Mehdi Hasan

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4,624 appearances 9 recordings 7 series first heard Oct 2025 last heard 9 Jul

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The Rest Is Politics · 552. Trump's Red Card Saga and Germany's Far-Right Machine · 8 Jul 2026 podcast

partner is brown.

But this is a party that is very racist, is very Islamophobic.

He didn't have any response to my questions about their Islamophobia, other than to try and kind of pretend he hadn't heard about it.

But it is a very dangerous moment for Germany, because as you mentioned, for people who are not aware, the German system post-war allows for the constitutional court to say this party, this movement can be banned as neo-Nazi, as a threat to democracy.

And the German intelligence service said the AFD is an extremist group.

And when they gave that label, the AFD went to court, the court stepped in and paused it while they investigate that label.

So right now we can't call them a far-right domestic extremist group because the German courts have put that classification on hold while it's being investigated.

But I would point out 72% of Germans think it's an extremist group, according to the polls, but they might end up in power.

Probably not unless I have to.

Let's say he's on the verge of becoming Chancellor of Germany and I'm offered an interview with him.

Would I take it?

Yes.

But I think we've got, as journalists, we've got to decide when and how is the right place and the right peg and the right location to do these interviews.

My worry is that you head down an American path where you just platform everyone all the time and treat everyone the same.

And I think that's a mistake.

And even in the British media, you know, there's some interviewers who do tough interviews.

There's some who don't do tough interviews.

And if you are going to have these very controversial figures on, you really have to be prepared.

My problem is a lot of journalists aren't prepared for interviews.

So if you're going to, you know, I would advise against a random British journalist just turning up to interview Krar because he'll run rings around you.

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