by Peter Hille In the wake of a rape case involving Syrians in Germany, conservative lawmakers are demanding the government re-evaluate the security situation in Syria. Criminal refugees should be able to be deported, they say. Who wants to deport refugees from Germany to Syria? The rape of a young woman in the southwestern city…
by Murray Allatt In 2015 Angela Merkel invited the world, the third world, into Europe. The influx of over one million (by now surely over two million) “migrants,” mostly undocumented, has largely been comprised of Syrians fleeing the civil war. It also included people from many other countries from the Middle East–the vast majority being…
By Soeren Kern | January 27, 2017 at 5:00 am Soeren Kern is a Senior Fellow at the New York-based Gatestone Institute. He is also Senior Fellow for European Politics at the Madrid-based Grupo de Estudios Estratégicos / Strategic Studies Group. Follow him on Facebook and on Twitter. German political leaders and national security officials knew that…
Permission from Gatestone Institute A German court has ruled that seven Islamists who formed a vigilante patrol to enforce Sharia law on the streets of Wuppertal did not break German law and were simply exercising their right to free speech. The ruling, which effectively legitimizes Sharia law in Germany, is one of a growing number…
Originally published by Gatestone Institute Many of the rapes are occurring in mixed-gender shelters, where, due to a lack of space, German authorities are forcing thousands of male and female migrants to share the same sleeping areas and restroom facilities. Conditions for women and girls at some shelters are so perilous that females are being…
Originally published by Gatestone Institute Migrants committed 208,344 crimes in 2015, according to a confidential police report that was leaked to the German newspaper, Bild. This figure represents an 80% increase over 2014 and works out to around 570 crimes committed by migrants every day, or 23 crimes each hour, between January and December 2015….
Angela Merkel has doubled down on Germany, and Europe, continuing to accept an unlimited number of refugees from Northern Africa and the Middle East. She’s just said that Europe’s strongest response to the ongoing threat of further terror attacks on European soil is “to carry on living our lives and our values—as we have until…
Soeren Kern is a Senior Fellow at the New York-based Gatestone Institute. He is also Senior Fellow for European Politics at the Madrid-based Grupo de Estudios Estratégicos / Strategic Studies Group. There is a mounting public backlash over what many perceive as the government’s indifference to the growing influence of Islam in German society. This…
