"Hard right" close to taking power in Netherlands (and Europe)

After a decade of swelling anger over mass immigration, housing, and the brutal cost of living, nationalist parties are poised to take power across Europe.

In 2021, countries like Germany, Sweden, the Netherlands, and Belgium were governed by politicians who had led western Europe in the familiar, moderate style that had predominated there since the end of WWII. Upstart nationalists were gaining ground, but were largely excluded from governing coalitions, and seen as troublemakers rather than serious players. It has taken them just four years to go from the margins to the cusp of leading the continent's largest economies. 

Now it is the establishment that is floundering on the brink of irrelevance as populists and nationalists evolve into the first choice for conservatives, angry youth, and those who feel like the traditional parties do not work for them. What started as protest votes have evolved into a permanent political force.

The Dutch will vote this month in a snap election, and the nationalist right will likely once again emerge as the largest force in the country's politics. It has been just two years since the last election in the Netherlands, in which the Party for Freedom (PVV) led by Geert Wilders won the most seats in the Dutch parliament.

The PVV is staunchly nationalist, and defined by opposition to mass immigration and multiculturalism. Following the 2023 election, the PVV formed a rickety government with the other parties on the condition that Mr Wilders would not become prime minister, only for the agreement to collapse earlier this year. 

According to current polls, the once-dominant People’s Party for Freedom and Democracy (VVD), a moderate centre-right party, is poised for its weakest showing since the 1970s. Electorally, it is hardly a threat to the PVV anymore, whose greatest competition on the right is coming from JA21, another right-wing nationalist party. 

Combined, the PVV and JA21 are projected to win nearly half the seats in the Dutch parliament. In Europe’s proportional electoral systems, where parties must negotiate alliances to have a working majority, attempting to keep those parties out of power in 2025 is a stalling tactic that is delaying the inevitable.

The top issues for voters in the Netherlands are housing, immigration, and health care, with climate change plummeting as a top priority from around 30 per cent of the electorate in 2023, to just about 19 per cent today. Frustrations over migration have burst out of the realm of regular politics, with anti-immigration riots breaking out in The Hague, causing tens of thousands of euros worth of damage to the parliamentary complex there.

In February, Mr Wilders wrote on social media, "The biggest threat is that for decades we have welcomed people from other parts of the world where violence, inequality and lack of freedom dominate, with open borders and mass immigration in Europe, that we have accepted, facilitated and praised the refusal to integrate and adapt to the rules of our own society."

The inability or unwillingness of the EU’s political establishment to meaningfully tackle mass immigration or the cost of living has cost them their legitimacy, as well as the trust of ordinary citizens. Furthermore, the sheer influx of new people via immigration has strained the housing supply of most Dutch cities. Rent hikes and shrinking disposable incomes have been the result, making the Netherlands into one of the most unaffordable countries in Europe. 

A similar set of issues in France has resulted in the mass rejection of the established parties of the left and right. The traditional Gaullist conservatives are edging towards irrelevance, after dominating French politics for much of the 20th century. Disaffected blue-collar workers, young people, and frustrated conservatives have shifted en masse to the National Rally (RN), a right wing nationalist party that has gained in every election since 2007. 

European economies are largely stagnant or declining. A shrinking share of the shrinking pie is being eaten up by more and more people from outside the EU, and voters who feel crowded out on housing, wages, and basic services want politicians who prioritize their interests. 

In Germany, the populist Alternativ für Deutschland (AfD) became the second largest party in elections earlier this year, and is now polling first in political surveys. In Britain, Nigel Farage’s Reform UK is on-track to sweep aside both the Labour and Conservative parties, with his party winning city by-elections in previous Labour strongholds like Cardiff.

Wherever populist nationalism rises in Europe, the story is the same. Parties that voters could once trust to manage their economies and societies have not satisfied concerns over immigration and rising expenses of merely living in Europe, and they are paying the price. These are not the gentle, consensus-based politics that defined Europe for so long, but the results of people feeling unheard and neglected. More “consensus” is simply a shield for further decline, and millions of Europeans are not going to reward failure any longer.

This article has been adapted from "Geert Wilders' coming triumph and the end of Europe's mushy centrists", by Geoff Russ, in the National Post (Canada), 2/10/25.

Footnote: "Grenzen dicht!" means "Borders closed!"

German politicians agree not to say anything bad about illegal aliens

As a follow-up to our post about the Muslim asylum-seeker who killed a Ukrainian refugee last month, we present below a slightly shortened version of an article by Katja Hoyer, a German-British historian and writer, published on UnHerd, yesterday. Thanks to Blazing Cat Fur for the lead.

Cologne immigration pact opens doors for AfD

In Cologne, a bizarre conspiracy of silence has settled. Only it's not happening behind closed doors. All of the political parties involved in upcoming local elections, except the anti-immigration AfD, have openly agreed to avoid negative commentary on immigration during their campaigns.

Everyone, from the centre-right Christian Democratic Union (CDU) to the far-Left Die Linke, has signed a "Fairness Agreement", pledging not to talk about migrants in connection with "negative social developments such as unemployment or threats to domestic security".

This is likely to backfire spectacularly. Democracy thrives on open debate, especially on polarising issues such as immigration. By effectively imposing a gag on critical voices, the agreement tampers with the democratic process itself, stifling dialogue with superficial silence. Citizens deserve a truthful negotiation of competing policies, not a hastily erected facade that ignores discomfort or disagreement.

This curtailment comes at a high cost, especially in Cologne. The city has not forgotten what happened on New Year’s Eve 2015, when hundreds of women reported sexual assaults by groups described as of Arab or North African appearance near Cologne Cathedral and the central train station. Police admitted later that around half the perpetrators had been in the country for less than a year, and that there was "a connection between the appearance of the phenomenon and large-scale migration, especially in 2015."

A decade on and mainstream politicians are agreeing not to talk about this connection, not only alienating victims and witnesses of crimes committed by migrants, but also allowing the AfD a monopoly on the political representations of related concerns.... 

Meanwhile, the broader democratic ecosystem suffers. Voters, particularly working-class ones, and even long-established migrant-origin communities, are shifting toward the Alternativ für Deutschland (AfD), not because they embrace extremism, but because they feel unheard and abandoned by the political centre. Without legitimate channels to express concerns, cynicism grows and democracy erodes. 

To call this silence "fair", when it abandons one of Germans’ most pressing concerns, seems cynical. It's a capitulation: a denial of many people’s everyday experiences, fears and frustrations. It validates the smug belief that "politics knows best", even when public safety and social cohesion are at stake. Fairness demands honest engagement. Problems and conflicts in Cologne, including the horrors of New Year’s Eve 2015, must be acknowledged — not exploited, but confronted openly. 

Even if the intention of the agreement was solely political, it would backfire on those terms. By collectively signing the “Fairness Agreement” and singling out the AfD as the only dissenting voice, mainstream parties confirm a huge frustration that has driven so many voters towards the Right in the first place: the idea of a "uniparty" that blocks all change. 

Many Germans already feel that all establishment parties, regardless of ideological labels, are essentially the same, offering no genuine choice — especially on immigration. When voters see everyone from across the spectrum agreeing not to criticise immigration policies, despite widespread public concern, it reinforces the perception that no real political alternative exists within the system....  

In attempting to isolate the AfD, Cologne's political establishment is feeding directly into the party’s most effective messaging. The "Fairness Agreement" is no honour to fairness. It's yet another sign of how detached the political mainstream has become from voters. Migration is the big issue of our time. If centrists want to remain part of a conversation they can't stop, they need to pull their heads out of the sand and do what politicians are supposed to do in a functioning democracy: listen to voters.

After 6 months, Afghan "Allahu akbar!" killer finally charged

How time flies and how quickly we forget! Last February, Walt brought you news from Munich, Germany of a horrific attack by a Jihadi wannabe which took the lives of a two-year-old girl and her 37-year-old mother. See "'Allahu akbar!' in German... just in time for the election" WWW 13/2/25 and "Munich Islamic terror attack UPDATE" 14/2/25.

The general election came and went, and a cobbled-together coalition of leftists and centrists pipped Alternativ für Deutschland (AfD) at the post. Apparently the Germans have yet to realize that that the Muslim fanatics really are out to kill them and all the other infidels.

The lickspittle media buried the Munich attack (and others) below the fold, and people forgot. These things have become so common that we don't even bother to search for a follow-up any more. The jihadi wannabes are usually portrayed as "lone wolves", not really part of the Islamic war on the west, and the perpetrators are rarely convicted, let alone deported to whence they came.

So it was a bit of a surprise today when Euronews reported that German authorities have, at long last, laid murder charges against the man who murdered the little girl and her mother, and injured 44 others in the car-ramming rampage.

The man, an Afghan national identified only as Farhad N., was arrested immediately after the attack during a labour union demonstration. He came to Germany as one of the asylum-seekers so beloved of Angela Merkel and other politicians suffering from white guilt. (The German version of this diseasis especially virulent, which accounts for the outcome of the above-mentioned election.)

Prosecutors say Herr N. was motivated by "a desire to avenge the suffering of Muslims." Ah yes, all those poor refugee and sylum-seekers... millions of them... still being fed and housed by the no-longer-Nazi German people. 

"The accused committed the act out of excessive religious motivation," the prosecutorssaid in the statement. He believed he was obliged to attack and kill randomly selected people in Germany in response to the suffering of Muslims in Islamic countries." Makes sense, no? No!

VIDEO: Victor Davis Hanson: Germany is committing suicide!

On the latest episode of "The Daily Signal", Victor Davis Hanson weighs in on what appears to be Germany's death wish. He's talking about the country's domestic intelligence agency's labelling of Alternativ für Deutschland (Alternative for Germany) as an "extremist" group -- just one level below "terrorist", evidently. 

AfD is challenging the designation in the courts, but Mr Hanson says the damage has already been done. He calls the move to effectively silence Germany's only rightist party about political control, not public safety as touted. The classification ensures AfD will never get its hands on the levers of political power, he says, no matter how many people support them.

If the AfD are "officially" extremists, Mr Hanson explains, "no government under [the German] parliamentary democracy system will ask them to join to form a majority government. So the process of ostracism and demonization of this party continues."

Why, he asks, would the German government do this? Because, the AfD offers a different vision, contrary to the politically correct narrative. "The party is advocating an alternative for the way that Germany is going." 

And where is Germany going? Mr Hanson paints a bleak picture of economic decline, energy failure, and political denial. But, he says, there is a deeper crisis -- one that strikes at the heart of Germany’s identity, and beyond that to the very idea of "Europe". 

The consequences of the denial of the rightist alternatives are both cultural and existential. Mr Hanson estimates that 16%  to 18% of Germany's population are foreigners -- not born in the Fatherland -- and have not not assimilated. "These are refugees -- or I don’t think they're refugees," he says. "They’re illegal immigrants from the volatile Middle East. Most of them are Muslim. Most of them do not have an intention of assimilating, intermarrying, and integrating fully in German society."

The [German] government's refusal to address this, he says, has allowed a demographic transformation to unfold without public debate or accountability. Today's Germany is a far cry from the Germany that once held Europe together. "For years, Germany was the powerhouse, the cohesive economic power that kept the EU together.... It's very tragic."

Instead of a healthy debate about what is to be done to resolve this crisis, Mr Hanson says the one party calling for such a debate and proposing solutions is being silenced. "They demonize [the AfD] because it's out of the norm. And the norm, unfortunately in Germany today, is national suicide."

Recommended reading: Suicide of the West, by James Burnham. The John Day Company, New York, 1964. That's right -- 1964. Conservative political pundits like Mr Burnham have seen this coming for six decades. Read the book (if you can find a copy) and marvel at the degree to which his vision of the future has become today's reality.

Fasching season cancelled in Munich for fear of another Muslim attack

Tomorrow is Shrove Tuesday, the day before Lent, the Christian season of fasting and penance in preparation for Easter. In many nominally Christian countries, people mark the day before a season of sobriety with carnivals and other events of gaiety, costumes, bibulousness, fun and frolic. 

There's the famous carnival in Brazil and, of course, Mardi Gras down in the Big Easy. Pre-Lenten carnival celebrations are traditional in Germany too, where the carnival season goes by different names: Karneval, Fasching, and Fastnacht. While all three stem from the same pre-Lenten tradition, each region in Germany has its own customs.

Alas, there will be no Karneval, Fasching or Fastnacht in Munich, Germany, this year. Authorities have cancelled the traditional carnival celebrations following the Islamic terror attack on a demonstration in the city that left two dead and 39 injured. 

Officials in the Bavarian capital announced on 19 February that neither the "Nonsense Thursday" event, which was to be held on February 27th, nor the Shrove Tuesday celebration will take place this year. A third carnival event in the city's central pedestrian zone has also been cancelled. 

Need we tell you why? In a statement released six days after the horrific attack on a crowd of innocent people, city officials said they had not taken the decision lightly but "as a city family it is unimaginable for us to light-heartedly celebrate carnival after the attack and especially after the deaths of our colleague and her daughter." 

So the cancellation was an act of mourning, then? Noooo. Security concerns were the true reason. In recent months, Germany has seen an unprecedented spate of terrorist attacks by Muslim immigrants, "refugees" and asylum-seekers. 

On 23 August 2024, a Syrian immigrant allegedly killed three people and injured eight in a stabbing attack on a "Festival for Diversity" [sic] in Solingen, for which Islamic State claimed responsibility. 

On 20 December 2024, a Syrian immigrant rammed a vehicle into a Christmas market in Magdeburg, leaving six people dead and 300 injured.

This past January 22nd, an Afghan asylum-seeker stabbed a two-year-old child and a 41-year-old man to death in Aschaffenburg, where carnival parades have also been put on hold. 

The German people have noticed, as witness the spectacular rise of the Alternativ für Deutschland (AfD) in February's election. Commenting on the decision to cancel the Munich events, columnist Julian Reichelt pointed out the irony of a standard phrase uttered almost daily by German politicians over the past few years: "We will not let Islamists change our way of life."

To Angela Merkel, Fred Merz and the others who keep saying there's no problem with mass immigration, Walt says: Ist Ihnen nicht aufgefallen, dass sich Ihr Lebensstil bereits verändert hat? Und nicht zum Besseren.

German elections: AfD rises to best result ever

We apologize for not having posted anything much in the last few days. We have been preoccupied with the Bergoglio death watch, which seems today to be a bit premature. Lord have mercy on him, and let your will be done. 

There is also the dizzying pace of the changes being wrought by President Trump. It's hard to keep up. And frankly, some things the Donald is doing -- the threatened tariffs, the apparent sell-out of Ukraine --  look wrong-headed. There may be method in his madness, but we'll wait and see. For now, we'll hold the applause.

We cannot, however, delay our congratulations to Alice Weidel and her Alternativ für Deutschland party for their best-ever showing in last weekend's election.

See that huge aqua-tinted area, roughly corresponding to the old East Germany, on the map? Those are seats in the Reichstag won by the AfD!

Friedrich Merz's conservative CDU/CSU got more seats -- those coloured in black -- but Germany's 2025 election has revealed a strong trend to the hard right. 

It is notable that the AfD's strength is mainly in the east, where millions of people remember what it was like to be governed by Communists. Their rejection of the socialism and liberalism of Angela Merkel and her successor Olaf Scholz.

AfD doubled its support from 10.4 to 20.8% in just four years, and is now the second biggest political force in the German parliament. Meanwhile, outgoing Chancellor Olaf Scholz's socialist SPD had its worst performance in decades, only securing 16.4% of the vote. The loony left Green Party, once considered the "coming thing", drew only 11.6% of the vote.

No wonder "Fred" Merz and Frau Merkel are seen here watching in horror as the results came in. The AfD dominates eastern Germany, apart from pockets like Berlin and half of Leipzig. In the west, the vast majority went conservative black, especially in Bavaria where Herr Merz's conservative sister party, the CSU, swept the landscape. 

Alternativ für Deutschland is spreading in the west too, and loyalty to the old mainstream parties is a thing of the past. The AfD, demonized as "far-right" by the (((controlled media))), has, for one in five Germans, become "normal". 

Even though it came second, the AfD is blocked from being part of the next government because of a "firewall" constructed by Germany's main parties, who have refused to co-operate with any party seen as "extremist". 

The same strategy -- refusing to join in any coalition with any right-wing group -- has been employed to keep Marine Le Pen's National Rally out of power in France. The firewall -- Brandmauer in German -- has worked since the end of WWII, but AfD joint leader Tino Chrupalla says, "Anyone who erects firewalls will get grilled behind them." 

The cuckservative CDU/CSU did not win enough seats to form a majority government. Herr Merz must therefore find a coalition partner, but has vowed to keep the firewall in place. He told the meeja that he believes the only reason the AfD exists is because of "problems such as migration and security that need to be addressed:" Ya think?! "We need to resolve these problems," he said, "then that party, the AfD, will disappear." 

AfD leader Alice Weidel insists it is a libertarian, conservative movement, not racist. Its big increase in public support has coincided with a series of deadly attacks in the past nine months, all by Islamic extremists who Angela Merkel's minions welcomed into the Fatherland as "refugees" and asylum-seekers. What the AfD wants to do is send them back where they came from, in a policy dubbed "remigration". 

Herr Merz will now go into talks on forming a government with the Social Democrats, who came third. He has already flirted with the AfD in the Reichstag, relying on their votes to push through a motion on migration. Now that the AfD has more than 150 seats, many CDU/CSU supporters believe it is time for the firewall to go. Stay tuned.

"Allahu akbar!" in Germany... just in time for the election

A federal election will be held in Germany on February 23rs to elect the 630 members of the 21st Bundestag. German lefties, wokesters and "anti-Nazis" are soiling their shorts in fear that Alternativ für Deutschland (AfD) will emerge strong enough to form a government, even without the co-operation of other parties. 

The lickspittle press, especially DW (the state broadcaster), characterizes AfD as "far right", "neo-Nazi", yada yada yada, because the main plank in their platform is to repatriate -- send back where they came from -- the hordes of Muslim invaders who have flooded into the Fatherland thanks to Angela Merkel and her successors. 

Why do they want the follwers of the Religion of Peace (TM) to go back to the Middle East and Africa? Because of incidents such as happened last night in Munich, when a 24-year-old Afghan asylum-seeker drove straight into a group of people injuring at least 28, some seriously.

Die Polizei, usually politically correct about crimes committed by Muslim invaders, were quick to say they are treating the incident as a "suspected attack". No shit, Schultz! The car accelerated before running into the crowd at a trade union rally. An officer fired one shot at the suspect before he was arrested.

Just a union-buster, maybe? Errr, no. The suspect, who police now say was known to them, was a poster boy for DEI and mass immigration. The unnamed [Shurely not "Mohammed"? Ed.] driver was a 24-year-old Afghan asylum-seeker with a record of theft and drug offences.

Walt is sure Mohammed (or Abdul or Omar...whatever) is not typical of the millions of poor and oppressed Muslims making their way towards Europe (and America too!) in search of a better life. Please don't listen to the Islamophobic tirades of the AfD and other racists and white supremacists. The followers of the Prophet come in peace... don't they? 

Further reading (added 14/2/25): "Germany has lost count of migrant terror attacks -- the AfD hasn't", The Telepraph (UK), 13/2/25.

European Right on the rise! Freedom Party wins Austrian election

More good news from central Europe, this time from Austria. Kronen Zeitung reports that the Freedom Party of Austria (FPÖ) has topped the polls in this weekend's election for the National Council, winning an estimated 29.2% of the total vote. 

The populist party (labelled "far right" by the lickspittle media, of course) led by former interior minister Herbert Kickl bested the governing neo-liberal Austrian People’s Party (ÖVP) led by Chancellor Karl Nehammer at 26%, and the left-wing opposition Social Democratic Party (SPÖ) at 21%. The farther-left New Austria and Liberal Forum (NEOS) got 9% and eco-wienie Green Alternative (GRÜNE) brang up the rear with 8%.

The win for FPÖ) echos strong showings for the like-minded [and right-minded. Ed.] Alternativ für Deutschland (AfD) in elections in the German states of Saxony, Thuringia and Brandenburg. See "Good news from Occupied Germany" WWW 31/8/24, and "More good news for Germany, but what about the USA and Canada?", WWW 10/9/24.

From this side of the Atlantic, it looks like yet another defeat for the socialists, Euro-wienies, one-worlders and their fellow travellers. Issues such as mass migration, the economic downturn throughout the EU, and growing opposition to support for the war in Ukraine propelled the Freedom Party to victory.

The results mark the first time in the Second Republic of Austria, and the first time since the Freedom Party was founded in 1956, that the FPÖ came out on top of a national election. Herr Kickl, who stridently opposed coronavirus lockdown diktats and serves as a leading critic of the open borders agenda, called for a "Fortress Austria" -- an immediate halt to the acceptance of asylum-seekers and bogus refueees -- and backed "remigration" policies of encouraging foreigners to return to their homelands.

Herbert Kickl said after his victory that his party is ready to govern and that it will not back away from its positions. "My big thanks go to the citizens," he said. "It was not easy to go against this political system. The voters have delivered a powerful message."

Meanwhile, in America and Canada, who dares to campaign on an platform which is honestly and openly against mass immigration? Anyone? Answer comes there none. 

More good news for Germany, but what about the USA and Canada?

This is a follow-up to "Good news from Occupied Germany", WWW 31/8/24. Since we and most of our readers operate in the Anglosphere, we tend to forget that the countries of western Europe have similar problems (or worse) and, unlike in the AABC countries, their peoples are rising up against the Great Replacement.

Our post passed on the good news that the anti-immigration Alternativ für Deutschland (AfD) scored big wins in last week's German regional elections, topping the polls in Thuringia and running a close second in Saxony. The latest opinion surveys from Brarndenburg show the AfD likely to top the polls in the election to be held on September 22nd.

The AfD’s polling numbers in the eastern state have risen from 24% at the beginning of August to 30% in September, mirroring its results in Thuringia (33%) and Saxony (31%). Voters in the eastern states are even more fed up with the ruling three-party coalition in Berlin than their western compatriots. 

Latest polls show voters have more faith in the AfD to be tougher on migration and security than the coalition of mainstream parties that have in recent weeks put forward a couple of namby-pamby initiatives to stop terrorists and slow down the influx of migrants. 

The pro-migration policies, tax hikes, and radical climate agenda of the "traffic light" coalition (the Social Democrats (SPD), the Greens, and the liberal FDP) have drawn the ire of real (read: native-born) Germans, who are heeding the call of AfD leader Alice Weideleding. This is what she said last Sunday:

 

"Wir müssen uns erinnern, dass die CDU die Partei war, die die Grenzen geöffnet und offen gehalten hat. Dass die CDU die Partei ist, die aus dem AfD-Programm abschreibt, während sie gleichzeitig sämtliche Anträge, die dieses Programm widerspiegeln, im Bundestag ablehnt. Eine echte Migrationswende gibt es nur mit der AfD!"

For those who don't speak the language of Goethe, here's the translation. "We must remember that the CDU was the party that opened the borders and kept them open. That the CDU is the party that copies the AfD program, while at the same time rejecting all motions in the Bundestag that reflect this program. A real migration turnaround can only happen with the AfD!:

Dr Weidel elaborates: "We have excessive crime rates. Police crime statistics are through the roof. However, the governments in charge have made no changes at all. There is a lack of political desire for real change with regards to migration. We need a real U-turn in our country, because we do not want the murders, the rapes, the stabbings to continue on our streets and in public spaces. And you will not get that U-turn from the other parties."

How we at WWW wish that just one of our North American politicians would speak out so strongly against the occupation of our continent by the hordes of third-world benefit-seekers, imported by our "leaders", who come here for our milk and honey (as Don Cherry famously said) and bring us only all the troubles of their shithole world!

Good news from Occupied Germany

If you've been waiting for my comment on the staged, boring, counter-factual, dismal, CNN interview of the Cackler and her valorous protector... you just had it. Let's turn our attention to das Vaterland, where, right now, millions of people are voting against migration and wokeness.

Why, here's a voter right now! His sign asks German chancellor Olaf Scholz how many more Germans must die at the hands of Islamic terrorists. He's referring, no doubt, to atrocities like the recent stabbings in Solingen. See "More 'Allahu akbar!' in Germany... implications for USA and Canada". WWW 26/8/24.

This weekend, in the German States of Saxony and Thuringia, comes the reckoning for Herr Scholz and his Social Democratic Party (the German equivalent of America's Dimocrats), who, under the leadership of Angela Merkel, encouraged the occupation of Germany by hordes of "refugees" and asylum-seekers who are hell-bent on establishing a European caliphate.

In those states (which, significantly, were part of East Germany), the rightist Alternativ für Deutschland (AfD) is on the cusp of winning the most votes in German state elections for the first time since the days of Hitler.

For the gliberals, progressives, and one-worlders, that's a nightmare -- like the rise of MAGA in the US of A -- but others, particularly in the east, say the AfD is the last chance to get their country back. Cries of "Deutschland den Deutschen!" are loud in the land!

Just as in America, the temperature of German politics has been rising all year. At an SPD rally in Thuringia, protesters (like the one pictured) shouted "Liar!) at Chancellor Scholz. Chants of "Volksverräter" -- "Traitor to the people" -- were also heard. 

Polling shows the SPD (and its Green and Liberal coalition partners) are doing so badly in Thuringia that they may not even get a single seat in the state parliament. The AfD, by contrast, tops the polls with 30% to the SPD's 22%.

Meanwhile, in neighbouring Saxony, the AfD is running neck and neck with the conservative CDU. The knife attack in Solingen, in which a Syrian asylum-seeker and jihadi wannabe killed three people, has fuelled fierce criticism of how successive "liberal democratic" governments have handled migration. In a response which can only be described as "panicky", ministers announce tougher asylum regulations and knife crime laws.

[How much tougher? Ed.]  Well, for one thing, they are actually in the process of deporting a handful of "irregular migrants" who asylum claims were denied.

Yesterday, a deportation flight bound for Afghanistan left Leipzig with 28 -- count `em, 28 -- Afghanis on board. That leaves only a million or so benefits-shoppers still in Germany. According to the Ministry of the Interior, those on the flight are convicted criminals from various states across Germany. Der Spiegel reported that each deportee, all of whom were male, received a payment of €1000 ($1100 in real money). The spokesthingy for Saxony’s Interior Ministry was unable to confirm this.

The flight marks Germany’s first deportation of Afghans back to their home country since the Taliban retook power there in August 2021, after the Biden Bug-out. In a presser following the flight's departure, a government spokesthingy emphasized that Berlin was not in direct talks with the Taliban. Rather,  he said, it secured the deportation through the mediation of "key regional powers" whom he carefully refused to name.

He did add, though, that the German government has made "intensive efforts" to deport migrants who have committed serious crimes back to Afghanistan and Syria in the wake of a knife attack -- not Solingen, but the "Allahu akbar!" incident in the southwestern city of Mannheim at the end of May. The German immigration control authorities have laboured mightily, it seems, and brought forth... well... see above.

FOOTNOTE and further reading on US election: If you really want to know how the Cackler (and Awalz) did in the CNN fake interview, read "Off-script Kamala blows it in the swing states", by Joe Concha, New York Post, 30/8/24.

More "Allahu akbar!" in Germany... implications for USA and Canada

German chancellor Olaf Scholz said this weekend that his government remains committed to former chancellor Angela Merkel's policy of welcoming foreign invaders "for humanitarian and legal reasons". However, he said "Irregular migration into Germany must go down." Sounds to Walt like sucking and blowing at the same time, but why (I hear you ask) would Herr Scholz speak out in the middle of a quiet summer weekend. Here's a visual clue.

Yes, dear readers, another of those poor persecuted Muslims has done it again. Pictured is someone the polizei and politically correct media refer to as "Issa Al H", a 26-year-old Syrian "refugee". Al stabbed three people to death and wounded 8 others in an attack in Solingen on Friday. It wasn't an accident. The cops say he went for the throat every time.

The authorities (and in Germany that word means a lot) at first wouldn't name the attacker, nor would they speculate on his motive for the atrocity. But once Islamic State/ISIS claimed responsibility for the crime, they decided something had to be said, hence the statement from the Chancellor, who said today, "This was terrorism, terrorism against us all."  

How about that?! A politician with the courage to utter the T-word. But not enough courage to add adjectives such as "Islamic" or "Muslim".

Herr Scholz also said his government would have to do "everything we can to ensure that those who cannot and should not stay here in Germany are repatriated and deported" and that deportations would be sped up if necessary. He also promised to tighten laws on weapons ownership -- not "guns" but "weapons"-- "very quickly". 

This latest incident of wanton terrorism by a jihadi wannabe exacerates an already heated debate in das Vaterland about the merits (if any) of migration. On Saturday, conservative opposition leader Friedrich Merz demanded an end to taking in refugees from Syria and Afghanistan and called for controls on all of Germany’s borders. 

 

More significantly, Alice Weidel, leader of the Alternativ für Deutschland (AfD), has gone a step further and wants a complete stop to all migration. Any honest opinion poll [an oxymoron for sure. Ed.] would show the majority of Germans (as well as citizens of the AABC countries) in partial or full agreement with that proposition. 

The centre-left government of Chancellor Scholz has already pledged to deport migrants who have committed serious crimes and people whose application for asylum has been rejected. But it would appear that they have entrusted the job to the  German equivalent of America's "border czar", as very few of the benefits-shoppers have actually been sent back to their shitholes.

Mr Al-Stabby there came to Germany in 2022 as a Syrian "refugee". Usually Syrians have a good chance of being granted asylum in Germany, but his application was rejected and he was ordered to be deported to Bulgaria, because he had already registered for asylum there. But when the polizei tried to deport him, they were shocked, shocked to be unable to find him, and he remained in Germany. 

As I write I am waiting for results from yesterday's election in Saxony and Thuringia, two large eastern German states whose people are said to be less welcoming to invaders than the more liberal volk of western Germany. The AfD is expected to do well and may even win the most votes. America's Dimocrats and Canada's Gliberals should... repeat, should... take note.

This article is a HOAX, but worth reading anyway!

Ed. here. Let's get the "hoax" part out of the way. Thanks to Agent 5 for passing along this article, but checking reveals that Dr Emanuel Tanay (March 5, 1928 – August 5, 2014), a Holocaust survivor, was not German, but Polish-American physician and forensic psychiatrist. (Source: Wikipedia). The following article has been attributed to him, but is most likely a mash-up, based on his book Passport to Life with comments on the situation in Canada, UK, and Australia  added recently. 

A German's View on Islam

Dr. Emanuel Tanay was a well-known and well-respected psychiatrist. A man, whose family was German aristocracy prior to World War II, owned a number of large industries and estates. 

When asked how many German people were true Nazis, the answer he gave can guide our attitude toward fanaticism. "Very few people were true Nazis," he said, "but many enjoyed the return of German pride, and many more were too busy to care. 

"I was one of those who just thought the Nazis were a bunch of fools. So, the majority just sat back and let it all happen. Then, before we knew it, they owned us, and we had lost control, and the end of the world had come. My family lost everything. I ended up in a concentration camp and the Allies destroyed my factories.

"We are told again and again by 'experts' and 'talking heads' that Islam is a religion of peace and that the vast majority of Muslims just want to live in peace. Although this unqualified assertion may be true, it is entirely irrelevant. It is meaningless fluff meant to make us feel better, and meant to somehow diminish the spectre of fanatics rampaging across the globe in the name of Islam.

"The fact is that the fanatics rule Islam at this moment in history. It is the fanatics who march. It is the fanatics who wage any one of 50 shooting wars worldwide. It is the fanatics who systematically slaughter Christian or tribal groups throughout Africa and are gradually taking over the entire continent in an Islamic wave. 

"It is the fanatics who bomb, behead, murder, or honour-kill. It is the fanatics who take over mosque after mosque. It is the fanatics who zealously spread the stoning and hanging of rape victims and homosexuals. It is the fanatics who teach their young to kill and to become suicide bombers. The hard, quantifiable fact is that the peaceful majority, the 'silent majority,' is cowed and extraneous. 

"Communist Russia was comprised of Russians who just wanted to live in peace, yet the Russian Communists were responsible for the murder of about 20 million people. The peaceful majority were irrelevant. China 's huge population was peaceful as well, but Chinese Communists managed to kill a staggering 70 million people.

"The average Japanese individual prior to World War II was not a warmongering sadist. Yet, Japan murdered and slaughtered its way across South East Asia in an orgy of killing that included the systematic murder of 12 million Chinese civilians; most killed by sword, shovel, and bayonet. And who can forget Rwanda , which collapsed into butchery? Could it not be said that the majority of Rwandans were 'peace-loving'? 

"History lessons are often incredibly simple and blunt, yet for all our powers of reason, we often miss the most basic and uncomplicated of points: peace-loving Muslims have been made irrelevant by their silence. Peace-loving Muslims will become our enemy if they don't speak up, because like my friend from Germany , they will awaken one day and find that the fanatics own them, and the end of their world will have begun."

Peace-loving Germans, Japanese, Chinese, Russians, Rwandans, Serbs, Afghans, Iraqis, Palestinians, Somalis, Nigerians, Algerians, and many others have died because the peaceful majority did not speak up until it was too late.

What do statistics tell us: not later than 2051 France will have more Muslims than Christians, The Netherlands to follow just a couple of years later, Belgium probably by the year 2060, and Germany already has over 8 million Muslims which is to say, 10% of its population and every week new ones coming from war-torn countries. 

Mosques are mushrooming all over the E. U. receiving construction permits on a daily basis. Go and ask for a church construction permit not even as far as Saudi- Arabia, just start asking in Turkey and you'll feel a hard kick in your butt. 

Now Islamic prayers have been introduced in Toronto and other public schools in Ontario, and in Ottawa too, while the Lord's Prayer was removed (due to being so offensive?). The Islamic way may be peaceful for the time being in our country... until the fanatics move in.

In Australia, and indeed in many countries around the world, many of the most commonly consumed food items have the halal emblem on them. Just look at the back of some of the most popular chocolate bars, and at other food items in your local supermarket. Food on aircraft have the halal emblem just to appease the privileged minority who are now rapidly expanding within the nation's shores. Why? Because they dare in the name of God. 

In the UK, the Muslim communities refuse to integrate and there are now dozens of no-go zones within major cities across the country that the police force dare not intrude upon. Sharia law prevails there, because the Muslim community in those areas refuse to acknowledge British law.

As for us who watch it all unfold, we must pay attention to the only group that counts -- the fanatics who threaten our way of life, in the name of God. Anyone who doubts that the issue is serious is contributing to the passiveness that allows the problems to expand. Let us hope that thousands world-wide read this, think about it, and pass it on before it's too late!

Rightist AfD makes hyuge gains in German elections

"Things can't go much better than this," said Joerg Meuthen, co-leader of Alternativ für Deutschland (AfD), pronouncing himself "highly satisfied" with the results of elections in the state of Saxony, in eastern Germany, this weekend.

With counting nearly complete, the right-wing party was on track to win 28% of the vote, its best performance in any state election to date. Five years ago the AfD polled just under 10% of the vote. Angela Merkel's ruling centre-right Christian Democratic Union got 33% of the vote, down from 39% five years ago.

In neighbouring Brandenburg, Alternativ für Deutschland won 23.5%, almost doubling its vote share (12.2%) in the 2014 state election. The Social Democrats, partners of Frau Merkel's Christian Democrats, pipped AfD at the post, winning 26.2% of the vote, down from 31.9% five years ago. Like the CDU's showing in Saxony, that was the worst result for the centre-left party since the reunification of Germany 29 years ago.

Although the CDU-SDU coalition has clung to power in both states of the former East Germany, the strong showing by the AfD evidences growing dissatisfaction with Angela Merkel's government, which the German people hold responsible for the inundation of the Fatherland with millions of unassimilable Muslim "refugees" and asylum-seekers, all part of the Great Replacement orchestrated by (((George Soros))) and his useful fool, Pope Francis.

Although the AfD did not win the state elections, its chief whip in the Bundestag -- the German federal parliament -- Bernd Baumann, said its strong showing "pushes the issues forward that really interest people out there. I am glad that more and more people in the country say, 'We will take our country back from the left-wing, green mainstream, from the old parties to certain media."

Alternativ für Deutschland tipped to make big gains in fall elections

On the theory that one good picture of a right-handed salute (see yesterday's post about the Greek elections) deserves another, here's a photo of Björn Höcke, a rising star in the Alternativ für Deutschland (Alternative for Germany) party.

The AfD has been described as a right-wing party. [That's right! Ed.] Herr Höcke is the leader of a faction which is shifting the policies of the party even further to the right, to a position which the German state broadcaster, Deutsche Welle, describes as "hard nationalist". This division was manifest this weekend in an AfD conference in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia, an AfD stronghold, which ended abruptly with the resignation of nine of the party's twelve board members.

The resignation left the state party under the control of deputy chairman Thomas Röckemann, a supporter of the Björn Höcke wing. Herr Höcke used his speech at the annual "Kyffhäuser" meeting to deny that immigrants had ever been economically beneficial to Germany. He told supporters that "the policy of open borders practiced for decades, ever since 1955, this irrational migration policy for which the old parties are responsible, has bled us financially, as if we had lost another war."

Elsewhere in the Fatherland, three eastern states -- Brandenburg, Saxony, and Thuringia -- are due to elect new parliaments in the fall. The AfD is currently polling in first or second place in all three states. Should be interesting!

Footnote: The part of the poster partially visible behind Herr Höcke in the photo reads (translated) "Our culture!" Sounds a lot like "Ein volk!", doesn't it.

Further reading: "One-worlders quake with fear as nationalists win elections everywhere", WWW 21/5/19.

One-worlders quake with fear as nationalists win elections everywhere

George Soros, his puppets and minions, are much disturbed this week by results (actual and anticipated) of elections in India, Australia and the European Union. Around the world, nationalism -- not "white nationalism", but nationalism pure and simple -- is on the rise, along with anti-immigrant backlash and pushback against the globalists' one world, "new world order" agenda.

In India, the world's largest democracy (TM), exit polls suggest that Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is on course to win the general election which has been in progress for the last two months. The official results will be announced on Thursday, but expectations are that the BJP will emerge even stronger than after its 2014 landslide, with a majority in the Lok Sabha (lower house of parliament) a possibility.

Why does this bother the gliberals? Who cares what happens in India? To find the answer, look up "Hindutva" in the dictionary. It means "Hinduness", thus "Hindu nationalism", not "Indian nationalism". (There can be no such thing as "nationalism" in a state with such a diversity of languages, races and religions!) For Mr Modi and his people (Walt uses the term advisedly) it's not "India first!" but "HINDUS first!", to the exclusion of Muslims, Christians, Buddhists and even Sikhs. The spectre of more sectarian strife, and even another shooting war with Muslim Pakistan, looms. The prospects for peaceful coexistence in south Asia are just about nil.

Meanwhile, a couple of thousand miles to the southeast, Australia's ruling conservative coalition won a "miracle" victory in last week's general election, stunning Antipodean pollsters, the (((controlled media))) and the opposition Labour party, which, like Hellery Clinton's Democrats, had been seen as certain to win. Apparently Aussie voters didn't buy into Labour's progressive plans to fight climate change and "inequality".

And there was the immigration issue, which proved to be a ballot question for the "quiet Australians" who fear being called "racist" but fear even more Labour's proposed "humanitarian" relaxation of strict border controls which have kept boatloads of bogus refugees on islands off the Australian coast. The Financial Times quotes Duncan McDonnell, a professor of politics at Griffith University in Queensland, as saying, "The heart of Australian politics beats on the right. It's a conservative country and I think there was a trend in this election in which voters asked 'if it isn't broke, why fix it?'"

And now we come to Europe, where opinion polls show populist forces set to make major gains in the European Parliament election to be held later this week. All of Europe's mainstream, pro-EU political alliances are expected to lose seats, with the big winners likely to be the Europe of Nations and Freedom group, anchored by Matteo Salvini's League in Italy and Marine Le Pen's National Rally in France.

Take note of the name "Europe of Nations and Freedom". The group rejects absolute the idea of a "post-national" Europe run by a supra-national government at Brussels which would have the power to override the wishes of the different peoples of the different nations which comprise the EU. As the sign says, their ideas of "power to the people" and "a Europe of free nations" are spreading everywhere in Europe.

Last Saturday, Matteo Salvini led a rally of right-wing populist leaders in Milan, as they campaign for the transformation of European politics. Sig. Salvini, Minister of the Interior and head of the League party, is at the forefront of a growing movement of nationalist leaders seeking to free the 28 nations of the EU from what he calls the "illegal occupation" of Brussels.

Sig. Salvini was joined by ten other nationalist leaders, including Marine Le Pen of France’s National Rally and Joerg Meuthen of the Alternativ für Deutschland. The event was a major tour de force for the expanding movement ahead of the vote that will take place in all 28 EU nations on May 23rd-26th.

In his speech, Sig. Salvini decried unchecked migration, pledging to close Europe's borders to migrants. He also attacked Islam, saying it mistreats women. He said Turkey would never be a part of Europe and rejected the label of extremists for the leaders with him. "In this piazza, there are no extremists," he said. "There are no racists. There are no fascists. If anything in Italy and in Europe, the difference is between who looks ahead, between who speaks of the future...instead of making trials of the past."

Further reading:
"Australian Politics, Upside-Down: A populist revolt stuns Canberra, and elites respond predictably", by Emmett Hare, on City-Journal, 20/5/19.
"Has the Day of the Nationalists Come?", by Patrick J. Buchanan, on Lew Rockwell, 22/5/19.

"Allahu akbar!" in Germany - cops arrest Iraqi "refugees" in bomb plot

If the headline bears a remarkable similarity to "'Allahu akbar!' in Canada - cops arrest Syrian 'refugees' in bomb plot" (WWW 25/1/19), that's because the story is virtually the same, except that the locale is City, Germany, and the number of "refugees" arrested is three instead of two.

German federal prosecutors announced yesterday that three Iraqi refugees have been arrested on suspicion of planning an Islamic extremist bomb attack. Die polizei said Shahin F. and Hersh F., both 23, and Rauf S., 36, were taken into custody in an early morning raid by a police SWAT team in the area of Dithmarschen, near the border with Denmark. German laws forbid the release of the last names of the jihadists, for reasons of political correctness.

The two younger men are suspected of preparing a bomb attack and violating weapons laws, and the older one is alleged to have aided them. A spokesthingy for the federal prosecutor's office said the men appear to have been in the early stages of planning. "We believe that Shahin F. and Hersh F. were firmly committed to carrying out an attack," she told reporters, "but...according to our information the concrete target and timing of the attack weren't determined yet." Oddly enough (?) that's exactly what the Mounties said in the Canadian case.

But the Germans went way farther than the ultra-PC Canucks, alleging the two men decided in late 2018 to "carry out an attack motivated by Islamic extremism in Germany." Imagine that! Unlike the mealy-mouthed Canucks, they actually used the words "Islamic" and "terrorists" in the same sentence! According to the spokesthingy, there are indications that they sympathized with ISIS, although there was no evidence so far that they were members of, or directed by Islamic extremists.

In December, the spokesthingy went on, Shahin F. downloaded instructions on how to build a bomb, and ordered a detonator from a contact person in Britain, but never got it as it was its delivery was stopped by Inspector Knacker of the Yard. At the same time, the two younger men carried out tests using about nine ounces of gunpowder extracted from New Year's fireworks, and asked Rauf S. to procure a firearm.

The head of the German federal police said a task force of around 200 investigators had searched properties in three states, while keeping a close eye on the suspects, who had refugee status under Angela Merkel's discredited Willkommenskultur policy. In a remarkable statement of the obvious, he told reporters "The case shows that the threat of Islamic terrorism is still present." Imagine that (again)!

It wasn't immediately clear when the suspects came to Germany. More than a million "refugees" and asylum-seekers entered Germany in 2015-16, most of them young followers of the prophet Mohammed from Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan. The involvement of several asylum-seekers in extremist attacks or plots has helped boost support for the anti-immigrant Alternativ für Deutschland (AfD) party.

Security authorities have thwarted several Islamic terrorist attacks in Germany since the killing of 12 innocent people when a truck mowed down people at Berlin's Christmas market in 2016. Yesterday's news is bound to be repeated. The barbarians are not just at the gates, but inside the gates, and there will be no getting them out now.

Another gain for AfD forces Merkel to plan retirement

Cazart! Another defeat for "democratic socialism"[or "social democracy"? Ed.] in Germany! Results just in from Sunday's vote in the state of Hesse prove that the German people want change. They are sick of the self-centeredness and self-flagellation of Angela Merkel's liberal coalition, and sent them a strong message.

Frau Merkel's Christian Democratic Union and the Social Democrats lost significant ground, while there were gains for both the Greens and the right-wing Alternativ für Deutschland (Alternative for Germany). Merkel's party barely managed to retain power, narrowly salvaging a majority by means of a coalition with the Greens.

The governing coalition of Social Democrats (SPD), Christian Democrats (CDU) and Christian Social Union (CSU) is the classic example of all the "mainstream" parties banding together to prevent the rightist party from taking power. Within this decade, the same thing happened in France, Austria and the Netherlands. So for the last six months or so, Germans have been lumbered with a government that is so busy navel-gazing -- figuring out how to survive -- that it hasn't led, but rather paralyzed the Fatherland.

After 13 years in office, the German volk have learned to dislike and distrust Angela Merkel. Her abject failure to lead, particularly on the issue of mass migration, has led to the rise of the AfD and other right-wing parties, not just in Germany but in Europe as a hole. [Ed., I have checked the spelling. Quod scripsi scripsi.] Instead of tackling urgent issues like what to do with the criminal Muslim "refugees", the Merkel coalition is preoccupied with in-house squabbling over "the process of renewal". The German people have had enough!

Frau Merkel, 64, recently indicated she planned to seek another two-year term as leader of her Christian Democratic Union at a party congress to be held in December, but in light of the result in Hesse (and another debacle in Bavaria two weeks ago) appears to have changed her mind. At a news conference in Berlin today, she said it was her intention to remain as Chancellor, but this would be her final parliamentary term. "I will not run as candidate for chancellor in the 2021 election," she told the meeja, "and will not seek re-election to the German parliament. And, just for the record, I will not aim for any other political office," likely referring to European Commission elections to be held next year.

Throughout the Fatherland, cries are heard, not of "Angela, we hardly knew ye," but of "We knew ye all too well. Auf Wiedersehen, gute Riddance!"

Fed-up Germans take to streets in anti-immigrant demos

I've been waiting for months now to see which country's native-born citizens would be the first to take to the streets in revolt against open borders policies that allow the invasion of their country by hordes of mostly Muslim, mostly non-white asylum-seekers and "refugees".

I knew it wouldn't be Canada, because Canucks are so damn passive that the only thing that riles them up is losing (or winning) a hockey championship. And I figured it wouldn't be the Excited States of America. Since the election of President Trump, there's at least a faint hope that the wall might get built, and POTUS has kept his promise to close the borders to at least some of the Islamists, so protests like this months Unite the Right rally have kind of fizzled out.

So that left Europe and the Disunited Kingdom, the latter being (supposedly) on its way out of the EU. It's hard to think of a western European country that isn't struggling to assimilate 1000s of "irregular migrants", who keep washing up (literally) on the shores of the Mediterranean, assisted by do-good weenies and discredited policies like Angela Merkel's "Willkommenskultur".

As President Trump has pointed out, crime rates in such tolerant societies as those of Sweden, Britain, France and Germany have spiked since the migrant tsunami of 2015. Welfare payments and other social costs have gone through the roof. Who would be the first to say "We've had enough!"?
Answer: It's the Germans of Saxony who this week had the courage (I don't know the German word for "cojones") to get up on their hind feet and into the streets of the state's third-largest city, Chemnitz, to protest Willkommenskultur and the Merkel government's pro-refugee, anti-German policies.

"Ausländer raus!" -- "Foreigners out!" -- sums up perfectly the sentiments of the majority of Germans -- feelings with the Fatherland's politicians ignore at their peril. Chemnitz is very close to the border with Czechi (aka the Czech Republic) where they have virtually no problems with Muslim migrants because... well... because they don't let them in! The Germans of Saxony have not been slow to notice the difference between their country and those to the east, but are stuck with daft rulers obsessed with political correctness to the point of proscribing the naming in the media of those accused of crimes, for fear of stoking Islamophobia and/or xenophobia.

Which brings us to the cause of this week's riots in Chemnitz. Late last week there was a fatal stabbing in the city. The victim was German. Die polizei arrested two men, who they would not identify, but the news leaked out that the perps were both Muslims, both "refugees", one Iraq and one Syrian. When outraged citizens took to the street, the government's response was predictable. Martin Dulig, the deputy premier of Saxony, told the called the leak of the arrest warrant (most likely from a police or judicial source) a scandal. "We have a bigger problem to deal with there," he said Martin Dulig, without specifying the nature of the problem.

When Herr Dulig's statement failed to calm the unrest, his boss went into damage control mode. Saxony's premier, Michael Kretschmer (for it was he) vowed to deal firmly with... wait for it... not foreign criminals, but with "extremists" who dared to raise their voices (and arms -- the old Nazi salute is verboten in Germany). "The fact that we have a Syrian and an Iraqi suspect is no reason -- no reason at all -- for a general suspicion of all foreign residents," he said.

Is it any wonder that the right-wing, anti-immigrant Alternative for Germany (AfD) party and the Pegida movement are strong in Saxony, and getting stronger. Both groups, along with a local right-wing group called Pro Chemnitz, united for a rally on Sunday. Just as in the USA, a counter-rally was organized by SJWs and antifa extremists, but, unlike in the USA, the 1000 or so lefties were outnumbered by some 6000 patriotic Germans determined to get their country back.

Chemnitz is braced for fresh protests this weekend, with local authorities (like Herr Kretschmer and Herr Dulig) calling in federal police to help. Walt heard one of them -- not sure which -- interviewed on TV last night. He said that, in Germany, violence is reserved exclusively for the government. Something similar was said some 85 years ago by officials of the Weimar Republic. Stay tuned.

German pro-migrant politicos cringe as Afghan asylum-seeker charged with brutal rape-murder

This is Maria Ladenburger -- the late Maria Ladenburger, the daughter of Dr Clemens Ladenburger, a German lawyers who works as an assistant to the legal director of the European Commission. Fräulein Ladenburger, who lived in Freiburg, Germany, was the victim of a brutal rape and murder. She was 19 years old.

A spokesthingy for the local police told a press conference last month that the pretty medical student had been at a party in October. She left around 0237 to cycle home, when she became "the victim of a sexual offence and a violent crime." She was raped and then drowned in the River Dreisam, where her body was found on 16 October 2017. Her black scarf was discovered on the riverbank, and a single strand of dark hair that had been partially dyed blonde was found in a blackberry bush.

DNA from the hair and the scarf were run through the police criminal database, but no matches were found. Detectives then turned to CCTV footage in the town and the surrounding area where the young woman was found. Video footage taken on a local streetcar showed a young man who had what police said was "a very conspicuous hairstyle, an undercut hairstyle", with a portion of his long hair dyed blonde. They arrested a teenage asylum-seeker whose DNA matched that found at the crime scene.

Fräulein Ladenburger volunteered at a home for "refugees" in her spare time, but it is unclear whether she ever met her murderer before he took her life. The German public prosecutor handling the case said the suspect, who had been taken in by a local family who believed in Angela Merkel's "Willkommenskultur", confessed to the murder.

Police are now trying to establish if he may be responsible for the death of another girl in the area. Carolin G., 27, was raped and murdered at the beginning of November while jogging in Endinge, just 18 miles away from Freiburg. Connecting the unnamed yoof with that crime will be difficult, as detectives found no DNA evidence at that crime scene.

Interest in this story has been revived this month as Chancellor (pro tem) Merkel struggles to put together a coalition government, after the rising tide of anger at her open-door refugee policy resulted in huge gains in last September's election for the anti-immigrant Alternativ für Deutschland (AfD) party and a drastically reduced minority for Frau Merkel's Christian Democratic Union.

Other parties, including the CDU's erstwhile ally, the CSU, are demanding drastic changes to Germany's immigration policy. One of the major issues which they seem unable to resolve is the suspension of the policy of reunifying refugee families. The person who killed Fraülein Landenburger was one of 1000s of young Muslim men from the shithole countries of the Middle East and North Africa who came to Germany as unaccompanied minors. Crime among such young men has spiked as the tidal wave of "refugees" washed over Europe.

Now leading criminologists commissioned by Frau Merkel's government have produced a study arguing that family reunification would be an effective method to counteract crime among young migrants. The solution, then, is to bring in their parents, siblings, aunts, uncles, cousins -- millions more unassimilable Muslims to be welcomed into das Vaterland. Reaction to the plan, even within Frau Merkel's own CDU, has been distinctly cool.

AfD parliamentarian's account blocked for anti-Muslim Tweet

Canada has its M-103 (full title: Motion 103), passed in March 2017 by the ruling Liberal Party in collusion with the pinkish NDP over the objections of the Conservative opposition. The brainchild of a Muslim MP representing a minority majority riding in the so-called Greater Toronto Area, it is (in theory) only a non-binding motion of the Canadian Parliament calling on the federal government to condemn Islamophobia in Canada. It also calls for the collection of data on "hate crimes" and a study on how racism and religious discrimination can be reduced. and collect data on hate crimes.

Although M-103 is only a motion, and doesn't carry the force of law, Canadian governments at all levels and the (((controlled media))) treat it as law requiring censorship of any negative reference to Islam or Muslims, particularly in connection with terrorist attacks or other crimes. This leads to such absurdities as the refusal of Canuck police to identify a man who, last month, walked into a bank in the Toronto suburb of Vaughan, with explosives strapped to his torso, demanding drugs and a telephone call to President Trump. See "Canuck cops cover up terror attack outside Toronto", WWW 15/15/17. The uncle of the now-deceased attacker said the man was an immigrant from Iran, and yes, a follower of the Prophet.

Citizens of more sensible nations [like the Excited States of America? Ed.] may laugh at the self-loathing of Canadians (see Further Reading, below), but the let's-be-nice-to-Muslims-and-maybe-they-won't-kill-us policies of other countries are even worse. Take, for example, Angela Merkel's Germany.

Walt trusts that his readers have not forgotten how, last New Year's and the New Year's before that, gangs of Arab and African yoofs -- Muslim asylum-seekers, "refugees" and other migrants -- rampaged through the streets of Köln (Cologne) and other German cities molesting, robbing and raping Aryan women. See "Happy New Year (II) ! 100s of 'Africans' detained in Cologne", WWW 1/1/17 and "Trump warns Germans after asylum-seekers' sex and crime spree", WWW 8/1/16.

This year, die Polizei decided to forestall the expected repetition of the Islamists' demonstrations of appreciation for their hosts' Willkommenskultur by issuing New Year's greetings in Arabic. "Peace on earth" and all that. This expression of brotherly love was met with responses of "Piss on you!" and others too vile to post in Walt's family-oriented blog.

Among those who thought this gesture of of accommodation was unnecessary and ridiculous was Beatrix von Storch, a prominent lawmaker with the nationalist Alternativ für Deutschland (Alternative for Germany) party, who Tweeted, "Do they think they will calm the barbaric, Muslim, group-raping hordes of men this way?"

No good deed goes unpunished, and no politicall incorrect Tweet goes uncensored in the Fatherland. Frau Storch's innocent question resulted in her Twitter account being blocked for several hours yesterday over a suspected breach of rules on hate speech -- Germany's much tougher version of Canada's M-103.

Inspektor Katzenjammer said this morning that his storm troopers ["officers", shurely! Ed.] were filing a criminal complaint to prosecutors over "suspected incitement". He did not say against whom the complaint would be filed. Walt suspects it will be against those who expressed outrage at the barbaric behaviour of the poor mistreated Muslims, not at the Muslims who provoked the outrage. Such is the strange death of European civilization.

Further reading: "5 decades of liberalism turns Canucks sour on themselves", WWW 28/6/17. Walt's Canadian buddy, Poor Len Canayen, fulminates about M-103, white liberal guilt, and why the Great White North isn't great or white any more.