Allowing large groups of people immigrate from places that do not share the culture of the country they are coming to has consequences. Chances are that they will not assimilate, and it may be that they did not enter the country with plans to assimilate. We are currently seeing the consequences of large numbers of immigrants from non-western countries settling in Germany.<\/p>\n
On Thursday, Zero Hedge<\/a> reported:<\/p>\n In the German town of Overath (North Rhine-Westphalia), this year\u2019s Christmas market has been cancelled. The cost of protecting visitors from potential terrorist attacks exceeds the organizer\u2019s budget. The city refuses to cover the expenses. A capitulation to Islamism.<\/strong><\/p>\n It wasn\u2019t long ago that Christmas markets were among the social highlights of the year. Whether in small towns or major cities \u2013 they were meeting points for friends and family, for mulled wine, sausages, and quiet conversations wrapped in winter\u2019s cold and early darkness.<\/strong><\/p>\n Places of Togetherness<\/span>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n There was this special peaceful coziness. A place where community was celebrated \u2013 joyful, calm, and without fear. A tradition that brought people closer together.<\/strong><\/p>\n What would urban life be without safe and regular gatherings in public spaces? A wasteland. A dystopia.<\/strong><\/p>\n These moments \u2013 when people could pause, breathe, and let the soul drift for a moment \u2013 have become scarce in Germany\u2019s public life. Since 2015, since Angela Merkel\u2019s open-border decision, Europe has entered its own Michel Houellebecq moment.<\/strong><\/p>\n The mass influx of young men from predominantly Islamic countries has deeply shattered the population\u2019s sense of security.<\/strong><\/p>\n The Loss of Carefreeness<\/span>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n And in this increasingly tense atmosphere, just when Chancellor Friedrich Merz touched a sore point by speaking about the changing face of cities, a manufactured storm of outrage erupted against him.<\/strong><\/p>\n Even after deadly Islamist attacks \u2013 Berlin\u2019s Breitscheidplatz in 2016 with 12 victims, the Solingen festival stabbing in 2023 with three dead, or the bombing plot at the Magdeburg Christmas market last year \u2013 Germany still refuses to confront militant Islam pressing into Europe.<\/strong><\/p>\n The aggressive rejection of any criticism within Islamic circles points to the core problem: Islam never passed through the crucible of Enlightenment like Christianity did. Christianity\u2019s claws were cut \u2013 and what remained was woven into the psychological fabric of modernity.<\/strong><\/p>\n The list of Islamist attacks in Germany and Europe is long and growing month by month. And it proves how intimidation of secular Western society has become successful \u2013 when even traditional festivals like Christmas markets are only possible behind heavy police presence and concrete barriers to stop jihadist vehicle attacks.<\/strong><\/p>\n The feeling of carefree celebration is gone.<\/strong><\/p>\n This is so sad. What would happen if Christians put pressure on Muslims to prevent the celebration of Ramadan?<\/p>\n The article concludes:<\/p>\n Winter Markets as Fig Leaf\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n The pitiful renaming of Christmas markets into \u201cWinter Markets\u201d was already a bow to Islam. A needless kowtow to an increasingly irritable, alienated homegrown left-wing milieu.<\/strong><\/p>\n Germany is trapped in an identity and cultural crisis.<\/strong><\/p>\n It\u2019s impossible to ignore: large parts of politics and society have thrown in the towel, surrendering to Islamist pressure and the obvious threat.<\/strong><\/p>\n A real solution would begin at the border \u2013 with a completely new regime controlling who enters the country. But the political Left and its media complex successfully taboo such measures as nationalist extremism.<\/strong><\/p>\n The policy of open borders \u2013 a one-way membrane into the welfare state \u2013 has inflicted deep wounds on German society over the last decade. This is not just a vague feeling of insecurity; it is statistically documented in black and white.<\/strong><\/p>\n With endless migration waves and the lack of cultural immune defense, German traditions and public life are fading into a deafening silence.<\/strong><\/p>\n At some point western civilization is either going to defend itself or be lost. We may already be at that point.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Allowing large groups of people immigrate from places that do not share the culture of the country they are coming to has consequences. Chances are that they will not assimilate, and it may be that they did not enter the … Continue reading