While most centrist & leftwing politicians lie liberally about (esp. Continental) Europe's Immigration Disaster, Angela Merkel & Wouter Bos once blurted out the terrible truth, thereby sounding just like Pim Fortuyn

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Before Angela Merkel wrapped herself in the cloak of madcap multiculturalism, she had tagged non-Western immigration in Germany as a “total failure.” With all the irrefutable evidence-based facts slapping her in the jowly face, Frau Merkel had thus described non-Western immigration in Germany https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UKG76HF24_k. Could not be any more devastating, now could it? But that was before she flip-flopped her way into farce, joined the swivel-eyed sect and painted the Wutbürger and, by implication, her former self as racist. Her lurch to the loony left must have disconcerted the hell out of the CSU. The glib “racists in Germany” slur would be a far harder sell to mainstream-media consumers, if they knew all the evidence-based facts and expert opinions (see a previous email headlined “Multikultistan: A house of horrors for ordinary Germans”) long hidden by most MSM outlets. Deception by omission is the most common form of lying committed by the vast majority of mainstream media, which regard the twisting of the truth beyond all recognition as their core business. Or to quote fourth-century monk Saint Augustine, “He who conceals a useful truth is equally guilty with the propagator of an injurious falsehood.” Wouter Bos: “In the Netherlands, migrants and people of migrant background have a much greater chance than others of being poorly educated, unemployed, sick or ending up with a criminal record.” If centrist pols make you grab for your barf bag, Europe’s leftists – so many of whom have gone from Communist Holocaust Denial to Immigration Disaster Denial, as I will demonstrate at a later date – are even more derisible, having discovered a new false religion to throw their weight behind. But truth be told, not all Leftists are deaf, dumb and deceivable. A handful of them did speak out and warn about the ever-worsening Immigration Debacle, yet were never heard in the cacophony of craziness similar to the Red Guardist terror in Maoist China minus mass murder. As a matter of astonishing fact, Wouter Bos, a former Leader of the Dutch Labour Party, admitted in the IHT article below, “In the Netherlands, migrants and people of migrant background have a much greater chance than others of being poorly educated, unemployed, sick or ending up with a criminal record.” Tragically, that’s not even scratching the surface in terms of the NUMBER of immigration-disaster subjects. For example, there’s no mention of anything from widespread political extremism and rampant Muslim anti-Semitism, to gay bashing and the ultraviolent mass grooming of white girls by Muslim men in Britain, the Netherlands, Germany, etc. (much more about that at a later date), to mention just a few items on an laundry list running from here to hell. Likewise, that’s not even scratching the surface in terms of the ever-worsening ENORMITY of the immigration-disaster subjects. For instance, a Dutch Crimewatch-style TV program is now actively “whitened up,” so as to prevent it from showing nothing but Muslim and black thugs targeting the weakest in society. What’s more, a BBC-quoted expert discloses that all Swedish Muslim immigrants are not only unemployed, but also structurally unemployable – so completely useless to employers for the duration of their wholly welfarized lives http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-22650267. So Fox was not exaggerating in citing the cataclysmic joblessness rate among immigrants in Muslimized Malmö, which has already turned into one big banlieue https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RwKsRa6bUp4. At the same time, a leftwing economist admits that almost all immigrant women in the Netherlands are not only jobless but also unemployable http://weblogs.nrc.nl/mees/2010/03/05/harteloos-nederland, while Dutch Muslim men fare only marginally less catastrophically, judging from all the damning evidence seen. Or to mention the last remaining unmentionable in the immigration debate in the Netherlands, the otherwise PC-infantilized NRC newspaper quoted Dutch psychologist Jan te Nijenhuis as saying, “Many people don’t want to hear this, but the considerably lower IQ scores by immigrant children translate into a considerably worse school performance.” As if all of that weren’t deeply disturbing enough, psychologist Indra Boedjarath http://www.trouw.nl/tr/nl/4324/nieuws/article/detail/1394009/2007/10/27/Dubb elleven-Marokkanen-fnuikt-psyche.dhtml explains that many Moroccan youngsters suffer from psychological problems, adding that numerous Moroccan criminals are “slightly mentally handicapped.” Shockingly, 55% of all young Moroccan males in the Netherlands have been the subject of a police investigation http://www.nieuwsblad.be/article/detail.aspx?articleid=GIE2B2Q4K. Indeed, the unofficial, yet reliable figure for Amsterdam is 70%! On and on, it goes. *** The decade-old URL no longer works http://select.nytimes.com/iht/2005/10/19/international/IHT-19globalist.html? n=Top%2FNews%2FWorld%2FColumns%2FRoger%20Cohen October 19, 2005 Globalist Europe’s Troubles Push Even the Left Rightward By ROGER COHEN International Herald Tribune <http://www.iht.com> The pendulum of Europe’s political direction tends to be erratic, but for the moment it is pointing rightward. That may be surprising at a time when the Continent has spent a lot of time defining itself in opposition to President George W. Bush <http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/b/george_w_bush/ index.html?inline=nyt-per> ’s conservative administration. But it’s less surprising when two factors are considered: the alarm caused by jihadist killings in Madrid and Amsterdam and London, and the difficulties of social market economies with comprehensive welfare systems creaking under the strain of high unemployment and aging populations. The terrorism means that law and order, part of Angela Merkel’s winning message in Germany <http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/international/countriesandterritories/ge rmany/index.html?inline=nyt-geo> , is in and indulgence toward immigrants is out. The economic difficulties, especially in France <http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/international/countriesandterritories/fr ance/index.html?inline=nyt-geo> and Germany, are pushing in the direction of free-market reform. Both these trends favor the right. It has not been lost on Europeans that terrorism has come from within. The killings have in general been perpetrated not by agents sent from the Middle East, but by Europe’s own, Muslims born and raised in European societies or long-term residents. The murderers knew freedom, often a great deal of it, and opted for an attempt to destroy the open societies that nurtured them. That is disquieting, especially for a European left that had long held aloft the “multi-culti” model of diverse peoples living side by side and in harmony without a strong overarching national culture. So the left is moving right. Earlier this month, Wouter Bos, the leader of the Dutch Labor Party, had some sharp comments for a gathering of European socialists. His speech suggested the degree to which the mainstream European left is reconsidering its past policies in the light of the violence that has struck the Continent. “Every society has limits to its capacity to absorb newcomers,” Bos said. “Successful integration therefore above all requires a restrictive migration policy because our capacity to integrate and emancipate is not limitless. And it will require toughness, both on those who arrive new into our societies and the society that adopts them.” Toughness on immigration is a new message for the left. So is talk of “emancipating” immigrants, a clear message that European Muslims will have to show more readiness to buy into the norms of Western societies on such matters as the equality of men and women and freedom of sexual choice. Bos acknowledged that past policies had proved inadequate. “Social Democrats all over Europe have not been too good at tackling these problems,” he declared. “Maybe because they were afraid to be accused of racism.” Another reason, of course, was that hostility to immigration was the terrain of the right and, in its ugliest form, the preserve of extreme-right xenophobes like France’s Jean-Marie Le Pen. But the left now sees that it is possible, indeed critical, to confront the grave failures of immigration policy without adopting the bigoted excesses of the right. For one thing, the welfare state that is the great creation of European social democracy depends on change because a welfare system supporting out-of-work immigrants in disproportionate degree tends to stir resentments that are explosive. In the Netherlands <http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/international/countriesandterritories/ne therlands/index.html?inline=nyt-geo> , Bos said, “migrants and people of migrant background have a much greater chance than others of being poorly educated, unemployed, sick or ending up with a criminal record. Here again the result, if we do nothing about it, will be that the white middle-class tax-paying citizen wonders: Am I paying taxes for myself or am I paying for them?” In a similar way, if basic values are not shared in a society, the welfare system, ultimately based on a sense of solidarity, frays. The welfare state is a form of collective insurance. For it to work, there has to be some agreement on the nature of the risk and the nature of the way of life to be defended. From Britain <http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/international/countriesandterritories/un itedkingdom/index.html?inline=nyt-geo> to Spain <http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/international/countriesandterritories/sp ain/index.html?inline=nyt-geo> , evidence has accumulated that such a consensus has been lacking. The bottom line, after Europe’s recent violence, is that greater efforts, in education and in imparting the meaning of citizenship in a European democracy, appear essential if tensions with immigrants are to be eased. Nationalism tends to be anathema in Europe, which knows its downside too well. But national values and national pride may be making a comeback. Of course, as long as the economies of Germany and France remain stalled with unemployment rates hovering around 10 percent, tensions within European societies will tend to persist. Societies that fail for long periods to produce significant growth or jobs are societies that promote a paralyzing dependency and stifle hope. That is why both Merkel and the center-right French prime minister, Dominique de Villepin, have proposed tax cuts, greater labor market flexibility, reductions in nonwage labor costs and other measures to try to stop the institutionalization of unemployment in their countries. In a coalition with the Social Democrats, Merkel’s margin for maneuver will not be great; Villepin faces French labor unions and may opt to zigzag into ineffectiveness. But at least they have been frank about the core of their countries’ problems: the fact that it has often been more attractive financially not to work than to work. Their joint presence may just revive the French-German alliance and give a new impulse to free-market ideas in the euro zone. Resistance will be significant. But Merkel has real convictions about where she wants to go; Villepin has unusual energy. This combination could bring results, especially as the railing of leftists against globalization, neoliberalism and the like has an increasingly sterile air in both countries. The most successful politician in a major industrialized democracy, Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi <http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/k/junichiro_koiz umi/index.html?inline=nyt-per> of Japan <http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/international/countriesandterritories/ja pan/index.html?inline=nyt-geo> , has successfully deployed a mixture of radical reform and carefully dosed nationalism. Merkel and Villepin may take a leaf from his book. After all, toughness, national values and a freer market are even being espoused by some of Europe’s mainstream left. Could there be a looming market for European neocons? E-mail: [email protected] ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ The URL no longer works http://select.nytimes.com/iht/2006/02/14/international/IHT-14politicus.html? n=Top%2FNews%2FInternational%2FColumns%2FJohn%20Vinocur Blunt Talk on Migration From Dutch and Danes By JOHN VINOCUR International Herald Tribune <http://www.iht.com> Post-politically correct Europe starts here. It loops north to Denmark <http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/international/countriesandterritories/de nmark/index.html?inline=nyt-geo> . These days, it branches east, although less distinctly, to Germany. But in the Netherlands <http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/international/countriesandterritories/ne therlands/index.html?inline=nyt-geo> the words are free, and inhibitions about describing and dealing with the problems caused by immigration, particularly from Islamic countries, are largely gone. “In 2002, I was demonized for urging the Amsterdam City Council to drop publishing notices on every piece of business it does in Kurd, Papiamento and God knows what,” said Geert Dales, who is mayor of Leeuwarden, a city of 100,000 on the North Sea. Four years ago, Dales’s thrift was called intolerance or even racism. For a decade, anyone expressing concern about projections that Amsterdam would have a Muslim majority by 2020 (about 65 percent of its young people now have Islamic backgrounds) risked disgrace as a closet fascist. Now the Dutch discuss the implications of similar population projections and similar time frames for cities like Rotterdam and The Hague without cramped circumlocution. In comparison, direct official- and politician-speak in places like Britain, France and Spain shies from the idea that failed national policies accommodating (or avoiding) Muslim integration have been factors in the most confidence-shaking European events of the new century: Bomb attacks by local Islamic extremists in Madrid and London, the murder of a Dutch filmmaker by a member of the Amsterdam Moroccan community, riots in immigrant towns around Paris, and now, Denmark and Danes coming under threat and attack around the world after a newspaper published cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad. The post-politically correct comes in here. Danes point to Islamists in their midst - not themselves - as the key factor in turning the cartoons into a source of misery. A poll in the Danish media late last week said that 58 percent believed the central problem was not the newspaper’s choice to carry the cartoons, but imams living in Denmark who propagated them and even more devastating fakes in Islamic countries. By way of an explanation, this comes down to both the Netherlands and Denmark, countries with small but dense populations, cherished cultures, and languages that require protection, feeling a new precariousness in their national identity as a result of substantial Islamic immigration. In both places, the mainstream left has followed the center-right onto this track. Perhaps because there has been open contempt for assimilation by Muslims in supposedly soft and marginal places like the Netherlands and Denmark, both countries have been intent on demarcating the line where their accommodation of immigrants stops. You could call it a flow-reversal of attitudes in two famously tolerant nations. Their emphasis, coming now with special intensity caused by a sense of declining sovereignty, is specifying that their Muslim communities must demonstrate compatibility with Dutch or Danish society. A Dutch example: In more politically correct France, race or national origin are excluded from official statistics, whether they involve job-seekers or the prison population. In calmly talking about Leeuwarden, Dales says point-blank that an immigrant group from Curaçao, making up 1 percent of the city’s population - Muslims represent 16 percent - is responsible for 50 to 60 percent of its crime. What to do? Expressed in the increasingly blunt Dutch manner, Dales’s response was not that short of the style of the U.S. Marine Corps: kicking butt and taking names. He told me about a national pilot program that would let cities like Leeuwarden initiate proceedings “to send them back.” Dales, a member of the center-right Liberal Party, a component of the government coalition, believes all the same that Dutch history suggests the country can successfully absorb its Islamic immigrants. He very much trusts in the possibility of their integration and sees there are successful examples of it in every Dutch town. “But it involves an approach that says, again and again, exactly what is non-negotiable and exactly what is required.” Requirements, according to Dales: educational achievement, speaking Dutch, acceptance of the work ethic. Dales’s accompanying view of daily reality: a 65 percent dropout rate among Muslim immigrants in Leeuwarden’s schools; notoriously poor language capacities; and inconsistent interest in finding jobs, complicated by insufficient training and a Dutch network of social services that for decades made the Netherlands a kind of Nirvana for the work-challenged. Above all, Dales said, the difficulty for some Muslims was that Islam had principles that are no way in line with those of Dutch society. When I asked Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen in Copenhagen last week about a Dutch-Danish post-politically correct link (a phrase first used by the American writer Christopher Caldwell), he talked about insisting on the same core values that Frits Bolkestein, the original politically incorrect Dutchman and former European Union commissioner, first described in relation to Islam as “non-negotiable.” Like the separation of religion from politics, the importance of work, and Western notions of freedom of expression and gender equality. “We’re on the right track,” Rasmussen said. “I see a very clear tendency that other European countries will go in our direction.” In Germany, where the former Social Democratic interior minister, Otto Schily, said two years ago that multiculturalism was dead, there are indications that Rasmussen’s view of a European trend has some reality. The Bundestag’s vice president, Wolfgang Thierse, a Social Democrat, has recommended that only German be spoken on school grounds and received unexpected support from teachers’ unions, while Christian Democratic state governors are backing a plan that would require testing acceptance of the principles of the Constitution and genuine German language skills as requirements for citizenship. Parliamentary debate in Berlin on the Danish situation on Friday was not so much a succession of calls to tolerance but of remarks that there should be respect for religion “but not its instrumentalization” and that this respect must not be a “one-way street.” But in light of the Danish experience, countries considering a more politically incorrect stance on immigration may now think twice. Bolkestein, who warned in the early ‘90s about Islam’s challenge to the Dutch and Europe, is not optimistic. He believes Europe has only seen “the thin edge of the wedge” of pressure to come from rogue states and Islamic extremists. “Next time,” he said, “I fear it will be oil, or Israel, or nuclear weapons rather than cartoons.” End of article. *** France’s under-siege Jewish community is estimated to have dwindled from 500,000 to 400,000 – with anecdotal evidence suggesting that a mass exodus may well be under way Welfare sponging on a scale never seen before in human history is just one item on a never-ending list of non-Western immigration horrors in esp. Continental Europe, which also includes rampant anti-Semitism. At present, the lion’s share of anti-Semitism in Germany comes from Muslims, while the Far Left and Far Right account for the much smaller remainder. Green Party Co-Leader Cem Özdemir acknowledges that anti-Semitism is rife among German Turks and other Muslims. Hell, if you translate the PC Kremlinese uttered by the BBC’s previous chief Germany correspondent into plain English, even he appears to say so. France plays host to 6 million Muslims, and a Jerusalem Post article http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Columnists/Article.aspx?id=170731 expects France’s Muslim community to be the majority within 50 years. And that’s not even factoring in Turkey’s probable entry into the EU. This demographic tsunami is really bad news for Jews. Let me quote from http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/france/11335980/Antisemitis m-in-France-the-exodus-has-begun.html: Attacks on Jews have risen sevenfold since the 1990s. No wonder Jewish emigration from France is accelerating. From being the largest Jewish community in the EU at the start of this decade, with a population of around 500,000, it is expected by Jewish community leaders to have fallen to 400,000 within a few years. That figure is thought by some to be too optimistic. Anecdotally, every French Jew I know has either already left or is working out how to leave. […] Almost of all these attacks have been carried out by Muslims. The Jerusalem Post piece echoes this assessment: “In recent years, burgeoning hostility emanating primarily from radical Muslims has led to increasing desecration and bombing of Jewish sites and synagogues, as well as violent altercations on the streets climaxing with the 2006 kidnapping, brutal torture and murder of Ilan Halimi, a young Parisian Jew. Hostility has become so pronounced that Jews are now warned not to wear kippot in public even in central thoroughfares such as the Avenue des Champs Elysees in Paris.