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Merkel: Migrants and Germans can learn from each other
Washington Post ^ | April 1, 2017

Posted on 04/01/2017 6:36:08 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer

BERLIN — Chancellor Angela Merkel says newcomers to Germany must learn the country’s values and customs, but that Germans can also learn from them.

More than 1 million asylum seekers have arrived in the past two years, and Germany’s been working hard on integration.

Speaking in her weekly podcast with a Syrian journalist who arrived as a refugee in 2015, Merkel emphasized migrants need to respect Germany’s values of “tolerance, openness, freedom of religion and freedom of expression” and also “be a little curious about our way of life.”

On the flipside, Merkel says Germans should be open, and “seize upon it as a possibility to learn and experience more.”

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; Germany; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: islam; islamists; migrants; terrorism
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Merkel is delusional, evil, or both.
1 posted on 04/01/2017 6:36:08 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Like what? Lay back and ‘enjoy’ it? I am dumbfounded why this bitch is still in control, frankly.


2 posted on 04/01/2017 6:38:47 AM PDT by Gaffer
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

You know, it’s truly easy to believe in demonic possession when you understand what is actually happening vs what is coming out of the mouths of these fiends. It is also consistent with what I’ve learned over a lifetime of the nature of evil.


3 posted on 04/01/2017 6:38:50 AM PDT by Caipirabob (Communists... Socialists... Democrats...Traitors... Who can tell the difference?)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Yeah like going to the zoo.


4 posted on 04/01/2017 6:39:17 AM PDT by Williams (Stop tolerating the intolerant.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

What, pray tell, can Germans learn from migrants? Maybe to steer clear of them?


5 posted on 04/01/2017 6:39:42 AM PDT by JudyinCanada
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Germans will learn how the Russians felt in 1941, the migrants will learn how the Germans felt in 1941.


6 posted on 04/01/2017 6:40:47 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (Psephomancers for Hillary!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

This dumb bitch should be publicly hanged!


7 posted on 04/01/2017 6:40:59 AM PDT by Artcore
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I frequently comment to people that I don’t know how anyone can look at what goes on in this world and NOT believe in the devil.


8 posted on 04/01/2017 6:41:08 AM PDT by JudyinCanada
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

How insulting defeat can’t come soon enough for this evil moron


9 posted on 04/01/2017 6:41:34 AM PDT by datricker (Democratic Party - aborting their voter base since 1973)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Angle-uh dances while Berlin Burns.


10 posted on 04/01/2017 6:44:23 AM PDT by Vaquero ( Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

We’ve learned enough, thank you.


11 posted on 04/01/2017 6:46:29 AM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks (Baseball players, gangsters and musicians are remembered. But journalists are forgotten.)
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They’ll learn that the only proper candidates for immigration are people who admire German culture, and want to be German. And that the rest should be returned to their country of origin.


12 posted on 04/01/2017 6:46:34 AM PDT by marron
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All I need to know about Muslims, I learned on 9/11/01.


13 posted on 04/01/2017 6:47:20 AM PDT by Bloody Sam Roberts (Good judgement comes from experience. And experience? Well, that comes from poor judgement.)
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” I am dumbfounded why this bitch is still in control, frankly.”

They have a Byzantine political system. It is arranged in such a way that no popular leader can come to power. Every leader heads a coalition government whose agenda is set by the governing committees of the coalition parties. Believe it or not, Merkel is probably one of the more “conservative” leaders on the various dockets. She heads the CDU and is currently partnered with the SDU. From the German perspective, the CDU is “right wing.” Drop those same constituents in the United States and they’d be just left of center. The SDU, S stands for Social, are to the left of CDU. The SDU said they wanted to break with the “conservatives” and partner instead with the Greens and the Linke. Linke is the former communist party and the Greens are total idiot anti-technology live-in-a-hollow-tree types. This didn’t go over well so the SDU held a meeting last week to heal the rift that was growing with the CDU. The only party that is remotely recognizable as “conservative” as the word is used in the US is the AFD. So far they are the only ones who have come out with an anti-immigrant stance. It is unlikely they could carry more than 20% of the vote in most of the German states as they have no nationally recognized experienced politicians and are a complete unknown to most of the German voters.


14 posted on 04/01/2017 6:51:06 AM PDT by Gen.Blather (n)
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What is it I have to learn from some filthy bearded savage who wipes his butt with his fingers?


15 posted on 04/01/2017 6:51:34 AM PDT by IronJack
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Merkel is delusional, evil, or both.

I think that she just wants to stay in power. So she says what she thinks the Germans want to hear.
She's wrong. The Germans don't want any more immigrants and might even want the ones who are there to GO BACK to their homeland.

She's a politician.

16 posted on 04/01/2017 6:51:46 AM PDT by cloudmountain
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S.U.I.C.I.D.E. !!


17 posted on 04/01/2017 6:52:20 AM PDT by snooter55 (People may doubt what you say, but they will always believe what you do)
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OK, I’m convinced: she’s possessed.


18 posted on 04/01/2017 7:01:10 AM PDT by polymuser (There's a yuuuge basket of deportables.)
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Yeah, muzzies learn European men are wussies, and European women learn their governments won’t protect them


19 posted on 04/01/2017 7:02:25 AM PDT by Doogle (( USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated)))
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German: We will teach you the German language and German culture.

Migrant: Not interested. Want only to learn Welfare Law.

German: Sure. You will love German Benefit Programs.

Migrant: That’s good. I will teach you Sharia and all about Allah.

German: Yes. Yes. Culture exchange benefits all of us. Welcome to Germany.


20 posted on 04/01/2017 7:03:16 AM PDT by InterceptPoint (Ted, you finally endorsed. About time.)
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