Whither Germany?

"The plurality of our campaign formats, including the televised debates, reflect that we in Germany don't directly vote for a person like in the United States or in France, but for parties."
"For my part, in everything I do, I aim to strengthen democracy in Germany and beyond."
"For me, a campaign is the opportunity to present my party's ideas about our country's future. In interviews and at campaign appearances, I speak exhaustively about these ideas, about the challenges facing us and about the political solutions we [Christian Democratic Union of Germany] propose. Campaigning is more than just attacking and insulting one's opponent People see how quickly the world is changing and that we are facing huge problems and uncertainties. And now they are deciding which parties and which politicians they would like to work with in shaping the future."
"In the summer of 2015, we were faced with an extremely difficult humanitarian situation. I am convinced that our reaction was reasonable and correct. But because the CDU stands for orderly and controlled immigration, we have begun addressing the causes of flight and combating migrant smuggling -- and we have taken corresponding measures in the form of the EU-Turkey deal."
German Chancellor Angela Merkel

German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Ukraine's President Petro Poroshenko lay flowers at a memorial of flowers and candles to commemorate the victims of the Berlin Christmas market attack on January 30, 2017 at Breitscheidplatz near the Kaiser-Wilhelm-Gedaechtniskirche (Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church) in Berlin. (AFP PHOTO / dpa / Bernd von Jutrczenka)

Thanks originally to its temporary program for Turkish workers in Germany, where the temporary became permanent and a later influx of immigrants from Muslim countries into Germany, the country was well infiltrated with Muslims constituting a significant proportion of the population. And then the migrant/refugee influx that streamed into Europe, many of them heading for a Germany which had declared itself open to refugees, swelled the Muslim population in Germany by another million people to bring the total to around six million.

The Central Council of Muslims in Germany is doubtless very pleased. Chancellor Merkel is pleased; she ensured that Germany would do the humanitarian thing at this critical time of Muslim majority countries from the Middle East to Southeast Asia, and North Africa imploding in a paroxysm of hatred, tribalism and sectarianism. Germany, in the darkest years of the first half of the 20th Century may have been responsible for the mass annihilation of Europe's Jews in their genocidal fury of racial hatred, but this is the new Germany, eager to clasp a battered people to their generous hearts.

Six million Jews of Europe, exterminated, but six million Muslims from across the world saved from the medieval savagery of Islamofascism. Germany is doing penance. And Germans in general seemed more or less pleased with themselves. A situation that began to reverse itself with the unfortunate realization that German heritage, customs and values and laws are being overwhelmed, that cities and villages no longer resemble German heritage, that mosques have overtaken churches, and that the spectre of violent terrorism has been brought home.

Still, Frau Merkel, good and honest soul that she is, has not relented, she is secure in the knowledge, as a pastor's daughter, that she has done the right thing for her nation. And it is inconvenient, of course, when someone of the ilk of Turkey's Recep Tayyip Erdogan accuses her and Germany of 'Islamophobia' in balking at the prospect of Turkey's Justice and Development Party electioneering in Germany, but one must ask the question: to whom are Germany's Turks loyal, after all?

One may ask another question, to whom is Frau Merkel and her party loyal? Oh yes, Germany, to be sure. But there are darkly ominous indications of Germany encountering some problems at the present guaranteed to become amplified in the future, as Soeren Kern pointed out in a blog published in the Gatestone Institute back in January:

• "There are written instructions ... today we are not allowed to say anything negative about the refugees. This is government journalism, and this leads to a situation in which the public loses their trust in us. This is scandalous." — Wolfgang Herles, Deutschlandfunk public radio.
• The Turkish government has sent 970 clerics — most of whom do not speak German — to lead 900 mosques in Germany that are controlled by the Turkish-Islamic Union for Religious Affairs (DITIB), a branch of the Turkish government's Directorate for Religious Affairs, known in Turkish as Diyanet. Critics accuse Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of using DITIB mosques to prevent Turkish migrants from integrating into German society.
• A Cologne police superintendent revealed that he was ordered to remove the term "rape" from an internal police report about the mass sexual assaults in Cologne on New Year's Eve. He said that an official at the North-Rhine Westphalia Interior Ministry told him in an angry tone: "This is not rape. Remove this term from your report. Submit a new report."
• The German branch of Open Doors, a non-governmental organization supporting persecuted Christians, reported that thousands of Christians in German refugee shelters are being persecuted by Muslims, sometimes even by their security guards.
• A 23-year-old Iraqi asylum seeker wearing a T-shirt with the words "I'm Muslim Don't Panic" was assaulted by fellow refugees for offending Islam. He was beaten so badly that he was hospitalized.
• Half of the three million ethnic Turks living in Germany believe it is more important to follow Islamic Sharia law than German law if the two are in conflict, according to a survey.
• A document leaked to Der Spiegel revealed that more than 33,000 migrants who are supposed to be deported are still in Germany, being cared for by German taxpayers. Many of the migrants destroyed their passports and are believed to have lied about their countries of origin to make it impossible for them to be deported.
• Migrants committed 142,500 crimes during the first six months of 2016, according to a report by the Federal Criminal Police Office. This is equivalent to 780 crimes committed by migrants every day, or 32.5 crimes each hour, an increase of nearly 40% over 2015. The data includes only those crimes in which a migrant suspect has been caught.
• Bild, the largest-circulation newspaper in Germany, warned that the country was "capitulating to Islamic law."

And now again, of much more recent vintage something else horribly awry, that the country's Interior Ministry decided to allow the terrorist arm of the Palestine Liberation Organization -- of which Fatah's Mahmoud Abbas is President of the Palestinian Authority -- the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine from campaigning as a legitimate political party in Germany for the general election to the Bundestag in September.

It is, of course, useful to recall that the PFLP is a listed terrorist organization in the United States, Canada, the European Union and Australia, and for very good reason. From highjacking Israeli planes to suicide bombings of Jews, and firing rockets from the Gaza Strip into Israel, the PFLP distinguishes itself as a terror group that even Hamas, another listed terrorist group, futilely attempts to control preferring to maintain an uneasy 'armistice' with Israel until it feels fully prepared to launch another war.

But then, this is a government in Germany that looks unfavourably upon Germans expressing unease or dissatisfaction with the influx of Muslims into their country, transforming it to an extent unimaginable when the first Turkish workers arrived in Germany on a temporary basis generations ago. With the growing and seemingly unstoppable inroads of Muslims into Germany, second only to France in the numbers among its native population, Jewish presence in Germany will become increasingly untenable, and Germany will have come full circle on that file.

Now, it is prepared to open another file, the democratic triumphalism of inviting a Muslim terrorist organization to infiltrate its seat of government, to become a political force whose strength of numbers will unerringly turn Germany back to fascism, despite all of Chancellor Merkel's sterling good intentions and charity.

A man sticks an Alternative for Germany 's electoral poster reading 'stop islamization'