Merkel: Germans Must Prepare for a Changed Nation

Washington Post:

BERLIN — In a country struggling to come to terms with a massive influx of Muslim refugees, the image struck a national nerve: German Chancellor Angela Merkel peering out from a black veil, her pious face juxtaposed against a national parliament building Photoshopped to include soaring minarets.

German public broadcaster ARD this week flashed the image on national television while airing a segment that quickly went viral and triggered an uproar on social media. The network called it satire, a way to capture the mounting sense of national angst over a refugee surge to Germany that could top 1 million by the year’s end. But the image was nevertheless blasted by critics across Germany as blatant Islamophobia.

The image did, however, get one thing right: As Germans wrangle over the region’s biggest refugee crisis since World War II, Angela Merkel is in the eye of the storm.

The woman known as the Iron Chancellor — and the same leader who brought the bankrupt Greeks to their knees last summer — has now put her political future on the line by showing a far kinder face to the Syrians, Iraqis and others fleeing war. In a region where other leaders have been far less compassionate, Merkel’s voice of sympathy is so notable that her name is now even being bandied about as a contender for the Nobel Peace Prize.

Germany has gotten tougher in recent weeks — vowing to rapidly deport financial migrants and reinstating border checks to control the flows. But Merkel has also told Germans to prepare themselves for a new nation, one that may not be as white and Christian as it is today.

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2 Responses

  1. Europe has a death wish.

    You will give the Muslims everything, thinking your kindness will change them, but they will take everything, because they see you as weak.

    Merkel is evil

  2. An Imam in the Netherlands, 10 mos. ago predicted there would be Muslim Rule in Europe within a year. He also predicted there would be “a wave” of muslims Engulf Europe and the Netherlands would have Muslims as the majority. There is no Leaders stepping forward to counter the Political Correct,except Australia’s P M.and now Hungry Chancellor.

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