A senior German academic has joined the chorus of voices expressing concern over the low educational standards of newly arriving migrants, and the significant knock-on effects that is bound to have on the German educational system. President of the University of Hamburg and chairman of the German Educational Action Council Dieter Lenzen has pointed to the enormous cost of teaching hundreds of thousands of newcomers basic language skills, pointing in particular to the Syrian community. While the proportion of Syrians arriving and claiming to have university degrees — around 15 per cent — isn’t much below the German population as a whole, the vast majority of the remaining 85 per cent are in a significantly worse state, unable even to perform basic tasks like reading a bus timetable. Outlining the scale of the challenge and the lack of ability of most Syrians arriving in Europe, President Lenzen said: “the problem is the 65 per cent of an age group that can operate only on reading comprehension level one by the PISA test”, reports N24. The Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) test is a standard form of measuring intellectual ability and at level one suggests that the majority of Syrian “refugees” are unable to complete “basic
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Riot Migrants Claim They Didn’t Understand German Norms, Were Just Following Afghan Law
Migrants who were part of a gang that tore apart asylum accommodation and savagely attacked police officers in a riot last year are now in court, charged with aggravated breach of the peace. Violence broke out in the migrant receiving centre in Suhl, Thuringa in August 2015 after a disagreement between migrants belonging to different sects of Islam living there turned bitter. One Afghan migrant in the centre was driven to tear pages out of a Koran and stuffed them into a toilet, and it was at this point that things took a turn for the worse. As Breitbart London reported at the time, after other migrants attempted to kill the man, police had to move in to give protection. The wrath of the mob then turned on the officers, who had to retreat to a nearby building under a hail of thrown objects including stones and glass. The Thuringan court has now heard the testimony of a young female police officer, one of the first on the scene who was caught in this melé. She said: “I perceived the mood to be aggressive, angry, hateful” and described while her fellow officers took refuge in a room with the man the gang was
‘If We Had To Rely On Brussels We Would Long Ago Been Flooded With Jihadists’: President Of Macedonia Lashes Out At EU, Germany
Speaking to a German newspaper, the President of Macedonia has said his country has been “left in the lurch” by the European Union (EU), which has lavished money and support on Turkey but ignored their work to stem the migrant crisis. Macedonia has been criticised for closing their borders to Greece, which has left a rapidly spiralling number of migrants building up there, unable to continue north to their intended destinations, rich and generous European nations like Germany and Sweden. But now the Macedonian president has hit back at this criticism, and his nation’s treatment at the hands of the EU, calling the leadership in Brussels slow and hypocritical, and German security policy a failure. Described as “angry” at the actions of the EU, president Gjorge Ivanov has described in an interview with Bild the way Macedonia has repeatedly tried to contribute to the security of Europe, only to be repeatedly rebuked. He described a particular sense of betrayal at witnessing Greece receive hundreds of millions of euros for the impact of the migrant crisis, and Turkey, which he described as “non-European” taking billions while Macedonia was ignored. Speaking of his nation’s work to protect Europe, president Ivanov said: “It is not the
Government Funded Website Teaches Migrants How To Have Sex… In 13 Different Languages
An explicitly illustrated new website from the German Federal Centre for Health Education (BZgA) targeting migrants gives life lessons in sex, including different positions, prostitution, and how to engage in causal sex. Launched in late February as a means to aid integration, the website is gathering significant attention abroad for its graphic cartoon depictions of sexual acts. The pictures, which often show dark-skinned men having sex with white women have been referred to as an illustration of Germany’s “welcoming culture” towards migrants by Swiss newspaper Blick, while Canada’s Ezra Levant called them conveniently “colour coded”. Available in 13 languages including Arabic and Turkish, Zanzu.de is funded by the BZgA as well as the Federal Ministry for Health. Many of the issues dealt with by the site are explained to German children while they are at school in sex education classes, but for those coming from “Arab and African” countries this is not the case, reports the German Express. Speaking to press, the parlimentary secretary for the Ministry for Families said the target for the site was these migrants, and especially those “who have not lived in Germany long, here for them is a discrete and direct [way to gain] knowledge in this area”. The
Respected Think-Tank: Border Fences Much Cheaper Than Mass Migration
One of Germany’s best known and respected think tanks has found the five billion euro cost of closing Europe’s borders is just a “fraction” of the cost associated with leaving them open and experiencing continued mass migration. The Munich-based Institute for Economic Research (Ifo) has released new figures quantifying what exactly the damage to the German and European economies would be, and it is significantly lower than previous estimates. Taking into consideration the inconvenience and delays to trade introduced by taking action at Europe’s borders to prevent illegal migrant incursion, the Ifo put the figure at €5 billion a year. Although a significant amount of money, report author Gabriel Felbermayr said “this cost represents only a fraction of the burden which would be incurred by continuing unregulated mass migration”. By way of comparison the cost of reception and initial care of refugees was estimated to hit €20 billion a year for just Germany alone, reports Die Welt. This figure excludes the costs associated with migrant crime and other societal costs, and does nothing to even consider the long term costs of mass migration. A recent report from a Stockholm University academic into the life-long costs of mass migration found just the 2015 arrivals in
European Churches Witnessing ‘Mass Baptisms’ For Migrants
Thousands of migrants are being baptised into the Christian faith upon arrival in Europe but the German government is sceptical, suspecting many are changing faith to bolster their chances of getting asylum. Immigrants from countries where being a practising Christian can be a deadly conviction such as Iran, Afghanistan and Syria are converting to the religion in great numbers in Europe, having lived as Muslims before arriving in the continent. One church featured in a report by German state broadcaster ARD expects to baptise 600 people this year. Another baptised 185 newcomers in 2015. Many communities were experiencing influxes of migrant worshippers, said the report. Naturally, the reasons for migrants turning to the Christian church are diverse. One prominent explanation is a rejection of Islam, which has been credited as a driving force behind the conflicts many asylum seekers claim to be escaping. ARD reports the remarks of one priest, Pastor Albert Babayan who said “Many say they are disappointed by Islam”. One freshly-minted Iranian Christian said he “lived in fear” in his home country, but upon meeting two Iranian Christians in Germany he discovered a “new community”. After his baptism in a local swimming pool, done by an evangelical preacher for
450 Highly Dangerous Islamists Walking Free In Germany With Not Enough Security Forces To Monitor Them
Hundreds of Islamists considered capable of committing “significant offences” are walking free in Germany without surveillance because of a lack of resources, making observation impossible. The radical Islamist “scene” in Germany, which has been described as “rapidly growing” now encompasses some 447 individuals considered highly dangerous, in addition to 1,100 other potential terrorists, over 7,000 radical Salafist Muslims, and hundreds of other individuals who have returned from Syria with combat experience. The number of so called highly dangerous men is up from just 120 a couple of years ago, has nearly doubled in the past twelve months, and is highly concentrated in certain parts of Germany, reports Die Welt. While there are just four known radical Islamists who pose a serious danger living in the German federal state of Thuringa, and none at all thought to be in Saxony-Anhalt, there are around 160 in North Rhine-Westphalia. The Islamist-heavy state reached global attention earlier this year after the revelation that hundreds were raped, robbed, and attacked in the state’s largest city, Cologne, by migrants on New Year’s Eve. The 447 targets defined as “Islamist instigators” are monitored by the federal security agencies, with their locations “determined on a regular basis”, but almost none are
European Union Declares Balkan Route Closed To Illegal Migrants, But Considers Opening Borders To Millions
Ahead of the major migrant crisis talks to be held in Brussels on Monday, the European Union (EU) has announced it is to close off the Balkan route completely and begin the return of economic migrants, but this progress may come at the price of opening the continent’s borders to Turkey. The flow of migrants from Greece northward through the Balkan and Visegrad nations into the heart of Europe — Germany — is enjoying a temporary hiatus, as borders have been closed and the migrants become stuck in bottleneck Greece. Although the border closures have been repeatedly criticised by leading European figures, the EU has taken this opportunity to mark up the change as a victory, declaring “irregular flows of migrants along the Western Balkans route are coming to an end, this route is now closed” in documents seen by the Kronen Zeitung. Yet the cost of this minor success is not counted. With Greece now a de-facto concentration camp for migrants drawn to Europe by promises made by Mrs. Merkel but spurned on the whim of political expediency, tens of thousands now sit at the Greek border with Macedonia waiting for the situation to thaw so they can continue north. It
Donald Trump Named ‘Islamophobe Of The Year’ By Islamic Campaign Group
U.S. presidential candidate Donald Trump continued his winning streak last night, taking first place in the “satirical” Islamophobe of the Year Award. The prize was awarded at a gala dinner in London last night in Mr. Trump’s absence — not an unusual state of affairs, given that none of the nominees are usually invited and applications for tickets have in the past gone unanswered. The ceremony was hosted by the British-based Islamic Human Rights Commission (IHRC), a Shia-dominated, “Khomenist”, Hezbollah-sympathising pressure group which has campaigned on behalf of convicted Islamist terrorists, as previously reported by Breitbart London. Although the event is intended to be satirical, it is instead apparently an opportunity for the Iran-friendly group to denounce their chosen politically-incorrect bogeymen. In a statement, the group said they wanted to undermine the credibility of people who criticised Islam by awarding their prizes. Writing in support of Mr. Trump’s nomination, which was given following his call for a halt on Muslim migration to the United States, IHRC chairman Massoud Shadjareh said: “It is bad enough that anyone can come out with such arrogant, unapologetic bigotry and hate speech but I think what is really frightening is that Donald Trump is supported by such a large number of
Scared Sweden: Almost Half Of Women ‘Afraid’ To Be Out After Dark In Europe’s Rape Capital
“Almost every Swedish woman feels very or somewhat unsafe when they exercise alone in the dark”, finds new research by the Aftonbladet newspaper in the wake of the migrant rape crisis. Combining a wide-ranging study of attitudes of women towards being outside in the evening on their own and personal interviews, the findings show that the statement of 34-year-old Ellinor Andersson that she carried a bunch of keys in her hand at night, ready to strike out, are quite normal. Talking to Aftonbladet, the woman said: “I would never go running by myself on a Friday or a Saturday night”. Another said she would never go out alone after seven in the evening. The survey finds that now 46 per cent of women aged 16 or over felt either very or somewhat unsafe when they are alone in the dark, compared to just 20 per cent for men. Even during the daytime many are uncomfortable, the results also show 43 per cent felt insecure while in a city on their own, and around a third were “afraid” of Swedish cities”. Many women were so afraid of trying to get home in the dark, they would go to lengths to avoid it. Almost one third