It is now the biggest issue
The BBC this morning is linking to
AFP via Yahoo! Merkel says German multi-cultural society ‘has failed’ 43 mins ago
IAfrica.com ‘Multikulti is dead’ 2 hrs ago
CBC German multiculturalism ‘utterly failed’: Merkel 8 hrs ago
Reuters UK Merkel says German multiculturalism has failed 13 hrs ago
Expatica Germany German bid at multi-cultural society has failed: Merkel 16 hrs ago
Over the night the BBC Home Service led with this story for one hour and then dropped it dead on subsequent hourly bulletins.
This is the BBC News report online:
Merkel says German multicultural society has failed
The German Chancellor, Angela Merkel: “lmmigrants should learn to speak German”
Attempts to build a multicultural society in Germany have “utterly failed”, Chancellor Angela Merkel says.
She said the so-called “multikulti” concept – where people would “live side-by-side” happily – did not work, and immigrants needed to do more to integrate – including learning German.
The comments come amid rising anti-immigration feeling in Germany
“And of course, the approach [to build] a multicultural [society] and to live side-by-side and to enjoy each other… has failed, utterly failed.”
The best take on this is once again by Pamela Geller
And yet Merkel concedes that German multicultural society has failed. In a speech in Potsdam, she said the so-called “multikulti” concept — where people would “live side-by-side” happily — did not work.
“And of course, the approach [to build] a multicultural [society] and to live side-by-side and to enjoy each other… has failed, utterly failed.”
It is in the context of these remarks that the brutal reality of what that means becomes painfully clear. German students and teachers are being bullied and beaten by Muslim gangs in Germany. The videos and the reports made by teachers describe a complete breakdown of society (scroll and and watch the deeply disturbing videos below). And yet today it is announced that German universities will train Muslim imams, teachers.
And add this to this potent cocktail — over at the Weekly Standard:
While German Chancellor Angela Merkel has not mobilized her electoral base around hatred of the U.S.—like her predecessor Gerhard Schröder—she also does not have the required fire in her belly to confront radical Islam. The running list of media reports detailing Germany as a kind of oasis for jihadist activities is the story behind the latest expression of Germany’s dismissal of radical Islamic attacks. Washington Post columnist Jackson Diehl posed this sharp question: “Have Germany’s security services learned nothing in the last decade?” He answered his question by saying they had become “dangerously complacent.”
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Hezbollah remains a legal entity in Germany and its 900 members are active in promoting Iran’s revolutionary Islam. If Germany is to be taken seriously on the world stage, it must dissolve Hezbollah’s operation and aggressively shut down mosques that promote revolutionary Islamic terror. In short, the phase of monitoring has to be complemented by cracking the German security whip to stop homegrown radical Islam.
Over at BNI: Muslim Germanophobia
“It is obviously no longer an isolated incident that students and teachers are forced to hear anti-German statements.” It is intolerable that German students and teachers are treated this way in their own country.
Islam in Europe Often they’re ridiculed, often they’re even beaten. In class barely anybody speaks to them, they keep back, rarely voice their opinion – in short, they’re not integrated in school. But these are not Muslim immigrant children in a German school, but German children in a secondary school (5th-9th grades) in Essen where 70% of the children are Muslims.
http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2010/10/germany-going-islam.html
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