Merkel Is Getting Me All Hot And Bothered

[PanzerJaeger]

ooooo falafels.

What about islam?

Well, I would hazard a guess that this politician is using 'Islam' as shorthand for Islamic culture, or the Islamic lifestyle; you know, the same topic that has been the subject of countless backroom threads over burkas, Sharia, radicalization, multiculturalism, et cetera.

We are lucky in the US that the vast majority of our Muslim population is assimilated and well adjusted. Dearborn Michigan is a great example of what I highlighted in the above post - a community that reflects the cultural flavor of its immigrant population and an immigrant population that reflects the social norms of the greater community.

There are plenty of well assimilated Muslims in Europe, but there are also vast ghettos where Muslims come to enjoy the economic benefits of the European economy and social welfare systems but live essentially as if they were still in the Middle East. They have very little, if any, interaction with the greater host country, and show little interest in assimilation. They are just kind of... there.

This is the result of the strange mix of liberal immigration policies and multiculturalism that reflected the need for manual labor after the Second World War and European passive aggressive racism. That was fine for decades, but these days, declining host populations and rapidly increasing immigrant ones have a lot of traditionalists worried.

In my opinion, German culture and the larger white European culture in which it is a subset is unique and worth preserving. In the future, it does not need to be white, but it should still be European. Politicians over there should work to dismantle multiculturalism and modify immigration policies until the ghetto situation is rectified.