Criticising ‘Globalists’, Noting Crime Rates of Migrant Groups Listed as Evidence of AfD’s ‘Extremism’

by Kurt Zindulka

Suggesting that Islamic culture is not compatible with Christian society, criticising “globalist” elites, claiming that immigration and certain ethnic minorities are linked to higher rates of crime, and even calling for the use of private firms to assist in deportations were all listed as evidence that the populist Alternative for Germany party is a “right wing extremist” organisation.

A thousand-plus-page document produced by Berlin’s Office for the Protection of the Constitution (BfV) — under the direction of former far-left Interior Minister Nancy Faeser and rushed to implementation in her final hours in power — to justify its decision to classify the anti-mass migration AfD party as extremists was leaked and published this week by former Social Democrat politician Mathias Brodkorb on his Cicero website.

According to Die Welt, the document almost entirely relied on public comments made by AfD politicians rather than any undisclosed information obtained through other means. Thus, it appears that the case to brand the country’s second-largest party and the official opposition to the government as an extremist group, which would allow for mass surveillance of the entire party — as has already been done against local branches of the AfD — was built on political opinions.

The paper of record noted that much of the so-called evidence consisted of statements which the political spy agency felt were “incompatible with human dignity” by allegedly espousing “ethnic nationalist, anti-foreign and anti-minority, anti-Muslim and anti-Islamic and anti-Semitic positions.”

The BfV reportedly claimed that AfD Thuringia leader Björn Höcke’s comments condemning the influence of “globalists” and “financial elites” in conjunction with describing the German government as their “puppets”, demonstrated an example of antisemetic rhetoric. The document is said to have quoted a 2022 speech, in which he said that the politicians in Berlin were not “German patriots” but rather “globalist speech puppets” who act in the interest of “large American corporations and for globalist masterminds.”