§ Mass migration from the Muslim world is fast-tracking the
Islamization of Germany, as evidenced by the proliferation of no-go zones,
Sharia courts, polygamy and child marriages. Mass migration has also been
responsible for a host of social disruptions, including jihadist attacks, a
migrant rape epidemic, a public health crisis, rising crime and a rush by
German citizens to purchase weapons for self-defense — and even to abandon
Germany altogether.
§ Development Minister Gerd Müller warned that the biggest refugee
movements to Europe are still to come. He said that only 10% of the migrants
from the chaos in Iraq and Syria have reached Europe so far: "Eight to ten
million migrants are still on the way."
§ "There are written instructions ... today we are not allowed
to say anything negative about the refugees. This is government journalism, and
this leads to a situation in which the public loses their trust in us. This is
scandalous." — Wolfgang Herles, Deutschlandfunk public radio.
§ The Turkish government has sent 970 clerics — most of whom do not
speak German — to lead 900 mosques in Germany that are controlled by the
Turkish-Islamic Union for Religious Affairs (DITIB), a branch of the Turkish
government's Directorate for Religious Affairs, known in Turkish as Diyanet.
Critics accuse Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of using DITIB mosques to
prevent Turkish migrants from integrating into German society.
§ A Cologne police superintendent revealed that he was ordered to
remove the term "rape" from an internal police report about the mass
sexual assaults in Cologne on New Year's Eve. He said that an official at the
North-Rhine Westphalia Interior Ministry told him in an angry tone: "This
is not rape. Remove this term from your report. Submit a new report."
§ The German branch of Open Doors, a non-governmental organization
supporting persecuted Christians, reported that thousands of Christians in
German refugee shelters are being persecuted by Muslims, sometimes even by
their security guards.
§ A 23-year-old Iraqi asylum seeker wearing a T-shirt with the words
"I'm Muslim Don't Panic" was assaulted by fellow refugees for
offending Islam. He was beaten so badly that he was hospitalized.
§ Half of the three million ethnic Turks living in Germany believe
it is more important to follow Islamic Sharia law than German law if the two
are in conflict, according to a survey.
§ A document leaked to Der Spiegel revealed that more than
33,000 migrants who are supposed to be deported are still in Germany, being
cared for by German taxpayers. Many of the migrants destroyed their passports
and are believed to have lied about their countries of origin to make it
impossible for them to be deported.
§ Migrants committed 142,500 crimes during the first six months of 2016,
according to a report by the Federal Criminal Police Office. This is equivalent
to 780 crimes committed by migrants every day, or 32.5 crimes each hour, an
increase of nearly 40% over 2015. The data includes only those crimes in which
a migrant suspect has been caught.
§ Bild, the
largest-circulation newspaper in Germany, warned that the country was
"capitulating to Islamic law."
Germany's Muslim population surpassed six
million in 2016 for the first time ever. Germany now vies with France for the
highest Muslim population in Western Europe.
The increase in Germany's Muslim
population is being fueled by mass migration. An estimated 300,000 migrants
arrived in Germany in 2016, in addition to the more than one million who
arrived in 2015. At least 80% (or 800,000 in 2015 and 240,000 in 2016) of the
newcomers were Muslim, according to the Central Council of Muslims in Germany.
In addition to the newcomers, the rate of
population increase of the Muslim community already living in Germany is around
1.6% per year (or 77,000), according to data extrapolated from a Pew
Research Center study on the growth of the Muslim population in Europe.
Based on Pew projections, which were
proffered before the current migration crisis, the Muslim population of Germany
was to have reached an estimated 5,145,000 by the end of 2015.
Adding the 800,000 Muslim migrants who
arrived in Germany in 2015, and the 240,000 who arrived in 2016, combined with
the 77,000 natural increase, the Muslim population of Germany jumped by
1,117,000, to reach an estimated 6,262,000 by the end of 2016. This amounts to
approximately 7.5% of Germany's overall population of 82
million.
Mass migration from the Muslim world is
fast-tracking the Islamization of Germany, as evidenced by the proliferation of
no-go zones, Sharia courts, polygamy and child marriages. Mass
migration has also been responsible for a host of social disruptions, including
jihadist attacks, a migrant rape epidemic, a
public health crisis, rising crime and a rush
by German citizens to purchase weapons for self-defense — and even
to abandon Germany
altogether.
What follows is a chronological round-up
of some of the key stories about the Islamization of Germany during 2016.
