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The debate about Islamism in Germany is often reduced to violence and terror.
The Bundestag faction of the CDU and CSU now wants to focus more on the ideological basis.
“Political Islamism, which ostensibly acts non-violently, but stirs up hatred, agitation and violence and strives for an Islamic order in which there is no equal rights, no freedom of opinion and religion, and also no separation of religion and state, has emerged in parts of our society made broad “, it says in a position paper of the group, the WELT is present and is expected to be decided on Tuesday.
Christian Democrats and Christian Socialists demand in the paper the "termination of state cooperation and contractual relationships with organizations of political Islamism".
This particularly affects Islamic clubs and associations that are monitored by the federal and state offices for the protection of the constitution.
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All financial donations, grants, contractual relationships and collaborations with these organizations would have to be checked and stopped, it says.
This also includes statutory tax breaks in the sense of charitable status.
This also indirectly affects several large umbrella organizations such as the Central Council of Muslims and the Islamic Council for the Federal Republic of Germany, whose largest member associations are monitored by the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution.
"Devaluation especially of the Kurds and Judaism"
The Office for the Protection of the Constitution assesses the Union of Turkish-Islamic Cultural Associations in Europe (Atib) as part of the Turkish right-wing extremist Gray Wolves, whose exaggeration of Turkishness leads to "systematic devaluation of other ethnic groups or religions, especially the Kurds and Judaism".
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Atib is a founding member of the Central Council of Muslims and has a vice-chairman.
Between 2016 and 2018, the association was recognized as a deployment site in the Federal Ministry of Family Affairs for the Federal Voluntary Service with refugee issues.
Other members of the Central Council are also being monitored by the domestic intelligence services.
Research by WELT AM SONNTAG last year showed that several federal ministries and federal states support Central Council projects.
Religious extremism and its representatives must be met with the same distance and rejection as the political extremists from the left and right, says the rapporteur for religious communities of the Union parliamentary group, Christoph de Vries (CDU).
“The enemies of our constitution and their ideologues cannot be partners of our state at the same time.
No tolerance for intolerance is the clear message and at the same time a warning to the organizations and representatives of political Islamism. "
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The focus of the Union's demands is also the Germany-wide establishment of chairs at universities on the subject of Islamism, a broad school study on Islamist influences, the establishment of a "Documentation Center for Political Islamism in Germany and Europe" and a corresponding group of experts in the Federal Ministry of the Interior as well as disclosure for mosque associations of foreign financial flows.
In addition, state efforts should be geared towards providing academic and spiritual training for imams in Germany.
The financing of spiritual training is, however, a matter for the religious communities themselves.
"We respect the freedom of belief unconditionally, but we do not want to allow foreign governments or forces of political Islamism under the guise of religious freedom to work towards a system of rule in Germany that wants to subordinate society, politics, culture and law to Islamic norms", says de Vries.
Fundamental values such as equality, protection of minorities and the priority of laws over religious rules are non-negotiable.
There could be no “religious discount” on this.