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Muslims in Germany are being squeezed from both right and left

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Muslims in Germany are being squeezed from both right and left Submitted by Aysegul Colak on Mon, 09/14/2026 - 13:16 By copying far-right migration rhetoric to halt AfD gains, Berlin leaves the country's largest minority politically homeless and weakens the democracy it claims to defend Alice Weidel of the AfD walks past German Chancellor Friedrich Merz at the Bundestag, Berlin, on 9 September 2026 (John MacDougall/AFP) Off "The people want political change," said Alice Weidel on 6 September. She joined 35-year-old lead candidate Ulrich Siegmund in Magdeburg, the capital of the eastern state of Saxony-Anhalt, to celebrate an unprecedented victory for Alternative for Germany (AfD). Their party captured 43.8 percent of the vote in Saxony-Anhalt. That outcome beat Chancellor Friedrich Merz’s Christian Democratic Union (CDU), which plunged to 17.2 percent, while leaving the Social Democrats stranded at 9.3 percent. The result delivered a crushing verdict on two years of centrist attempts t

First report: The Far Right Had Its Biggest Electoral Win In Germany Since The Nazis. What Now? — defector.com, 1d