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Germany is in big trouble

To the editor:

Germany is now importing a culture, from the Middle East, that is already attempting to impose some version of Sharia Law in which there is no freedom of religion, no freedom of speech, no freedom of artistic expression, no freedom of the press, no Golden Rule and no equal rights for women just to mention a few.

Angela Merkel’s actions, encouraging unvetted immigrants, are a desperate attempt to compensate for Germany’s low birth rate. She and many in leadership positions in Europe think Muslims will eventually assimilate and a new culture, some sort of innocuous amalgam, will be the result. At the moment, at least, most Muslims in Germany have no intention of assimilating.

A birth rate of 2.1 children per couple is required just to maintain a population. The Germans are doomed unless they can turn their current birth rate of 1.4 around. I’m not aware that it has ever been done except in the aftermath of a war. For example, Japan lost one million people in their last five year census and the current German birth rate is now essentially equal to Japan’s at 1.4 per couple.

In an extraordinary admission of defeat, Trevor Phillips, the former chief of Britain’s Equalities and Human Rights Commission, has admitted that the path that Britain has been on for years is a catastrophic failure. Muslims won’t assimilate and become loyal Britons. Phillips wrote: “For a long time, I too thought that Europe’s Muslims would become like previous waves of migrants, gradually abandoning their ancestral ways, wearing their religious and cultural baggage lightly, and gradually blending into Britain’s diverse identity landscape. I should have known better.” Instead, he wrote, Muslims are creating “nations within nations” in the West.

In Europe criticism of Islam is frequently is defined as hate speech. Dutchmen who tweet their opposition to the construction of “refugee” centers in their towns receive visits from police who threaten them with charges of sedition. A Belgian who spoke out about Muslim children in the city’s schools cheering the recent Brussels attacks welcomed three policemen to his door. A London man who tweeted about his decision to confront a Muslim over her views on the Brussels attacks was arrested, had his home raided and all his computer equipment was seized.

Consistent with a recent scandal regarding Facebook in the US, Germany’s Chancellor Angela Merkel was caught on an open microphone asking Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg to curtail speech critical of “the wave of Syrian refugees entering Germany.”

Proper vetting would give us, in America, the opportunity to welcome people, including Muslims, who are willing to assimilate. Europe’s immigration failures will become America’s if our borders remain unprotected.

Vern Clobes

New Ulm and Cocoa Beach, FL

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