Posted on 09/05/2025 11:07:44 AM PDT by MinorityRepublican
“When I think about the trip today, I wouldn’t do it again – it was so dangerous. What I remember is that many people died, they drowned … there were too many people on that boat.”
Anas Modamani, who as a teenager fled Syria’s brutal civil war for the safety of Europe in 2015, is one of many who ended up in Germany, where he still lives and now holds a passport.
Sitting in a Syrian cafe in Neukölln, a culturally diverse district of the German capital, Modamani is smiling and well-groomed.
He works in IT and in his own time is busy generating content for his thousands of TikTok followers. Yet he is no stranger to media fame. Just days after arriving in Berlin, a selfie he took with then-German Chancellor Angela Merkel went viral, as a symbol of the mood of the time.
This week marks a decade since Merkel’s historic decision to open her country’s borders to the large numbers of migrants who were then arriving in Europe in search of refuge from civil wars or dire economic hardship.
Images of people marching en masse along highways, carrying their possessions on their backs, are among the most enduring of modern Europe. And the repercussions of that moment are still felt today in both German and European politics.
Hundreds of thousands of people aimed to reach Germany, a bastion of economic stability and prosperity. Merkel welcomed them, declaring on August 31, 2015, “Wir schaffen das,” or “We can do this.” That became a phrase symbolic of a wider approach known as Willkommenskultur, or welcome culture.
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“Almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so.”
― Robert A. Heinlein
Merkel welcomed them, declaring on August 31, 2015, “Wir schaffen das,” or “We can do this.”
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Yes, you surely did it. You should be ashamed and regretting what you did to the German people but you’re probably still proud of it.
The WEF and its masters in London and Brussels working upon Germany, with the help of Obama and the DC deep state
They don’t have the direct help of the DC deep state any longer, so things will become very dicey.
Ping
> Anas Modamani, who as a teenager fled Syria’s brutal civil war for the safety of Europe in 2015 <
Syria’s civil war would not had happened had George W. Bush not invaded neighboring Iraq. W’s reckless action brought instability to the whole region.
That invasion costs us lives and treasure. And it accelerated the Muslim invasion of Europe.
I suppose Al Gore could have done worse in that regard. But I really can’t see how.
whether a western civilized nation can “do it” accepting or importing “immigrants” depends greatly on the type, culture of those coming in
allowing how there will always be some friction and some crime, especially during the adjustment phase,
specific groups of people demonstrate a far, far greater propensity to violence than others
Had Germany imported a million Chinese or Russians or Canadians or Hindus, it could, probably would have worked pretty well. Same for a number of additional groups
Very little in the article about the huge increase in violent crime, due almost exclusively to the “asylum seekers”.
The same article written the same way they always write them, year, after year, after year, and the media wonders why we aren’t interested in their non-reporting, reporting.
This article says nothing and doesn’t cover any of the information and facts that we are seeking in an article with that title.
We were stationed in Germany twice, 77-80 and 88-91. Germany was wonderful both times, scenic, friendly, clean and very low crime. You could not pay me to go back now on vacation. Germany did not lift those people up to it’s level, they pulled the country down to their level.
The Germans did Nazi those changes coming, and the Jokes' on them!
I lived in Germany three different years. In 1961-1962 and 1965-1966 there were zero Middle Easterners living in the country—or, for that matter, anywhere in Western Europe. When I spent a third year there as an exchange student in 1971-72, the influx of “guest workers” from the Middle East, mainly turkey.
I have thought about returning to see Germany for one last time, but if I do, I’ll probably have to brace for a culture shock.
Hello Islam ... goodbye UK, Scandinavia and EU ... hopefully the US won’t be overtaken by Islam’s Army.
This crap has been going on in Germany for a long time. I was stationed in West Berlin in the mid 70’s and it was already filled with cheap labor from Turkey. Germany lost its soul many decades ago.
2016:
Germany: Traditional sausages banned in public canteens out of respect to Muslims claims Merkel ally
Was the results wrought by Angela Merkel a bad coincidence or was it by intention???
From Sweden down into the Netherlands, across to Germany and beyond the citizens of much of western Europe were being told their leaders did not like their own people or their culture and were going to force cultural change on them.
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