only in your own reality though

She used the wrong words, she gets flamed.

Whatever dude. Read some books on the subject and see who's living in his own reality.

Didn't the Turkish president say learn German "without an accent" to his own people...

so either multiculturalism doesnt work...

OR

Right Wing governments just arent trying hard enough, because if it does work, they have to start being nice to people who dont conform to what they want them to be.

I'm not surprised sapphi feels this way, to be honest. I'm extremely baffled what hit Merkel that she moved to the right during the last months. I guess polling below 30% made the difference...

And I think it's absolutely neccessary to talk about this from the view of a muslim. When I was a child I was guest in a muslim family almost daily. Just like 99% of all muslims they were just normal people. The problems in our society are no problems of religion. In the first place it's a matter of education and chances in life. Ask anybody if they are scared of people from balkan states. They will look at you baffled and ask "why should I be scared of those people?" Well, a lot of people in the Balkan states are muslims, aren't they? So is it really about religion?

That's the funny thing with statistics: You can prove whatever you want with them. Had Sarrazzin written a book about "Hauptschüler" destroying our society it would have been a lot easier to "prove" his claim (!!!) Does that mean people lacking high education should be pushed out of the country?

And I really hate it how even politicians begin to classify people by the amount of money they bring in. What happened to us that a person's life is worth less than the money that person earns? It's really creepy because it happens all over Europe and in the US.

Truth be told, it's pretty hard for multiculturalism to work. For example immigrants coming from a country where the culture is sexist will probably have a hard time making their traditional culture survive in their new home country where equality between sexes is the norm.

Sounds fair to me:

Come to Germany and live like a German, or leave.

We should have this in the UK, but our 'leaders' are too soft.

The "Christian values" would refer to the foundations on which Western civilization has grown. They are Jewish, Christian, Roman and Greek or so.

Our modern values are about equality of man and women, free speech, democracy, human rights, etc.

They can sometimes differ from Eastern or Middle-Eastern values.

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.