Bild went out and asked an unusual question in the middle of this political season.....is Islam a part of Germany today? Does it belong to Germany?
You could have phrased this in various ways and gotten various answers.
So, INSA (the research foundation) did the work, with 1,000 folks polled.
Roughly a quarter of the Germans said absolutely yes. Most Germans (60-percent) said no.
When they asked people who said they were CDU voters....only 29-percent said that Islam was an integral part of Germany.
Even when you polled Green Party voters....roughly 45-percent said no.
Then they got around to the political crowd that really matter at this point in the election....the undecided, and found that 57-percent said no as well.
It is an odd prospective. The Chancellor....most of the voice from the CDU and SPD, along with the Greens....will say that Islam is a part of Germany in 2017. The public? They aren't reading the script or following along with the narrative.
Does any of this matter? No.
The Basic Law (the Constitution) guarantees people the right to pick and choose their religion. So your opinion about religions....doesn't really matter. Maybe if some Alabama folks showed up to practice their religion with handling rattlesnakes.....that might get some quick law written to outlaw one religion, but no one is going to change much on the Islam business.
Why should Bild bring this up? At this point in the election.....there's usually not anything to change things....like some corruption episode or some fraud. However....you could twist something here and there and suddenly find that the AfD folks move from that point of two months ago of 8-percent.....to something like 11-or-12 percent....just on people reflecting on an issue like this.
No comments:
Post a Comment