https://hotair.com/allahpundit/2015/09/08/germany-pledges-to-accept-500000-migrants-per-year-as-merkel-boasts-influx-will-change-our-country/feed/HotAir is the leading conservative blog for breaking news and commentary covering the Biden administration, politics, media, culture, and current elections.en-usThu, 23 Apr 2026 20:06:31 -0400<![CDATA[I spent the weekend reading stories about the migrant crisis thinking I must be missing some key piece of information that would explain the EU reaction. Which is possible: I don&#8217;t closely follow European news. I follow it closely enough, though, to have read boatloads of articles earlier this year after the Charlie Hebdo massacre about European Jews, particularly those in France, feeling caught between the anti-semitic Muslim underclass on the one hand and the anti-semitic fascist parties that have gained public support as a backlash to that underclass on the other. It&#8217;s a truism in 2015 that multicultural Europe has done a dangerously poor job of assimilating its lower-class Muslim population, which means Merkel and the EU would have little choice in the new crisis but to be strict about not admitting giant new populations of destitute Muslim refugees from Middle Eastern countries like Syria and Iraq.]]>Tue, 08 Sep 2015 20:41:11 -0400<![CDATA[Allahpundit]]>https://hotair.com/allahpundit/2015/09/08/germany-pledges-to-accept-500000-migrants-per-year-as-merkel-boasts-influx-will-change-our-country-n227249