The AfD party in Germany has scored a major court victory against opposition to its association with the anti-Islamization group PEGIDA (Patriotic Europeans Against the Islamisation of the West).
A Reuters article last week described PEGIDA as a grassroots movement that holds regular events to protest against “Islamisation.”
PEGIDA has been a major target of globalists, along with other groups (or individuals) that oppose the Islamization of the West, jihad, the Muslim Brotherhood and irresponsible immigration policies that allow for the spread of political Islam in the West. When any of its members step outside the boundaries of civility — which happens much more frequently, and indeed, has become commonplace at leftist protests, and is far more severe among leftists — the entire organization is branded.
Pro-democracy demonstrators against Islamization are deemed to be “racist,” “far right,” “Nazi,” “white supremacist,” “Islamophobic,” “xenophobic” and “intolerant,” but as far as authorities in Europe and North America are concerned, it is perfectly acceptable for the Muslim Brotherhood to spread its Sharia principles in their countries.
The message to Westerners is to submit or be branded. Unfortunately, the phobia about being branded has led leaders to betray the founding principles of their own nations.
It is groundbreaking that Germany’s highest court has ruled “that a former cabinet minister had breached neutrality rules that apply to government members when she accused members of the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) of promoting radicalization.”
The anti-suicidal immigration AfD, which is routinely branded as “far right” solely for wanting to protect its nation, has been growing in popularity. It is becoming an increasing threat to Merkel’s CDU party, which has plans to bring in 300,000 more migrants annually, plus over thousands of others via chain migration.
“German far-right wins court case over ex-minister’s barb”, Reuters, February 28, 2018:
BERLIN (Reuters) – Germany’s highest court ruled on Tuesday that a former cabinet minister had breached neutrality rules that apply to government members when she accused members of the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) of promoting radicalization.
The ruling underscores the challenges facing politicians trying to take on the AfD, which won nearly 13 percent in a Sept. 24 election at the expense of Chancellor Angela Merkel’s conservatives and the center-left Social Democrats (SPD).
In 2015, at the height of a large influx of Muslim migrants, Johanna Wanka, then education minister, responded to an AfD slogan at a Berlin protest rally that read: “Red card for Merkel – asylum needs borders.”
Wanka issued a statement on the ministry’s website saying the red card should be shown to the AfD, not Merkel, adding:
“Bjoern Hoecke and other party spokespeople are contributing to social radicalization. Right-wing extremists who openly incite hatred and violence, like the head of (anti-Islam grassroots movement) PEGIDA boss Lutz Bachmann, thus receive intolerable support.”
Hoecke, a senior member of the AfD, has described the Holocaust memorial in Berlin as a “monument of shame” and wants German history books on the Nazi era to be rewritten.
“EQUAL OPPORTUNITIES”
The Constitutional Court said on Tuesday that Wanka had “violated the AfD’s right to equal opportunities of political parties” as her remarks may have negatively affected voters’ view of the party….
nicu says
Finally justice — a step into the right direction !
Jacqueline says
The best direction would be to evict and ban the Muslims from entering a civilized nation. Isolation is key…Send them back to live in caves and tents and soon they will kill off each other. Islam is not a religion but rather it is a political cult…an excuse to get away with radical rape, killings, etc. blaming it on their religion that tells them to do so. They are animals and animals belong in a cage. Best news is that the EU evicts and bans all of the Muslims and start protecting their citizens..
Jenny says
They do everything they can to demonize us. This is very good indeed.
andra says
The title is misleading.
AfD and Pegida only won that the Minister of education Wanka was not allowed to use the ministry´s homepage for her claim that AfD and Pegida are right wing islamophobes. As a person she may say whatever she wants, even as a minister.
Dianne says
Some light breaks through.
Steve says
The sentence
“Hoecke, a senior member of the AfD, has described the Holocaust memorial in Berlin as a “monument of shame” and wants German history books on the Nazi era to be rewritten.”
is misleading and defamatory. It implies that both Hoecke and the AfD are anti-Semitic and practice Holocaust denial while supporting a revisionist view of the Nazi era.
In fact, the expression used by Hoecke in his speech was “Merkmal der Schande”, with the “Schande” (shame) referring to the Nazi persecution of the Jews. It does not refer to any shame at the fact that the Holocaust memorial was erected, but has been deliberately misinterpreted as meaning this by the anti-AfD German media. If Hoecke had wanted to say this, he would have used the term “Schandmerkmal”, which clearly means that the memorial is a disgrace and not the fact that 6 million Jews were murdered in the name of the German people.
I have read the speech and cannot find anything anti-Semitic in it, and I challenge anyone to cite one phrase or sentence that can legitimately be described as anti-Semitic.
Further, Hoecke has never denied the reality of the Holocaust or called for the revision of history. He has simply said that the teaching of German history should not concentrate on the 12 years of Nazi rule but accord equal importance to the hundreds of years of German achievements in science, technology, literature and the arts, philosophy etc. As a secondary school teacher, he wants to convey a more positive view of German history to his students. This is perfectly understandable since Germans generally suffer from a debilitating guilt complex that prevents them from adopting a rational approach to the challenge posed by large-scale Muslim immigration and its destructrive effects on their way of life.
Far from being anti-Semitic, the AfD deplores the growing anti-Semitism in Germany as a result of mass Muslim immigration and fully supports Israel. While the establishment parties and media make excuses for and downplay Muslim attacks on Jews, the AfD condemns them vigorously. A few weeks ago, the Federal President Frank-Walter Steinmeier, a member of the SPD, laid a wreath at Yasar Arafat’s grave. And this same politician, like many other establishment figures, brands the AfD a racist and extremist party. They do this while showing sympathy for extremists who murder Jews.
Guy Forester says
Steve, thank you for that enlightening post. I was wondering what was going on regarding these two organizations but I cannot read German.
The anointed ones of the usual political parties and of the MSM in the West pick pieces out of context to promote the idea that anyone saying or believing something other than what we are told to believe are Nazi’s.
Steve says
Whoops! Unfortunately I made a mistake and wrote “Merkmal” instead of “Denkmal”. “Merkmal” means “property” or “characteristic”. Just a careless mistake made while writing a comment in a hurry.
Incidently, if Hoecke had wanted to say that the Holocaust memorial was a disgrace in itself and should never have been built, he could also have said “schändliches Denkmal”.
This said, I am no fan of Hoecke although I acknowledge that he is a good speaker. He tends to have a black-and-white view of history, and in his speeches he presents Germany as the eternal victim of the Western powers, especially the US. The bombing of Dresden he regards as a war crime perpetrated by the arch criminal Churchill. This may be partly true, but sounding off on issues like this is not going to win the AfD any votes. On the other hand, it will invite accusations of Nazi sympathies.
Like other AfD members, Hoecke should forget the rights and wrongs of Germany’s past contentious relationships with other Western countries and concentrate on current issues.
Guy Forester says
Unfortunately, no one is perfect, we all have flaws. Dresden is still controversial here in the US, as is Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The problem is, Germany and Japan started that mess, and paybacks can be rough.
You are right, it is time to stop fighting the past wars and concentrate on the current one. Learn from the past, but stop living in it.
gravenimage says
Thanks.
Johan Elzinga says
Hoecke is under some scrutiny for critisizing Germany. He doesn’t agree that there is a Holocaust monument in the centre of the capital. May I remind you, folks, that hardly anything of the second world war is even a subject in history classes in the Netherlands? That a LOT of people in Europe do not even know what happened during the second world war? The Holocaust monument is a good thing. Hoecke is an asshole. Millions of jews have been killed, and now there should be no monument to remind the German people of what they did?
The Afd may have a valid point that Germany should not let more immigrants in. Perhaps some of those immigrants should even be made to leave Germany. But I’m very wary of people like Hoecke.
Tom says
“A grass roots movement” not neo-nazi, racists, islamaphobes, and this from Reuters !! Well, well, what next ? Could it be that the bell has finally rung and they are starting to awaken to the fact that people are just trying to protect their homeland, society, culture, and family.
The court’s decision will go a long way to legitimizing the “grass roots movement” for the German people.
gravenimage says
Germany: Anti-immigration AfD and anti-Islamisation PEGIDA win in court over claim they promote “radicalization”
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Good news.
MFritz says
Good. While I have good reasons not to trust the AfD, PEGIDA and this case are a different story. And, at least for once, German justice put civil rights before political pressure.
We shall see if the next court decisions will also be among this line.
Linnte says
Good news! And man did I need it! Thanks Christine!