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Germany unnerved by scores of xenophobic attacks against refugees
Washington Post ^ | August 16, 2015 | By Anthony Faiola

Posted on 08/17/2015 10:35:58 AM PDT by Brad from Tennessee

MEISSEN, Germany — In a gesture of German goodwill, the administration in this medieval city leased a newly renovated apartment building here to humanely — even comfortably — house dozens of desperate ­asylum-seekers. The newcomers from Syria and other war- ravaged nations would enjoy freshly redone floors, cute balconies and shiny, modern appliances in a cheerful building near a timber-framed pub.

Then Meissen’s goodwill went up in smoke.

On a cool night six weeks ago, suspected right-wing arsonists struck the building, scorching its interior and rendering it uninhabitable days before the ­asylum-seekers were to move in. The attack added Meissen, a gothic castle town of 30,000 on the Elbe River, to a string of German cities caught up in an escalating rash of violence against refugees.

The acts include an ugly spate of arson targeting refugee centers as well as physical attacks on refugees themselves, marking the return of what critics say is an unnerving brand of xenophobia to Western Europe’s most populous nation.

The attacks are undercutting Germany’s image as the country leading the effort to aid a record flow of refugees into Europe, highlighting the rising social tensions in the region amid the avalanche of asylum-seekers. . .

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1 posted on 08/17/2015 10:35:58 AM PDT by Brad from Tennessee
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To: Brad from Tennessee

The fightback begins.

Unfortunately, given their past history, they will be called “Nazis” for it.


2 posted on 08/17/2015 10:36:45 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Brad from Tennessee

Some things can only be cleansed by fire...


3 posted on 08/17/2015 10:40:06 AM PDT by Old Sarge (I prep because DHS and FEMA told me it was a good idea...)
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To: Brad from Tennessee

I’m sorry, but my care meter is registering ZERO for these illegal alien invaders who get what they deserve for crossing into a sovereign nation illegally.

Nobody invited them.
Nobody should have to pay for them to live.
Nobody should have to give up their rights to appease them.

I’d say justice is being served.
They can go back to their “homes” if they don’t like it.


4 posted on 08/17/2015 10:40:18 AM PDT by Roman_War_Criminal (The Sun Never Sets on Liberal Idiocy)
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To: Brad from Tennessee

At first I thought the headline read,

“Germany unnerved by scores of attacks by foreign savages against its own citizens.”

Oh, well............


5 posted on 08/17/2015 10:43:55 AM PDT by elcid1970 ("The Second Amendment is more important than Islam.")
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To: Brad from Tennessee

Some folks are just letting their city know....not in my neighborhood.


6 posted on 08/17/2015 10:45:25 AM PDT by Conservative4Ever (ENOUGH!! Man the pitch forks and torches...let the revolution begin!!!)
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To: Brad from Tennessee

These “refugees” are going to have to learn that you can’t run away from oppressive regimes and let someone else take care of you. You have to stay and fight for what is yours - just as we are going to have to dig in and fight for what is ours in the very near future. Are you up to the task?


7 posted on 08/17/2015 10:48:37 AM PDT by beelzepug (liberalism is not...a political philosophy. It is a stage of arrested emotional development.)
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To: Brad from Tennessee

The Washington Post cries for the muslim invaders.

Calls them “refugees.”


8 posted on 08/17/2015 10:49:05 AM PDT by MarvinStinson
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To: Brad from Tennessee

Obama keeps allowing more and more Muslims.
However, Yazidis, non-Muslims, seeking refugee
Status are refused, as are Christians. Obama’s
Hell for us will just get worse as they have
Welfare babies at an alarming rate.


9 posted on 08/17/2015 10:52:54 AM PDT by Calpublican (Republicans fought slavery!!Now the Party stands for nothing!!!!!!)
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To: Brad from Tennessee

And the Xeno people say this is racism.;-)


10 posted on 08/17/2015 10:58:04 AM PDT by RoosterRedux (Trump's ISIS policy: Kick their ass. Take their gas.)
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To: Brad from Tennessee

Xenophobia in the 21st century civilized world is rational and essential.


11 posted on 08/17/2015 10:58:26 AM PDT by arthurus (It's true.)
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To: Brad from Tennessee

Germans for Germany ... gee, what a concept.

If one were to go back in history, and research how many folks died in The Crusades against the mohammedans, and how far back that bloodline ran, I would look at these actions taken as revenge.

Mohammedans, whereever they manage to plop their butts, do NOT assimilate, but demand their laws, their ways, and their customs that they dragged out of their stone age countries, be afforded to them, without hesitation, and with higher standards, than the country that they now occupy.


12 posted on 08/17/2015 10:58:27 AM PDT by Terry L Smith
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To: Brad from Tennessee
Hold on while I get my violin out...I know it's in here somewhere...

Germany for Germans. What a concept!

13 posted on 08/17/2015 11:01:57 AM PDT by Company Man (I say we take off and Trump the site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.)
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To: Terry L Smith

The liberal Germans need to be asked just how many more refugees and illegals they will take. 100k 1m 10m? There is nearly an infinite supply out there looking for a new apartment and welfare. Just make them define in numbers how compassionate they are with other people’s money and welfare?


14 posted on 08/17/2015 11:04:05 AM PDT by Oldexpat
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To: Brad from Tennessee

I’m with the German’s~~~~just a matter of time before these invaders will want to change the whole culture of Germany~~they DO NOT ASSIMILATE!!
In fact~~~~you will be the “infidel” in your own country~~the cancer must not spread~


15 posted on 08/17/2015 11:04:08 AM PDT by Isabel2010
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To: Terry L Smith
Your message posted even as I was composing mine. Great minds... ... well, you know :^>
16 posted on 08/17/2015 11:05:21 AM PDT by Company Man (I say we take off and Trump the site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.)
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To: Brad from Tennessee
In a gesture of German goodwill, the administration in this medieval city leased a newly renovated apartment building here to humanely — even comfortably — house dozens of desperate ­asylum-seekers.

Aww. Isn't that sweet. Give the "desperate" "newcomers" brand new apartments to let them live comfortably. And I guess the politicians waived their magic wands to get all this "goodwill" done and paid for, right?

I am so freaking sick of this idea that a country has to show compassion by letting anyone who manages to walk over the border live the good life. The taxpayers have to pay for all this. Where is the "compassion" and "goodwill" for them?

17 posted on 08/17/2015 11:09:13 AM PDT by Opinionated Blowhard ("When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.")
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To: Brad from Tennessee

I think we will be seeing more of this as time goes by.


18 posted on 08/17/2015 11:09:25 AM PDT by CIB-173RDABN (I do not doubt that our climate changes. I only doubt that anything man does has any effect.)
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To: Brad from Tennessee

Looks like the Germans are starting to wise up. Hope the Brits and French and others follow before its too late. We are next.


19 posted on 08/17/2015 11:10:35 AM PDT by ZULU (Democrats are paleosocialists)
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To: Brad from Tennessee

German elites are bringing in thousands of illegals to work cheap and undermine wages...

When citizens object the elites call them names.

German elites were thugs 60 years ago and they’re still thugs today...


20 posted on 08/17/2015 11:11:01 AM PDT by GOPJ (Research facilities aren't using two million pounds of aborted babies a year. Where's the rest ?)
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