Germany Grapples With Racism After Threats Derail Refugee’s Candidacy For Parliament
Tareq Alaows stands in front of the Bundestag, Germany’s parliament, in Berlin. Alaows came to Germany as an asylum-seeker from Syria in 2015. He launched a campaign to run in Germany’s federal election in September for the Green Party but recently withdrew his candidacy. —Markus Schreiber/AP BERLIN — Tareq Alaows was hoping to become the…