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“Islam is Not a Part of Germany”

German political parties begin to struggle with political Islam.

BY CounterJihad · @CounterjihadUS | May 3, 2016

The alternative that the Alternative for Deutschland Party (AfD) intends to provide is to the international elite’s vision for Germany.  The elite see Germany as the center of the European Union’s project.  National borders are a thing of the past.  Nationality is passing away too.  The new Germany would be German in name only, but really a cosmopolitan center of banking and industry.

The AfD wants something else.  They want a Germany that is for Germans, that values German language and German culture.  Toward that end they have adopted a platform that rejects Islam as a part of what Germany is about.  The platform asserts that “Islam is not a part of Germany,” and rejects the building of minarets or calls to prayer in the streets.

Hungary’s Prime Minister issued a very similar statement recently.  Hungary’s constitution states that the nation exists to preserve a place for  the Hungarian people and their culture and language.  “To be clear and unequivocal, I can say that Islamization is constitutionally banned in Hungary,” Prime Minister Orban said recently.

That is not the case in Germany.  Germany’s “Basic Law,” which functions as a constitution, endorses an unrestricted religious freedom.  That argument came up at the recent AfD conference, where it was apparently rejected by members of the party.

One party member stood up to defend a proposal to rephrase the chapter, arguing that it gave the impression the party rejects Islam entirely, which goes against the German constitution. He didn’t win much support.

“Islam is foreign to Germany and for that reason it can’t invoke the principle of religious freedom in the same way as Christianity,” Hans-Thomas Tillschneider, an AfD lawmaker from Saxony-Anhalt responded, earning loud applause.

In addition to the foreignness argument, there is the argument being made in the German press that turnabout is fair play.  Germans have witnessed persecution of Christians in their refugee camps by Muslim migrants.  Declaring that “Wo wir sind, herrscht die Scharia” (“Where we are, there is Sharia”), Muslim refugees from Afghanistan and Syria have refused to allow Christians to cook in common kitchens to avoid introducing forbidden foods, and have bullied them for not taking part in Islamic prayer five times daily.  An appeal to the principle of religious freedom requires accepting that principle yourself, and migrants have shown no sign of having done so.

These concerns have spread beyond the AfD to the much more powerful Christian Social Union (CSU), the Bavarian version of German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s Christian Democrats (CDU).  The General Secretary of that party has proposed a law that would address the ‘foreignness’ aspect not by banning Islam, but by insisting that any imams be of German descent.

This move was proposed when it was revealed that Turkey had hired over a thousand imams to preach an Islamist message in Germany, while Saudi Arabia was proposing to build hundreds of new mosques across the country.  Both countries use a politicized Islam to further their national interests, but there has been blowback as these politicized readings produce terrorists and radicals abroad.  “We need to become more critical in our dealings with political Islam, because it hinders Muslim integration in our country. We need an Islam Law,” Secretary Andreas Scheuer told the Die Welt newspaper.

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