There are more, refusal to continue to criticize Islam in this carnival is surrender given such a history.
Until this ISIS thing started up over Syria....I think you could do a skeptical-view float and they had to accept it (note, there’s always an anti-Pope float and various anti-Christian floats). The political folks are freaking out because the whole immigration thing might be used for an election theme...rather than the typical anti-US-gimmick, pension-reform, or corruption-angle.
If some election occurs and the new AfD party (newly created in the past two years) gets twenty-five percent of the national vote because of their anti-immigration stake....the stability of the German Bundestag (parliament) gets flipped into question. It’s hard enough for five parties to figure out a team-work situation to get fifty-percent control of the Bundestag....but AfD would make it things very difficult.
