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2025-05-03 Europe
German spy agency brands far-right AfD as ‘extremist’, opens way for closer surveillance
[IsraelTimes] Report calls Alternative for Germany party a racist and anti-Muslim organization stirring up ‘irrational fears and hostility’; move comes amid soaring support for far right in Europe

Germany’s spy agency on Friday classified the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) as "extremist," enabling it to step up monitoring of the country’s biggest opposition party, which decried the move as a "blow against democracy."

A 1,100-page report by experts found that the AfD is a racist and anti-Moslem organization, a finding that grants the security services powers to recruit informants and intercept party communications.

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"Central to our assessment is the ethnically and ancestrally defined concept of the people that shapes the AfD, which devalues entire segments of the population in Germany and violates their human dignity," the BfV domestic intelligence agency said in a statement.

"This concept is reflected in the party’s overall anti-migrant and anti-Moslem stance," it said, adding that the AfD had stirred up "irrational fears and hostility" towards individuals and groups.

The BfV agency needs such a classification to be able to monitor a political party because it is more legally constrained than other European intelligence services, a reflection of Germany’s experience under both Nazi and Communist rule.

The agency was able to act after the AfD last year lost a court case in which it had challenged its previous classification by the BfV as an entity suspected of extremism.

The move is one of several blows to the far-right across Europa
...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum...
in recent months as it seeks to translate surging support into power. Others include a ban on La Belle France’s Marine Le Pen contesting the 2027 presidential election after her conviction for embezzlement and the postponement of Romania’s presidential vote after a far-right candidate won the first round.

"VERY SERIOUS. After La Belle France and Romania, another theft of Democracy?" wrote Matteo Salvini, deputy Italian prime minister and leader of far-right party the League, on X.

The AfD denounced Friday’s decision as a politically motivated attempt to discredit and criminalize it.

"The AfD will continue to take legal action against these defamatory attacks that endanger democracy," co-leaders Alice Weidel and Tino Chrupalla said in a statement.

The decision could put public funding of the AfD at risk, while civil servants who belong to an organization classified as ’extremist’ face possible dismissal, depending on their role within the entity, according to Germany’s interior ministry.

The stigma could also hamper the ability of the AfD, which currently tops several polls and is Germany’s most successful far-right party since World War Two, to attract members.

Other organizations classified as krazed killer in Germany are neo-Nazi
...adherents of a philosophy that was seen even at the time as pure evil, which makes them either consciously purely evil, or attention-seeking ratbags. Pick one, or both....
 groups such as the National Democratic Party (NDP), Islamist groups including Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems....
, and far-left ones such as the Marxist-Leninist Party of Germany.

The BfV decision comes days before conservative leader Friedrich Merz is due to be sworn in as Germany’s new chancellor and amid a heated debate within his party over how to deal with the AfD in the new Bundestag, or lower house of parliament.

The AfD won a record number of seats in Germany’s national election in February, theoretically entitling it to chair several key parliamentary committees.

A prominent Merz ally, Jens Spahn, has called for the AfD to be treated as a regular opposition party in parliamentary procedures, arguing that this prevents it from peddling a ’victim’ narrative.

However,
Caliphornia hasn't yet slid into the ocean, no matter how hard it's tried...
 other established parties as well as many within Spahn’s own conservatives have rejected that approach — and could use Friday’s news as justification for blocking AfD attempts to lead committees.

"Starting today, no one can make excuses anymore: This is not a democratic party, and it is not just another political party," said Manuela Schwesig, premier of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern and senior member of the Social Democrats
...every time you hear the phrase white people, white supremacy, white anything but paint, you're listening to a Democrat. Ask him/her/it to reimagine something for you; they do that a lot, though not well. They can hear a dog whistle a mile or two away. They invented the spoils system and Tammany Hall, and inspired the addition of the word (Thomas) Nasty to the English language. They want to stop continental drift and repeal the law of unintended side effects...
 (SPD), who are about to enter into a coalition with Merz’s conservatives.

"That’s why there must be no cooperation with the AfD," she said. "The democratic parties should find a consensus on how to continue handling the AfD in the Bundestag."

The Bundestag could attempt to limit or halt public funding to the AfD — but for that authorities would need evidence that the party is explicitly out to undermine or even overthrow German democracy.

The classification could also reignite efforts to get the AfD banned, but outgoing chancellor Olaf Scholz of the SPD warned on Friday against any rush to outlaw the party, calling instead for a careful evaluation.

Created to protest the euro zone bailouts in 2013, the eurosceptic AfD morphed into an anti-migration party after Germany’s decision to take in a large wave of refugees in 2015.
Posted by trailing wife 2025-05-03 2025-05-03 02:58|| || Front Page|| [239 views ]  Top

#1 I'm sure, later in the day, EC will explain to us how this is real democracy.
Posted by Grom the Affective 2025-05-03 03:32||   2025-05-03 03:32|| Front Page Top

#2 
Posted by Frank G 2025-05-03 06:57||   2025-05-03 06:57|| Front Page Top

#3 @Grom
Later. In the meantime, you can explain the Patriot Act.
Posted by European Conservative 2025-05-03 07:35||   2025-05-03 07:35|| Front Page Top

#4 I believe all our efforts to 'save' Europe will go down with Justinian's attempt to recover the lost Western Roman Empire.
Posted by Procopius2k 2025-05-03 10:10||   2025-05-03 10:10|| Front Page Top

#5 Hate the Patriot Act too EC!!

Posted by DarthVader 2025-05-03 10:27||   2025-05-03 10:27|| Front Page Top

#6 It’s a shame the German government won’t allow the voters to decide on leadership.
Posted by Ebbuger Whuque4103 2025-05-03 11:21||   2025-05-03 11:21|| Front Page Top

#7 I would argue that AfD is not stirring up irrational fear and hostility. It is not irrational when you have deadbeat immigrants stabbing you, raping your daughters and driving their cars into crowds of shoppers.
Posted by Abu Uluque 2025-05-03 11:49||   2025-05-03 11:49|| Front Page Top

#8 Yeah, whatever it's original intent and purpose, I'm guessing it became an accepted way to apply pressure to opposition not long before McCain started calling people Hobbits, the kind of retarded slur someone would use who doesn't have the urgency of risk, likely abused to suppress opposition to the Blamtifa Riots, and peak flexed with Biden's Red Background Speech when he called everyone not on board The Machine an inhuman domestic terrorist, a message roundly rejected last election cycle and hopefully is under some scrutiny because if it is casually being abused to do, say, help fabricate the kidnapping of a sitting governor, that is way out of charter.

This looks like next form Patriot Act when instead of hack judges giving permission slips, opposition to policy is officially outlawed, and the conversation we too would be having had "Harris Won". It is a bit more open, to be honest, and has a nifty hat, so there is that.

Posted by swksvolFF 2025-05-03 12:12||   2025-05-03 12:12|| Front Page Top

#9 Let's put it this way, the largest portion of your country is fast approaching Declaration of Independence territory. Oppress them at your own risk.
Posted by Silentbrick 2025-05-03 12:26||   2025-05-03 12:26|| Front Page Top

#10 The "1,100-page report by experts" is so far secret but three quotes from AfD politicians used to substantiate its finding were leaked to the press.

"Vielfalt bedeutet Multikulti. Und was bedeutet Multikulti? Multikulti bedeutet Traditionsverlust, Identitätsverlust, Verlust der Heimat, Mord, Totschlag, Raub und Gruppenvergewaltigung."

"Verfehlte Migrationspolitik und Asylmissbrauch haben zum 100.000-fachen Import von Menschen aus zutiefst rückständigen und frauenfeindlichen Kulturen geführt."

"Wir müssen auch wieder entscheiden dürfen, wer überhaupt zu diesem Volk gehört und wer nicht. Es gehört mehr dazu, Deutscher zu sein, als einfach nur eine Staatsbürgerurkunde in der Hand zu haben."

Deepl translation:

“Diversity means multiculturalism. And what does multiculturalism mean? Multiculturalism means loss of tradition, loss of identity, loss of homeland, murder, manslaughter, robbery and gang rape.”

“Misguided migration policies and asylum abuse have led to the 100,000-fold import of people from deeply backward and misogynistic cultures.”

“We must also be allowed to decide again who belongs to this nation and who does not. There is more to being German than simply having a citizenship certificate in your hand.”


These positions, with which I agree in part are considered to be "extreme right" positions by the Germany federal executive.

For reference the Communist Party of Germany has exercised some political power in unified Germany since 1994.

The CPEG is the organized core of an actual murderous dictatorship.

The BfV, the domestic "spy agency" is an agency of the federal executive of Germany. It is lead by political appointees who serve at the pleasure of the interior minister.

Its presidency is vacant, because the former president resigned in late 2024 to run for a parliament seat for the CDU / Merkel's party, ultimately unsuccessfully.

One of the two vice presidents and current leaders of the BfV is Istanbul born Sinan Selen.

The BfV is not independent.

@9 The foundation of the East German regime was the GSFG/ГСВГ/GSSD.
Nothing exists at present in Germany that could be seen as the strategic equivalent of the GSFG.

I don't see any escalation because there's no "Red Coat" force in sight.
Posted by Elmerert Hupens2660 2025-05-03 16:14||   2025-05-03 16:14|| Front Page Top

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