Over the past two months, Europeans have become completely
fed up with the wave of refugees streaming into the bloc from the
Mid-East.
After demonstrating a remarkable degree of restraint and
tolerance in the wake of the attacks that left 130 people dead in Paris
in November, the string of sexual assaults that swept Cologne, Germany
on New Year’s Eve was the last straw for a German populace that had,
until this year anyway, largely remained supportive of Angela Merkel’s
“yes we can” approach to settling the 1.1 million asylum seekers that
the country took in last year.
That’s not to say that there aren’t still large swaths of
the German population that support the migrant cause. It’s simply to
note that the general consensus is no longer teddy bears, water bottles,
and hugs. Discontent with the Iron Chancellor’s approach is growing and the tension is palpable.
Renewed support for PEGIDA is emblematic of the direction in which the
country is headed and this weekend we got the latest evidence that
Germany’s patience with migrants is wearing increasingly thin.
Residents of Bautzen (in Saxony) cheered on
Saturday night as a planned migrant center burned in what very well may
have been an arson. “Some people reacted to the blaze with derogatory comments and undisguised joy,” Deutsche Welle notes,
before adding that “the incident in Bautzen comes shortly after a mob
shouting anti-migrant slogans blocked a bus full of refugees in
Clausnitz, also in Saxony.”
More @ Zero Hedge
A glimmer of hope and sanity.
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ReplyDeleteAnnnnnnddd that should be a clue that you've lost all measure of balanced leadership in your country.
GL with the upcoming civil war.
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