Reality begins to break through the prevailing comfortable fictions, at least for the Grünen.
“Radical Islam: the transformation of the German Greens,” translated from “Islam radical: la mue des Verts allemands,” by Pierre Avril, Le Figaro, November 16, 2020:
Dikes are cracking within the Green Party, that former hippie and libertarian party born in the 1970s, which made tolerance towards Islam and the celebration of multiculturalism its mantra. In the midst of a wave of Islamist attacks committed on Austrian, German and French soil, and as security cooperation emerges between Paris, Vienna and Berlin, the German Greens are refocusing their rhetoric. And is getting rid of the Islamo-leftist image that the Christian Democratic right – with which they may soon rule – readily attaches to them.
Party chairman Robert Habeck is set to present to the Bundestag an eleven-point plan proclaiming “zero tolerance” to Islamist terrorism. Islamist threats must be constantly monitored, the document reads, in particular by strengthening the security forces. Arrest warrants against dangerous individuals must be executed more expeditiously…