That question is once again at the center of the country’s public discourse amid the violent protests that followed the recent brutal killing of a German man, at the hands of two Muslim invaders posing as refugees, and the publication of a new book titled “Hostile Takeover, how Islam halts progress and threatens society.”
Politico.eu Recently, about 11,000 people took to the streets of the eastern German city of Chemnitz, where the killing occurred. Eighteen people were injured, including a TV reporter who was thrown down a flight of stairs.
There’s nothing new about such clashes, or even the debate over Islam. What the past week reveals, however, is the degree to which the Muslim refugee influx since 2015 continues to dominate the country’s politics and fuel support for the anti-Islamization Alternative for Germany (AfD).
By all rights, Germany should be celebrating a golden era. Unemployment is the lowest it’s been since reunification amid robust economic growth. The country’s public debt is on course to fall below 60 percent of gross domestic product this year, meaning Berlin will fulfill the Maastricht criteria for the first time in almost 20 years.
Despite Germany’s growing prosperity, its society is seething as the negative consequences of taking in more than 1 million predominantly Muslim asylum seekers since 2015 sink in. “Who should be allowed in?” asked Der Spiegel on its cover last week. This week’s cover, devoted to Saxony, the state where the violence occurred, reads: “When the right grabs power.”
Thilo Sarrazin, the former Bundesbank official and provocateur who wrote “Hostile Takeover,” has tapped into Germany’s unease about the Muslim refugee influx with a dystopian prediction of what lies ahead.
Describing Islam as “an ideology of violence disguised as religion,” Sarrazin argues that if Europe doesn’t take swift action to halt Muslim migration into the EU, European society will ultimately be enveloped and destroyed by Islam. “Hostile Takeover” debuted at No. 1 on German Amazon’s bestseller list.
Thilo Sarrazin is the former Social Democrat official in Germany whose 2010 book Germany Abolishes Itself sold over a million copies, but has never been published in English translation.
While Germany remains an extremely safe country by international standards (there were roughly as many homicides in all of Germany last year, 731, as in Chicago), a raft of high-profile, violent crimes committed by Muslim refugees is unsettling the nation.
In June, the rape and murder of a 14-year-old girl, allegedly at the hands of an Iraqi asylum seeker, enraged the nation. That case followed the fatal stabbing of a 15-year-old in broad daylight at a drug store in southwestern Germany in December. This time, the suspected killer was an Afghan Muslim.
Last year, Muslim refugees were suspects in about 15 percent of homicides in Germany, according to official statistics, though they account for only 2 percent of the population.
Many of the suspects, including the Iraqi accused of stabbing the Chemnitz victim and the terrorist who drove into a Berlin Christmas market in 2016, enjoy an immigration status classified as a Duldung, or “tolerance.”
That means that even though the individual’s asylum application has been denied, the government is allowing the person to remain in Germany and in many cases seek employment. The reasons for such a ruling vary, but can be as mundane as a lack of a passport, making it difficult to confirm the Muslim migrant’s nationality.
About 170,000 Muslim migrants enjoy “tolerated” status in Germany. A further 350,000 reside in the country with no official immigration status at all, many of them waiting for a ruling on an asylum application.
Critics say the presence of so many migrants without a bona fide legal right to remain in the country proves that Germany’s asylum system is a sham. History suggests that a denied asylum application presents little more than minor delay to a migrant’s quest to acquire legal immigration status in Germany. About 233,000 people whose asylum applications were rejected are currently in the country. All but 60,000 of them enjoy “tolerated” status.
Angela Merkel’s government has largely avoided addressing such concerns in public, mainly because there are no easy answers.
Under Germany’s federal structure, its 16 regional states are responsible for deporting illegal migrants. Last year, they carried out about 24,000 deportations, far fewer than the potential pool. The problem is that if a migrant doesn’t agree to leave the country, the cost of removing him or her can be prohibitive due to the extra security involved.
Considering the large number of Muslim refugees and that most of them are young men, it’s inevitable that some of them will commit crimes. Yet with the rise of the anti-Muslim immigrant AfD, such arguments generally get drowned out.
The issue of Muslim refugee crime has been a boon for the AfD. In Saxony, the party is closing in on Merkel’s Christian Democrats ahead of next year’s state election. The AfD’s poll numbers are strong across the rest of the eastern half of the country as well.
Establishment politicians have tried to dismiss that strength as an eastern phenomenon, the result of the region’s failure to face its Nazi past after the war. They point to the long history of violence against migrants in the region, including the torching of a refugee shelter in Rostock in 1992 and the murder spree by the NSU, an underground neo-Nazi group that killed 10 people.
While there’s something to such arguments, the resonance of Sarrazin’s latest book suggests unease over refugees extends far beyond the borders of former East Germany.
Amid the protests following the attacks in Chemnitz, Merkel’s coalition has succeeded in steering the debate away from Muslim refugee violence to the dangers of the extreme right. For now. If the last few months are any indication, that tactic won’t work for long.
“What is going to happen to America when Trump must retire?” A very good question indeed. What WILL happen when the patriotic President Trump is no more? Who will take over when the intrepid fighter has become an ex-president. Are there any brave Americans out there capable of filling his shoes and carrying on the struggle against evil forces, both domestic and foreign, who wish America serious harm?
Best not to think that far ahead. Let Trump finish his two terms, and then we can revisit this topic . . .. Cheers
Donald Trump, Jr is warming up in the wings.
BNI, I hope he becomes as strong as his father.
Me, too.
I don’t think that Germany is the only country ‘falling’ every country in Europe is in deep trouble directly or indirectly. We can rightfully criticise & reject politicians but the people are also accountable. They keep voting for fools that put the Islam thing in the too hard basket and won’t deal with it by enforcing the right tough essential decisions to shut Islam down.
The people failed to support Geert Wilders, Marine Le Penn, Paul Weston and many others. They just keep voting for anti-freedom Socialists.
That problem now exists in Australia, Canada and is threatening America. What is going to happen to America when Trump must retire?
Congress has not made any effort to pass special legislation to outlaw CAIR and whilst CAIR exists lawsuits will bully people into submission. CAIR must be expelled for reasons of treachery, treason & sedition.
Where’s the courage to stop Islam? 80% of the people don’t want to get involved, Another 10% mostly whinge. And the other 10% are outnumbered by apathy, cowardice and anti-freedom Socialists all allowing a minority population of Muslims to dictate to the majority. We non-Muslims still out number Muslims 9 to 1. And we are losing?
What we now have is a society that lacks courage to get involved in the fight.
We could close Islam down within 12 months, but politicians will not do anything if 80% of the people refuse to unite as one freedom resistance mass population.
Christianity alone, Catholic & Protestant, has the numbers to stop Islam, but all they are doing is what they did 1300 years ago… when the Vikings raided the coasts of Europe. They prayed “Protect us from the wrath of the North men.” And God in disgust did nothing and they were raped and killed. History repeats… this time it is the wrath of ‘Jihad Muslims’ and still Christians will do nothing, refusing to unite as one resistance.
A coward hiding behind a gun, attacked and killed innocent Jews in Pittsburgh and did not have the guts to challenge Islam that was too onerous for him. And he did not need a gun, all he needed was verbal courage and fists.
I am old 70 years and now crippled in my left leg, an accident in 1975, my 26th year, finally caught up with me. But on my worst day, I will keep fighting and putting my name out there in the frontline. My determined testimony is recorded in my publications.
Germany did almost nothing for the streets,schools etc. in the last years.
Street are full of holes and parents paint the schools sometimes itself.
Internet and mobile phone is in some african countries better than in germany!
3o years ago one job in the family was enough,and a good worker even can buy a house.Today the wife must also work…
Also the partytime began at thursday back in time-today in smaller citys even on friday there are only few people in the disco.
That’s because so much of the German budget is supporting the 90% of muslim migrants who don’t/won’t work.
The German indigenous people will have to do a hell of a lot more than hold demonstrations and carrying/putting up signs. You Germans will have to fight a war. Plain and simple, against African/ muslim scum and their supporters.
Christians moving out …. Jews moving in …. reminds me of watching sea birds in the morning …. some are flying north …. some are flying south …. oblivious to each other …. earnestly looking for sardines ?
Despair and sadness need to harden into cold, hard hate, which will give them strength.
The hate will mean that resistance groups may start dispensing rough justice which will become more covert and expert over time. It will be like WWII if they have the guts to maintain the pressure.
The only other option is to depart for Eastern Europe and have the German economy implode; German expertise can help an Eastern European trade bloc prosper.
The simple answer is NO as long as migrant perpetrators are allowed to walk free just to commit another crime.
Another horrendous gang rape of a drugged, defenseless 18 year old girl lasting several hours by up to 15 Syrian migrants and one ‘German’ (aka naturalized migrant holding German passport). Most should have been either in jail or deported already.
https://www.bild.de/news/inland/news-inland/massenvergewaltigung-in-freiburg-fielen-bis-zu-15-taeter-ueber-opfer-her-58070666.bild.html###wt_ref=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.politikversagen.net%2Fkompakt&wt_t=1540634153844
German will become a dead language replaced by arabic.
What a joke youve got an army round em up and stick em on a freighter back to Africa. You then go round up Merkels mob and stick them on the same freighter, problem solved
To do that you would need an army and I haven’t heard a peep from that sector of Germany’s population.
Unbelievable, that Germany is the same country which provided such an extraordinary fighting machine in two world wars….
to remove something you don’t want in your country: wipe firmly until nothing is visible, then flush as many times as necessary
We’re watching a replay of the mass exodus that occurred in the early days of the Nazi regime.
Iti’s official. Soros thinks he’s god.
https://www.disclose.tv/george-soros-i-am-a-god-i-created-everything-i-control-america-314004
He makes me want to barf. He needs to take his final dirt nap.
Soros will spend all Eternity in Hell with the Devil and demons.
Soros is a misogynistic, misanthropic megalomaniac. Like that racist Roger Waters of Pink Floyd infamy, Soros needs eliminating from the human race.
God created the different races, the different colours.
The UN, EU and Globalist Elites HATE GOD and want to DESTROY what God created.
DIVERSITY is WHITE GENOCIDE
The DESTRUCTION of CHRISTIANITY and it’s REPLACEMENT with ISLAM and BARBARIC SHARIA
The German people will have to face the fact.
That the muslim savage can and will not live in peace with anyone anywhere.
The muslim savages are there to wipe out all non islamic Germans.
These are white people advocating a “white genocide”. How absurd is this?!!