Muslim Life in Germany - Deutsche Islam Konferenz

308 Concise profiles of the migrant groups
The members of other religions are very likely to have a
partner without a migrant background – to a level as high as 93
per cent among North Africans – i.e. they are much more open
to members of the host society than Muslims when it comes to
choosing a partner. Migrants from Central Asia/CIS form an exception
here, 95 per cent of this group having a partner with the
same migrant background. Overall, members of other religious
communities are less attached to their country of origin and
have a stronger attachment to Germany than Muslims.
6.11 Persons without any religious affiliation
People who do not belong to any religion have not been
analysed in the above report (many of the questions did not apply
to them which means that no answers are available). It is appropriate
to outline this group briefly in this section. This group
makes up a sizeable proportion of some migrant groups from
Muslim countries of origin. This applies in particular to Iran (38
per cent) and Central Asia/CIS (38 per cent) and also, though to a
lesser extent, to Southeast Europe (28 per cent), South/Southeast
Asia (20 per cent), the Middle East (20 per cent), North Africa (22
per cent), other parts of Africa (17 per cent) and Turkey (15 per
cent).
Overall, people who do not belong to any religion mainly
consist of immigrants from Central Asia/CIS (44 per cent), Southeast
Europeans (18 per cent) and Turkish migrants (19 per cent).
In the final analysis Iranians account for 6 per cent. As such, immigrants
from Central Asia/CIS and Southeast Europeans explicitly
represent the explicit convictions on religion and the way
of life in the countries of the former Eastern Bloc. By contrast,
people who do not belong to any religion from Iran and Turkey
– countries with an almost exclusively Muslim population – deviate
from the traditional way of thinking and living there.