ABSTRACT
Since the late 80s, Germany has been dealing with new social, political, and religious issues brought in by the extended stay of its guest-workers who actually should have returned to their home countries once their employment contract ended. These guest-workers and their family are mostly from Turkey with Islam as their most prominent identity. The Islamic discourse has appeared in many aspects of German’s social and political life since then. In 2006, The German Home Office initiated the First Deutsche Islamkonferenz (DIK) aiming to build a shared future with its Muslim citizens. Not only the Islamic large organizations but also ten individual Muslims from different backgrounds were invited to this conference. My previous research focuses on DIK, the problem of representation, and the position of the three Muslim individuals in proposing the term deutscher Islam. Meanwhile, in this paper, their position is examined based on the new emerging phenomenon raised by the arrival of millions of Muslim refugees in Germany. Van Dijk’s Critical Discourse Analysis (Ideological Square) is applied to analyze the texts.
