa and has described Islam as incompatible with the German constitution.

Express.co.uk