Intifada has risen with a rage in Germany’s Bavarian Alps and Black Forest. And justifiably so. Years of German occupation of inner city No-Go Zones; brutal police crackdown of unarmed Sharia patrol, theft of cultural identity in the name of ‘integration’. One can go on and on; for many young Muslim migrants growing up in Germany, there is just so much to feel offended about.
You can’t blame these ‘offended’ migrant youths in Germany — exclusively men of Arab and Muslim background — who are driven by desperation to violence. Instead of pulling out of inner city No-Go Zones, German authorities have reacted with brutal repression — in flagrant violation of Sharia-compliant International Law. Extra-judicial shooting of axe and knife-wielding young migrants has only exasperated the situation.
Very soon we would be left with no other option than to call for an economic and cultural boycott of Germany. Labelling German beer cans on the supermarket aisles, picketing VW and Mercedes showrooms. No more of those German Lederhosen on college campuses; the symbol of white-European masculinity and imperial oppression.
But what went wrong? It was just last spring when Germans where lining up on the pavements to cheer the arriving masses, holding up hand-made signs reading “Refugees Welcome”. In the last months of 2015 alone, Germany took in more than a million migrants, mostly able-bodies men from Arab and Muslim countries in conscription age.
Casting aside the inhibitions of past, Germany was preaching the values of humanism to the rest of Europe — admonishing other EU member states for not living up to Germany’s standards and shying away from putting in their ‘fair share’. Germany was back in the business of threatening its neighbours to the East. German Vice Chancellor Sigmar Gabriel warned Hungary and Poland of economic sanctions if they held up their resistance to the EU-backed migrant settlement plan. The pinnacle was reached when George Clooney came calling — assuring Chancellor Merkel of all his support as he headed to his Italian villa.
Chancellor Merkel summed up the German resolve in the face of uncontrolled migration with an inspiring and very original phrase; “Wir schaffen das” (Which translates in English as “yes we can”).
Chancellor Merkel was offering nothing less than absolution for Germany’s sins of the Holocaust. “The world sees Germany as a land of hope and opportunities,” she said. “That hasn’t always been the case.”
There were always signs that things might be going terribly wrong with unregulated mass migration.
Unpleasantness of mass sexual assaults on the New Year’s Eve in Cologne was first covered up, then played down, only to be relativized by German media at the end. To paraphrase Ina-Maria Reize-Wildemann, prominent producer of Germany’s state-funded broadcaster ZDF, media’s job was to ‘spread the good mood’ about freshly arriving refugees. Newspapers and television channels were churning one feel-good migrant story after another. With dissenters shoved away from the public sight, Merkel’s government switched over to self-congratulatory mode.
It was just last week when German interior ministry was basking in its success, taking Twitter jibes at the French, faulting the ‘lack of integration and inequality’ for causing all those terrorist attacks in France. There is even a fine German word for that; Schadenfreude.
With three major terrorist attacks in less than a week, Germany is now waking up to its own ‘intifada’. As a wise statesman once said, “German problems are rarely German problems alone,” they have a sinister habit of engulfing all those around them – and often at unbearable costs. Two World Wars and the Holocaust are painful reminders of that fact. The European ‘migrant crisis’ is proving to be no exception.
The flood gates were opened when Chancellor Merkel single-handedly scrapped the Dublin Regulation, the legal framework in place for over 25 years to screen and register asylum seekers coming to Europe. What resulted could only be described as mass migration of biblical proportions which continues to this day. Millions of young Arab and Muslim men ‘self-identifying’ themselves as ‘Syrian Refugees’ headed towards the coveted Welfare paradise of Europe. The multi-billion deal offered to Turkey to secure Europe’s land borders is now teetering on the brink of collapse.
The battle that Israel had been fighting alone, has now arrived in the heartland of Europe. Many of these young men from North Africa and Middle East streaming today into Europe have been marinating in doctrine of political Islam that not only hates the Jews, but despises everyone and everything that dares to deviate from its own confounded world view. The prejudices which they bring with them are reinforced in local German mosques, from what they watch and read in Arabic language media/social media.
To counter this 360-degree radicalization, Germany only offers a timid and half-backed ‘integration policy’ that hands out welfare benefits today in vague hopes of compliance tomorrow. In light of recent terror attacks, committed by young refugees and migrants, the political class in Berlin is desperately trying to integrate the ‘un- integratable’. Wolfgang Kubicki, second-in-command of Germany’s Liberal Party (FDP) – not a far-right politician by any measure – is now demanding prison sentences for migrants unwilling to integrate into German society.
One doesn’t have to be an astute observer of politics to see the signs of disasters to come. As a well-wisher of Western civilisation, I take no joy in watching this impending tragedy unfold.
If Germans and Europeans fail to unequivocally stand up with Israel, as the Jewish State defends itself against wave after wave of terrorist aggression, let their conscience be their judge. However, if they chose to not to fight the forces of Islamism on their own soil, their coming generations would not judge them kindly.
