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| Merkel condemns 'racism' as anti-Islam marches grow |
| 2015-01-01 |
| [BREITBART] Angela Merkel ...current chancellor of Germany. She was educated in East Germany when is was still run by commies, but in 1989 got involved with the growing democracy movement when the Berlin Wall fell. Merkel is sometimes referred to by Germans as Mom... will use her televised new year's eve address tonight to call on Germans to reject the Patriotic Europeans Against the Islamisation of Europe (PEGIDA) movement, remarking it "goes without saying" that Germany should accept mass immigration and refugees from the third world without questioning it. Only last week PEGIDA, which started as a small 'stroll' in the east German city of Dresden in October of 200 like-minded people, had grown to a significant march of 17,500. After three months of weekly Monday strolls, PEGIDA called a special Christmas protest, and the crowd met to sing Carols against radical Islam. Thanks to the organization, the Islamisation of Europe has hit the top of the German news agenda for the first time, and has goaded the political establishment into a reaction. Chancellor Merkel's speech, which will be televised tonight, has been previewed by European media and will instruct German citizens to shun the PEGIDA movement, and to accept what it protests with open arms. In the pre-recorded tape, Merkel made reference to the rally slogan of the Patriotic Europeans 'we are the people', a phrase inherited from strollers in a previous generation who campaigned against censorship and oppression in Communist East Germany. The chancellor said: "Today many people are again shouting on Mondays: 'We are the people'. But in fact they mean: You do not belong ‐ because of the colour of your skin or your religion. "So I say to everyone who goes to such demonstrations: Do not follow those who are appealing to you! Because too often there is prejudice, coldness, even hatred, in their hearts". Asylum applications to Germany have quadrupled in the past two years, and immigration is at a twenty-year high. This sudden spike in new-comers to Germany, along with a series of fierce pitched battles between immigrants bringing foreign conflicts with them to the streets of Europe are among the main inspirations for the PEGIDA movement, alongside parallel Sharia legal systems and a perceived failure by many to integrate. Despite that, Merkel was full of praise for migration. |
| Posted by:Fred |