Chancellor Angela Merkel: Islam Is Part of Germany
September 27, 2012 2 Comments
Berlin – Chancellor Angela Merkel says Islam has become a part of Germany and she is urging her fellow citizens to show tolerance for Muslims.
She told members of her conservative Christian Democratic party Wednesday the great majority of Muslims in Germany have distanced themselves from the recent violence during protests against an anti-Islam video that ridiculed the Prophet Muhammad.
Merkel said about Islam that Germans “should be open about it and say, `yes, it’s part of us.’” She added that Christians should maybe start thinking and talking more about their own religion again “rather than having fear of Islam.”
Germany is home to an estimated 4 million Muslims.
Merkel’s comment follow former President Christian Wulff’s remarks who surprised many in 2010 by saying that “Islam now also belongs to Germany.”
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And who says “Islam” is not encroaching on the West! When Germans and a PM or chancellor there says Islam is “part” of Germany, whoha, ya better take note! This old Irish Brit may yet see even more “eschatological” things, before I leave this world!
Bad show, Merkel. The Germans and Poles fought the Turks at Vienna for -this-?
I have yet to hear anything from anyone afraid of being ostracized for stating what is correct: Europe is a Christian continent, as much as the Moslem invaders insist that places outside the Arabian Peninsula is Islamic.
Spare me the “I worked with Muslims, and they’re okay.” Because that sounds like a form of Stockholm Syndrome to me at this point.