German Chancellor Merkel says German multicultural society has failed!

[Dan]

German Chancellor Angela Merkel: "lmmigrants should learn to speak German"
Attempts to build a multicultural society in Germany have "utterly failed", Chancellor Angela Merkel says.

In a speech in Potsdam, she said the so-called "multikulti" concept - where people would "live side-by-side" happily - did not work.

Mrs Merkel's comments come amid recent outpourings of strong anti-immigrant feeling from mainstream politicians.

A recent survey showed that more than 30% of Germans believed Germany was "overrun by foreigners".

The study - by the Friedrich Ebert Foundation think-tank - also showed that roughly the same number thought that some 16 million of Germany's immigrants or people with foreign origins had come to the country for the social benefits.

Foreign workers
 
Mrs Merkel told a gathering of younger members of her conservative Christian Democratic Union (CDU) party on Saturday that at "the beginning of the 60s our country called the foreign workers to come to Germany and now they live in our country... We kidded ourselves a while, we said: 'They won't stay, sometime they will be gone', but this isn't reality.

"And of course, the approach [to build] a multicultural [society] and to live side-by-side and to enjoy each other... has failed, utterly failed."

In her speech, the chancellor specifically referred to recent comments by German President Christian Wulff who said that Islam was "part of Germany" like Christianity and Judaism.

While acknowledging that this was the case, Mrs Merkel stressed that immigrants living in Germany needed to do more to integrate, including learning to speak German.

"Anyone who does not immediately speak German", she said, "is not welcome".

By speaking now, Mrs Merkel has now joined the increasingly hot debate on multiculturalism, coming down on the side of those who are uneasy about immigration, says the BBC's correspondent in Berlin, Stephen Evans.

Her comments come a week after she held talks with Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, in which the two leaders pledged to do more to improve the often poor integration record of Germany's estimated 2.5 million-strong Turkish community.

Earlier this week, Horst Seehofer, the leader of the CDU's Bavarian sister party, CSU, said about integration that it was "obvious that immigrants from different cultures like Turkey and Arab countries, all in all, find it harder".

"'Multikulti' is dead," Mr Seehofer said.

In August, Thilo Sarrazin, a senior official at Germany's central bank, said that "no immigrant group other than Muslims is so strongly connected with claims on the welfare state and crime". Mr Sarrazin has since resigned.

Such recent strong anti-immigrant feelings from mainstream politicians come amid an anger in Germany about high unemployment, even if the economy is growing faster than those of its rivals, our correspondent says.

He adds that there also seems to be a new strident tone in the country, perhaps leading to less reticence about no-go-areas of the past.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-11559451

[Lisa]

Merkel is clearly speaking from both sides of her mouth.  Just the other week, she said Germans should get used to having more mosques. 

[TruthSpreader]

Merkel is clearly speaking from both sides of her mouth.  Just the other week, she said Germans should get used to having more mosques. 

They deserved those mosques for having killed six million Jews.

[Dan]

Of course Merkel is a piece of dreck but her saying it public will perhaps awaken the Zombie like german population. Germany is finished as a nation... there will be a Muslim majority in the next 20yrs, just like in France,Belgium

[MassuhDGoodName]

I take a somewhat different view of Chancellor Merkel's statement than does our honorable JTF member Dan.

I consider Germany a country which has always stood at the forefront in its contributions to Western civilization, and not all of these have been positive.

Germany was the first to legislate and institute a social safety net for its citizens, led the world in the arts and sciences, and gave the world Marxism, National Socialism, and arguably the West's first Modern Military-Industrial Complex.

Since WWII defeat and subsequent reunification, Germany has tried to be foremost in maintaining a Federal Republic based on anti-militarism and "diversity".

Now Germany's Merkel is the first with the guts to state for the record what every Western politician and citizen has long known but been afraid to express publicly:

"MULTI-CULTURALISM HAS BEEN A FAILURE!"