For the most part this terrible attack has disappeared from the news. Those who publish articles are making them lower tier. Why? Because the attacker was a Muslim radical. Some Germans are worried
Expert: Berlin Pride attack polarizing key German election campaigns
The suspected Islamist terrorist attack on Berlin will have a significant impact on election campaigns in three eastern German states, a leading political scientist warned on Tuesday.
“We’re already seeing the focus of the media, and thus also of the public, shift,” Professor Thorsten Faas told dpa on Tuesday. “Issues of domestic security and integration are taking centre stage.”
Faas fears that the attack on Saturday – which left a Polish woman killed and 29 injured in the German capital’s Tiergarten park during Berlin’s Pride celebrations – could “lead to even greater polarization.”
The attack came weeks before elections are due to be held in Saxony-Anhalt on September 6, and in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern and Berlin on September 20.
The far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) is leading in polling for all three states and could even win an unprecedented absolute majority in Saxony-Anhalt, allowing it to take power in a regional government for the first time.
Faas noted that attacks such as the one on Berlin Pride – where a 21-year-old suspect with ties to Islamist circles was shot dead following a day-long manhunt – “tend to play into the hands of right-wing parties.”
So, it’s a concern that people might decide that allowing all these radical Muslims in Germany is a bad idea? This is what many on the political left are concerned with. Not that the Islamists might attack (as well as how they are taking over areas and elections), but, that some might object to the Islamists being Islamists in Germany.
However, the fact that the LGBT+ community was apparently targeted could also “mobilize the centre-left,” he added. In addition, with nearly two months until election day in Berlin, Faas said the issue “won’t dominate public discourse for eight weeks – too much else is happening.”
Yeah, well, a lot of the LGBTwhatever crowd are unhinged
They just do not seem to understand that LGBTwhatever is not acceptable in Islam, and targets of opportunity to the radicals. When they aren’t being used as Useful Idiots
Radical islam is right-wing and the right-wing hates gays
Johnny-Then is that why most Muslims who run for office here are Democrats?
The Muslims living in the USA are far from typical of most Muslims worldwide. Remember the Muslims here often left their home countries in search for more secular and religious freedoms.
The ones coming here like most immigrants (including all 4 of my grand parents) were the ones that were most ambitious.
Porter seems to think that they came got the free phones, not to bust their backs in construction or menial hospitality jobs for the women
Only 22 % of Catholics voted for trump
21% of muslims voted for Trump
Jimmi thinks that all Muslims are the same
Only about 20% of Jews voted for Trump