AfD on equality and diversity

The AfD wants to keep the public muezzin call out of Bavaria and stop paying taxpayer money to Islamic organizations. Foreign funding for mosques is to be blocked. The party rejects minarets, which it sees as a show of power by political Islam.

The AfD does not want the muezzin call in Bavaria. The muezzin calls Muslims to prayer out loud. Islamic groups should get no money from the state. Mosques should get no money from abroad either. The AfD is against minarets.

The platform rejects special rules for Muslims in swimming pools as well as any "Sharia police" or "Sharia courts." The AfD does not want to allow the muezzin call; it argues that church bells are not comparable because they are religiously and culturally rooted in the state. State payments to Islamic organizations are to end, and payments from abroad to mosques and mosque associations are to be blocked, following Austria's example. Building law is to be applied strictly to new mosques, with attention to peace in the neighborhood. According to the platform, this explicitly covers minarets as well.

The AfD wants to keep the headscarf ban in the civil service, daycare centers and schools and extend it to kindergarten children and schoolgirls. The burqa is to be banned in public. The platform justifies this as fighting the oppression of women in Islam.

The AfD wants to keep the headscarf ban for public employees. The ban should also apply to children in daycare and school. The burqa should be banned in public. A burqa is a garment that covers the whole body. The AfD says women and men have equal rights.

The platform calls equal rights for men and women non-negotiable and demands that marriage rest on the free decision of both partners. The AfD will not tolerate child marriages or forced marriages. Genital mutilation is to be prosecuted strictly as aggravated bodily harm. The party rejects lighter sentences on cultural grounds, for example in so-called honor killings. The existing headscarf ban is to be enforced consistently.

The AfD wants to punish puberty blockers and gender reassignment surgery for adolescents as serious bodily harm and allow such procedures only from adulthood. It also opposes what it regards as ideological sex education in schools and daycare centers.

The AfD wants to ban puberty blockers for young people. These are drugs that stop puberty. Surgery to change a young person's sex should also be a crime. Only adults should be allowed to do this. The AfD also rejects certain sex education in schools and daycare.

The platform condemns what it calls intrusive early sexualization in schools and daycare centers and wants to end the influence of groups it calls the gender lobby. The AfD holds that there are biologically only two sexes. Drugs that suppress puberty and surgery on adolescents who feel they belong to the other sex are to be punishable as serious bodily harm. Gender reassignment procedures are to be open only to adults.

The AfD affirms equal rights for men and women under the Basic Law but rejects quotas and state-mandated equalization. It considers such rules unfair, hostile to merit and unconstitutional. Instead, pay in all occupations should be based on performance.

The AfD says men and women have the same rights. But it wants no quotas. A quota sets how many jobs must go to women. The party thinks this is unfair. Pay should depend on performance.

In the party's view, men and women have different strengths and preferences, which also shows in their choice of occupation. The platform regards quotas as discrimination that violates the constitution. The AfD wants all occupations to be valued and paid appropriately according to performance.