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The candidate for the CDU presidency, Friedrich Merz, expects an unconditional commitment to the German legal system from the approximately 4.5 million Muslims in Germany, he said at a regional conference in Düsseldorf on Wednesday evening.
The former head of the Christian Union (CDU) faction took centre stage on Wednesday evening at a CDU regional conference in Düsseldorf, where the three most promising candidates presented themselves.
“There is no Sharia law on German soil,” Merz said. Freedom of religion also applies to Muslims, he said, but they are subject to Germany’s secular law.
Merz, who has been dubbed by German press as the ‘anti-Merkel’ due to his differing stances to the Chancellor and contrasting political style, also called for better state supervision of religious schools for Muslims.