The movement has organized a protest campaign against the construction of the mosque. They have already held two demonstrations and recently launched a flyer campaign.
They have fired off letters to local politicians, in which the party called on all those who support the influx of migrants into Germany “to go to Africa”. The city council is confused about how or even whether they should somehow react to the email campaign.
The flyers are printed in the form of “travel vouchers” and were sent by mail to 22 local councils and encouraged local officials, supporting the mosque initiative, to leave the country and go to Africa.
The party is in uproar about the growing number of Muslims entering the country. “We do not oppose Islam as a religion. However, it does not belong to Germany, but rather to those countries that have been influenced by Islam for centuries. A mosque is just another sign of Germany’s increasing alienation,” a statement on the party’s official website said.
According to Dietrich Schönwitz, a city councilor from SPD, the construction of the mosque is just a pretext for “right-wing activists” who want to spread “xenophobia”.
“The mosque construction is just a pretext. In general, this is a mobilization for xenophobia and the spread of the right-wing thought,” Schönwitz told Sputnik Germany.
Schönwitz believes the left should be very careful in responding: “I’m a bit reserved because I believe they’re just trying to figure out how far they can go. When a court complaint fails, they will receive what they want, namely, attention. Nevertheless, the mayor has submitted a request to the public prosecutor to examine whether a complaint could lead to a success. Let’s see what they say.”
In April 2016, Der III. Weg had sent identical flyers to several politicians in the Berlin-Brandenburg area. Members of the Green party responded to the postcards by saying that they would be happy to make a cruise along Africa’s west coast if Der III. Weg was paying for the trip.
According to SWR’s political magazine “On the matter of Baden-Württemberg!” The “right-wing extremist” party Der Dritte Weg is particularly taking root in the area between the southern Black Forest and Lake Constance, as well as in the region between Göppingen and Esslingen.
They have an “aggressive strategy” SWR complained, but in fact it is mostly mail campaigns and stickers against the influx of too many foreigners.
“It is a racist and xenophobic image of the world, which is represented in this party,” says Frank Dittrich of the state office for constitution protection Baden-Wuerttemberg. “From our point of view, the party ‘The Third Way’ is clearly right-wing extremist and anti-constitutional, because it pursues efforts which can not be reconciled with the fundamental values of our constitution.”
But Dittrich gave no examples of such “unconstitutional values”.
Alexander Maier, the Green parliamentary member, complained to Sputnik Germany about the “strengthening of the right-wing extremes” in Göppingen: “I myself am also worried, I feel insecure and I do not want to have that either.”
It seems anyone who criticizes the party, clearly risks being made fun of.
The perfectly legal party was founded in Heidelberg in September 2013 and according to the state office for constitutional protection currently has about 30 members in Baden-Württemberg, which are only “partly composed” of “neo-Nazis and partly of former NPDs”.
But the office admitted that there were also a few sympathizers from the centre-right.
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