Which Germany Is Set to Vote?

"They should have said too close to call."
"In Germany we wouldn't dare to say on the basis of a survey what the distribution of seats in parliament will look like. The polls [in the US] weren't bad, but how they were translated into electoral delegates was faulty."
Forsa Director of Political Opinion Research Peter Matuschek

"It would be the first election in the history of humankind in which all undecided voters ran to one party with flags flying."
"Our most recent numbers show no greater potential for the Social Democrats than for [Merkel's] CDU-CSU."
"We're assuming that the AfD is correctly reflected in our latest numbers."
"The difference between our final opinion surveys and the actual AfD election results weren't very large."
"As a pollster, it's impossible for me to consider any election boring. If I did, I'd be in the wrong job."
Infratest dimap Managing Director Nico A. Siegel

Martin Schultz and Angela Merkel

Germany is preparing for its 2017 election on September 24. Chancellor Merkel has prepared herself for yet another term. During her administration Germany has undergone monumental changes. It is, in some areas of the country, almost unrecognizable. But this hugely intelligent and talented woman has steered  her country deliberately in the direction that has transformed it to such an unimaginable extent at the very same time that she headed the nation that bolstered the European Union as its most influential member and partial financier.

Frau Merkel is easily the equal in her tough demeanor, persistence and determination as Russia's President Vladimir Putin, whose tough-guy persona hasn't fazed her one bit. She has, in fact, called him to account for his east Ukraine interventions in support of ethnic Russian separatists and Moscow's grab of Crimea. Japan's Fukushima disaster when its nuclear plants went into meltdown after its powerful earthquake and tsunami persuaded the Chancellor that Germany would shutter its nuclear power plants.

Germans have placed their trust in this unflappable women whose strength of character has carried their country far from its early-and-mid-20th-Century position as international pariah. It's widely believed that she will carry the election, leaving her closest rivals in her wake. At the same time the Alternative fur Deutschland will gain enormously, because many Germans are hugely unsettled at what has become of their homeland with Frau Merkel's indomitable will insisting Germany would accept a million Muslims as refugees.

Germany had already absorbed five million Muslims. Turkey's Recep Tayyip Erdogan, not Germany's most enthusiastic fan after the government refused to allow his ministers to campaign among German Turks for the Turkish election that succeeded in elevating Erdogan to the position of the all-powerful caliph he so fervently sought, has warned Turks against the malevolence toward them of the German state. Which doesn't have their best interests at heart. Leading Erdogan to get on with his Islamization of Germany.

"The Turkish-Islamic Union for Religious Affairs (DITIB) just opened a new mega-mosque for worship in the German city of Cologne. The new German mega-mosque has a 1,200-person capacity and the tallest minaret of Europe. According to Deutsche Welle, 'Christian leaders bristled at the idea of Cologne's famed Dom cathedral sharing the skyline with minarets.' When the mosque was planned in 2007, a citizens' initiative was launched to say that "we want the cathedral here, not minarets". The Muslim authorities then announced the plan to 'double' the number of mosques."

The new mega-mosque in Cologne, Germany has a 1,200-person capacity and the tallest minaret of Europe. (Image source: Raimond Spekking/Wikimedia Commons)

"Since he took power in Turkey, Recep Tayyip Erdogan has built 17,000 Islamic prayer sites there. The Turkish president is committed to the construction of mosques in European capitals as well. Turkey controls 900 mosques in Germany and feels free to say that a "liberal mosque" in Germany is "incompatible" with Islam, according to the daily Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. That is why the 57 percent of Germans fear the rise of Islam in their country."
Giulio Meotti, German, The Rise of Islam, Gatestone Institute 

So, is that 57 percent of Germans who fear Islam's rise in Germany, planning to vote nonetheless for the ethical, moral, dependable leader they know best or will they chose to support the 'right-wing' Alternative party? Current polls do give Frau Merkel a clear lead in the election. And despite Erdogan's dire warnings to his expatriates, given the current situation of Muslims dominating many towns and villages and the city of Cologne, they certainly will vote for the Christian Democrats.

Germany has been offered assistance by Saudi Arabia in usefully handling the needs of all those new immigrants, kindly proffering their assistance and to generously pay for 200 new mosques to service every 100 new Muslim entrants to Germany. It is no longer Deutchland Uber Alles, but Islam's peaceful conquest of yet another European country. Or, in Erdogan's unforgettable words: "Our minarets are our bayonets, our domes are our helmets, our mosques are our barracks."