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Sometimes Alexander Gauland hits the mark.

“We are not a Christian party,” he said four years ago in “Christ and the World”.

Rather, the AfD is "a German party that tries to protect German interests".

Against the background of this statement, it is surprising that the AfD brought three motions to the Bundestag on Thursday on the subject of the persecution of Christians.

In fact, Christians are the most persecuted religious group in the world;

There is also persecution of Christians in Germany.

All of this is documented by the Federal Government Commissioner for Worldwide Religious Freedom, Markus Grübel (CDU).

He submitted his new - depressing - report on October 28th.

It is unclear why the AfD did not refer to him in its demands for a tougher course against Pakistan and Nigeria because of the persecution of Christians there and the establishment of a federal government representative to combat the local hostility towards Christians.

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Maybe she wants to pretend the government doesn't care about Christians.

With the submission of their motions, the AfD was primarily concerned with using their expected rejection by the "old parties" as propaganda in wooing those Christians who might be deterred by statements such as Gauland's.

Nevertheless, the debate turned out to be a great moment.

It was fun to listen to the knowledgeable and witty statements of the MPs from all parties - except those of the AfD.

When an AfD member declared the SPD to be the “Sharia Party Germany”, another asked the SPD member Helge Lindh whether he loved Jesus, as if one were in front of the Inquisition in Rome, one had to ask oneself whether the AfD was a parliamentarian can't or doesn't want to.

When the AfD expressly calls for a representative against anti-Christianity “following the example of the representative for Jewish life in Germany and the fight against anti-Semitism”, it equates the situation of both groups against its better judgment.

The tiny group of Jews in Germany is by far the most persecuted group in Germany with over 2,000 anti-Semitic crimes in 2019.

Then there are 950 anti-Muslim crimes, then only crimes against Christians.

To pretend that the majority society is like the Jews today means to relativize the extent and danger of anti-Semitism in the most negligent way.

But maybe that was intentional.