Chancellor Angela Merkel’s government is doing its multi-kulti best to make Germany’s sizable Muslim minority feel wanted:
German President Joachim Gauck told the country’s Muslim community Tuesday that “we are all Germany” at a rally to take a stand against rising Islamophobia in the country. About 10,000 citizens, religious leaders and politicians, among them Chancellor Angela Merkel, joined the event, which started with a wreath-laying ceremony at the French embassy and an imam reciting Koranic verses condemning the taking of life.
Gauck used his speech to send a message of reassurance to Germany’s four-million-strong Muslim community, a day after a record 25,000 people joined a protest march by a populist anti-Islamic movement. “We are all Germany,” he said.
Yeah, right. Germany’s plight is not as desperate as France’s, as its Muslims originally came from then-secular Turkey; the Turks generally kept their heads down and did the scut work the Germans didn’t want to do. But with more radicalized Muslims arriving from Turkey and elsewhere, the problem will only grow — which is why PEGIDA outdrew the official march handily:
People at the rally applauded his message of inter-faith unity that came a day after the 12th rally by Germany’s new right-wing movement the “Patriotic Europeans Against the Islamisation of the Occident”, or PEGIDA, which has spawned smaller clone groups across Germany and as far as Norway.
“Naturally, Muslims belong in our society,” said Merkel’s former interior minister Hans-Peter Friedrich, a Bavarian conservative. “But the question is knowing what constitutes the identity of a country, and in Germany it is a Christian identity built on Judeo-Christian roots.”
Naturally? Good luck with that.
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