Germany Just Can't Get It Right
by Douglas Murray • January 11, 2016 at 5:00 am
- How can you explain why Germany, which in the 20th century had such a gigantic anti-Semitism problem, would import so many people from those areas of the world which now have the same gigantic anti-Semitism problem?
- The police water cannons were not in evidence on New Year's Eve to break up the migrant gangs committing violent crimes against women. Instead they were used to break up a lawful demonstration of people opposed to such violent attacks on women.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel doubled down on her open-door asylum policy in a November 13, 2015 television interview, saying: "The Chancellor has the situation under control. I have my vision. I will fight for it." Mere insanity, incompetence or duplicity could not possibly explain the behavior of a German government so obviously dedicated to its own pathetic end.
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The late Robert Conquest once laid out a set of three political rules, the last of which read, "The simplest way to explain the behavior of any bureaucratic organization is to assume that it is controlled by a cabal of its enemies." This rule comes in handy when trying to understand the otherwise clearly insane and suicidal policies of Chancellor Merkel's government in Germany. These policies only make sense if the German government has in fact been taken over by a cabal of people intent not on holding Germany together but on pulling it entirely apart. Consider the evidence.
Blame Terror on Everyone but Terrorists!
by Burak Bekdil • January 11, 2016 at 4:00 am
- Muslims had the habit of slaughtering "infidel" Muslims for centuries when there was not a country called Syria or any "Islamophobia."
- The main lack of logic seems to be that innocent people are attacked repeatedly by Muslims, so they become suspicious of Muslims; this suspicion is then called Islamophobia -- but it does not come out of thin air.
- President Erdogan is explicitly saying that even non-terrorist Muslims have the potential to become terrorists if they happen to feel offended. So easily?
- Pro-Sunni supremacists, such as the Turkish president and his top cleric, do not understand that cartoons do not kill people. But some of their friends do kill people.
In the thinking of Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan (left) and top Muslim cleric, Professor Mehmet Gormez (center), the men of Islamic State, who have the habit of beheading people, raping "slave" women and mass-killings in Muslims lands, do the same damage as people who just draw cartoons, such as Stéphane Charbonnier (right), the murdered editor of Charlie Hebdo.
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There is hardly anything surprising in the way Turkey's Islamist leaders and their officials in the clergy diagnose jihadist terror: Blame it on everyone except the terrorists. President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the inventor of the theory that "there is no Islamic terror," recently warned that "rising racism and enmity against Islam in Europe[an] and other countries" will cause great tragedies -- like the Paris attacks.
Put in another way, Erdogan is telling the free world that Muslims will kill even more people "à la Paris" if they face Islamophobia in the non-Muslim countries they have chosen to attack. This reasoning, in simple order of logic, means that Muslims will not kill innocent civilians in terror attacks if they do NOT face Islamophobia. That is not a convincing argument. Erdogan did not tell anyone whether the jihadists killed more than 100 people in Ankara last October because Muslims face Islamophobia in Turkey.
