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§ "As a refugee, it is difficult to find a
girlfriend." — Asif M., a 26-year-old asylum seeker from Pakistan,
responding to charges that he had raped one woman and attempted to rape five
others in Berlin.
§ Sudanese migrants, many of whom were allowed to
enter Germany without having their fingerprints taken, have "created a
business model" out of social security fraud. — Police in Lower Saxony.
§ Only 6,500 refugees of the more than one million
who have been allowed into Germany during the past two years are enrolled in
work training programs. — Federal Employment Agency.
§ The German Parliament approved a controversial
law to fine social media networks up to €50 million euros ($57 million) if they
fail to remove so-called hate speech. Critics said the purpose of the law is to
silence criticism of the government's open-door migration policy.
The Muslim
population of Germany surpassed six million in 2017 to become approximately
7.2% of the overall population of 83 million, according to calculations by the
Gatestone Institute.
A recent Pew
Research Center study on the growth of the Muslim population in Europe estimated that Germany's
Muslim population had reached five million by the middle of 2016, but that
number is short by at least a million.
Pew, for
instance, "decided not to count" the more than one million Muslim
asylum seekers who arrived in the country in 2015-2017 because "they are
not expected to receive refugee status." European Union human rights laws,
however, prohibit Germany from deporting many, if not most, of the refugees and
asylum seekers back to conflict areas. As a result, most migrants who arrived
in the country will almost certainly remain there over the long term.
In addition,
German authorities have admitted to losing track
of potentially hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants, many of whom are
living on German streets and are believed to be sustaining themselves on a
steady diet of drug dealing, pickpocketing, purse snatching and other forms of
petty crime.
Islam and
Islam-related issues, omnipresent in Germany during 2017, can be categorized
into several broad themes:
- The
social and economic effects of accommodating more than a million mostly
Muslim migrants from Africa, Asia and the Middle East;
- A
rapidly deteriorating security situation marked by a dramatic increase in
migrant-related violent crime;
- A
migrant rape epidemic targeting German women and children;
- Islamic
extremism and the security implications of German jihadists;
- The
continuing spread of Islamic Sharia law in Germany;
- The
challenge of Muslim integration; and,
- The
failures of German multiculturalism.
JANUARY 2017
January 1.
Two thousand "highly aggressive" migrants from Africa, Asia and the
Middle East gathered in front of the
central railway station in Cologne, where, in 2015, hundreds of German women
were sexually assaulted on New Year's Eve. A massive police presence prevented
mayhem. In Berlin, at least 22 women were sexually assaulted at
the Brandenburg Gate, despite the presence of 1,700 police officers. In
Hamburg, at least 14 women were sexually assaulted.
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