Saw this on German TV last night (Deutsche Welle – worldwide), and everyone was tiptoeing around the issue in an extremely PC fashion.
There is a veneer of pacifism in Germany today, but history is what it is – and now they are in a self justification mode.
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Originally Posted by Paslode
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Horst Seehofer, chairman of the Christian Social Union (CSU), the CDU's sister party, has rejected any relaxation of immigration laws and said last week there was no room in Germany for more people from "alien cultures.
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Paslode,
I believe that the comments have more to do with the Muslims
inability to assimilate than a sense of “German Nationalism”
“Attempts to build a multicultural society in Germany have "utterly failed," according to Chancellor Angela Merkel.
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This approach has failed, utterly failed," said Merkel, head of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU), in a speech to the party's young people's association in Potsdam on Saturday. She added that not enough was done in the past to support the movement. "
The failures of the last 30 or 40 years cannot be resolved so quickly," she said.
http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,,6118859,00.html