Speaking Truth from Power

I can' say that I was ever hoping for a world where more people learned to speak German, but I guess enough water is under the bridge for me to appreciate this:

BERLIN (AFP) – Germany's attempt to create a multi-cultural society has failed completely, Chancellor Angela Merkel said at the weekend, calling on the country's immigrants to learn German and adopt Christian values.

Merkel weighed in for the first time in a blistering debate sparked by a central bank board member saying the country was being made "more stupid" by poorly educated and unproductive Muslim migrants.

This is not the first time that Merkel has said this but this time the media isn't ignoring it, and I of course bring these things the attention of, well, whoever still reads this. Multiculturalism is a crock, and it's finally being recognized in some quarters as such.

Anecdotally I was aware of this policy three years ago in Afghanistan; one of our translators had scored a German visa to get out of there, and was complaining that he didn't want to learn German. As he already spoke English very well, I assume he was using it as a springboard to an Anglo country, but he wasn't the target of this German crackdown anyway.

You want to live under Sharia, stay in or move to Saudi Arabia or Afghanistan, etc. . If you want to be part of the culture that has given us all of our modern conveniences and the technology that is our only hope for a future, keep your religion for the church/mosque/synagogue/temple and work to fit in.

A recent study by the Friedrich Ebert Foundation think tank showed around one-third of Germans feel the country is being "over-run by foreigners" and the same percentage feel foreigners should be sent home when jobs are scarce.

Nearly 60 percent of the 2,411 people polled thought the around four million Muslims in Germany should have their religious practices "significantly curbed."

Far-right attitudes are found not only at the extremes of German society, but "to a worrying degree at the centre of society," the think tank said in its report.

Is it "far-right" to not want to your way of life to be changed unrecognizably by immigrants who can't stand your culture? This is how certain people keep the engines of Western self effacement running, by tarring anyone who wants to stand up for it as some sort of Nazi. It looks like Germany is starting to shed its' fear of it's past, and between this and the Wilders acquittal the tide may be turning in Europe.