German Chancellor Angela Merkel has said that her country’s attempt to create a multicultural society has “utterly failed” in a speech to the youth wing of her Christian Democrats (CDU) party.
At the meeting in Potsdam, south of Berlin Chancellor Merkel said “This (multicultural) approach has failed, utterly failed,” which has reignited debate over the country’s open borders policy.
Merkel went on to say that allowing people of different cultural backgrounds to live side by side without integrating had not worked.
Germany has accepted some 4 million, mostly Muslim migrants, in recent years and has seen a dramatic rise in anti-social behaviour, crime and in particular, violent sexual assaults on and murders of women and girls.
The regretful Chancellor said that migrants need to learn German and adapt to German societal norms.
Germans have grown increasingly weary of Third World immigration, particularly Muslim immigration, in recent years and a book by former central banker Thilo Sarrazin documenting that Muslim migration has lowered the average intelligence of the German population.
As per usual, Mr Sarrazin was attacked by German media and dismissed from the Bundesbank, while critics refused to attempt to debunk the factuality of his book but rather tried to destroy his character and career through personal attacks.
Despite these underhanded efforts the book proved extremely popular amongst the German people.
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