Angela Merkel: New Islamic Migrants Did Not Bring Radical Terrorism to Germany (Video)
Posted on Aug 21, 2016
By Juan Cole / Informed Comment
German Chancellor Angela Merkel said at a campaign event on Wednesday evening that there is no relationship between the influx of some one million migrants and refugees into Germany in the past year and the incidents of radical Muslim violence in the country.
She pointed out that Muslim radicalism as a phenomenon pre-existed the rise of Daesh (ISIS, ISIL) and that even Daesh was there before the refugee crisis. She said that German authorities have been worried about Daesh for some years.
To some extent she blamed social media rather than the influx of refugees.
She said that the right way to deal with domestic terrorism is more state powers and better trained police.
http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/angela_merkel_migrants_did_not_bring_radical_terrorism_germany_20160821
