The newly elected leader of Germany’s radical left-liberal Bündnis 90/Die Grünen party has already caused a stir in the Bundestag after it was revealed that he’d suggested aspects of Sharia law, the basis of Islam’s legal system, could be integrated into Germany’s basic law.
Omid Nouripour, an Iranian-born MP who for years backed the of anti-Israel BDS campaign and opposed classifying Hezbollah as a terrorist organization, has been slammed by the Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) for a 2018 speech—delivered on the floor of the Bundestag—where he called on MPs to ensure that “parts of Sharia law” that are compatible with the “Basic Law” can be administered in Germany, Tickys Einblick reports.
The comments in question came during a debate on the AfD motion titled: “Incompatibility of Islam, Sharia, and the Rule of Law,” and followed a particularly fiery speech by AfD MP Dr. Gottfried Curio, where he linked Germany’s rising number of anti-Semitic crimes to country’s expanding Muslim population, the vast majority of whom adhere to sharia law.
Responding to the AfD lawmaker’s assertion, Nouripour said:
“There are many types of Sharia. Our job here is to ensure that the parts that are compatible with the Basic Law can also be applied. But there are numerous types of Sharia, and I wonder what type he is referring to. Do you know what you’re talking about? “And the second question is: The history of Islam is a very long history of possible interpretations, and up to the end of the 19th century there was always a sentence under every expert opinion that said, ‘But nobody really knows except the God of the believers’.”
To his credit, Nouripour did admit to the obvious, conceding that some aspects of Sharia law simply are not compatible with Germany’s Basic Law. He failed, however, to mention the core aspects of Sharia which are at loggerheads with the German constitution, like those which deny freedom of belief, freedom of expression, and equality between men and women—to name just a few.
Days earlier, in the wake of the Bündnis 90/Die Grünen party leader’s resurfaced statements, Joachim Paul, a member of the AfD’s federal executive board, lambasted Nouripour for pushing Islamo-Leftist talking points and for injecting what he called “irresponsible drivel” into the parliamentary debate.
Nouripour’s irresponsible drivel is downright dangerous for legal security in Germany and suitable for warmly encouraging Islamists and questionable Sharia judges, who mock our rule of law every day. It is telling that the Greens leader does not specifically name those parts that are said to be compatible with the Basic Law beyond inheritance law, marriage law, corporal punishment, and retributive justice.
It is therefore suspected that the Green Sharia understander wants to score points with Islamist milieus. It has long been observed that leftists and Islamists have formed an alliance that is directed against the free European culture— in France, they are already talking about ‘Islamo-Gauchisme’—the Islam left.
Instead of making the Sharia—a relic of the Middle Ages—socially acceptable in Germany and generally ready for a ruling, the questionable lay judges in parallel Islamic worlds should be decisively combated – it undermines the German constitutional state and leads to arbitrariness, a brutal oppression of women and injustice.
Given his claimed background as a foreign policy expert—despite never having worked in the field or having graduated from university—Nouripour is regarded as the likely successor to Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock if she were to resign.
