With Election in Sight, Merkel Calls for Burqa Ban
German Chancellor wants ban on Burqa “wherever legally possible”
What could only be described as a political sleight-of-hand, German Chancellor Angela Merkel is suddenly running as a conservative ahead of next year’s general election. Merkel who opened the floodgates of Europe to millions of Arab and Muslim migrants by scrapping the border controls (Dublin Protocol), is now talking tough on mass-migration and calling for a ban on the regressive Islamic garb, Burqa.
“The full-face veil is not acceptable in our country,” Merkel said on Tuesday while addressing her party’s convention held in the city of Essen. “It should be banned, wherever it is legally possible.”
“A situation like the one in the late summer of 2015 cannot, should not and must not be repeated,” Merkel said while referring to the European Migrant Crisis. “That was and is our, and my, declared political aim.”
Around 1000 delegates of Christian Democratic Party (CDU) gave Merkel a Soviet-style eleven-minute long standing ovation as she stood to address the convention. She was pitching for the party’s leadership position. At the end of the day, almost 90 percent of the delegates voted to keep Merkel as the party leader and Chancellor candidate in the next general election scheduled for autumn of 2017.
Merkel’s hold on the party is so complete that she ran for the top position unopposed.
A quarter of a century after the fall of East Germany, Merkel’s CDU today looks more like the East German Communist Party than the Christian- Conservative party she inherited 16 years ago.
Germany’s state-run DW NEWS reported the surprise backflip performed by the Chancellor and her party:
“Multiculturalism has failed,” CDU General Secretary Peter Tauber told the delegates before Wednesday’s vote. “We need a guiding, native culture in Germany. This election is about our values.”
The moderate shift to the right is intended to mollify the conservative wing of the party that had grown increasingly worried about Merkel’s welcoming stance toward refugees from Syria and other crisis regions, which saw nearly 900,000 migrants arrive in Germany last year. But there was no mention of an annual upper limit on the number of refugees to Germany, something demanded by the CDU’s Bavarian sister party the Christian Social Union (CSU) in the paper or at the conference as a whole.
In her keynote address on Tuesday, Merkel charted a centrist course, but in the speeches in the two following sessions, it was clear that the majority of the party is more conservative than the chancellor. The right-wing of the party was particularly pleased by Merkel’s promise that the biggest wave of refugees was over and by her support for a partial ban on wearing burqas in public in Germany.
Merkel’s new-found conservativism means nothing if she is not willing to secure European and national borders and finally put an end to mass-migration.
In 2017, German voters have a choice to make. This election will be first and foremost a referendum on Merkel’s open-border policy. If the Merkel led-coalition comes out victorious, it will validate her stand on open borders and mass-migration.
It is for the German voters to call Merkel out on this latest sleight-of-hand. Otherwise, as the old maxim goes, “In a democracy people get the rulers they deserve.”
VIDEO: Merkel calls for burka ban ‘wherever legally possible’ in Germany:
[Cover image courtesy ZDF, Youtube]
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When Sen. McCain ran for re-election this fall, he did the same thing, stating we need more military on our southern border. Of course he was lying, just like he always does when trying to get re- elected. .
This is equivalent to the neoliberalists of the GOPe or the DNC saying to the people, we’ll legalize/prohibit abortion, gay marriage, or gun control if you promise not to look behind the curtain where we are erasing your borders, beggaring your jobs and your eliminating sovereignty.
Deal?
Hillary Clinton level transparent pandering.
Yes, burqa control.
That will certainly curtail those mobs of Muslim rapists.
Its okay if they rape and murder our daughters… as long as we ban burkas.
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Merkel calls for burka ban ‘wherever legally possible’ in Germany
Nice little loophole you got there, Merkel.
It’s disgusting to think of the money we’ve spent protecting these asshats from the Russians since WW2. What a waste.
Actually she is from East Germany so until 1989 we were protecting the west from people like her. I was in Germany when the wall came down and I can’t imagine the people I knew putting up with this. It’s amazing how much has changed in 25 years.
The Christian Democrats are neither Christians nor democrats. Until recently, the Sheeple in Germany have had a choice between the Left, the Far Left, and the Looney Left. They are all total-government-control socialists with real differences only on the margins. There is no freedom-liberty-small government political voice in Germany. The FDP used to claim to be, but the party itself was filled with a bunch of Pali-loving national socialists, despite their desire to paint themselves as the hip alternative. The Greens are like greens everywhere – Watermelons. Green on the outside and red on the inside, e.g. Communists.
They can all go directly to hell for all I care, but I do hope the AfD gains some steam only for the entertainment value.
The Christian Democrats also sold out to the Nazis when they heard the right words uttered at the right time.
Sheeple doesn’t begin to describe them. Haven’t learned a thing in 80 years either it seems.
She ran on that ‘Multiculturalism has failed’ rhetoric last time too, but then she spent her entire tenure sucking up to Zuckerberg and taking selfies with migrants.
She’s a fraud.
Better that Germany voters institute a Merkel ban.
What she has done in giving the keys to Europe to the invaders is unforgivable. This is too little way too late.
A little too late to pretend you’re the one with the power, Merk, after handing it off to the Saracens.
If reelected in 2017, I expect to see Merkel put out a press release on the proposed burka ban: “With regard to my promise to ban burkas “wherever legally possible”, I’ve just discovered my government’s legal advice from 2016 which says it’s not legally possible to ban burkas. Sorry about that.”