Alice Weidel

<span style="float:right;">[[File:2017.07.22.200910_Alice_Weidel_AfD-Informationsveranstaltung_Schriesheim.jpg|thumb|150px|Her signature pose is grimacing while holding her arms in an awkward position.]]</span>
'''Alice Weidel''' {{lived|1979|}} is the [[xenophobic]]<ref name="bi_merkel">[http://www.businessinsider.com/germany-afd-alice-weidel-everything-you-need-to-know-2017-9/#she-has-called-angela-merkel-insane-for-her-immigration-policy-and-accused-the-german-chancellor-of-running-a-headless-government-that-has-no-idea-what-it-is-doing-6 German election: Meet Alice Weidel, leader of the far-right AfD party]</ref>, [[transphobic]]<ref name="bi_les">[http://www.businessinsider.com/germany-afd-alice-weidel-everything-you-need-to-know-2017-9/#weidel-who-is-openly-gay-and-in-a-registered-partnership-with-a-woman-says-germanys-children-shouldnt-be-taught-about-homosexuality-until-after-puberty-10  'I don’t want anyone with their gender idiocy or their early sexualisation classes coming near my children.']</ref>, [[Eurosceptic]]<ref name="der_spiegel">[http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/the-new-face-of-afd-how-right-wing-is-alice-weidel-a-1146038.html The New Face of AFD: How Right-Wing is Alice Weidel? (Der Spiegel)]</ref>, [[hypocritical]], and [[Islamophobic]]<ref name="der_spiegel /> [[Tokenism|token]] [[lesbian]] leader of the [[Nazi]] party's spiritual successor in [[Germany]], [[Alternative for Germany]]. She used to be a banker for [[Goldman Sachs]],<ref name="der_spiegel" /> giving her a bit of actual credibility in the realm of [[economics]] but must have made the mistake of reading ''[[Mein Kampf]]'' and [[Ayn Rand]]'s novels, falling into the rabbit hole of the [[far-right]].{{nofact}} All jokes aside, she may actually have read something that convinced her to move to the right, though; her old colleagues and friends at Goldman Sachs have said that they are shocked at her transformation from banker to right-wing political leader.
==Personal life==
Alice Weidel is openly homosexual and raised two sons with her partner, who was born in Sri Lanka<ref>[https://kurier.at/politik/ausland/alice-weidel-jung-lesbisch-und-sehr-weit-rechts/287.157.550 Alice Weidel: Jung, lesbisch und sehr weit rechts ]''kurier.at'', 20. September 2017</ref>. She is registered at her parent's house in Baden-Württemberg, but pays her taxes in Switzerland.<ref name="der_spiegel /> According to German newspaper ''Die Zeit'', Weidel hired an Islamic studies student in 2015 , and later (possibly illegaly) employed a Syrian refugee, to do housework at her Swiss home.  Weidel herself stated that the Syrian was a friend of hers who did not work for her.<ref>[https://www.politico.eu/article/alice-weidel-afd-germany-election-far-right-leader-accused-of-illegally-hiring-syrian-refugee-report/ German far-right leader accused of illegally hiring Syrian refugee: report ] ''politico.eu'', September 13, 2017 </ref>
==Islamophobia and xenophobia==
{{Cquote|Burqas, headscarf girls and alimented knife men and other 
good-for-nothings will not secure our wealth, the economic growth and, above all, the welfare state.|20px|20px|Alice Weidel in a speech to the federal parliament, 2018 }}
Weidel stays consistently on the official [[AfD]] party line against Islam and migration, although she is generally considered relatively liberal in public, compared to ethnic nationalists like [[Björn Höcke]]. An email leaked in 2017 conflicts with this viewpoint. In it, Alice Weidel describes Arabs, Sinti and Roma as "cultural alien people" and endorses the [[Great replacement]] conspiracy theory.<ref>[https://www.zdf.de/nachrichten/politik/weidel-email-afd-10-jahre-100.html Haben Sie die Mail geschrieben, Frau Weidel?]''zdf.de'',01. February 2023</ref> In an interview with ''Die Welt'', she also claimed that Islam in general is not only a religion, but a political system that is not compatible with the German constitution nor with European secularism and is abusing religious freedom.<ref>[https://www.welt.de/politik/deutschland/plus170637216/was-hier-unter-dem-Deckmantel-der-Religionsfreiheit-ablaeuft.html „... was hier unter dem Deckmantel der Religionsfreiheit abläuft“]''welt.de'', 16. November 2017</ref> Weidel wants to ban all types of headscarves in public spaces.<ref>[https://www.dw.com/en/germanys-afd-wants-ban-on-wearing-a-headscarf-in-street/a-39010637 AfD wants ban on wearing a headscarf in street]''Deutsche Welle'', 05/27/2017</ref>

==See also==
* [[AfD]]
* [[Angela Merkel]]
* [[Front National]]
* [[UKIP]]
* [[PEGIDA]]

==References==
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