In the clip below from the Bundestag, Jürgen Braun of the AfD speaks out against the focus on the Rohingya “refugees” in Burma, quoting Aung San Suu Kyi to highlight the association of the Rohingya with Islamic terrorism.

Many thanks to Ava Lon for the translation, and to Vlad Tepes for the subtitling:

Video transcript:

00:05 Mr. President, ladies and gentlemen,

00:10 dear colleagues. The left-green world vision of the old party [i.e. the Greens]

00:15 is pretty strange. For decades there was one [female] hero

00:20 in Asia, for decades she was a courageous woman. Aung San Suu Kyi received the Nobel Peace Prize

00:26 despite military dictatorship; she was imprisoned for many years under house arrest.

00:30 Western politicians and media were trying to outdo each other in praising her.

00:35 And then suddenly she’s not trendy. She fell out of favor.

00:40 The admirers turn away: Aung San Suu Kyi is suddenly doing everything wrong.

00:46 The reason: she allegedly does not care about a certain group of people

00:51 that was suddenly called Rohingya. She even refuses to use the battle cry “Rohingya”.

00:56 On the contrary, she says something unheard of:

01:01 Aung San Suu Kyi said in November during a big conference

01:05 of Foreign Ministers in Myanmar — please listen carefully;

01:08 you can still learn a lot from this holder of the Nobel Peace Prize —

01:11 “Illegal immigration means spreading terrorism and violent extremism.”

01:16 And I repeat it gladly,

01:21 because perhaps so early in the morning you might have problems with hearing it:

01:26 Yes: “Illegal immigration means spreading terrorism and violent extremism.”

01:31 So says not only Mrs. Aung San Suu Kyi.

01:36 Last night we heard it from all other fractions in unison:

01:41 “Freedom of religion always concerns all religions.

01:44 Nobody has the right to single out one group exclusively.”

01:47 Therefore it can never be question of the rights of Christians alone. The protection

01:52 of Christians? That doesn’t work at all! And what are we hearing today? — It’s only about one

01:57 particular group, the so called “Rohingya” There you are suddenly on their side!

02:02 There you are suddenly on their side! It is obviously about spreading Islam

02:07 Throughout the world! Christians or Buddhists are for you second class. Not to mention the reality.

02:17 Not to mention the reality. You have put the so-called “Rohingya” on the agenda today.

02:22 In the past four years members of this group have attacked Buddhist villages, and

02:27 they mowed down the entire police precinct with guns.

02:32 Where is your heart where Buddhist inhabitants are concerned?

02:38 Who is the victim and who is the perpetrator? The left-green hyper-morality

02:43 can only spread simple words in very loud agitation, just as it has now yet again.

02:48 Yes, Herr Hofreiter, you are the best. I know it.

02:53 The complicated reality is too far for you, and then you confuse…

02:58 then you especially gladly confuse the cause with the effect, Herr Hofreiter! This is a classic

03:03 of left-green hyper-morality!

03:08 Islamic groups would like to conceal from you or play down their violent acts,

03:13 also right there in Myanmar. In the name of Islam you can obviously kill people without complaints

03:19 from the old parties.

03:24 Most facts concerning the situation in Myanmar, the former Burma, or Birma are undisputed.

03:29 The people in the border area of Bangladesh and Myanmar had to experience increasing violence

03:34 Hundreds of thousands increasingly congregate in refugee camps. The Burmese military acts against

03:37 supposed or real rebels; but also paramilitary attacks from Islamic terrorists are undisputed.

03:44 Humanitarian help for the people in the refugees camps should

03:49 be a top priority for us. However, Bangladesh should also take refugees: this country refuses

03:54 to integrate their migrants. Hans-Bernd Zöllner, one of the greatest specialists on the region,

04:00 warns about your one-sided perspective. Muslim rebels

04:05 attack Buddhist security teams and the military strikes back.

04:10 This is the essence of his statement. I can understand the Prime Minister well. What is wrong with

04:15 the Prime Minister of Myanmar’s handling it in a different way from our federal government?

04:20 If you want to suggest to Burmese people… to Burmese people

04:25 that Islam belongs to Myanmar, then say it please, and stop spinning.

04:30 Who is using the battle cry “Rohingya” most loudly?

04:35 Ataullah Jununi: the undisputed leader of the Muslim rebels, who was born

04:41 in Pakistan and radicalized in Mecca. He received military training, and he ignited the civil war

04:46 to create an Islamic state in Buddhist Myanmar. Donations from Saudi Arabia and others have funded

04:52 this [military] campaign. These are obviously your friends, dear politicians from the old party.

04:56 Is it possible

05:01 that once again the left-green stench clouded your vision of reality?

05:06 Is it possible that the Burmese Prime Minister knows better what is right for her country

05:11 than we do, here, far away from her, in Berlin?

05:16 [Better than] Andrea Nahles or Angela Merkel? Is it possible that

05:19 Aung San Suu Kyi understands in her own country better

05:22 than Claudia Roth and Heiko Maas, to mention the true spirits of the green-left politics?