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Germany’s idiotic speech laws are fuel to the far-right fire

By Tom Rogan

Published January 4, 2018 8:27pm ET

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Germany’s idiotic speech laws are fuel to the far-right fire — Beatrix von Storch (pictured above), the deputy leader of the Alternative for Germany party, said that the decision of Cologne's police to tweet in Arabic was an act of appeasement towards "barbaric, gang-raping Muslim hordes of men." Von Storch, along with another AfD politician, is now being investigated for incitement to hatred. But it's not hard to see what's going on here: The AfD is using Germany's speech law as a means to increase its own support. (Hauke-Christian Dittrich/dpa via AP, file) | Hauke-Christian Dittrich

Challenging far-right politics by restricting free speech, Germany is throwing fuel on the fire it wants to put out.

The last week has proved as much.

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