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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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To: Isabel2010

Aesop had it thousands of years ago. The Farmer and the Viper, The Frog and the Scorpion.


21 posted on 08/17/2015 11:11:41 AM PDT by heartwood
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To: Brad from Tennessee
enjoy freshly redone floors, cute balconies and shiny, modern appliances in a cheerful building near a timber-framed pub.


22 posted on 08/17/2015 11:12:28 AM PDT by RightGeek (FUBO and the donkey you rode in on)
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To: Brad from Tennessee
Renovated housing?

Got these?


23 posted on 08/17/2015 11:13:27 AM PDT by Gamecock (Many Atheists: "There is no God and I hate Him!")
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To: Brad from Tennessee
COUNTER attacks against refugees
24 posted on 08/17/2015 11:19:31 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: Brad from Tennessee

Good going Germans. You work hard and are taxed to death to pay for invaders to live in luxury and rape your women. Now stop electing a$$whole politicians.


25 posted on 08/17/2015 11:20:00 AM PDT by I want the USA back (Media: completely irresponsible. Complicit in the destruction of this country)
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To: Terry L Smith
Germans for Germany ... gee, what a concept.

And to clarify...one need not be "Aryan" to be a German, it is about adopting German language and culture.

26 posted on 08/17/2015 11:23:14 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Brad from Tennessee

This is in the former East Germany. The area that lost most of it’s territory after 1945. Their Army wore the old uniform without the eagle sewn on the right breast. I was there 2 years ago, there were many foreigners living there. I ate at a Vietnamese restaurant, a mid eastern Pizza place and found that most of the flea market people were from the mid east. Its kinda like NYC over there. Things are different in the little villages and small towns, but you can find non Germans everywhere. From what I can gather, there is a lot of grumbling by the natives, but a few of the skin head types are the ones who are most likely responsible for the actions against the minorities. Germany is no longer the one from the 1930’s.


27 posted on 08/17/2015 11:24:28 AM PDT by Bringbackthedraft (2016 The RNC better come up with a Winner this time. Run some one like Cruz and Go for Broke!)
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To: Roman_War_Criminal
The problem in Germany is that the government is agreeing to taking in these refugees in huge numbers. They are not assimilating and they cost lots of money. The German government, similar to our government, cares less about what the people think. They are trying to impose their views on the people and then blame them for reactions like this.

It is happening all over Europe.


28 posted on 08/17/2015 11:26:39 AM PDT by kabar
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To: GOPJ

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

Sounds like the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.


29 posted on 08/17/2015 11:26:47 AM PDT by Brad from Tennessee (A politician can't give you anything he hasn't first stolen from you.)
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To: Brad from Tennessee

30 posted on 08/17/2015 11:33:02 AM PDT by RightGeek (FUBO and the donkey you rode in on)
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To: Brad from Tennessee

Good going Germans. You work hard and are taxed to death to pay for invaders to live in luxury and rape your women. Now stop electing a$$whole politicians.


31 posted on 08/17/2015 11:34:00 AM PDT by I want the USA back (Media: completely irresponsible. Complicit in the destruction of this country)
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To: I want the USA back

Yes,you can send your money to Greece!


32 posted on 08/17/2015 11:54:39 AM PDT by Dr. Ursus
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To: arthurus
Xenophobia in the 21st century civilized world is rational and essential.

"Xenophobia" is liberal newspeak, just like "homophobia."

What leftists call "xenophobia" is just a normal, healthy desire of people to preserve their national and cultural identities. Preferring your own countrymen to foreigners is necessary for nations to exist at all, which is probably why the Left is so hell-bent on subverting this instinct.

33 posted on 08/17/2015 11:54:49 AM PDT by ek_hornbeck
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To: Brad from Tennessee

My understanding from relatives in Germany is that these people are treated like first class citizens over the German people by the government, money for nothing and homes for free. I just wonder why the average German paying for this is upset?


34 posted on 08/17/2015 12:00:37 PM PDT by Mastador1 (I'll take a bad dog over a good politician any day!)
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To: Brad from Tennessee
Sounds like the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.

Exactly...

35 posted on 08/17/2015 12:05:33 PM PDT by GOPJ (Research facilities aren't using two million pounds of dead babies a year. Who's got the rest ?)
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To: Oldexpat

It seems that Germany is not yet through it’s infantile period of actual ‘freedom’.

The last hundred years were:
A Kaiser; A ‘republic’ of sorts; thrown back into a dictator; split with a dictator on one side, and the other not sure how to be a republic without shadowghosts; a unified bipolar nation.

Since they are still working on those ‘shadows’, should they enter into relationships with others who by culture are the most introverted peoples on thrr earth?


36 posted on 08/17/2015 12:16:21 PM PDT by Terry L Smith
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To: Mastador1
My understanding from relatives in Germany is that these people are treated like first class citizens over the German people by the government, money for nothing and homes for free.

Not so different from the way most of the candidates running for President of the US seem to put the interests of our illegals ahead of the interests of US citizens, or from the way affirmative action creates all sorts of perks and privileges for our "minorities."

37 posted on 08/17/2015 12:18:34 PM PDT by ek_hornbeck
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To: dfwgator

dear dfwgator,

I have an idea...
(oh no, she says),

Since it is about a month’s time for the beginning of OKTOBERFEST, let’s start the buzz about all that SAUSAGE.

maybe we can trun away a few jihadists in diapers, just by the allusions to ....
(as Sven the Cook would say) pork, pork, pork!


38 posted on 08/17/2015 12:19:55 PM PDT by Terry L Smith
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To: dfwgator

Or they actually are Nazis who call themselves Nazis. You can get the warm and fuzzies for German fascist elements if you like.


39 posted on 08/17/2015 12:23:48 PM PDT by Blackyce (French President Jacques Chirac: "As far as I'm concerned, war always means failure.")
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To: kabar

That graph is a disgusting example of what genocide looks like to the elites.

This trend is out of control and bound to lead to violence.


40 posted on 08/17/2015 12:50:25 PM PDT by Roman_War_Criminal (The Sun Never Sets on Liberal Idiocy)
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