NEW FRONT FOR THE GERMAN FAR RIGHT

Anti-Islamic Party Is Playing With Fear
By Andrea Brandt and Guido Kleinhubbert

Right-wing radicals in Cologne are gaining traction with Germany’s first anti-Islamic party. The German domestic intelligence agency is alarmed — but so are traditional neo-Nazis, who may have to shift their tactics to compete.

The four young men look unremarkable in Cologne’s downtown pedestrian zone. Now and then they press a pamphlet into somebody’s hand with a smile. They seem as harmless as volunteers gathering donations for, say, starving children in Africa; but their project belongs to a political movement that is being viewed with alarm by intelligence officers in the state of North-Rhine Westphalia.

From a photo caption:

Not just about the mosque: The “Pro Kln” movement has roots in the German far right.

Nazi-Aufmarsch - Axel Reitz