{"id":398847,"date":"2019-03-10T08:17:43","date_gmt":"2019-03-10T07:17:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/prison-planet-com-muslim-for-german-chancellor-why-not-remark-by-senior-mp-in-merkels-party-triggers-backlash\/"},"modified":"2019-03-10T08:17:43","modified_gmt":"2019-03-10T07:17:43","slug":"prison-planet-com-muslim-for-german-chancellor-why-not-remark-by-senior-mp-in-merkels-party-triggers-backlash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/prison-planet-com-muslim-for-german-chancellor-why-not-remark-by-senior-mp-in-merkels-party-triggers-backlash\/","title":{"rendered":"Prison Planet.com \u00bb \u2018Muslim for German chancellor? Why not?\u2019 Remark by senior MP in Merkel\u2019s party triggers backlash"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>      <!-- START CONTENT --><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/news\/453318-germany-muslim-chancellor-reaction\/\"><strong>RT<\/strong><\/a><br \/>March 8, 2019<\/p>\n<p><strong>A high-ranking MP from Angela Merkel\u2019s ruling party said that a Muslim could become German chancellor by 2030, making headlines across the nation and triggering a furious backlash.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Ralph Brinkhaus, who leads the Christian Democrats (CDU) in the German parliament, could have avoided making front-page news had he not been asked one particular question from evangelical news outlet <a href=\"https:\/\/www.idea.de\/politik\/detail\/ein-muslim-fuer-die-cdu-2030-als-kanzler-brinkhaus-warum-nicht-108296.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"tag noopener noreferrer\">Idea<\/a>. They wanted to know if a Muslim could lead the party and become chancellor in the next 10 years or so, and he said the following:<\/p>\n<p>The center-right CDU party, led by Chancellor Angela Merkel \u2013 the daughter of an East German pastor \u2013 has long been proud of the letter <em>\u2018C\u2019<\/em> which stands for Christian values. But for Brinkhaus, human values are more important than religious beliefs.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cThe CDU is not a religious community \u2013 that is what distinguishes us from the Catholic Church, of which I am member,\u201d<\/em>he reportedly said.<\/p>\n<p>The interview took place in late February, but it didn\u2019t cause a media frenzy until Bild quoted from it on Wednesday. German newspapers, both big and small, rushed to report on the stunning quote just a while later.<\/p>\n<p>Brinkhaus\u2019 remarks also raised some eyebrows in the German establishment.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cGod forbid, I can\u2019t believe he said that,\u201d<\/em> Vincent Kokert, a CDU chief in the state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bild.de\/politik\/inland\/politik-inland\/unions-fraktionschef-brinkhaus-kann-sich-muslim-als-cdu-kanzler-vorstellen-60507190.bild.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bild<\/a>. <em>\u201cNo, I can\u2019t believe it.\u201d<\/em><!-- [donotprint] --><\/p>\n<ul class=\"ppani\">\n<li>A d v e r t i s e m e n t<\/li>\n<li\/><\/ul>\n<p><!-- [\/donotprint] --><\/p>\n<p>Another conservative MP, Eberhard Gienger, said that a Muslim becoming German chancellor is unimaginable because it would imply <em>\u201cthat Muslims would constitute the majority in Germany,\u201d<\/em> and <em>\u201cthis is not the case.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Other politicians <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bild.de\/politik\/inland\/politik-inland\/ralph-brinkhaus-sicher-moslem-kann-cdu-kanzler-werden-60523974.bild.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">claimed<\/a> that Muslim values cannot be incorporated into the party\u2019s mindset, citing Sharia law and the treatment of women, non-believers, and homosexuals under strict Islamic traditions.<\/p>\n<p>Some, however, defended Brinkhaus\u2019 comments.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cOf course, a&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.prisonplanet.com\/muslim-for-german-chancellor-why-not-remark-by-senior-mp-in-merkels-party-triggers-backlash.html\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RTMarch 8, 2019 A high-ranking MP from Angela Merkel\u2019s ruling party said that a Muslim could become German chancellor by 2030, making headlines across the nation and triggering a furious backlash. Ralph Brinkhaus, who leads the Christian Democrats (CDU) in the German parliament, could have avoided making front-page news had he not been asked one [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-398847","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398847","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=398847"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398847\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=398847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=398847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=398847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}