Germany’s surging right-wing, nationalist party Alternative fur Deutschland (AfD) is mobilizing people to block the construction of a mosque in the eastern state of Thuringia.
AfD has gone from insignificant to the third largest party in Germany in less than a year, as Germans are fed up with Chancellor Angela Merkel’s immigration policies. The party declared that “Islam is not part of Germany” in its manifesto in April, and it is now fighting to make it reality.
A planned mosque in Thuringia is “part of a long-term land grab” by Muslims, according to AfD’s Björn Höcke. The party has announced that it will fight to make sure the mosque never gets finished, and is organizing protests under the slogan: “No mosques in Thuringia without the people’s consent.”
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