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Mina Ahadi, co-founder of the Central Council of Former Muslims, addresses a press conference in Berlin to announce its creation. (JOHN MACDOUGALL/AFP)
“The government keeps saying that there are 3.5-million Muslims in this country, and they're including me when they say that,” Ms. Toker said. “I don't want to be on that list. But I have no way of saying no.”
To enormous news media attention in Germany, they took part in the launching of an organization for this large, underrepresented group of Islamic immigrants. Provocatively, the group, formed with Iranian human-rights activist Mina Ahadi, 50, and 40 other individuals, is called the Central Committee for Ex-Muslims. That is a play on the name of the largest German mosque organization, the Central Committee for Muslims, whose headquarters is located not far from Ms. Toker's apartment in Cologne.
