AfD Kompakt, November 16, 2021.
The call of the muezzin is not comparable to bell ringing. The
latter fulfills multiple functions and carries no dominant religious message
signifying a superiority over other religions. Church bells belong to the
German Leitkultur, the muezzin
however do not. That Oberbürgermeister Reker reckoned the call of the muezzin
to be a sign worthy of contemporary acceptance is evidence of a gross naiveté
and credulity in the city leadership. The Moslem call to prayer in fact
includes the disavowal There is no God but
Allah, and thus at the same time a claim of absolute truth which is
inappropriate in a public space. For most lay Moslems, who value the religious
freedom and tolerance of the German majority society, the practice of their
religion anyway does not depend on the call of the muezzin. In regards this
project, many might shake their heads.
Beyond that, this project promotes an Islamist agenda. Thus Şahinarslan,
the representative of the DITIB [Turkish-Islamic Union for Religious Affairs],
speaks of a great step for the observance of Islam in Cologne – quite as if in
the cathedral city there are no show mosques which were inaugurated by Erdogan
in a lightning storm.
It is thus about power and dominance and the ingestion of
public spaces. The space which Reker voluntarily guarantees will only too
gladly be used by fundamentalists and functionaries of organizations and mosque
communities which are pledged to a political Islam – thus like Erdogan
represents it. And to just this movement, Reker opens spaces. And indeed to
means and ways which endanger the integration and domestic security of our
country. We flatly reject this so-called model project of an unrestrained,
do-gooder city elite and demand a return to reason…
[trans: tem]
