The Heilbronn municipal council has stopped the construction of a large mosque by the Turkish-Islamic Union DITIB on Weinsberger Street in the heart of the city on the Neckar River by rejecting an administrative proposal under building law. Sixteen councillors from the Social Democratic Party (SPD) and the Greens voted in favour of the building project, as well as the mayor as the 17th vote. Twenty-two councillors from the Christian Democratic Union (CDU), the Free Democratic Party (FDP), the Free Voters (Freie Wähler), the Alternative for Germany (AfD) and the Left Party (Linke) voted against the proposal. This was reported by the “Rhein-Neckar-Zeitung”.
On the surface, the vote was about the size of the building and the lack of parking spaces. But in fact, the Heilbronn local politicians were negotiating the big issues of the republic: disintegration, the influence of associations loyal to Erdogan such as DITIB in Germany and the question of how many steps away a woman has to walk behind a man in order to meet Islamic requirements.
In short: Heilbronn’s municipal council decided how much of the dark ages should be sanctioned by politics in the Germany of 2021. And the parties of the dark ages, the Social Democratic Party (SPD) and the Green Party (Grüne), were defeated.
Erdinc Altuntas from the board of Heilbronn’s DITIB then lamented a “slap in the face of the Muslim fellow citizens” and assessed the decision of the municipal council as a “fatal signal in a municipality that prides itself on its integration”. Michael Link, who not only belongs to the Heilbronn council for the Free Democratic Party (FDP) but also to the German Parliament, explained the voting behaviour of his party’s council members with the defensive slogan: “Islam belongs to Germany, but not Erdogan!”
The reverse is true: Erdogan belongs to Islam, and Islam does not belong to Germany.
After the controversial formation of a government in Thuringia, it was said that the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and the Free Democratic Party (FDP) would never again make common cause with the Alternative for Germany (AfD). Or even make policy together with the AfD in the federal government. They may twist and turn as they like, but in Heilbronn they did just that.
http://www.pi-news.net/2021/04/historische-koalition-stoppt-ditib-moscheebau-in-heilbronn/