Sunday, October 17, 2010
Germany chancellor criticizes multicultural approach to Islam
YNET
German Chancellor Angela Merkel announced Saturday that the multicultural model for integration in Germany has "miserably failed." For the first time, Merkel expressed a clear position in an ongoing debate over the integration of immigrants – especially Muslims – into German society, stressing that the current situation must be changed.
According to Merkel, immigrants should be required to integrate in society, by committing to learn the German language – and not only be allowed to do so voluntarily, as has been the policy up until now. [...]
Germany may well be at a crossroads with regard to its past and Daniel Goldhagen's thesis (Hitler's Willing Executioners, 1996) all too relevant -
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Quite simply, fascism crops up so much in history because most populaces want it. Fuhrer-lust just seems plain universal. Not likely to go away until Moshiach, who perhaps is the cure for precisely that very illness.
How does an education system thrive if the students dont all speak the same language? Multiculturalism will continually fail until everyone understands the sacrifices. That includes a willingness by immigrants to learn the language used in the country they move to.
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