Merkel's Muslim Madness
By Daniel Greenfield
SultanKnish.Blogspot.com
German Chancellor Angela Merkel insisted that
refusing to take in Muslim migrants is a “danger for
Europe.” Merkel as usual had it backward. It’s her
program of taking in Muslim migrants that represents
the gravest threat to the freedom and future of
Europe since the fall of the Soviet Union.
Merkel
may have already doomed Germany. The Bildnewspaper published
a leakedsecret
government document estimating that the number of
migrants invading Europe this year might reach 1.5
million.
And that bad news gets much worse because the
document estimates that each migrant will bring in
as many as eight family members once they’re settled
in, bringing the year’s true total to 7.36 million.
That’s almost 10 percent of the population of
Germany. In just one invasion.
And the migrants are mostly young men entering a
rapidly aging country whose young male population is
under 5 million. Germany’s Muslim population already
approaches 5 million. The median age of Germany’s
Muslim population is 34, while the median age for
the overall population is 46.
Merkel has rapidly sped up the rate at which
Germany’s young male population becomes Muslim.
The document predicts up to 10,000 invaders entering
every day. It foresees no end to the arrivals even
when it gets cold. These words add up to the end of
Germany and the end of Europe.
With numbers like these it’s no wonder that Merkel
is frantically trying to shift the burden, berating
Eastern European countries for their nationalism and
failing to learn from history even though as a
former Communist and a German leader, she represents
the two political forces that historically did the
most to deprive these nations of their national
rights and their independence.
Merkel invokes the Berlin Wall to claim that fences
don’t work. But the Berlin Wall kept people from
leaving. The fences that Hungary has built are
constructed in self-defense, not to keep Hungarians
in, but to keep invading Muslims out. It’s Merkel
whose EU totalitarianism represents a new Berlin
Wall that mandates open borders for Muslim migrants
while preventing countries from leaving the EU.
When Merkel states, “The refugees won’t be stopped
if we just build fences. That I’m deeply convinced
of, and I’ve lived behind a fence for long
enough,” she is not only deliberately mangling the
moral difference between a fence that keeps invaders
out and a fence that keeps people in, but her own
complicity in these fences. East Germany needed a
fence because people wanted to flee its totalitarian
regime. The European Union needs political fences to
keep countries from escaping its political regime.
The choice isn’t between open borders and the Berlin
Wall. Rather the open borders that Merkel advocates
are another form of the Berlin Wall. Communist
countries don’t make immigration difficult. They
make emigration impossible. Free countries make
immigration difficult, but emigration easy.
That’s how democracy is supposed to work. It allows
the people of a nation to decide who can enter while
allowing anyone to leave. Merkel’s EU brings back
the USSR’s ‘Prison of Nations’ where everyone can
enter, but no one can leave.
Merkel warns European countries that refusing Muslim
immigrants is “not negotiable.” This is the type of
language that totalitarian regimes use.
Europeans are told that they will lose their
credibility if they don’t take in Muslims. “Who are
we to defend Christians around the world if we say
we won’t accept a Muslim or a mosque in our
country?” she asks. “That won’t do.”
But taking in Muslims has prevented Germans from
defending Christians even in their own country, not
only in the Middle East.
Christian refugees in Germany report
being persecuted, threatened and beaten by Muslims.
An Iranian Christian refugee spoke of death threats
from Syrian Muslim migrants. An Iraqi Christian
family was beaten and told, “We will kill you and
drink your blood.”
A Lutheran pastor says that he is asked by refugees,
“Will we have to hide ourselves as Christians in the
future in this country?”
That question is better addressed to Angela Merkel
and her mad Muslim vision for Germany.
Islamizing Germany will not enable it to defend
Christians in the Middle East. Instead it will make
the government even more vulnerable to terrorist
blackmail and political pressure from Muslims. And
if Merkel were really concerned about Christians,
she wouldn’t be fighting European countries that
want to take in Christian refugees instead of Muslim
migrants. Not only hasn’t her appeasement of Muslims
done anything to help Christians in the Middle East,
but it has endangered Christians in Germany.
Despite resistance from her own party, Merkel
continues doubling down. She has seized control of
refugee policy from her own interior minister, who
was skeptical of her action and who may have helped
leak the Bild document,
and she continues to ignore calls for refugee limits
from her own party.
Meanwhile Muslims in Germany are vocal about
refusing to accept any limitations of Muslim
immigration.
Merkel isn’t really an open borders fanatic. She’s a
political hack who made a tragic mistake and is
desperately trying to dump it on the rest of Europe.
After originally taking the correct line, Merkel
folded and rather than admit that she made a mistake
whose implications will destroy her country, she is
desperately manufacturing one ridiculous excuse
after another to defend her actions.
Her calls for sharing the burden amount to dumping
the consequences of her unilateral policy on the
rest of Europe. It’s exactly the type of behavior
she condemned from Greece, only to hypocritically
practice a version of it that is far more
disastrous, both from the standpoint of security and
economics.
Merkel’s plan is to unilaterally demand that the
rest of Europe “share” in the welfare, crime and
terrorism of the Muslim migrants that she chose to
take in. And there’s nothing fair about that. But
the Eurocrats can’t wrap their heads around the idea
of border fences. The closest they can come to the
idea is to hypocritically plead with Turkey to
secure the borders that they refuse to secure.
The Turkish solution still requires Europe to take
in another 500,000 Muslims from Turkey in exchange
for its tyrannical Islamist ruler agreeing to secure
its borders. This means outsourcing European border
security to a hostile Muslim country whose ruler
dreams of reviving the Ottoman Empire and boasted,
“The mosques are our barracks, minarets our
bayonets, domes our helmets, the believers our
soldiers.”
That’s the sort of man that Europe will be turning
over its security too. Meanwhile those 500,000
Muslims will also have to be “shared” all across
Europe.
Merkel claims that the migrants “present more
opportunities than risks.” What opportunities are
these exactly? Half the
Muslim “youth”
in Germany are already unemployed. Barely a
third of Muslim immigrants
earn a living through professional employment.
What opportunities will adding millions of Muslims
to the welfare rolls accomplish except to create
more jobs for the government bureaucrats who sign
their welfare checks?
Merkel’s allies claim that she deserves the Nobel
Prize. She certainly does. Hitler and Stalin were
both nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize. And Merkel
has done more damage to Germany and Europe than any
leader since these two worthy gentlemen before her
had.