In a heated debate in the German parliament, the Bundestag, the opposition Christian Democratic party (CDU) has demanded that an estimated 3000 Islamists potentially willing to resort to violence, be expelled from the country. "We have to get rid of them, better today than tomorrow", the CDU spokesman Wolfgang Bosbach said. His party colleague Eckart von Klaeden said that part of Germany's political culture was the special responsibility for the state of Israel and the fight against anti-Semitism. The CDU also defended its concept of a "lead culture" in Germany to which immigrants of whatever provenance had to sign up to if they wanted to live in the country permanently. Franz Müntefering, leader of the governing Social Democrats, called the CDU statements "populist".
