A CSU Strategy Point?

 It's a curious public discussion item, and probably built in a way to be part of the 2021 election topics.  The discussion?  The CDU Party (Merkel's right-of-center folks)....would like to have a registration of all Islamic mosques in Germany.  Looking at the hype of the chatter (a ARD public TV news item)....it's more of a chance to take back votes from the AfD Party and show that there is some control over radical Islam in Germany.

To be honest, no religion in Germany has to register itself in any form.  If you do want to be tax-free status.....you have to agree to a fairly straight-forward list of regulations and be totally 'open' about your finances.  

So as you can imagine....to chat about this CDU idea....the question of the Constitution comes up. They kinda admit....presently, it's not exactly something you can do....without modifying the Constitution in some minor way.

Part of this discussion also leads to exterior-money (from beyond the border) that flows in and the CDU group would like to suggest that it needs to be monitored and publicly admitted (you could call it transparency).

Politically speaking....it might sell well to folks who have the tendency to vote AfD.  With this, we might as well admit that half the folks who voted for the AfD in the past....were doing it more so...to send a message to the CDU and SPD folks.  They weren't exactly hardcore AfD members.

Getting it passed in the Constitution to allow a change?  You need more than 50-percent of the membership to agree.  So even if all of the CDU members voted 'yes'....you'd need either the partnership coalition 'friend' or extra votes from the AfD to get this passed.  The odds here?  Unknown.

Would the Islamic folks get upset by this?  If you said all religions were registered and all funds monitored....I think the majority wouldn't say much.

Would this cure Germany of radical Islam?  No....They'd just find ways to pass funding into the country without it being monitored.  In the case of controlling the various groups and radical individuals?  You might make the case that once identified as a 'radical'....you'd create some way to 'blackball' the individual and isolate him or her out of the identified groups.  Whether this would work in reality?  Unknown.

Hype over something that may not even occur?  That really is the bulk of this discussion.  You could wake up a month after the election and find that this suggestion is zeroed out and not part of the future agenda for the CDU.  Then you'd realize that it was a fake agenda to get some votes back, without any real value in the end.