Kristina Koehler, Germany’s new Federal Minister for Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth, has come under sharp attack from the political left for stating the obvious, namely that it is important to fight all forms of extremism. Last October, just a few weeks before the 32-year-old Bundestag member was made the country’s youngest minister in a surprise cabinet reshuffle by Chancellor Merkel, Koehler issued a press release lauding the fact that Germany’s new center-right CDU/CSU-FDP government had agreed to combat vigorously all extremist groups: