Via Hot Air, Angela Merkel says
“We feel tied to Christian values. Those who don’t accept them don’t have a place here,” said the chancellor.
“Subsidising immigrants” isn’t sufficient, Germany has the right to “make demands” on them, she added, such as mastering the language of Goethe and abandoning practices such as forced marriages.
Whoa! This is a German from post-Christian Europe saying this. Winds of Change?
Says Ed Morrisey at Hot Air:
Merkel’s speech may be one of the more important given by a Western leader in the last several years. It underscores that immigrants have a duty to assimilate if they want to live in another country, and that the receiving nation’s responsibilities do not include carving its nation or its laws into mini-models of the nations that the immigrants have left.
If she can make it happen, if she has the support of most Germans, this could be a real step towards sanity and a Post-PC world.
Thomas Sowell did a piece on it. http://townhall.com/columnists/ThomasSowell/2010/10/19/the_multicultural_cult
ReplyDeleteMulticulturalism is a broad topic. It is basically a way to destroy Western culture by getting it to bring about its own destruction by using peoples emotions and the far reaching support for equality, which is over rated or misused. From what I know Europe is largely becoming Muslim. I don't know if her statement shows a real fundamental shift in world opinion.
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