{"id":600,"date":"2018-01-26T14:00:02","date_gmt":"2018-01-26T11:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quran-for-all.com\/blog\/2018\/01\/26\/german-far-right-politician-converts-to-islam\/"},"modified":"2018-01-26T14:00:02","modified_gmt":"2018-01-26T11:00:02","slug":"german-far-right-politician-converts-to-islam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quran-for-all.com\/blog\/german-far-right-politician-converts-to-islam\/","title":{"rendered":"German Far-right Politician, Arthur Wagner, Converts to Islam"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_20722\" style=\"max-width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.newmuslim.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/German-Far-right-Politician-Converts-to-Islam.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-20722\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.newmuslim.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/German-Far-right-Politician-Converts-to-Islam-300x200.jpg?resize=300%2C200\" alt=\"German Far-right Politician, Arthur Wagner, Converts to Islam\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">German Far-right Politician, Arthur Wagner, Converts to Islam<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Arthur Wagner, a\u00a0<strong>member of the far-right<\/strong>, <strong>anti-Islam<\/strong> Alternative for Germany (AfD) has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newmuslim.net\/converts\/conversion-stories\/top-10-celebrities-who-have-converted-to-islam\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">converted<\/a> to Islam, leaving his position on the party\u2019s national executive committee, Deutsche Welle reported Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s my private business,\u201d Arthur Wagner told the German daily newspaper Tagesspiegel, who first reported his conversion to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newmuslim.net\/featured\/western-muslims-true-integration-and-strong-faith\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Islamic faith<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Rumors about Wagner\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newmuslim.net\/converts\/conversion-stories\/conversion-to-islam-fills-a-religious-void\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">conversion to Islam<\/a> followed his resignation from his position in AfD party on January 11.<\/p>\n<p>Though Wagner refused to comment on his conversion to Islam, the news was confirmed by the party spokesman Daniel Friese.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe party has no problem with that,\u201d Friese said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cReligion is a private matter. We support the constitutional right of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newmuslim.net\/featured\/slavery-system-religious-history-practices\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">religious freedom<\/a>,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Wagner, a German of Russian origin, had been a representative of the AfD since 2015. He was a member of the state committee with responsibility for churches and religious communities.<\/p>\n<p>The AfD has become the third-largest party in Germany, after winning 12.6 percent of the vote in parliamentary elections on Sept. 24.<\/p>\n<p>The party\u2019s basic program, which was adopted last year, claimed that \u201cIslam does not belong to Germany.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>__________________________________<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Source :<\/strong> <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/aboutislam.net\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/aboutislam.net<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>[ica_orginalurl]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arthur Wagner, a\u00a0member of the far-right, anti-Islam Alternative for Germany (AfD) has converted to Islam, leaving his position on the party\u2019s national executive committee, Deutsche Welle reported Tuesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":601,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[510,2],"tags":[2273,2274,677,240,2275,2276,2277,910,2278],"class_list":["post-600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-conversion-stories","category-new-muslims","tag-afd","tag-arthur-wagner","tag-conversion-stories","tag-converts-to-islam","tag-eutsche-welle","tag-german-far-right-politician","tag-german-far-right-politician-converts-to-islam","tag-new-muslim","tag-wagners-conversion-to-islam"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/quran-for-all.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/German-Far-right-Politician-Converts-to-Islam.jpg?fit=505%2C337&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2ZvKT-9G","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quran-for-all.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/600","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quran-for-all.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quran-for-all.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quran-for-all.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quran-for-all.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=600"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/quran-for-all.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/600\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quran-for-all.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quran-for-all.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quran-for-all.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quran-for-all.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}