Germany should stop seeing refugees as a general threat, the council chairwoman of the Protestant Church in Germany (EKD) said on Sunday, calling the political debate on asylum seekers “dangerous” for focussing on deterrence and deportation. “It’s about people, not numbers,” Kirsten Fehrs said in the southern German city of Würzburg, where the EKD’s synod was convening for its annual meeting. Speaking in the wake of both a US election outcome with global consequences and the crumbling of Germany’s coalition, Fehrs said: “The world has been shaken and many people are experiencing growing insecu…