Wait till the liberal wackos digest this one. Get ready for a flood of stereotyped outrage and name calling, including that old standby “nazism”.
Under no circumstances imaginable are you to speak the truth, worse, to point out the very, very obvious. Unforgivable because she is directing her remarks mainly at the American lefts new and best friends, the islamists. There will be hell to pay.

that finally someone in a position of authority has spoken up. When I went to Europe, everyone there vehemently denied any danger of losing their culture and country, and they really were oblivious to the horrible crimes that some Muslims were doing. In American, when a new group begins to arrive, they join our society and assimilate into our culture. In Europe, the exact opposite is true. Many Muslims make their own little countries, and quite often the police do not even dare to go into these Muslim neighborhoods.

Multiculturalism in Europe has not only failed, it has been a catastrophe. They should either become part of the society, or join a society where their beliefs fit in better.

…and lived in a district with a lot of Turks. I was able to see first hand how the Turkish youth intimidated the Austrians who, as ever, remained pacifists in the face of the aggression. It was Khadaffi (sp?) who said “There are signs that Allah will grant victory to Islam in Europe without sword, without gun, without conquest. We don’t need terrorists; we don’t need homicide bombers. The 50 plus million Muslims (in Europe) will turn it into the Muslim Continent within a few decades.”
I think it’s too late for Europe to stop their slide toward Islamic states unless they decide to go to war to protect themselves. It won’t even take a majority for Islam to dominate as the average of the Muslims will be decades younger than the average age of the Europeans. They will have the youth and the energy. Europe is more than likely gone and we have to adjust to that reality by recognizing that an Islamic Europe is also a nuclear armed Islamic Europe and we will be the last Christian stronghold they will seek to conquer.

I think Merkel is on the opposite side of being a “nazi”

http://media0.terrorismawareness.org/files/NaziRoots.pdf

The Muslim Brotherhood and the Nazis

The ideology of the Islamists whose ranks today include not only
al-Qaeda but also hamas and hezbollah — originated with egypt’s
muslim Brotherhood (al-khwan al- uslimoon) founded in 1928 by
Iman sheikh hassan al-Banna.2 And the muslim Brotherhood finds not just its roots, but much of its symbolism, terminology, and political priorities deep within the heart of Nazi fascism.

…..

It was during this time that the muslim Brotherhood found a soul
mate in Nazi Germany. The Reich offered great power connections to the movement, but the relationship brokered by the Brotherhood was more than a marriage of convenience. long before the war, al-Banna had developed an Islamic religious ideology which previewed hitler’s Nazism.

Both movements sought world conquest and domination.
Both were triumphalist and supremacist: in Nazism the Aryan
must rule, while in al-Banna’s Islam, the muslim religion must hold
dominion. Both advocated subordination of the individual to a folkish
central power. Both were explicitly anti-nationalist in the sense that
they believed in the liquidation of the nation-state in favor of a
trans-national unifying community: in Islam the umma (community
of all believers); and in Nazism the herrenvolk (master race). Both
worshipped the unifying totalitarian figure of the caliph or führer.
And both rabidly hated the Jews and sought their destruction.

But that’s kinda what he said a while ago.

Now, Merkel arrived at it from a governmental and economic perspective, but “Truth from any source is from the Holy Spirt,” so we can handle that.

Only a return to the Christian roots that are the wellspring of authentic, historic European culture will save that culture from disappearing.

The only exception I have with all of this is that what has taken place in Europe and what’s currently underway here in America isn’t multiculturalism.

It’s an invasion.

Multiculturalism is what we experienced at the turn of the last century with Italian and Greek immigrants coming to America. They assimilated to our language and culture but they also incorporated theirs. The key is that they didn’t seek to replace ours with their homeland’s.

They became Americans, not hyphenated Americans. That’s true multiculturalism.

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Therefore, if you want to travel, see Europe before it isn’t.

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Europe has a problem. The problem is self evident and will likely feed itself until there is massive violence on a very large scale. Unless the immigrants move out of the ghettos/off the dole and into the mainstream of the host nation en masse then there will be no real assimilation of them. Europe’s leaders, trying to instill a culture of pacifism has done little more than prepared their people to be slaves. Add to this an immigration group that looks on the host population as targets for killing/enslavement and it’s not a pretty picture down the road. Not everyone in Europe is ready to be a overt slave to obnoxious immigrants though and it is very possible that at some point there will be a big militant swing in attitudes and then things get very bad for everyone there.

America has a similar problem, to a lesser degree. The big difference is numbers of immigrants and the attitude in dealing with it on the street level. Americans only take so much BS before telling someone who is being a jerk to stuff it. Americans who will not put up with the BS for long way outnumber the pacifists.

There is a long list of countries that both the US and Europe could pick from to bring in younger workers.

By no means do I consider this a complete list but here are some:

Korea, Honk Kong, Vietnam, Cambodia, Loas, India, Brazil, Chile, Argentina.

…in April of 2007. I originally planned to stay here for about 15 months, but then I found out how cheap it is to study in Germany in comparison with the States. 75,000 dollars seemed like a good enough incentive to learn a new language!

I had always found it irritating when individuals would move to the States and refuse to learn english or respect our american culture. Therefore when I moved to Germany I put my mind to work and began learning the German language and its various cultural quirks. Some of these quirks I find to have added value to my own life, and at the same time drive me nearly insane.

For example: The Daily planner.

Have you ever called up a friend on a weeknight and asked if they wanted to go see the latest blockbuster? I know in the States I did all the time. Tried that here a couple of times and the answer was always the same. “Oh, tonight is not good…how about…next month…Wednesday the 25th….20:00…sound good?”
Everyone’s lives, even kids, are planned weeks in advance. Even if they do have a free night when you call, the grand majority will not go because Germans seem to need to mentally prepare for events before they can take part in them. At the same time I have learned how to organize my time to the minute if need be. After a while I adjusted and now feel at peace with this cultural quirk.

My observation in regards to the mass immigration in Germany is personal for me because I am also an immigrant in Germany. This is more of a blessing than a curse because I can speak freely about immigrant issues whereas the typical German can not without being labeled a racist Nazi (they HATE that label by the way). And yes, it is wonderful to be in the minority and be able to open my mouth without being labeled a meeny poo-poo head.

I speak German with a thick American accent, which is “cool” apparently, and that allows me to come quickly into contact with people from all backgrounds here. I also volunteer as a Betreuer at a Hauptschule (think dummy/wild child/immigrant kid school) here, which has a allowed me a significant view into the lives of immigrant children as well. Immigrants fall into 4 different groups, or variants thereof, when in Germany.

1. Those who have integrated into German culture.
2. Those who are trying to.
3. Those who wish to retain their culture by living in their own cultural “bubble” in Germany.
4. Those who are actively trying to force their culture into dominance over German culture through law, legislation, or intimidation.

The immigrants of group number one are virtually invisible. They don’t make a fuss and go about their lives side by side and indistinguishable from their fellow Germans. They go to school, find a berufung, and live their lives full of urlaub and the occasional Colaweizen at the local Kneipe.

Group number two, of which I am a member, are typically those first generation immigrants who did not speak the language when they arrived. There are many language and cultural courses that can be (extremely cheaply) taken to help them integrate into German society. This groups children normally enter into the world and view themselves as fully german with an “X” cultural background. They speak German fluently with no accent, and think like Germans. They can also equally celebrate both their parents and german culture with little to no complications.

Group number three is where things start to get interesting. It is natural for people to stick together with people of like tastes and mentality. When large groups of people immigrated to Germany, the Turks for example, many of them carved out little Turkeys (no pun intended) within Germany. They learned little to no German, and were quite content to remain Turks within Germany. Some of this was due to the fact that they believed that they would only be in Germany for a short period of time. Where the tragedy comes is when these first generation Turks began to have kids. The problems for them are:
a. They can not speak German properly. Their parents either did not speak the German language with them, or spoke it so poorly that their kids were already academically handicapped once they entered school.
b. Once in school they typically end up in the lower tier schools because they don’t have the necessary language skills to succeed. After the 4th grade your teacher choose if you go to Gymnasium (Smart School), Realschule (Normal school), or Hauptschule (Low academic proficiency school).
c. These kids end up feeling not apart of the German culture, at worst abused by it, but tragically they are also NOT accepted when they go back to Turkey. They are for all means and purposes “lost boys”.
d. They get out of school, (possibly) find a low wage menial job or go on unemployment (because it pays better) and then repeat the process when they have children of their own.

A truly horrible cycle that “Multikulti” allowed happen. My downstairs neighbor, and Italian woman, lived in Germans for 20 YEARS and after 7 months in country I could speak german better than her. Inconceivable!

Now group number four pisses almost everyone off. ESPECIALLY the secular Turks. They dislike Islam more than most people, and it drives the ones I know crazy to see what is happening in Germany. They understand what extremist islam means and want nothing to do with it.
This group wants to eliminate the cultural quirks that make Germany german because it offends them. Everything said and done is a slight to them.

It is group four that the German people have the biggest problem with. It is this group that label germans as “far-right” for being upset when their treasured cultural heritage is trashed on. Especially since germans have done their political, financial, and emotional best to integrate group four into their culture. Only to be called the names “Schweinfleischfresser”, or “Kartoffel” for their hospitality.

As long as Merkel clearly separates germanys feelings towards group one and two from three and four. Works on the issue of number three, and kicks all of group four out of Germany then I think everything will be okay.

But more than likely they will do what Germans do best. Write thousands of new nearly indecipherable regulations, then write more regulations for those regulations, and finally create a pile of documents (in 30 different languages) for people to fill out. Problem solved! Richtig!

Did I mention that Germans LOOOOVE paperwork? It’s another cultural quirk that I am still trying to get used to…

The Swedish Democrat Party which wishes to block further muslim immigration and deport muslims who will not integrate went from 0 to 20 seats in the last elections for parliament!

is a typical unintended consequence of the Social Democratic State. Generous welfare payments always reduce the incentive for natives to accept work that requires physical labor and low pay. Since natives can’t be found to do essential jobs, like trash collection, governments must look outside of the country for employees. In Germany, this meant encouraging the immigration of Southern Italians and Turks. These immigrants were always in a rather untenable position. They were never particularly welcome, but were considered a necessary evil. They had no particular reason to assimilate, because they were never officially citizens. They existed in an odd sort of stateless limbo – a critical part of the country, but not really part of it. Decades of this policy, and Leftist PC, have created the unpleasant condition that exists now.

Why would anyone vote for a politician who didn’t have the confidence (or the spine) to stand up and say he was a better choice than his opponent? Yet we expect the flower of our culture to be willing to give their lives to protect a society that can’t bring itself to say its values are the ones we expect people living within our own borders to abide by. And once the youth decide that their society isn’t worth defending, you’ve basically thrown open the city gates and invited the visigoths inside.

I keep hearing that the terrorists represent a lunatic fringe element in Islam and not the mainstream. Problem is, I never hear anything to back that up, and frankly, I just don’t believe it anymore.

My family lived in the south in the 60’s, and while it’s true that most people down there wouldn’t have *dreamed* of joining the klan, the truth is that a majority of people (or a close approximation of a majority) quietly believed that the klan was doing work that needed to be done. Despite the best efforts of the US government, national and international scorn, and any number of northern agitators, the klan didn’t go away until that attitude went away.

The Muslims we saw dancing in the streets on 9/11 weren’t the lunatic fringe, and they weren’t Astroturf bussed in by the Mullahs for the benefit of international TV cameras. They were “mainstream” Muslims who watched the slaughter of thousands of unbelievers at the hands of the True Faithful and rejoiced, because they beleived (and STILL beleive) that a great deed had been done in the best Islamic tradition. To my mind, THAT was the true face of Islam in the 21st century.

Now, if someone can show me something that would change my mind, I’d be happy to hear it. But I won’t be holding my breath.

Bringing this back to America. 1) there is no empirical evidence that I’ve seen that “diversity” is good for anyone other than those profiting from it. STOP! and 2) along with immigration should be the requirement that immigrants do in fact assimilate. It has worked here in America for all immigrants except. 1) Indians who were put on reservations and not assimilated (so what if they immigrated before the “white man”? and 2) African Americans (slaves were immigrants just not voluntary ones). They have been used for generations by those profiting by power or money by their lack of assimilation. Let your people go Jackson, Sharpton, Obama. Let them assimilate, let them succeed, let them fail. I have confidence in them even if you don’t.

If Muslims can’t assimilate (culturally, not religiously) sent’em home.

http://www.periodictablet.com

the majority of the German people? My oldest is currently stationed over there, preparing to go to Afghanistan. We were talking this morning about Merkel’s comments. He said he had heard them, and from what he can see of the local people, and what he can glean from the news, public opinion seems to be behind Frau Merkel’s remarks. He said he has met quite a few Germans (and, since my family is largely of German decent) who have problems with immigrants, especially those from Muslim nations. One person he spoke with said that “Germany is losing it’s identity, and needs to do something about it”. Even though Germany, through much of history has been maligned as a militant aggressor, there is much in German culture to feel good about.

The remark that was made about guest workers going home when there are no jobs has merit. This is an extreme example, but after WWI when the German economy was struggling, Gustav Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach, head of the Krupp firm discharged all foreign workers that had been working at his steel mills during the war. Any German who was on the payroll prior to the start of the war was kept on, everyone else was given two weeks pay, and train fare back to wherever they came from, in the case of the many Poles, Austrians, and other Eastern Europeans that were working for Gustav’s firm. Many of them took immediate advantage, probably fearing persecution if they stayed. (Source: “The Arms of Krupp” by William Manchester)

My son has told me that during his visits of the German countryside during weekend passes and what not, was kind of a disappointment. He said that if you want to see “real Germany” you have to stay out of the cities, and visit the countryside. The larger urban areas don’t seem all that “German”…. Not sure what anyone else has noted, but that was his view.

There are many Europeans worried about their cultural, and heritage disappearing. I have spoke with a few folks from the UK, and it is a big concern within their country, as way, way too many British politicians want to appease and pacify the Muslims and give them what they want. The same holds true in other parts of Europe.

which I’ll print out and read again….after Nov 2. Europe is perfectly capable of another Kristallnacht, and like the first, with no Christian underpinnings. It does no good hereto make conjecture as to how that might work out…for it will be one of state endeavor, or popular endeavor….which in a generally godless environment there, is the blind leading the blind. This is what happens when you toss away the only real fixed star in your sky only to find your man-made sextant doesn’t work. Merkel only stated the obvious.

Russia is living proof of the long way back, still going in the wrong direction, East Europe at least two generations from finding the original path though headed back by all my benchmarks.. All we can do, since we know the star, is to be able to watch and say what will work and what will not work.

Great post! Dinesh D’Souza talks a lot about “bogus multiculturalism” in his books and Thomas Sowell just had an article out today on townhall.com about the same thing. It is a very fascinating subject that more people must be aware of. America became successful because the immigrants who came here WANTED to be American citizens. They learned the language and adopted some of our habits. Did they give up all of their ancestry? Of course not. But they learned something crucial: Becoming an American is embracing a set of ideals. Those ideals are what enable them to have a significantly better life in the US than they could have had anywhere else in the world.

Multiculturalism will fail when a fresh new culture that is needed for labor attempts to replace the core values and religion of the existing indigenous peoples. France is also being severely threatened in a similar fashion.
You address a very important point; the solution however is a difficult one to address if no impossible.
America has a similar problem on our southern borders, now exacerbated by violent attacks on our citizens by thug and drug cartels who cannot be controlled by their government. We can expect this problem to worsen quickly due to the inaction of a weak-kneed president couple with the polarity in America between two existing political ideologies.
The president will not take a stand when our citizens our enjoying themselves jet skiing on a border lake in Texas are murdered for no apparent reason other than they “bothered” a drug cartel operation.

We have a serious problem and it will get much worse.