{"id":12636,"date":"2026-05-27T09:57:48","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T08:57:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/seecheck.org\/?p=12636"},"modified":"2026-06-04T14:23:29","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T13:23:29","slug":"fabricated-statements-attributed-to-angela-merkel-about-islam-and-muslims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/seecheck.org\/index.php\/2026\/05\/27\/fabricated-statements-attributed-to-angela-merkel-about-islam-and-muslims\/","title":{"rendered":"Fabricated Statements Attributed to Angela Merkel About Islam and Muslims"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Original article<\/a>\u00a0(in Bosnian) was published on 26\/05\/2026; Author:\u00a0Nerma \u0160ehovi\u0107<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

What are the claims?
<\/strong>Angela Merkel: India and China have more than 150 gods and 800 different beliefs, yet they live together in peace. Meanwhile, Muslims have one God, one prophet, and one book, and their streets are painted red with blood.
What are the facts?
<\/strong>Racist comments about Islam and Muslims falsely attributed to former German Chancellor Angela Merkel are circulating on social media. There is no evidence that she ever made such remarks.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

On May 24, 2026, a Facebook post<\/a> was shared containing racist comments about Muslims falsely attributed to former German Chancellor Angela Merkel. The comments were described as some of her \u201cmost famous political statements\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Germans are saying goodbye to Angela Merkel after she dominated the country\u2019s political scene for 16 years.<\/em>
<\/em>Among her most famous political statements, it is claimed that she said:<\/em>
<\/em>\u201cIndia and China have more than 150 gods and 800 different beliefs, yet they live together in peace. Meanwhile, Muslims have one God, one prophet, and one book, and their streets are painted red with blood. The killer shouts \u2018Allahu Akbar\u2019, and the victim also shouts \u2018Allahu Akbar\u2019.\u201d<\/em>
<\/em>She also said:<\/em>
<\/em>\u201cI am greatly puzzled by the existence of poor people in Islamic societies, even though the revenues from the Hajj alone exceed 20 billion dollars annually. Why is that profit not distributed among poor Muslims?\u201d<\/em>
<\/em>\u201cOne day we will tell our grandchildren that Muslims fled to us as migrants even though Mecca was closer to them than we were.\u201d<\/em>
<\/em>Goodbye, Hitler\u2019s granddaughter\u2026<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In the post, Merkel was referred to as \u201cHitler\u2019s granddaughter\u201d. By the time this analysis was written, the post had been shared nearly one hundred times.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fabricated statements<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Some of the statements attributed to Angela Merkel in the analyzed post have been circulating on social media and in other languages for years (1<\/a>, 2<\/a>). Fact-checking platform Misbar wrote about them back in 2021<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There is no evidence whatsoever that the former German chancellor ever made any of the statements attributed to her in these posts. We searched for each of the alleged statements on Google in Bosnian\/Croatian\/Serbian, English, and German (1<\/a>, 2<\/a>, 3<\/a>, 4<\/a>, 5<\/a>, 6<\/a>, 7<\/a>, 8<\/a>, 9<\/a>). The results clearly show that there are no credible media reports or official statements containing any of these remarks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The statements attributed to Merkel can only be found on social media posts that provide no details about when or where they were allegedly made and offer no sources that could verify them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Contrary to such posts, there are numerous credible online sources where genuine statements by the former German chancellor, for which she is actually known, can be found. Some of them can be viewed here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Angela Merkel and Islam<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Angela Merkel<\/a> is a German politician who served as Chancellor of Germany from 2005 to 2021. In the analyzed post, she was called the \u201cgranddaughter\u201d of notorious Nazi leader Adolf Hitler. However, this is disinformation that circulated on social media several years ago and which Raskrinkavanje already addressed in an analysis<\/a> published on May 5, 2021. As explained in that analysis, Angela Merkel\u2019s family tree is thoroughly documented and publicly available, clearly showing that she is not related to Hitler in any way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of the best-known and most influential decisions of her political career was opening Germany\u2019s borders to more than one million refugees from Syria, Afghanistan, and other Middle Eastern countries in 2015 during her third term in office. Several years later, under considerable political pressure, Merkel somewhat tightened her migration policy (1<\/a>, 2<\/a>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Despite this, Merkel frequently opposed Islamophobic narratives in her public statements, saying that \u201cIslam is part of Germany\u201d and that it \u201cis not the source of terrorism\u201d, and emphasizing that cooperation with Islamic countries is crucial in the fight against terrorism (1<\/a>, 2<\/a>).Accordingly, we assess the earliest post attributing comments about \u201cMuslim streets red with blood\u201d, Muslims \u201cfleeing\u201d from Mecca toward Europe as migrants, and unjust poverty among Muslims to Angela Merkel as fake news<\/strong>. Other posts receive the rating spreading fake news<\/strong>. We assign the same rating to the claim that Merkel is \u201cHitler\u2019s granddaughter\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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