AfD on equality and diversity

The AfD wants to counter any further spread of Islam. Its measures include banning foreign funding of mosques, banning minarets and the call to prayer, requirements for imams, and abolishing university chairs in Islamic theology.

The AfD does not want Islam to spread further in Germany. Other countries should not be allowed to pay for mosques in Germany. Minarets and the call to prayer should be banned. A minaret is the tower of a mosque. Imams should speak German well.

Islamic organizations are not to receive the status of a public-law corporation, and Islamist associations and mosque congregations are to be banned where the legal conditions are met. Imams are to profess loyalty to the constitution, be trained in Germany and prove German skills at C1 level. University posts in Islamic theology are to go to non-denominational Islamic studies. The AfD wants to permanently ban the Al-Quds Day marches in Berlin and regards criticism of Islam as protected free speech. Marriages based on polygamy, coercion or underage spouses are to be annulled, marriage contracts allowed only under German law, and job centers given access to civil registry records.

The AfD wants to ban the burqa and niqab in public, pointing to countries such as France and Austria. In public institutions, especially schools, the headscarf is also to be prohibited.

The AfD wants to ban the burqa and niqab in public. These are clothes that cover the face. In schools and public offices, the headscarf should be banned too. Other countries in Europe already have such rules.

As models for the ban on full-face veils, the platform cites France, Austria, Denmark, the Netherlands and Switzerland. The existing ban on face coverings is to be enforced in this context. The headscarf ban is to apply to public institutions and follow the example of other European countries. The AfD says it opposes the oppression of Muslim women and demands equal rights for men and women.

The AfD wants to repeal laws that mandate gender quotas and rejects anti-discrimination laws in civil law. It bases this on equality before the law and on the freedom to choose one's own contracting partners.

The AfD wants to end laws with quotas for women and men. It also opposes laws against discrimination between private people. Everyone should decide for themselves who they make a contract with. The AfD says only the state must treat everyone equally.

In the AfD's view, Article 3 of the Basic Law protects an individual right and does not allow favoring or disadvantaging individuals because of their sex in order to equalize groups. It therefore considers statutory quotas unconstitutional and will push in the Bundestag for their repeal. In civil law, the party holds that only the state is bound to equal treatment, while citizens are free to shape their private legal relationships. The party sees freedom of contract as being gradually eroded by legislation under EU influence.

The AfD wants to repeal the Selbstbestimmungsgesetz (Self-Determination Act) entirely and holds that there are two biological sexes. Gender-transition treatment would be possible only from age 18, and puberty blockers for that purpose would be banned.

The AfD wants to scrap the Self-Determination Act. This law makes it easy to change one's legal gender entry. The AfD says there are only two sexes. Treatment to change gender should start only at 18. It wants to ban puberty blockers for this.

Psychological counseling sessions would have to come before any gender-transition treatment, and the treatment itself would be under strict medical supervision. The AfD regards puberty blockers and hormones for minors as a danger to child welfare and lists health risks. State funding for what the party calls gender ideology and early sexualization is to end. Referring to a person by their biological sex should not be punishable by a fine.

The AfD wants to cut off funding for gender studies, which it considers unscientific, and abolish equal opportunity officers. Hiring should depend only on professional qualification. The party sees a growing influence of "woke" ideology at universities and wants to end it.

The AfD wants to stop paying for gender studies. That is research on gender roles. The party says it is not real science. Equal opportunity officers should no longer exist. For jobs, only professional skill should count.

The platform speaks of repression against unpopular lecturers, which it says should stop. The AfD wants to drop political targets for student numbers, graduation rates and other quotas because, in its view, they force a leveling down. Equal opportunity officers are positions at universities that watch over gender equality. In hiring, qualification alone should be decisive.