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by Soeren Kern
• October 20, 2016 at 5:00 am
- More than 1.5
million Germans, many of them highly educated, left Germany during the
past decade. — Die Welt.
- Germany is facing
a spike in migrant crime, including an epidemic of rapes and sexual
assaults. Mass migration is also accelerating the Islamization of
Germany. Many Germans appear to be losing hope about the future
direction of their country.
- "We
refugees... do not want to live in the same country with you. You can,
and I think you should, leave Germany. And please take Saxony and the
Alternative for Germany (AfD) with you.... Why do you not go to
another country? We are sick of you!" — Aras Bacho an 18-year-old
Syrian migrant, in Der Freitag, October 2016.
- A real estate
agent in a town near Lake Balaton, a popular tourist destination in
western Hungary, said that 80% of the Germans relocating there cite
the migration crisis as the main reason for their desire to leave
Germany.
- "I believe
that Islam does not belong to Germany. I regard it as a foreign entity
which has brought the West more problems than benefits. In my opinion,
many followers of this religion are rude, demanding and despise Germany."
— A German citizen who emigrated from Germany, in an "Open Letter
to the German Government."
- "I believe
that immigration is producing major and irreversible changes in German
society. I am angry that this is happening without the direct approval
of German citizens. ... I believe that it is a shame that in Germany
Jews must again be afraid to be Jews." — A German citizen who
emigrated from Germany, in an "Open Letter to the German
Government."
- "My husband
sometimes says he has the feeling that we are now the largest minority
with no lobby. For each group there is an institution, a location, a
public interest, but for us, a heterosexual married couple with two
children, not unemployed, neither handicapped nor Islamic, for people
like us there is no longer any interest." — "Anna," in
a letter to the Mayor of Munich about her decision to move her family
out of the city because migrants were making her life there
impossible.
A growing number of Germans are abandoning neighborhoods in which they
have lived all their lives, and others are leaving Germany for good, as
mass immigration transforms parts of the country beyond recognition.
Data from the German statistics agency, Destatis, shows that 138,000
Germans left Germany in 2015. More are expected to emigrate in 2016. In a
story on brain drain titled, "German talent is leaving the country in
droves," Die Welt reported that more than 1.5 million Germans,
many of them highly educated, left Germany during the past decade.
by Shoshana Bryen
• October 20, 2016 at 4:30 am
- The UNESCO vote
seems clearly a response to the expansionist, jihadist aspirations of
members of the OIC who sponsored it: Algeria, Egypt, Lebanon, Morocco,
Oman, Qatar and Sudan.
- Some analysts
consider a vote to abstain to be a victory for Israel, but for Spain,
Greece, France, Sweden, Slovenia, and Italy it was blatant appeasement
and fear of their own often-violent Muslim minorities: "Please,
please, don't blow up our capital cities. We will reject Jewish and
Christian history and pretend Jesus chased the money changers from the
steps of Montmartre."
- UNESCO's Director
General Irina Bokova had already announced her opposition to the
resolution, a position for which she received death threats.
- Having
demonstrable historical fact, such as Jewish patrimony on the Temple
Mount in Jerusalem, subject to the whims of the UN, in which, as the
late Abba Eban said, Arabs could muster a majority to decide the sun
rises in the West, is not a positive proposition.
- The question
remains how to convince nations in the West to stand for themselves in
the face of Islamists committed to replacing them.
UNESCO Director General Irina Bokova (left) received
death threats after announcing her opposition to a jihadist resolution.
(Image source: Wikimedia Commons/MDS)
Last week, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural
Organization (UNESCO) voted Christian and Jewish heritage off of the Temple
Mount in Jerusalem; Tuesday they ratified their perfidy. The vote seems
clearly a response to the expansionist, jihadist aspirations of members of
the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) that sponsored it: Algeria,
Egypt, Lebanon, Morocco, Oman, Qatar and Sudan. The vote, and the behind
the scenes machinations, deserve evaluation.
Upfront:
§ Group
1: The "in favor" voters are a nasty collection of corrupt,
dictatorial, largely Islamist (traditional Islamic theology gives Jews
their place on the Temple Mount; these Islamists appear intent on removing
all traces of Christian and Jewish presence from the Middle East) or
Marxist, and unanimously frightening places. They are, in the immortal
words French diplomat Daniel Bernard applied to Israel, "shitty little
countries." Even the big ones. But see below for a caveat.
by Burak Bekdil • October
20, 2016 at 4:00 am
- Erdogan looks
determined to fight any war in the hope that all will end with
Turkish-Sunni dominance in the region. He is wrong.
- Turkey's
"National Contract," Misak-i Milli, also claimed the
former Ottoman province of Mosul as a Turkish province. There is one
complication, though. Mosul is not Turkish territory, as envisaged in
Misak-i Milli, but Iraqi territory. And the Shiite-controlled
Iraqi government does not want Turkish or Turkey-backed Sunni boots
on the ground.
- "Certain
historians believe that the borders set by the National Contract
include Cyprus, Aleppo, Mosul, Erbil, Kirkuk, Batumi, Thessaloniki,
Kardzhali, Varna and the [Greek] islands of the Aegean." —
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
- Erdogan hopes to
build a pro-Ottoman, Sunni region against Iranian dominance.
- A few hundred
Turkish soldiers in Iraq have been training Sunni militias to help
retake Mosul from ISIS. Baghdad wants the Turkish troops out, but
Turkey refuses to go.
At the
Bashiqa camp in northern Iraq, a few hundred Turkish soldiers have been
training Sunni militias to help retake Mosul from ISIS. Iraq's government
wants the Turkish troops out, but Turkey refuses to withdraw them. (Image
source: TRTWorld video screenshot)
Each time in recent history that Turkey's pro-Sunni neo-Ottomans
opted for assertive foreign policy in this turbulent part of the world,
there were more casualties and no happy ending for any state- or non-state
actor, including President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's Turkey. As multiple
asymmetrical wars in the triangle of Turkey, Syria and Iraq turn more
violent and complex, with the U.S.-led international campaign fighting
jihadists -- while Iran and Russia try to win proxy wars -- Turkey keeps
raising the stakes with the risky nonsensical wish to revive its imperial past.
Erdogan looks determined to fight any war in the hope that all will end
with Turkish-Sunni dominance in the region. He is wrong.
In his recent speeches Erdogan often revisited a long-forgotten
Arabic phrase that is so dear to every Turk's heart and mind: Misak-i
Milli ("National Contract").
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