They get off the bus, cross the road, hurry past the slaughterhouse and disappear into a former office building. Without a headscarf, they feel undressed.
Children flit about between the eagerly gesticulating women.
Even if most of them live as foreigners in Germany, here, at least, they feel at home. But it is probably the most successful project by Germany's still-young Islamic women's movement which exhibits a distinctly Islamic form of emancipation. Although it has little in common with the German concept of women's rights, it is changing a lot of things for Muslims in Germany. But, she adds, only women with an education can join in social life. After all, 'Read' is the first word in the sacred book of Islam.