AfD simply wants to preserve Germany’s identity. What’s wrong with that?

T. Belman. The HUFF POST is a far left publication. If that is the worst they can say about the Platform of the AfD then that party doesn’t worry me. Simply put they want to preserve the Germany they know. What’s wrong with that?

The left and the establishment (is there any difference) want to absolutely reject that model and support a multicultural model which includes deference to Muslims. I am fine with that, they are entitled to promote their agenda and policies. But so is the AfD.  But the left wants to shut any such policies down and wants to smear them and delegitimate them. They don’t want to debate with them.

By Jack Sommers, HUFF POST

The Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) party won around 90 seats in Germany’s Bundestag, with 12.6 percent of the vote in Sunday’s poll, the first far right group to enter the national parliament since 1945.

(L-R) Joerg Meuthen, co-leader of Germany’s nationalist Alternative for Germany (AfD) party, AfD top candidate Alexander Gauland, AfD top candidate Alice Weidel and AfD co-leader Frauke Petry pose as they arrive for a press conference of the AfD in Berlin on September 25, 2017, one day after general elections.

It was a remarkable rise for a party that was founded just four years ago.

Some of its policies echo other more mainstream eurosceptic parties in other countries: an end to the Euro, fewer immigrants and a stronger military.

But the party’s rhetoric is further right than many other eurosceptic parties.

We took a deeper look at the party’s 76-page manifesto.

Here are five parts that show what the AfD’s hardline views look like when presented as policies.

  • 1 Multi-Culturalism And Islam ‘Endanger’ Germany
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    The manifesto includes a broad condemnation of multi-culturalism, saying it threatens Germany’s values that centre on “Christianity, antiquity, humanism
    and the Enlightenment”.
  • It warns the “currently ongoing culture war between West and Islam’ can only be averted by “a bunch of restrictive and defensive measures”. It does not say what they are.

  • 2 ‘A Country For Our Descendants That Is Still Recognisable As Our Germany’
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    “The aim of the AfD is self-preservation, not self-destruction
    our state and people.”
    This is the summary of a long rant in the manifesto about how Europe’s population is ageing and shrinking, while Africa’s and the Middle East is growing and is bound to overrun Europe.
    “In Africa, every women has 4.5 children on average. At the same time, child mortality is falling thanks to international efforts,” it warns.
    “We want to leave our descendants a country that is still recognisably our Germany.”

  • 3 No More ‘Special Rights’ For Muslims At School
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    A brief paragraph within the education section says Muslim pupils must take part in sport and swimming lessons alongside other pupils.
  • For an insight into how Muslim pupils are treated at school, one institution prohibited from Muslim children from the “provocative” act of praying in March. This was praised by the AfD.

  • 4 Axing The German-Turkish Social Security Agreement
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    Germans of Turkish descent are the country’s largest immigrant diaspora. There are thought to be around three million Germans with at least one parent from Turkey. This mostly dates from when West Germany turned to Turkey in the early 1960s to import huge numbers of workers to cope with a labour shortage.
  • The AfD wants to axe the German-Turkish social insurance agreement – in place since 1964 – which gives citizens of each country certain protections in the other, including health insurance.
  • The party says it favours Turkish people over Germans. The AfD also opposes Turkey joining the EU.

  • 5 ‘Gender Ideology’ Is Unconstitutional And Denies A ‘Clear Picture Of The Family’
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    The AfD condemns – but doesn’t clearly articulate – the spread of ‘gender ideology’.
  • Apparently, the instruments of this ideology are gender studies, quotas for female representation and “propaganda actions” such as Equal Pay Day or gender neutral language.
    In a section on children and family, the manifesto warns this movement seeks to abolish the traditional family and claims it is against the law, which the party says, defends traditional marriage.
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  2. I know if I were a German, I’d be pissed off about the governments acceptance of what is essentially a wave of jihadists from the East overrunning Europe with the goal not of assimilating into their culture, but transforming it ironically to the same culture they’ve been escaping from. They carry a disease, basically Islam as it stands today, with it’s tenet diametrically opposed to ideals we hold dear here in the West. Whether or not this comes from a deep seated desire of Merkel’s as a former East German communist to seek the destruction of the capitalist system, or if it’s obscene amounts of money being funneled to unknown bank accounts, it still signals the betrayal of the trust in her by the native population in the continuance of a lawful, prosperous, Germany. The new wave of criminal activity such as rape, hate crimes against Jews, and other infractions condoned by Islam needs to be countered quickly, before they are accepted as the norms (witness the mayor of London proclaiming that terrorism should be an acceptable risk for living in a major city…………under no circumstances should that be deemed acceptable!)
    I suspect the reaction in Germany is more widespread and reactionary than the mainstream media is allowing to us to believe is present. Under these circumstances I see civil wars breaking out in Germany, England, Finland, Norway, etc as they did in the former Yugoslavia a few years back. This could have been prevented if controls had been in on the EU who have turned into a dictatorial power over the continent. Kudos to those in the UK who had the bullocks to finally say NO!

  3. I know if I were a German, I’d be pissed off about the governments acceptance of what is essentially a wave of jihadists from the East overrunning Europe with the goal not of assimilating into their culture, but transforming it ironically to the same culture they’ve been escaping from. They carry a disease, basically Islam as it stands today, with it’s tenet diametrically opposed to ideals we hold dear here in the West. Whether or not this comes from a deep seated desire of Merkel’s as a former East German communist to seek the destruction of the capitalist system, or if it’s obscene amounts of money being funneled to unknown bank accounts, it still signals the betrayal of the trust in her by the native population in the continuance of a lawful, prosperous, Germany. The new wave of criminal activity such as rape, hate crimes against Jews, and other infractions condoned by Islam needs to be countered quickly, before they are accepted as the norms (witness the mayor of London proclaiming that terrorism should be an acceptable risk for living in a major city…………under no circumstances should that be deemed acceptable!)
    I suspect the reaction in Germany is more widespread and reactionary than the mainstream media is allowing to us to believe is present. Under these circumstances I see civil wars breaking out in Germany, England, Finland, Norway, etc as they did in the former Yugoslavia a few years back. This could have been prevented if controls had been in on the EU who have turned into a dictatorial power over the continent. Cudos to those in the UK who had the bullocks to finally say NO!