{UAH} Fwd: Islamist terrorism is the biggest test facing Germany

Robert Atuahirew,

When I warned about Angela Merkel's decision to open German borders and allow nearly 2 million muslim immigrants to march in, virtually without any security checks at all, many people here on this forum called me anti-muslim. But here is the same Angela Merkel now admitting to a monumental error that she made, and which is now going to take more than 100 years, if at all, for her successors to deal with. German society will never be the same again because of the 2 million muslims who enterred Germany in the last two years, at least 10%, especially the young males between 16-35 years of age,   will fail to integrate into German society and will become cannon fodder for radical islamic fundamentalists. One islamic terrorist is bad enough as demonstrated by the Berlin Christmas outrage and yesterday's Night Club Massacre in Turkey, but what about 10% (200,000)?

Bobby

Islamist terrorism is the biggest test facing Germany warns Angela Merkel 

Angela Merkel visits site of Berlin truck attack CREDIT: MAURIZIO GAMBARINI/EPA

•  Reuters 

31 DECEMBER 2016 • 1:07AM

Islamist terrorism is the biggest test facing Germany, Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Saturday in a New Year's address to the nation, and she vowed to introduce laws that improve security after a deadly attack before Christmas in Berlin.

Describing 2016 as a year that gave many the impression that the world had "turned upside down," Mrs Merkel urged Germans to forsake populism and said Germany had an interest in taking a leading role in addressing the many challenges facing the European Union.

"Many attach to 2016 the feeling that the world had turned upside down or that what for long had been held as an achievement is now being questioned. The European Union for example," Mrs Merkel said.

Watch | Angela Merkel hopes for arrest of Berlin market attack perpetrator

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"Or equally parliamentary democracy, which allegedly is not caring for the interests of the citizens but is only serving the interests of a few. What a distortion," she said in a veiled reference to claims bythe far-right party Alternative for Germany (AfD) that is stealing votes from her conservatives.

Liberals across the Atlantic have hailed Mrs Merkel as an anchor of stability and reason in a year that saw the Donald Trump elected as U.S. president, Britain vote to leave the EU and U.S-Russia relations deteriorate to Cold War levels.

She compared Brexit to a "deep incision" and said that even though the EU was "slow and arduous", its member states should focus on common interests that transcend national benefits.

"And, yes, Europe should focus on what can really be better than the national state," Mrs  Merkel said. "But we Germans should never be led to believe that each could have a better future by going it alone."

It was her second allusion to the populist AfD, which wants Germany to leave the EU and shut its borders to asylum seekers, more than one million of whom arrived in the country this year and last.

Watch | Angela Merkel lays flowers at scene of Berlin attack

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The record number of migrants has hurt Mrs Merkel's popularity and fueled support for the AfD, which says Islam is incompatible with the German constitution. But her conservatives are still expected to win the general election in nine months.

Mrs Merkel, who is seeking a fourth term, has made security the main election platform for her Christian Democrats (CDU).

In her speech, she said the government would introduce measures to improve security after a failed Tunisian asylum seeker drove a truck into a Christmas market in the capital on Dec. 19, killing 12 people in the name of Islamic State.

He was shot dead by Italian police in Milan on Dec. 23 and investigators are trying to determine whether he had accomplices.

A YouGov poll conducted after the attack found that 73 percent of Germans were in favour of more resources for the police and 60 percent backed more video surveillance in public spaces.

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