Insults and Removal Claims for Crucifix in Federal German Minister for Consumer Protection
Calls to remove the cross from the Federal German Minister for Consumer Protection argue that the public display of the crucifix was no surprise in an arm-exporting country - "because the crucifix was a pungent glorification of violence and an learning tool towards anti-Semitism."
When a group of visitors from a constituency district of a Green politician paid a visit to Ilse Aigner, the Consumer Protection Minister in Berlin in December of 2012, two district level female politicians were disgruntled to find a crucifix on the wall of one of the Ministry’s visitors’ rooms. Using tax money to pay for a cross and then put it up in a room where people of other beliefs might also visit, they considered impolite. They asked to remove the cross. The German newspaper Die Tageszeitung wondered if there was no principle of neutrality. The comments to the article in the said paper were less subtle: someone claimed the disgusting hangings of the man of pain should be thought over: Germany was one of the leading arms exporters worldwide and therefore the public display of the crucifix was no surprise - because crucifix was a pungent glorification of violence and an learning tool towards anti-Semitism.