Anti-immigrant AfD says Muslims not welcome in Germany

reuters ^ | 5/1/16

[StCloudMoose]

Delegates from Germany's anti-immigration party Alternative for Germany (AfD) on Sunday backed an election manifesto that says Islam is not compatible with the country's constitution and calls for a ban on minarets and the burqa. The AfD, set up just three years ago, has been buoyed by Europe's migrant crisis, which saw the arrival of more than one million, mostly Muslim, migrants in Germany last year. The party has no lawmakers in the federal parliament in Berlin but has members in half of Germany's 16 regional state assemblies. Opinion polls give AfD support of up to 14 percent, presenting a serious challenge to Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservatives and other established parties ahead of the 2017 federal election. They rule out any coalition with the AfD. In a raucous and highly emotional debate on the second day of a party congress, many of the 2,000 delegates cheered calls from the podium for measures against "Islamic symbols of power" and jeered a plea for dialogue with Germany's Muslims. "Islam is foreign to us and for that reason it cannot invoke the principle of religious freedom to the same degree as Christianity," said Hans-Thomas Tillschneider, an AfD lawmaker from the state of Saxony-Anhalt, to loud applause. Merkel has said freedom of religion for all is guaranteed by Germany's constitution and has said on many occasions that Islam belongs to Germany.

[Liz]

From all we know now, Islam IS NOT a religion.

It is a bunch of power-mad uncivilized savages waving an antediluvian
book of 14th century ideology, grabbing and killing anything in their path.

[null and void]

Eh? They aren’t even welcome in Saudi, why would anyone expect them to be welcome in any civilized country?

[fella]

I worked on an airbase in Germany back in the 70s. When I saw how many Turkish guest workers were there, I thought they were making a terrible mistake then.

It was only about 10 years earlier that the first mosque in the USA was opened in D.C. right next to the Saudi embassy and I had the same thought then.

[wetgundog]

Not welcome in the USA either, but they don’t know it yet, They will come January.

[MasterGunner01]

At least there are some Germans in Germany that have cajones and a spine to want to evict the Muslim invaders (aka “migrants”) coming into the country. Merkel still hasn't gotten the message and neither have many German politicians. Throw the damn Muslims out and send them back to the countries they migrated from — and what they deserve. Western Civilization has no place for the death cult called Islam.

[I want the USA back]

Not welcome here either.

[njslim]

AUSLANDERS RAUS..........

[WashingtonSource]

7th century, but otherwise, yes.

[RAldrich]

Yah...Merkel. She has a head like a stone. She won’t control the thousands of migrants from Africa and the Middle East crossing the border into Germany, yet she’s decided to send German soldiers to man the Lithuanian border with Russia - on the pretext that Putin wants to invade Lithuania. Germans are fed up with her.

[Maverick68]

It’s not about being stubborn, our leaders are being paid off.