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Give Gauland, AfD a red card for Boateng slur

Edit Deutsche Welle 29 May 2016
Yesterday the church, today a national soccer hero. The Alternative for Germany keeps seeking to discredit moral authorities and societal role models. You can only fight the AfD with facts, DW's Gero Schliess writes ... ....

German row over right-winger's 'racist' Boateng remark

Edit BBC News 29 May 2016
The German right-wing Alternative fuer Deutschland (AfD) party has come under fire over comments by one of its leaders about footballer Jerome Boateng that are widely regarded as racist. AfD deputy chief Alexander Gauland told a newspaper that Germans would not like to have Boateng, whose father is Ghanaian, as a neighbour ... The leader of the AfD apologised for the "impression that has arisen"....

German nationalist slammed over black soccer player comment

Edit The Times of India 29 May 2016
Anti-immigration talk has helped Alternative for Germany, or AfD, to surge in polls over recent months as hundreds of thousands of migrants arrived in Germany ... AfD leader Frauke Petry told the Bild daily that Gauland couldn't remember whether he had made the comment ... Julia Kloeckner, a deputy leader of Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservative party, brushed aside Gauland's explanation and said it fits a pattern of AfD behaviour....

German nationalist politician slammed over footballer comments

Edit Belfast Telegraph 29 May 2016
"People find him good as a footballer ... Anti-immigration talk has helped Alternative for Germany (AfD) to surge in polls over recent months as hundreds of thousands of migrants arrived in the country ... Boateng" ... AfD leader Frauke Petry told the Bild newspaper that Gauland could not remember whether he had made the comment ... modernity, openness and liberality." He called AfD "anti-German". ....

German politician in race row over Jérôme Boateng comments

Edit The Independent 29 May 2016
Germany’s anti-immigration Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) party has apologied after its deputy leader was quoted as saying people would not want the ......

German politician under fire over racist Boateng remark

Edit Al Jazeera 29 May 2016
Alexander Gauland, deputy chief of the Alternative for Germany (AfD) party, told the Sunday newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung (FAS) that Germans would not like to live next door to Boateng ... AfD party chief Frauke Petry tried to calm the storm, telling Bild that Gauland "cannot recall whether he made that statement" ... i'd rather live next to 1000 boatengs than to one AfD politician....

German populist party in race row over Boateng remarks

Edit Daily Star Lebanon 29 May 2016
A leading member of the right-wing populist Alternative for Germany (AfD) party sparked outrage Sunday after making racist remarks about national football team defender Jerome Boateng ... ....

'Boateng insult' sparks row in Germany

Edit BBC News 29 May 2016
Comments by a senior leader of Germany's right-wing AfD party about football star Jerome Boateng are widely condemned as racist ... ....

Politician in Jerome Boateng race row over 'neighbour' comment

Edit ITV 29 May 2016
Alexander Gauland, deputy leader of the country's anti-immigration party Alternative für Deutschland (AfD), said although many people admired the ......

Bayern defend Boateng after politician's insult

Edit FourFourTwo 29 May 2016
Bayern Munich chairman Karl-Heinz Rummenigge has hit out at Alternative fur Deutschland (AfD) politician Alexander Gauland following the latter's controversial comments toward Jerome Boateng ... Gauland's remarks sparked controversy in Germany and Rummenigge has now taken aim at the right-wing politician ... ....

German far-right party in row over Jerome Boateng 'neighbour' comments

Edit The Guardian 29 May 2016
Anti-immigration party Alternative für Deutschland says most people wouldn’t want German footballer living next door ... Alexander Gauland, the deputy leader of the anti-immigration party Alternative für Deutschland (AfD), was quoted on Sunday as telling the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung newspaper. “People find him good as a footballer. But they don’t want to have a Boateng as their neighbour.” ... He wrote on Twitter ... ....

Far right's defeat leaves Austria politically cleaved

Edit The Times of India 29 May 2016
Vienna. With the dust settling over the new Austrian presidency, its almost amusing to consider that all of Europe agonized for weeks over a possible far-right triumph in a contest involving just 64 lakh voters. In the end, lightning didn't strike this seeming idyll of music, meadows and museums ... Marc Jongen, a philosopher aligned with rightwing AfD, has argued for "rage" to confront the challenges posed by Muslim migration ... RELATED....

German Protestant bishop wants Islam classes in all state schools

Edit Dawn 28 May 2016
BERLIN ... Bishop Heinrich Bedford-Strohm told the Heilbronner Stimme newspaper called for teaching Islam in schools nationwide ... The influx has fuelled the rise of anti-immigration party Alternative for Germany (AfD), which maintains that Islam violates the constitution and wants a ban on minarets and face veils ... ....
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