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German MP: Taxpayers Should Fund German Mosques to Prevent Radicalisation

A top Christian Democrat politician wants to amend the constitution if necessary, so that German taxes can be used to pay for mosques. Jens Spahn—a former minister and deputy leader of the opposition center-right CDU/CSU’s parliamentary group—sees public funding for mosques as a bulwark against overseas influence.

Beatrix von Storch of the AfD previously warned it would be a mistake to finance mosque associations using German taxpayers’ money. While she agreed that the financing of mosques by Turkey or Qatar must be banned immediately, she argued that Muslims in Germany should finance their own mosques with their own contributions.

by Blazingcatfur•January 10, 2024January 9, 2024•0•"Islamophobia", Germany, Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West

Why Germany’s farmer protests are so unusual

Lenin is reported to have joked that “when German revolutionaries have to capture a railway station, they first buy platform tickets at the booking-office.” Stereotypes are dangerous things, but the claim that Germans are less prone to revolutionary outbreaks than, say, the French is not entirely without merit.

by Blazingcatfur•January 10, 2024January 9, 2024•0•"Net-Zero Tyranny", Germany

Germany’s “far-right” exploits farmers’ protests

Images of farmers driving their huge tractors in long convoys along highways, blocking traffic at crossroads to protest against government policies are being shared millions of times on social media in Germany these days. Communications consultant Johannes Hillje describes this as part of a “strategic battle fought by right-wing extremist media-makers.”

Far-right activists have rallied behind the farmers’ protest on platforms such as Facebook, TikTok and X. And their comments are seen to be deliberately fanning the flames.

The German establishment is very afraid of AfD’s gains.

by Blazingcatfur•January 9, 2024January 9, 2024•0•"Net-Zero Tyranny", Germany, Germany - AfD party

German farmers’ protest sparks chaos

German farmers began a week of nationwide protests Monday, causing traffic jams across the country as they blocked streets and highways with thousands of tractors and trucks.

Monday’s actions were the latest in a series of protests venting anger over the coalition government’s decision to cut some diesel subsidies to farmers and transport truckers.

The cuts were due to budget shortfalls after Germany’s Constitutional Court declared Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s government could not reallocate tens of billions in coronavirus relief funds for other purposes.

by Blazingcatfur•January 9, 2024January 8, 2024•0•"Net-Zero Tyranny", Germany

The Rise of AfD and the Failure of the German Political Mainstream

The German-nationalist political party has prospered from the recent inability of other parties to be trusted on issues of national sovereignty.

‘Liberalism is the death of nations” — a famous line from an infamous book. Arthur Moeller van den Bruck, the author, did not have American progressivism in mind. His critique was aimed at liberal democracy as a political regime. Moeller coined the term “Third Reich” in his 1923 book, where these words originate. He was not a National Socialist but part of the “conservative revolution,” a diverse group of writers in the Weimar Republic. Alongside the more radical Völkische Bewegung, an influential ethno-nationalist movement, the “conservative revolutionaries” shaped the social atmosphere that paved the way for National Socialism.

by Blazingcatfur•January 8, 2024January 7, 2024•0•Germany, Germany - AfD party

New Year’s Eve Attacks in Berlin Described as “Normal”

Conservative media outlets and social media users are outraged by New Year’s Eve attacks on the emergency services—mostly committed by young Muslim men—which authorities and politicians have hailed as a more peaceful “return to normal” when compared to last year.

by Blazingcatfur•January 2, 2024January 2, 2024•0•"Islamophobia", Germany, Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West

Gute Nacht, Europe. Guten Morgen, Eurabia

1000 migrants enter Germany every day, And a Bundestag member admitted their culture does not disappear when they cross the border.

Jens Spahn is one of the leaders of the German CDU, a long-time member of the Bundestag (since 2002), former state secretary (2015 to 2018) and former minister (2018 to 2021) under Angela Merkel.

“There will be a risk of a ‘terrible awakening'”, Spahn said in the most dramatic speech by a political leader of the German establishment. The “country could tip over,” Spahn says. “It is above all the cultural area influenced by Islam in which hatred of Jews, incitement against gays, non-equality between men and women are too often part of everyday culture. There are not many Muslim majority countries where people of other faiths have an easy life. Or (where) women have equal rights or gays and lesbians somehow enjoy minority protection. So they just don’t exist. And that also has to do with the culture”.

by Blazingcatfur•January 1, 2024January 1, 2024•0•"Islamophobia", Germany, Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West

Berlin police deploy in force, face calmer New Year’s Eve

Berlin police said on Monday that they detained around 390 people overnight on New Year’s Eve in the German capital and have so far tallied just over 700 potential criminal investigations.

Police spokeswoman Anja Dierschke said that 54 officers were injured, 30 of them by fireworks, after 4,500 police from the capital and other states deployed in a major operation launched because of more widespread unrest than usual last year. Only eight of them were unable to finish their shifts though, she said.

Gangs attack bus drivers in Berlin on New Year’s Eve pic.twitter.com/FahQh2uDVk

— Visegrád 24 (@visegrad24) January 1, 2024

Berlin is like London a white minority city. On New Years Eve in the Mitte district mainly Turkish & Arab men assemble.

No women or native Germans can be seen. pic.twitter.com/e9bSgKhhqr

— David Atherton (@DaveAtherton20) January 1, 2024

by Blazingcatfur•January 1, 2024January 1, 2024•0•"Islamophobia", Germany, Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West

Change State Constitution To Stop AfD, Says German Minister

The interior minister of the eastern German state of Thuringia, social democrat (SPD) Georg Maier, is calling for an amendment to the state’s constitution to hinder—or prevent—right-wing anti-globalist party AfD from obtaining a high-ranking position in the state parliament.

Elections are to be held in three eastern states, Brandenburg, Saxony, and Thuringia next year, and AfD (Alternative für Deutschland) is on course to win in all three, possibly garnering a third of all votes, according to opinion polls.

by Blazingcatfur•January 1, 2024December 31, 2023•0•Germany, Germany - AfD party

Germany: AfD Wins Saxony Mayoral Election

The right-wing antiglobalist Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) is poised to secure its second mayoral position. Residents of Pirna—a town of 37,000 situated in Saxony—brushed off the state intelligence agency’s recent ‘extremist’ classification of the party and voted AfD candidate Tim Lochner into office.

After finishing first by a nearly ten-point margin in the town’s initial round of voting late last month, Lochner, a 53-year-old master carpenter—who isn’t a member of AfD, but ran on its ticket—again bested his opponents from the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and Free Voters in the second round of voting on Sunday, December 17th, securing 38.5% of the vote according to the final tally.

by Blazingcatfur•December 20, 2023December 19, 2023•0•Germany, Germany - AfD party

Germany: Bavaria can hang crosses in state buildings

Crosses mounted in the entrances of the state’s administrative buildings in Bavaria can stay up, Germany’s highest court for most administrative law disputes ruled on Tuesday.

In 2018, Bavarian state premier Markus Söder of the Christian Social Union (CSU) ordered that all public buildings prominently hang a cross “as an expression of Bavaria’s historical and cultural character.”

A Bavarian lobby group advocating “the meaningful separation of church and state as well as the eradication of church privileges,” whose German name might roughly translate to the Association for Free Thinking for Bavaria (bfg Bayern), challenged the decree in court.

During WW II in Bavaria attempts were made to remove crosses from public buildings by local Nazis.

Soldiers returning from the front on leave were recruited by local Catholics to re-install the crosses in very public displays.

One instance saw a pitchfork wielding mob threaten a local Nazi Bigwig unless he returned the crosses he had hidden. His wife spilled the beans fearing her Nazi hubby would meet a horrible end.

by Blazingcatfur•December 19, 2023December 19, 2023•0•Catholic Church, Germany

The AfD’s rise has become unstoppable

Polls should always be taken with a grain of salt, but the numbers coming out of Germany suggest that the biggest Right-wing wave since the end of the Second World War could be emerging. What is brewing across the country is no longer the usual ebb and flow of electoral politics, but instead the prelude to a coming revolt at the voting booth.

by Blazingcatfur•December 14, 2023December 13, 2023•0•Germany, Germany - AfD party

Far-right violence: Chemnitz riot trial begins Monday

The victims have been waiting a long time for this moment: Five years after right-wing extremist riots in the eastern German city of Chemnitz, the trial against the alleged perpetrators will begin on December 11.

Seven defendants between the ages of 26 and 51 stand accused of causing grievous bodily harm and disturbing the peace in 11 separate cases during the incidents of September 1, 2018.

That evening, following an event organized by the far-right Alternative for Germany party (AfD), right-wing populist association Pro Chemnitz, and the anti-Islam Patriotic Europeans Against the Islamization of the Occident (PEGIDA ), the defendants are alleged to have engaged in violent confrontations with participants of a counterdemonstration, according to the indictment by the Dresden public prosector’s office.

by Blazingcatfur•December 11, 2023December 11, 2023•0•"far right", "Islamophobia", Germany, Islamization of the West

Illegal migration to Germany drops dramatically since introduction of border controls

Illegal migration to Germany fell sharply last month after Berlin introduced tougher border-control checks, new figures have revealed.

Federal government statistics showed that there were around 4,353 “unauthorised entries” into the country over its land borders in November compared with 18,384 in the previous month.

There was a significant decline in entries from Poland, the Czech Republic and Switzerland, where Germany has tightened controls, as well as from Austria.

by Blazingcatfur•December 8, 2023December 7, 2023•0•Camp Of The Saints, Germany

Suspected Russian mole ‘passed on German secrets to Wagner’

An alleged Russian mole at the heart of Germany’s foreign intelligence service tipped off the Kremlin that western spies had cracked the communications of its biggest mercenary force in eastern Ukraine, according to a report.

Carsten Linke and his alleged middleman, Arthur Eller, a well-connected German diamond trader, will go on trial next week for aggravated treason. It is Germany’s most significant espionage case in decades.

by Blazingcatfur•December 7, 2023December 6, 2023•0•"Ukraine - Russia", Germany