German Chancellor calls multiculturalism a failure.....

[Scarlett O.]

This is an article by Leonard Pitts, Pulitzer Prize winning journalist from the Miami Herald. He describes the German attitude (at least from the Chancellor's point of view) of immigration as a whole. Please read the entire article even though I copied only an excerpt.

I'm still chewing on it. What do you think? Part of me wants to "Amen!" the woman and another part of me wants to scold her. I'm torn.


Excerpt:

Multiculturalism has completely failed.


That's the assessment of Angela Merkel, chancellor of Germany, in a recent speech before the youth wing of her conservative political party, the Christian Democratic Union. The idea that disparate peoples can ``simply live side by side and live happily with each other'' has failed, she said. ``Utterly failed.''


Merkel insisted that Germany still welcomes immigrants, particularly those whose high-tech skills make them valuable workers. But she conditioned that welcome upon a warning: ``We feel bound to the Christian image of humanity -- that is what defines us. Those who do not accept this are in the wrong place here.''


To put that another way: Muhammad go home.

Read more: http://www.miamiherald.com/2010/10/20/1881769/merkel-calls-it-a-failure.html#ixzz13Brf5n9S​

 

[KenH]

A thread was started on this subject earlier in the week:

www.baptistboard.com/showthread.php?t=68273

 

[Scarlett O.]

OOPS! Sorry.