Rep. Steve King (R-IA) last week wished Frauke Petry, the leader of Germany’s anti-immigrant Alternative for Germany party, good luck in the Berlin elections in a tweet lamenting “cultural suicide by demographic transformation.”
The tweet included a photo of himself with Petry and Geert Wilders, an anti-Muslim Dutch politician.
@FraukePetry Wishing you successful vote. Cultural suicide by demographic transformation must end. @geertwilderspvv pic.twitter.com/Kp6uieaMDG
— Steve King (@SteveKingIA) September 18, 2016
Petry and her far-right party have opposed refugees entering Germany and she has recently warned about the “Islamification” of the country. Wilders, the leader of the far-right Dutch Party for Freedom, has said that Islam is “the ideology of a retarded culture” and has praised Donald Trump.