{"id":13533,"date":"2018-09-01T23:23:32","date_gmt":"2018-09-01T23:23:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=13533"},"modified":"2018-09-01T23:23:32","modified_gmt":"2018-09-01T23:23:32","slug":"how-much-of-a-threat-is-the-far-right-in-germany","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=13533","title":{"rendered":"How much of a threat is the far-right in Germany?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Chemnitz, a city in the eastern German state of Saxony, has seen a series of violent anti-immigrant protests.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The demonstrations began last Sunday\u00a0<\/span>after the\u00a0<\/span>fatal stabbing<\/a>\u00a0of a 35-year-old German man of Cuban origin<\/span>\u00a0and the subsequent arrest of two suspects – asylum seekers from Iraq and Syria.<\/p>\n

Chanting slogans such as “Germany for Germans”, the far-right protesters took to the streets to protest against the stabbing and\u00a0<\/span>reportedly gave Nazi salutes.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Police struggled to maintain control as fights broke out between right- and left-wing demonstrators who threw rocks, bottles and fireworks at each other.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The events have raised concerns that Chemnitz\u00a0<\/span>is becoming a stronghold for those with far-right views, exposing divisions in German society when it comes to the question of immigration.\u00a0<\/p>\n

In 2015, at the height of Europe’s refugee crisis, Chancellor Angela Merkel<\/a>\u00a0allowed more than a million people into the country.<\/p>\n

The far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD<\/a>) party, seizing on concerns over what it saw as Merkel’s open-door policy, became the country’s main opposition political force, winning 92 parliamentary seats in last year’s elections.<\/p>\n

Is anti-immigrant sentiment growing in Germany<\/a>?<\/p>\n

Presenter:\u00a0<\/strong>Hashem Ahelbarra<\/p>\n

Guests:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Philipp Sauter – student activist and anti-fascism campaigner<\/p>\n

Cynthia Miller-Idriss – professor of education at the American University<\/p>\n

Mona El Omari – political activist and community educator\u00a0<\/p>\n

Source:<\/span>\u00a0Al Jazeera News<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Chemnitz, a city in the eastern German state of Saxony, has seen a series of violent anti-immigrant protests.\u00a0 The demonstrations began last Sunday\u00a0after the\u00a0fatal stabbing\u00a0of a 35-year-old German man of Cuban origin\u00a0and the subsequent arrest of two suspects – asylum seekers from Iraq and Syria. Chanting slogans such as “Germany for Germans”, the far-right protesters…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":13534,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle_east_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13533","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13533"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13533\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}