Posted on 03/17/2018 2:30:27 AM PDT by BBell
Angela Merkel’s new government got off to a rocky start on Friday as the chancellor and her interior minister clashed publicly over the role of Islam in Germany society.
Horst Seehofer, who became interior minister this week under a coalition deal, used his first interview since taking office to declare “Islam does not belong in Germany”.
Mrs Merkel lost no time in slapping down the minister, telling a press conference: “Muslims are also part of Germany, and so their religion is just as much a part of Germany”.
Mr Seehofer’s controversial remarks echoed last year’s election slogans from the nationalist Alternative for Germany party (AfD), which campaigned on an anti-Muslim platform.
But they were most clearly aimed as a broadside against Mrs Merkel, who famously declared “Islam belongs in Germany” in a 2015 press conference after opening the country’s borders to over 1 million asylum-seekers.
“Islam does not belong in Germany,” Mr Seehofer told Bild newspaper. “Germany is shaped by Christianity. That means not working on Sundays and celebrating religious holidays such as Easter, Pentecost and Christmas.
“Of course the Muslims who live with us belong in Germany. But that doesn’t mean we should give up our national traditions and customs.”
The leader of Mrs Merkel’s Bavarian sister party, the Christian Social Union (CSU), Mr Seehofer was the leading opponent of her refugee policy and the dispute almost ended the longstanding alliance between the two parties.
But they patched up their differences ahead of last year’s election and Mr Seehofer was given control of migration and asylum policy as interior minister under the new coalition deal. His remarks on Friday suggest he is ready to reopen the feud in government.
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Germany needs a current generation of werewolves to step up to harass their invaders.
Ironic how the country that tried to kill all the Jews in the world has welcomed another religious group who wants to kill all the Germans.
Classic ‘Hapsburg jaw’ on the middle one. ewwww
Kinda late.
Those whom God would destroy, He first makes mad.
As He once hardened the heart of Pharaoh.....
Islam in Germany reminds of me the time my Black lab crawled in the tent to sleep with us. The only problem was she had run through a lot of poison ivy before she came in the tent.
Liberals (and even some people right here on FR) will never get it. Islam is not a RELIGION. It is a THEOCRACY. It is wholly incompatible with any Western values, laws, and cultures. It is the final Reich.
“Late at night while you’re sleeping, poison ivy comes a-creeping all around...”
Islam is a tide that is always coming in.
Wrong. Justin Trudeau does have children: one son and one daughter. They are probably already smarter than their Dad.
I have kicked around the idea that if Hitler had incorporated the Jews into the Nazis he could have used their talents and he may well have had a third Reich that lasted a millennium.
Sorry. My mistake.
Snopes? Heh-heh. Yeah, that’s a good one!
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