Isn't it absolute irony when we see European leaders telling an American leader, a number of months ago, to stop spending in order to save the economy and now, we see a European leader, Germany's Angela Merkel, admitting that Germany's experiment in mulitculturalism has failed...all at the same time that our American President vows to douse our land in multiculturalism?
From the report at Yahoo:
Speaking to a meeting of young members of her Christian Democrats (CDU), Merkel said allowing people of different cultural backgrounds to live side by side without integrating had not worked in a country that is home to some four million Muslims.
"This (multicultural) approach has failed, utterly failed," Merkel told the meeting in Potsdam, south of Berlin.
Merkel faces pressure from within her CDU to take a tougher line on immigrants who don't show a willingness to adapt to German society and her comments appeared intended to pacify her critics.
She said too little had been required of immigrants in the past and repeated her usual line that they should learn German in order to get by in school and have opportunities on the labour market.
Now, it's not like German leaders and others in Britain, France and Belgium hadn't come to the same conclusion but Merkel is the first and only one to have the balls to finally say it publicly. It has been well documented that the islamic immigration flood into European countries has nothing to do with assimilation - it was about conquest. Islamists in Germany have been hellbent on changing Germany to their culture and not about adapting to German society and culture.
We have seen the same thing in America, to a lesser degree. We are seeing daily accounts of muslims in America seeking all sorts of special treatments, new laws and new court behaviors due to THEIR way of life...there is no attempt for them to become Americanized...they insist on America becoming islamized.
So, the question is this...will we have leaders in America who will sit on their damn hands like the Europeans have for 10 or 20 years before making these admissions? Wait until it is too late? Or will a few of our governmental leaders stand up and tell the islamists in our country that if you don't wish to fit into American culture....THERE'S THE FUCKING DOOR!
Merkel says German multiculturalism has failed
Speaking to a meeting of young members of her Christian Democrats (CDU), Merkel said allowing people of different cultural backgrounds to live side by side without integrating had not worked in a country that is home to some four million Muslims.
"This (multicultural) approach has failed, utterly failed," Merkel told the meeting in Potsdam, south of Berlin.
Merkel faces pressure from within her CDU to take a tougher line on immigrants who don't show a willingness to adapt to German society and her comments appeared intended to pacify her critics.
She said too little had been required of immigrants in the past and repeated her usual line that they should learn German in order to get by in school and have opportunities on the labour market.
The debate over foreigners in Germany has shifted since former central banker Thilo Sarrazin published a book accusing Muslim immigrants of lowering the intelligence of German society.
Sarrazin was censured for his views and dismissed from the Bundesbank, but his book proved highly popular and polls showed a majority of Germans agreed with the thrust of his arguments.
Merkel has tried to accommodate both sides of the debate, talking tough on integration but also telling Germans that they must accept that mosques have become part of their landscape.
She said on Saturday that the education of unemployed Germans should take priority over recruiting workers from abroad, while noting Germany could not get by without skilled foreign workers.
In a weekend newspaper interview, her Labour Minister Ursula von der Leyen (CDU) raised the possibility of lowering barriers to entry for some foreign workers in order to fight the lack of skilled workers in Europe's largest economy.
"For a few years, more people have been leaving our country than entering it," she told the Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung. "Wherever it is possible, we must lower the entry hurdles for those who bring the country forward."
The German Chamber of Industry and Commerce (DIHK) says Germany lacks about 400,000 skilled workers.
Yet Horst Seehofer, chairman of the Christian Social Union (CSU), the CDU's sister party, has rejected any relaxation of immigration laws and said last week there was no room in Germany for more people from "alien cultures.
2 comments:
And I had ridden off Europe.
Now will they grow balls and mean it, or just wimp out?
Merkel saw the light. Question is: Is it too late?
Western culture has been at the forefront of the civilized world for what, 200 years now? Let's not move backward.
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