The Christian Democratic Union was the party of former Chancellor Angela Merkel, who ushered in the days of open-door mass migration in Germany. Now the CDU is attempting to formulate a plan to deal with the nation’s migration woes. Stated in its new manifesto:
Muslims belong to Germany so long as they “share our values.”
Implied in this statement is a recognition by the CDU that Islam may not be a “religion of peace” after all, and that German values and law must be respected and obeyed by people who are living in Germany, even above Sharia values.
Only time will tell how serious the CDU is about its manifesto, immigration reform and confronting Islam in its country.
“Germany’s CDU redefines stance on Islam in new manifesto,” by William Noah Glucroft, DW, December 12, 2023:
The new color scheme a few months back was only a cosmetic step. Now, Germany’s center-right Christian Democrats are going under the hood. For the first time since 2007, the party that ruled Germany for most of the republic’s young history has revamped its party program.
Its leaders hope this is their ticket to returning to power, which they lost in 2021. In establishing what the CDU now stands for, the draft reflects ideological differences at the very top. Chairman Friedrich Merz needed three attempts to become party leader, rebuffed by a skeptical Angela Merkel when she was still chancellor and a powerful force in the party. With her gone and Merz in charge since early last year, he is seeking a different path.
It leads the CDU towards a more traditional, center-right landscape, reorienting the party on a range of issues, namely energy, immigration and paying particular attention to Germany’s Muslim community….
Gone are the days of recognizing that “Islam now belongs to Germany, too” as the CDU’s Christian Wulff said when he served as Germany’s president during an early Merkel government. The new draft manifesto adds a key caveat: Muslims belong to Germany so long as they “share our values.”…
Tony Rice says
Well we know they don’t share the same values, in Germany or in other European/ Scandinavian countries, so what happens now. Nothing, as usual?. Behaviors speaks louder than words.
SteveM says
Somehow Russia and Austo-Hungarian Empire before that had very loyal Muslim battalions. I think biggest problem is welfare so Germany gets deadbeats and haters. If you show weakness they’ll take a mile.
VictorMc says
Who writes this rubbish “shares our values” Shocking ignorance.
Westman says
Too little, too late, to avoid conflict.
bill says
This nincompoop clearly knows nothing about Muslims. They do not share Western values and in fact their religion forbids them to do so. Any Muslim will tell him that sharia is superior to the laws of Western countries, unless of course he or she practises taqqiya
Bexarkat says
It was once said of the Germans, “they are either at your foot or at your throat.” It’s ironic as that’s how the Muslims are…as a minority they are at your feet, when they perceive power, they are at your throat,, literally.
Big Dude says
This is a wonderful and true comment. Islam couldn’t happen to a nice group of folks. The Mufti of the Jerusalem would be proud of his spawn, intermingling with the other spawn. Frankly, this sad Jew is not suprised. It is call Karma. In Hebrew its Nekama And frankly… it’s the way things go. The only thing is who will kill whom first!! Maybe we can make a board game out of this…let’s call it Karma
the Mayor of Casterbridge says
Which is never, so conclusion: they don’t belong to Germany? Hmmm… Unless you look at some values adhered to in the past. I mean to refer to this clip: https://www.jihadwatch.org/2023/11/video-francisco-gil-whites-shocking-revelation-about-hamas-israel-war , in which Mr. Whites argues that the holocaust was the idea of the grand mufti of Jerusalem, Amin al Husseini, who convinced the nazi’s that they shouldn’t chase the Jews away from Europe to modern day Israel, but instead kill them all in the concentration camps.
But even so, these people (Merkel included) should stand trial for opening the doors for this criminal filth (and I don’t mean the good mohamedans, if there are any (72% of Gazans support October 7, even as we speak)), despite having been warned loud and clear that that was a huge mistake. We bloody well shouted it in their faces! And for still keeping them open. For nazis like Nazih, for example. Caeci sunt et duces caecorum. And they will pull us down with them, into the bloody gutter.
Abinavam Narayanan Rajaramm says
Each country has its own profound values. There are various cultures nurtured over centuries. These should never be compromised. But the Jihadis never accept this phenomenon. They believe theirs is the only religion fit to be in the world and all others are Satanic and deserve to be destroyed. How will the mass Arab immigrants will accept and adopt the culture of their host countries?! No way. Hence there will be never ending conflicts.
Mr. Bojangles says
@ANR: Popper: don’t be tolerant of the intolerant. Maybe this is an expression of the thesis of Kurt Gödel: If you’re tolerant of the intolerant, in the end you are yourself intolerant. If you are intolerant of intolerance, how can you be qualified as tolerant? Even if, again in the end, you support tolerance. So in both cases you can be qualified as intolerant. In the first case in the end rightly so, in the second wrongly so. Which leaves you vulnerable to the accusation that you are intolerant.
Popper (Karl) had a hard time coming to his conclusion(s). It took him 2 voluminous books: ‘The Open Society and its Enemies’.
Mr. Bojangles says
@ANR: also, read ‘The Suicide of Reason’, especially the chapters concerning the teachings of ‘Le Condorcet’. Very interesting thoughts about the power of public (or publicly funded) schooling, instead of religious schooling. In my opinion, however, the author of this book does not address the phenomenon of the madrassas. Mohamedan education (or whatever they do in their madrassas) is a major problem. The (restriction of the) right of freedom of religion with respect to the koran should be seriously reconsidered, in light of the penal limits to this right, in combination with (e.g.) surah 47, verse 4 (‘Strike their necks (the kuffars’ necks, that is: you and me; Medinan verse, so later verse, so overridingly valid and to be taken literally, which is why they frequently literally strike at people’s necks)). Same thing with their freedom of expression. The exact same argument.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
Sorry, AfD is the party w/ the correct approach. All CDU members who see the light should abandon the CDU and join AfD, if the latter will take them
Kesselman says
This is the exact core of the problem—although the CDU hasn’t grabbed that for sure—the muzlums aren’t going to adopt others’ cultures aside from taking in the Western benevolence for Islam.
And it leads to the main obstacle to peace between the Arabs and Israel. The Jewish state is an abomination in the eyes of muzlums. It can’t be tolerated under any circumstances. Therefore the Pally-Arab warcry: “From the River to the Sea Palestine will be Free!” Even if Israel withdrew from its own heartland, Judea and Samaria, gave back the Golan to the Syrians, and allowed Hamas to reign in the Gaza conclave still Israel was doomed.
Tatanka says
one word.””Idiots””
Yogi says
What a freaking idiot!! They don’t have brains at all , brains are disappear together with this freaking so call “ vaccines “ , this country is going right to the toilet a speedy way ..
nicholas tesdorf says
Muslims do not belong in or to Germany or any other Christian Country as they share none of Germany’s or any other Christian country’s values. The only solution is the gradual conversion of the immigrants away from the religion of Hatred towards the Light.
Pray Hard says
Like that will happen in 50,000 years.
tim gallagher says
What an idiotic thing to say. Muslims don’t share western or German values. Muslims are obviously about invading non-muslim countries that are stupid enough to let them in, unlike Hungary, and then imposing barbaric islam, a load of primitive shit is all that islam is and it always will be exactly the same load of barbaric, primitive garbage, on everybody. islam is completely incompatible with western, civilised values.
BTeboe says
+100
tim gallagher says
Thanks BTeboe. Yes, I can’t believe the stupidity and gullibility of some of these clowns among politicians throughout the western world. You would think that all those Muslim terrorist attacks and Muslim rape gangs, etc, would have woken up even the dopiest fools by now. Alas, no, we still have buffoons saying idiotic crap like this German politician. Some of them truly live on planet insanity, completely out of touch with harsh reality.
Road Runner says
@tim gallagher: what about ‘a business model’? Maybe these politicians are paid for their lip service to mohamedanism and their immigration policies. Wouldn’t be surprised.
tim gallagher says
I’m pretty sure that you must be right about that, Road Runner. There probably are quite a few, in all our western countries, who are happy to take bribes from the Muslims and sell their countries out which is about as disgusting and traitorous as any action can be. i keep thinking that almost everybody should have woken up to islam’s evil nature by now, but if some of our political leaders are in the pay of the Muslim enemy then such traitors would still try to support the Muslim invaders. Our societies had better wake up soon or it will end up being too late.
Wellington says
Good luck, doofus, with that “so long as.”
When will this exculpation of the worst religion of all time end? In our absurd era in the West I fear “never” is most likely. Well, as long as that total skank, Joe Biden, is POTUS and an utterly woeful nothing like Claudine Gay is President of Harvard, do indeed expect the worst. Better, you know, a la Jonathan Swift (no relation to Taylor Swift I hope) to expect nothing from life because then you can never be disappointed. But I digress.
Arguably nothing in history has been more foolish, and with a huge amount of negative implications and results, than modern Western exculpation of Mo’s barbaric creed. Perhaps some things have been more foolish, for instance the excusing of two other totalitarian ideologies, Nazism and Marxism (and still ongoing and alive and well in decrepit parts of the world like the Muslimworld and Leftworld), but even the excusing of these two warped ideologies never resulted in the West welcoming huge numbers of Nazis and Marxists into its midst.
Contra Muslims, no? And thus the foolishness continues and if you disagree you are nothing more than another rank Islamophobe but never were the terms “Naziophobe” or Marxistophobe” used and thus tending to prove my overall point here But again I digress.
somehistory says
This just means they don’t “belong to German,” never have and never will.
Now, they can all be told, “Go home. Today.”
somehistory says
Sorry…Germany.
James Lincoln says
The ONLY way that muslims will share Germany’s values is if they become apostates.
Joe Kool says
Maybe the Germans now realize their huge mistake and are just hoping to be the last one killed??
VictorMc says
“Share our values” Which incompetent ignorant idiot wrote or believed THAT ?
OLD GUY says
Muslims and Islam shares our values? NOT hardly!
Janubram says
They will never be share your value retarded man!