Germany’s Slow Suicide is Nearly Complete

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German Chancellor Angela Merkel sealed the fate of Germany on on August 31, 2015. Speaking at a press conference on that day, Merkel warned: “If Europe fails on the question of refugees, if this close link with universal civil rights is broken, then it won’t be the Europe we wished for.” Maybe not. But with the “refugees,” we have a Germany, and a Europe, that no one ever wished for.

Continuing her moralistic argument, Merkel stated: “Europe as a whole must move. If we don’t succeed in fairly distributing refugees then of course the Schengen question will be on the agenda for many,” that is, the open borders between European states. Her seizure of the initiative in this regard led to Germany being inundated with more migrants than other European countries, as 800,000 entered the country in 2015 alone.

Merkel seemed to anticipate this as she said: “The world sees Germany as a country of hope and opportunity, that was not always the case.” You can say that again, Angela. She suggested that opposition to mass migration was an unacceptable moral evil: “There is no tolerance for those who question the dignity of other people.”

Merkel summed up her call to Europe with words that became famous and emblematic of the entire enterprise: “We can do it!”

They have done it. The Wall Street Journal reported in Dec. 2024 that “in Germany, 42% of people under age 15 were either foreign-born or had at least one foreign-born parent.” What will Germany look like in ten years, or twenty? It will not be recognizable as Germany.

As a result of Merkel’s idealism, not just Germany, but Europeas a whole today faces numerous problems stemming from its nearly continent-wide policies of mass migration, including migrant enclaves and no-go zones, rising crime rates, especially skyrocketing rates of sexual assault and rape, as well as severe challenges to European culture. Germany itself has been hard hit, and there is no end in sight. The government of Merkel’s successor as Chancellor, Olaf Scholz, has fallen, but the German political and media establishment is hard at work demonizing and stigmatizing the anti-mass migration Alternative for Germany (AfD), and it is unlikely to come to power.

Even aside from government efforts to outlaw it, the AfD faces stiff opposition. All too many Germans since World War II have come to take it for granted that since Hitler was a nationalist, all nationalism is neo-Nazi and evil. After a Saudi migrant murdered five people and injured over two hundred more in a vehicular attack at a Christmas Market in Magdeburg in Dec. 2024, the regional bishop of the Evangelical Church in Central Germany, Friedrich Kramer, warned: “Migrants in our midst have been afraid of being attacked since the attack and don’t dare leave their houses these days.”

No migrants should be attacked. Kramer, however, said nothing about the need to protect native Germans from attacks from migrants, and it was a migrant, not a native German, who had carried out the attack. Kramer’s response was quintessential leftist multiculturalism, and did not bode well for Germany’s survival as a nation.

Kramer was by no means alone. The German-language Journalisten Watch reported in Dec. 2024 that the Al-Ikhlas mosque in Reutlingen was recently discovered to have recited publicly the notorious Qur’an verse that states: “Kill the idolaters wherever you find them, seize them and ambush them from every hiding place” (9:5). The mosque is also “an official partner of the SPD-led city of Reutlingen.” The SPD is the Social Democratic Party, Germany’s leading leftist party. The mosque “is not only involved in intercultural projects such as the ‘International Week Against Racism,’ but also takes part in the ‘Open Mosque Day’ and looks after so-called ‘refugees.’ The city administration, which is ignoring the case with inappropriate optimism, told Nius that it would contact the mosque to clarify ‘the context.’” Oh, that will fix everything.

Meanwhile, a vociferous critic of jihad violence and Sharia oppression of women and others, Michael Stürzenberger, was stabbed several months ago by a jihadi. In Dec. 2024, however,a German court added insult to injury, convicting Stürzenbergerof “incitement to hatred” and fining him €3,600 ($3,800).

So it has come to this: what the jihadi began, the German government is now continuing. What will be the effects of this on the freedom of speech in Germany? That’s obvious: if this continues, Germany is dead as a free society. Germany committed enormous crimes during World War II, and has been a suicidal spiral ever since. Maybe its demise is well deserved. We can only hope, however, that it doesn’t take the rest of us down with it.