The Merz CDU is breaking from its ranks and with its former chancellor due to the Islam policy of a former Federal President. She wants a world back that no longer exists.
Every now and then I wonder why everyone is so surprised. For example, at the German national team’s soccer game in Berlin against Turkey. It was a big surprise how the Turkish fans could have turned the German team’s home game into one of Turkey’s. There is nothing surprising about this in a city with 110,000 residents of Turkish origin, among whom the further away Erdoğan and the immediate consequences of his policies are, the greater the nationalism and patriotism.
There was nothing surprising in the unsavory flare-up of anti-Semitism in Germany following the outbreak of the war between Hamas and Israel. There is, terribly, quintessentially German hatred of Jews, still and unfortunately increasing again. But what emerged recently was clearly Muslim hatred of Jews. Just as it had happened again and again to Jews in relevant parts of Berlin, who were clearly attacked, humiliated and sometimes injured in relevant parts of the city.
Third recent example: The catastrophic results of German students in the most recent Pisa study. It may be that a certain aversion to performance plays a role due to a pedagogy that now focuses more on praise than criticism. But the OECD charts clearly show that here, too, the proportion of immigrants had a significant influence on the results. The majority of immigration comes from Muslim areas.
The time when the question could be asked whether Islam belongs to Germany or not is simply over. He is there and he is becoming more.
With the draft of its new basic program, the CDU wants to go back behind the sentence of “its” former Federal President Christian Wulff and behind the liberal and even resigned migration policy of its Chancellor Angela Merkel by saying instead: “Muslims who share our values belong to Germany.” You are welcome to use it to print on patient paper. But your new program or not: the Muslim-multicultural world that Katrin Göring-Eckardt and others were looking forward to at the time is here. And we all have to learn to deal with it.
I admit that, firstly, I am extremely reserved towards all religions and churches, and secondly, towards Islam in particular. In my opinion it is the most totalitarian and illiberal of the world religions, it is inherently resistant to change and largely immune to any form of enlightenment and secularization because every word of the Koran (unlike the Bible) comes directly from God himself. And is therefore considered unchangeable and not really interpretable.
The world is divided into an area of peace (where Islam reigns) and an area of war (where it has yet to establish itself). You cannot leave it without being threatened with life and limb. There is no separation of church and state. On the contrary. His image of women is just as unacceptable as his legal system and his homophobia, which, for example, just happened to Jens Spahn (CDU) in a school when a Muslim student demonstratively sat away from him as if he had an infectious disease. An overwhelming number of terrible crimes, murders and massacres have taken place in recent years, primarily in the name of this religion. Also in this country.
The question no longer arises
Nevertheless, it is no longer a question of whether someone wants a country without Islam or not. It is no longer a question of whether someone finds this religion engaging or not. It has become an integral and obvious part of this community. It is no longer a question of whether Islam belongs to Germany, but rather how.
Perhaps ten years ago there would have been a moment to have a regulatory influence on a development. But that’s over. This religion is there, on a relevant and increasingly society-shaping scale. There are officially 5.6 million Muslims living in Germany, the equivalent of almost seven percent of the population. These are numbers from 2020, there are no more recent reliable ones yet. Statistically, Germany is now not far away from France, which can look back on a completely different colonial history in the Arab and Maghreb region.
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