Muslims in Germany are being squeezed from both right and left

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By copying far-right migration rhetoric to halt AfD gains, Berlin leaves the country's largest minority politically homeless and weakens the democracy it claims to defend "The people want political change," said Alice Weidel on 6 September. She joined 35-year-old lead candidate Ulrich Siegmund in Magdeburg, the capital of the eastern state of Saxony-Anhalt, to celebrate an unprecedented victory for Alternative for Germany (AfD). Their party captured 43.8 percent of the vote in Saxony-Anhalt. Tha