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UncleScrooge on 18 October 2010
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sapphi_snake said:
UncleScrooge said:

Yeah I get why you misinterpreted it, it sounds really weird in the article. I don't where that "without an accent" came from, by the way

When Merkel says "christian values" she is talking about western, secular values, actually. But she is the leader of the conservative party ("Christian Democratic Union") so it fits her voters better.

And nobody wants to force people to any religion - basically she says people who don't want to learn german and do not respect "christian" values (she was heavily critizised for calling them "christian" values from like... everyone ) isn't welcome in Germany.

Now whether we agree with this or not is up to debate (I disagree with a lot of things she said) but she never said she'd force people to become christians. Only 60% of the german population believe in god, anwyways.

You really can't compare that to Hitler. Basically what the Conservative party wants is to introduce a system to regulate immigration - like the US has it already.

She used the wrong words, she gets flamed.


Feel free to flame her as much as you want. Actually I encourage you to do so because I disagree with her. I'm a center-left, pro-european guy with muslim and immigrant friends. I always thought Merkel was a good chancellor but she lost me with the debate about financially supporting Greece when she showed, well, nationalist tendencies. (Don't confuse this with "Nazi", though )

Just to give some more insight: For weeks now the german media has gone crazy about the possibility of a far-right party emerging (like in many parts of western Europe) because some conservatives feel Merkel isn't conservative enough. I guess this is her trying to get right-wing voters back but as I said I never would've expected Merkel herself to actually do this. But her governing coaltion is polling below 35% right now (< 30% Conservatives (CDU) and < 5% Liberals (FDP) - at the 2009 elections the two parties got 34% and 14% of the vote, respectively. ) and she is in danger of loosing the regional elections in South-West Germany (Baden-Württemberg) to the Greens (yes, the greens ) and I guess she's very worried.