FDP General Secretary Hagen wants to appeal to secular Muslims and criticizes the left-wing election victory in Berlin

After the election victory of the Left in Berlin, which received an above-average number of votes from people of Muslim faith, FDP General Secretary Martin Hagen wants to make greater efforts to reach out to secular Muslims in Germany. In an interview with the "Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung" Hagen said: "You shouldn't lump this group together. There are secular Muslims who are well integrated here - many of them, by the way, with a strong desire for advancement and an entrepreneurial spirit. That would be our target group, we have to address them better."

On the other hand, there are “unfortunately also communities that reject our Western values ​​and sometimes actively fight them.” These would make life less safe for women, Jews and homosexuals in the cities. “I would prefer them to leave our country,” said Hagen.

In Berlin, “the party of clan criminals and terror supporters has now become the strongest force” with the Left. "The head of the Remmo clan and representatives of radical Palestinian organizations were present at their election party. That has to concern us," said Hagen. For him, the Jewish state’s right to exist is “non-negotiable.” "And there should be a consensus that we are closer to this democratic state than to Islamist terrorist organizations like Hamas. Unfortunately, this consensus is increasingly being questioned - by immigrants, but also by a new, young left," said Hagen.

“Dramatic changes in the party system”

Meanwhile, he does not see the lost state elections in Berlin, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania and Saxony-Anhalt as a sign that the course of the new party leadership with Wolfgang Kubicki has failed. "The elections came too early to serve as a yardstick for a realignment of the party, which is still underway. The upward trend in the federal government is not yet strong enough to pull states like Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania up," said Hagen.