[ April 24, 2024 ]
A lawmaker in Germany’s parliament has called for those who come to the country as guests and then turn around and burn Israeli flags to be deported — and immediately.
This is quite a counter to Angela Merkel’s style of leading, which is to say open the doors wide to migrants and refugees and let them do their thing. (Can you say Cologne on New Year’s Eve? Sex assault heaven for all the mostly Muslim rapists who roamed in 2015.)
Anyway, this MP actually has good old fashioned common sense — not to mention the concern of his country at heart. And isn’t that supposed to be a core concern of the government — to put its citizens first?
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The Algemeiner has the story:
A prominent German member of parliament from Chancellor Angela Merkel’s CDU party has called for the deportation of foreigners in the country who torch Israeli flags at demonstrations.
“If foreigners living in Germany burn Israeli flags, there must be a legal basis for their immediate expulsion,” parliamentarian Armin Schuster told German media outlets on Monday.
Schuster’s demand followed a spate of angry protests across the country against US President Donald Trump’s December 6 decision to recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital; as well as the burning of Israeli flags, antisemitic chants such as “Death to the Jews” and “Down with Israel” were also heard, including at one gathering at Berlin’s landmark Brandenburg Gate.
German law already permits the rapid expulsion of foreigners who are sentenced to more than one year in prison, or who engage in drug dealing, the German website Welt noted.
Schuster’s demand comes as Germany’s senior politicians deliberate on whether to create a special commissioner to deal with rising antisemitism. The proposal already has the support of Interior Minister Thomas de Maizière, who told the Bild am Sonntag newspaper on Sunday that “every criminal act motivated by anti-Semitism is one too many, and a shame for our country.”
The interior minister went on to characterize the recent burnings of Israeli flags as “the symbolic destruction of a country’s right to exist.” Meanwhile, German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier told a Hanukkah party at the Israeli Embassy in Berlin this week that the rejection of antisemitism was “non-negotiable” for any foreigner wanting to live in Germany.
“[N]o exceptions can be made for immigrants. It is non-negotiable — for all who live in Germany and want to live here!” Steinmeier declared.
On Tuesday, more politicians joined the call for the creation of a federal antisemitism commissioner — a proposal originally floated by both the left-wing Green Party and the Central Council of Jews in Germany. Among them were Gitta Connemann — the deputy head of the CDU Group in the German parliament, who expressed her “strong support” — and Justice Minister Heiko Maas.
In an interview with German radio on Tuesday, Maas argued that the antisemitism commissioner’s post should already have been created, given the “regrettable” persistence of anti-Jewish bigotry in the country.
Maas also addressed the problem of antisemitism among the Muslim immigrant population.”We have antisemitism on the far-right, which is growing here in Germany,” Maas said. “And we also have imported antisemitism, which is brought to Germany by people who come from other countries of the world.”
Maas asserted that education against antisemitism needed to be an “integral part” of government programs to integrate new arrivals. Antisemitism in the Muslim community was a serious test of Germany’s “zero-tolerance” approach to the problem, Maas said, given his country’s “special responsibility to our Jewish fellow citizens, to Judaism in general, and also to the State of Israel.”
Josef Schuster — the president of the Central Council of Jews in Germany, which represents the country’s 150,000-strong community — observed in a separate interview that “most attacks” on Jews in Germany “actually come from right-wing extremists,” while “most anti-Jewish demonstrations and the loudest antisemitic slurs have come from the Muslim community for some time.” Schuster said that the creation of an antisemitism commissioner would not in itself resolve the problem, but “it would make it clear that the question is really taken seriously and fundamentally addressed.”
Earlier this year, the German government officially adopted the definition of antisemitism used by the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA). Under the definition, calls for the elimination of Israel and the charge that Jews are collectively responsible for Israel’s actions constitute antisemitism.
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28 Comments
D
6 years ago
In a way, he’s right, as otherwise Germany is on a slippery slope to Holocaust 2.
Denaturalization is probably the easiest or simplest way, just take away citizenship and the rest follows automatically without the government having to do anything in particular.
6 years ago
Reply to
AlgorithmicAnalyst
I hold the same thoughts, AA. Some say lightening can’t strike the Same place twice; this, of course, is not true. There are those, to this day, hell-bent on the continuation, the finalization of the Final Solution. I have always perceived that this heinous and wanton objective, the annihilation of world Jewry and Israel has never declined or waned for millennia, especially in the modern era since the crushing of Nazism. Muslims and their leftist-progressive/totalitarian allies wear their anti-Semitism as if it were prestigious, not the embodiment of vicious bigotry.
It’s a certainty; Armin Schuster will not be wished a Happy New Year from Fuhrer Merkel and her henchmen.
6 years ago
Reply to
AlgorithmicAnalyst
Denaturation might be just as easy but perhaps messier from a chemical standpoint.
6 years ago
Clearly an intolerant dirty raaaaaacist islamophobe who has no place in the Fourth Reich. I like this guy.
BTW, sir, you might care to apply the same remedy to those whose habits include groping women.
6 years ago
Reply to
Liatris Spicata
Deporting for Groping ? Then what should be done to these muslim savages http://bit.ly/2z2rVov
6 years ago
I humbly disagree. Muslims seek ‘protected status’ in a 1,000 ways. Free countries should not play their game.
6 years ago
… support of Interior Minister Thomas de Maizière, who told the Bild am Sonntag newspaper on Sunday that “every criminal act motivated by anti-Semitism https://sunnah.com/bukhari/56/138-139 is one too many, and a shame for our country.”
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the chatterbox & lunatic (one cannot explain logically) de maiziere defends at the same time iSSlam
6 years ago
not long until the first shot is fired and there is inbred blood on the street
6 years ago
Reply to
Halal Bacon
Shortly afterward, Adolf Merkel will have the guns rounded up. But go ahead and get the ball rolling … it’s going to start somewhere and it HAS to start soon.
D
6 years ago
About time. They don’t hate. Why let in hate?
Arabs have 96.6 percent of all Middle East land. Israeli’s have .4 percent.
6 years ago
Talk i s cheap, every politician demonstrates that, lets see some real action, immediately.
6 years ago
Reply to
Mahou Shoujo
It will never happen! It will only get worst. They burn Israeli flags in Israel and the U.,S. flags in the U.S. and nothing happens to them.
6 years ago
Reply to
Stephen Honig
If these politician are serious and have any authority, they will do something, if not, more political hot air rhetoric.
6 years ago
Reply to
Stephen Honig
In America burning a flag is considered an expression of Freedom–Most flags are likely made in china anyhow, so who cares?
6 years ago
Reply to
Stephen Honig
Just don’t see anything wrong with flag burning, if stupid people want to waste their money on it–I hate to see the First Amendment get more watered down than it is now
6 years ago
Reply to
billdeserthills
Flag burning is symbolic of a country you love. What country do you love? Why are wars fought? Are you an atheist and or an anarchist? Where are your loyalties, I doubt you have any,
6 years ago
Reply to
Stephen Honig
Well You obviously don’t understand much about Freedom of Speech–I have never burned a flag, but I would like to continue enjoying my freedom to do so, should I someday decide that I would like to. I hope You learn more about what Freedom consists of, before You find yourself in a place lacking in Freedom, like Germany–Where You could open your big mouth & wind up in jail
6 years ago
Doubt Merkel will do that. She’d have to DEPORT ALL OF THEM. Hating Jews and Christians is ISLAM!
6 years ago
And the same for when they curse all non-Muslims in public, particularly in any Friday street “prayers.” It is, after all, rehearsal for mass assault on all who refuse to yell “Allahu Akbar!!”
6 years ago
After burning Israel or American flag,… always be sure to WIPE !!!
6 years ago
What a novel idea!
6 years ago
Thank you, Armin Schuster. You’re a mensch.
6 years ago
Finally….a “positive” coming from German politicians. Sure hope many more are to come and that the people will get rid of those who are destroying the country and making citizens fearful.
6 years ago
muslims exempted from a barbaric practice of deportation
6 years ago
So burning Israeli flags is bad but chants that call for the killing of Jews aren’t?
