Merkel Cites Refugees as Boon as Anti-Immigration Party Advances

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'420 potentially dangerous Islamists live in Germany'
IANSBy Indo Asian News Service | IANS – 15 hours ago

 

Berlin, Nov 17 (IANS/EFE) Around 43,000 people are part of Islamist circles in Germany and around 420 are considered potentially dangerous, the president of the German Federal Criminal Police Office (or BKA) has said.

In an interview with Die Welt newspaper after the attacks in Paris, Holger Munch recalled that Islamist terrorism attacks European values, with Germany also in its sight.

As he noted, the coordinated work of the security forces has prevented 11 attacks in the country, but Paris has shown that the risk of international terrorism is "high" and that Germany may also be affected.

The jihadists, he explained, are younger than they were a few years ago and radicalized much faster; sometimes they spend a few months or a few weeks until a person decides to travel to Syria.

Many have criminal records behind them and often, before travelling abroad to join the jihadists, come into contact with Salafist groups in Germany.

According to data from the BKA, more than 750 Islamists have left Germany bound for Iraq and Syria and there is information about 70 people who have returned after receiving military training or combat experience.

--IANS/EFE

https://en-maktoob.news.yahoo.com/420-potentially-dangerous-islamists-live-germany-180611252.html

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Merkel Cites Refugees as Boon as Anti-Immigration Party Advances
Patrick Donahue
 
November 17, 2015 — 9:51 AM EST
Updated on November 17, 2015 — 12:00 PM EST
 

    Anti-immigrant party posts second weekly gain in voter survey
    Chancellor says she's proud of Germany's welcome for refugees


Chancellor Angela Merkel said Germany’s economy is strong enough to absorb the influx of refugees, standing by her open-door policy as a poll showed gains for an anti-immigration party.

Merkel’s stance in the aftermath of the Paris terror attacks underscores her willingness to court political risk and resist pressure within and outside her party bloc to close Germany’s borders. Amid speculation that one of the suicide bombers entered the European Union as a refugee, Merkel has said that asylum seekers shouldn’t have to bear the blame for last week’s attacks.

“We’re a strong country, we’re a prosperous society and we have the strength to help,” she told a conference on integration Tuesday in Berlin. “We should not only talk about the burdens that this challenge brings to us, but also the opportunity.”

As Merkel pursues international diplomacy to try to curb the flow of refugees, support for her Christian Democratic Union rose 1 percentage point to 35 percent in an INSA poll for Bild newspaper. Even so, the Alternative for Germany party, which wants to curb immigration, gained for the second consecutive week, polling 10.5 percent.

That’s more than the opposition Green and Left parties, which polled 10 percent each. The Social Democrats, Merkel’s junior coalition partner, declined 0.5 percentage point to 23.5 percent. Bild gave no margin of error for the Nov. 13-16 poll of 2,057 people.

Alternative for Germany, known as AfD, polled 3 percent in the INSA survey as recently as August, when the CDU stood at 43 percent. While the party has won seats in several state legislatures, it’s not in the national parliament and Germany’s next general election is two years off.
‘Identity’ Question

“There’s good reasons why many citizens in Germany fear that mass immigration will lead to a change in our identity,” AfD co-head Frauke Petry said in a video on the party’s website. “Ordinary citizens will wind up paying the bill” for Germany taking in refugees, she said.

As officials in eastern Europe balk at a German-led effort to force them to accept refugees, Merkel said integration is possible in a tolerant society if newcomers follow the rules and take part in society.

“If that all comes together, then I think integration is possible, but nobody would understand it in such a way that one would abandon certain cultural characteristics,” Merkel said.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-11-17/merkel-says-germany-can-take-on-refugees-as-poll-shows-pitfalls

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It's hard to imagine the leader of a Western nation doing more damage to her country than obama has done to the United States, but frau Merkel takes the cake.

She is literally a traitor to the entire Western World.

Prediction:
She's going to win the Nobel peace prize for this...!
(shows how much it's worth!)

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I think they've left off about three or four zeros!

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I've said this on many threads recently: Merkel is demented.

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She should ask all those German women who have been raped if they think the muzzies are a boon.