Austria, and the rest of Europe, should be assured....they have the entire Christian world on their side.
Germany initially announced it would take in 800,000 refugees.
Germany is a thriving, wealthy industrious country...the one that was able to bail out Greece, and weathered the subprime/bank meltdown basically unscathed.
Hard to imagine a financially-astute, conservative German population would stand idly by and allow the unruly Syrian mobs to takeover their beautiful country.
Then the tide turned. Merkel stepped back. The industrious, religious Germans apparently decided they can't deal w/ a bunch of unruly anti-Christian refugees intent on causing mayhem in Christian Germany.
Letting in the Muslim hordes, would see the pristine German countryside littered w/ Muslim detritus....not to mention their body wastes.
Bump.
Yesterday, I asked our years ago German exchange student what he thought about the Syrians and his reply was pretty much the liberal mush I expected. He admits he’s liberal (as is his whole family) and thinks only of the positive and not any negative. That despite foreigners changing Germany “a lot” over the past many years, he doesn’t see that the cultures have changed the base of Germany. He likes the cultural mix so is leaving it up to the politicians to sort things out but maybe the foreigners will leave when the war ends. And wouldn’t it be all warm and fuzzy if only “the world would live in peace” with all countries having good economies so that no one has to leave their home (ok, the warm and fuzzy was my addition). He says the German Constitution states any political refugee can stay (never mind that he can’t see they aren’t but hugs and kumbaya!). That the only ones coming to Germany are the “higher educated” ones who will be helpful workers for the economy. And here’s the zinger for the US, he says Mexicans and South Americans are only coming here for a better living.