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Alternative für Deutschland, the right-wing extremist party founded in 2013, which has exploited and reinforced sentiment against migrants, took up the narrative and stigmatized immigrants as a dangerous drain for the country’s resources. The party never stops beating the drum. In 2018, for example, Alice Weidel, a co-chair of the party, named the immigrants “headscarf girls” and “knife men” – headscarf girls and knife men – from parliament. The political debate, not least because of the success of the party, is often focused on the problems allegedly linked to immigration: religious zeal, crime, poverty.
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