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.
