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Populist Wave Makes Merkel Go All-Out Conservative: Calls for Burqa Ban in Germany
PJ Media ^ | 12-06-2016 | Michael van der Galien

Posted on 12/06/2016 12:37:56 PM PST by Michael van der Galien

Angela Merkel is suddenly becoming more hawkish than Geert Wilders and Marine Le Pen. To everyone's surprise, the German chancellor is suddenly speaking out against the burqa. Not only does she think it's "unGerman" to wear one, but she even believes the burqa should be banned completely. That's rather surprising coming from a politician who has never hidden her support for the Grand Multicultural Idea.

Angela Merkel has called for a burqa ban wherever “legally possible” and says the full Islamic veil is “not appropriate” in Germany. The German chancellor made the comments at a Christian Democratic Union (CDU) conference having recently declared she will seek re-election.

She received a large round of applause for calling for the outlawing of the burqa at the conference in Essen, Bild reported.

The populist wave in the United States and Europe has caused Merkel to make a sharp turn to the right. As we reported last month, she suddenly -- and surprisingly -- announced in November that she would forcibly deport 100,000 unwelcome immigrants. And a few days later, the German leader said the EU should halt its negotiations with Turkey, a country run by an increasingly more authoritarian president.

Both announcements were shocking considering that Merkel has repeatedly told aspiring migrants from the Middle East that they are welcome in Germany. When she was criticized for it because she caused a major migrant wave, one Europe couldn't deal with, she curtly answered with "Wir Schaffen das." Translation: "We will make it work." Apparently, not so much. As for Turkey, Merkel was long known as one of the strongest proponents of talks with Ankara. That too has suddenly changed.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Germany; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: angelamerkel; burqa; europe; islam
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1 posted on 12/06/2016 12:37:56 PM PST by Michael van der Galien
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Burqas-—seems to me most of the “migrants” are men. Men who rape and kill. Not sure how a burqa ban helps with that.


2 posted on 12/06/2016 12:39:11 PM PST by riri (Obama's Amerika--Not a fun place.)
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Good luck with all that.


3 posted on 12/06/2016 12:40:27 PM PST by dfwgator
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To: Michael van der Galien

Amazing how folks’ train of thoughts change with Trump’s victory...


4 posted on 12/06/2016 12:40:35 PM PST by trebb (Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
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To: Michael van der Galien
Too little. Too late. Time for THIS Kraut to GO!
5 posted on 12/06/2016 12:40:37 PM PST by ExSoldier ("Terrorists: They hate you yesterday, today, and tomorrow. End it, no more tomorrows for them!)
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Idiot. The main point is to keep them out.


6 posted on 12/06/2016 12:41:05 PM PST by max americana (For the 9th time FIRED LIBERALS from our company at this election, and every election since 2008)
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I heard she said full face covering.


7 posted on 12/06/2016 12:41:21 PM PST by ilovesarah2012
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Anything to keep her pudgy paws on the door handle of Global Government.


8 posted on 12/06/2016 12:44:34 PM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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Moisten index finger, turn to the wind, align your rhetoric! SOP!
9 posted on 12/06/2016 12:44:46 PM PST by ExSES (the "bottom-line")
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Like McCain, Merkel won’t follow through once she wins again.


10 posted on 12/06/2016 12:45:40 PM PST by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here Of Citizen Parents)
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Merkel is hiding under her own “Burka” - trying to hide what she has done, and cover it with something that looks different.

The Burka ban is a small symbolic thing. The flood of third world muslims will be a persistent high-crime, low productivity underclass that will undermine German security for decades or generations.

See through her election time disguise!


11 posted on 12/06/2016 12:46:24 PM PST by BeauBo
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For justice to be done, Merkel must swing from a rope until dead.

And that is just the start!


12 posted on 12/06/2016 12:46:56 PM PST by T-Bone Texan (Normal people do not play dominoes on pizza.)
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Fresh paint on a rusted ship.
Get the grinders out.


13 posted on 12/06/2016 1:01:34 PM PST by dasboot (GOV POLICY: From each according to our needs; to each according to our needs.)
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head fake


14 posted on 12/06/2016 1:04:44 PM PST by 867V309 (Lock Her Up)
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15 posted on 12/06/2016 1:14:18 PM PST by Organic Panic (Gentrification in America. Rich White Man Evicts Poor Black Family - MSNBCPBSCNNNYTABC)
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So Renzi is beaten and she wants the breeding stock that she allowed in to cover their faces

As logical as letting them in in the first place.


16 posted on 12/06/2016 1:14:51 PM PST by I want the USA back (Lying Media: willing and eager allies of the hate-America left.)
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Merkel the Jerkel must go.

Why? She supported Obama in Libya.

Just really bad news for NATO.

Destroyed a whole nation that was in fact a US ally.

reason? Gadaffi was not politically correct.

That’s fascism folks!

Believe it!Read who Obama is and who Merkel is too, just the same:

http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html


17 posted on 12/06/2016 1:24:07 PM PST by Candor7 ( Obama fascism article:(http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html)
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There’s an appropriate American idiom about the horse and closing the barn door—to which i Merkel is likely unfamiliar. My German has atrophied considerably so I’m forced to rely on an online translation of a message for her : “Die Stalltür zu schließen, nachdem das Pferd verschraubt hat!”


18 posted on 12/06/2016 1:36:34 PM PST by philled (If this creature is not stopped it could make its way to Novosibirsk!)
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fullburka photo Merkle_in_burka3_zps1609ibaa.jpg
19 posted on 12/06/2016 1:39:42 PM PST by topspinr
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To: ilovesarah2012

I heard she said full face covering.

See Post 19


20 posted on 12/06/2016 1:44:10 PM PST by topspinr
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