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.

Germans marching against Islamization, religious extremism

While Americans are marching against "racist" cops, Germans are taking to the streets by the 10s of 1000s to protest something that really matters -- the Islamization of their country.

Just this last November 27th, Walt posted "IS jihadists clash with Kurds -- guess where?". The answer turned out to be Hamburg, the second-largest city in Germany. Daniel Abdin, imam of Hamburg's Al-Nour Mosque, called the area "Hamburgistan". And ethnic Germans -- as opposed to the hordes of Muslim immigrants, refugees and "guest workers" who have swamped their country -- have had enough.

Immigration has become a hot topic in Germany this year, amid a surge in the numbers of asylum-seekers, fuelled by the wars in Syria and Iraq. Germany takes in more asylum-seekers than any other country. By the end of this year, they expect to have received 200,000 claims for asylum, a 63% increase over the number for 2013.

Asylum-seekers, yes... like Man Haron Monis, who we see here preaching jihad against us infidels in Australia. The Aussies took him in as an asylum-seeker from Iran back in 1996. Was he grateful? Apparently not. Yesterday, the self-styled imam took several hostages at a café in downtown Sydney. Following a lengthy standoff, he was shot just hours ago by the (doubtlessly Islamophobic) police. Presumably he's now in Muslim paradise being serviced by 72 virgins.

But back to Germany... A march against "Islamization of the West" is due to take place in Dresden, with turnout expected to reach about 10,000 in the eastern German city. Dresden is the birthplace of a movement called "Patriotic Europeans Against the Islamization of the West" (Pegida), which staged a big rally a week ago.

"Most of their demands are legitimate," said Bernd Lucke, leader of the conservative Alternativ für Deutschland (AfD), which has campaigned for a tougher policy on immigration, as well as rejection of the euro. The AfD leader in Dresden, Frauke Petry, said Pegida "is protesting against inadequate legislation on asylum rights - they are also demanding that German law be applied against law-breakers, and they are opposing religious extremism".

Good for them, says Walt. But will patriotic Australians, Americans, Britons and Canadians have the courage to take to the streets to voice their opposition to "make nice with the Muslims" policies of their governments? Or will they refrain from doing so, for fear of being accused by the chattering classes and PC police of acting like Nazis? I know which way I'm betting!