The well-known migration researcher, Werner Schiffauer, shared the opinions contained in the open letter, but had not signed it because the criticism should have been addressed to the German public, instead of Kelek, in his opinion: "Necla Kelek should not be attacked, rather the German public, who had only waited for someone like Kelek to confirm everything they had always thought about Muslims." He reckoned in Kelek's favor that she had brought up the subject of family relations in migrant families, which had been neglected until then.