Gloves Are Off: German Vice-Chancellor Calls for Anti-Islamist ‘Culture Fight’
SputnikNews.com
06.01.2017
The fight against Islamist influence will involve a comprehensive “cultural struggle,” German Vice-Chancellor and Social Democratic (SDP) party leader Sigmar Gabriel told the German magazine Der Spiegel.
Germany needs to fight a cultural battle against the growing influence of Islamism, Vice-Chancellor Sigmar Gabriel told the German magazine Der Spiegel on Friday.
“If we are serious about the fight against Islamism and terrorism, then we have to also make this a cultural struggle,” he said.
Gabriel is leader of Germany’s Social Democratic (SDP) party, and serves as Vice-Chancellor and Minister of Economic Affairs in the German coalition government headed by Angela Merkel.
He noted that half of the Daesh supporters who traveled from Germany to conflict areas in Iraq or Syria were Germans, often with German parents.
“We need to strengthen social cohesion and ensure that urban areas are not neglected, villages do not deteriorate and people don’t become increasingly radicalized,” Gabriel said.
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