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Wave of knife attacks underscores Germany’s struggle to assimilate refugees

LONDON — A brutal August knife attack on an American who stepped in to defend young women from harassment on a train in Dresden, Germany, has reignited a fiery debate over immigration policies that increasingly have become the focus of national elections.

John Rudat, a part-time model, was slashed across the face in an attack that is expected to leave him permanently disfigured. A person briefly detained in the case is a Syrian refugee, but officials have not arrested or identified any suspected assailant.

The attack follows other high-profile crimes this year and in years past involving migrants who have flocked to Germany to take advantage of the country’s immigration-friendly policies.

by Blazingcatfur•October 13, 2025October 13, 2025•0•"Islamophobia", Germany, Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West

Germany Punishes Professor for Daring To Discuss National Identity

Germany’s highest administrative court has confirmed a disciplinary penalty against intelligence professor Martin Wagener over his book on national identity, saying the Federal Intelligence Service (BND) acted lawfully when it cut his pay by ten per cent for two years.

Wagener’s book, Kulturkampf um das Volk (Culture War Over the People), discusses Germany’s national identity and criticises official approaches to multiculturalism. The BND accused him of insulting citizens with immigrant backgrounds and breaking the duty of moderation required of public officials.

by Blazingcatfur•October 11, 2025October 10, 2025•0•Germany

Towards a Left-Wing Reich in Germany?

Germany today offers the world a disturbing spectacle: a state in its death throes which, under the guise of democratic virtue, is sinking into authoritarianism. The erosion of civil liberties is not occurring through a coup d’état, but by the slow accumulation of administrative, legal and police measures that shape the contours of a dictatorship as implacable as it is convinced of its own virtue.

by Blazingcatfur•October 10, 2025October 10, 2025•0•Germany, Germany - AfD party, Germany: Not Bombed Enough?

Germany is being terrorised

As Germany commemorates the 35th anniversary of reunification, the contrast with 1990 could not be more stark. Back then, jubilant crowds gathered spontaneously at Brandenburg Gate and atop the crumbling Berlin Wall. Last week’s celebrations still drew many people, but the atmosphere was tainted by fear. In Germany today, one question looms over every public gathering: will we be safe?

by Blazingcatfur•October 7, 2025October 6, 2025•0•"Islamophobia", Canada, Germany, Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West

Migrant Crime: “Numbers and Facts on Migration Don’t Lie”—German Police Union Leader Manuel Ostermann

“It is already statistically proven that this wave of migration has fuelled crime. To deny that would be irresponsible.”

Manuel Ostermann serves as the First Deputy Federal Chairman of the DPolG Federal Police Union in Germany. He is also the domestic policy spokesperson for the Junge Union, the governing CDU/CSU alliance’s youth organisation in the state of North Rhine–Westphalia, and an expert on internal security and policing. We spoke with him last week in the Hungarian city of Szeged, on the sidelines of a conference on the 10th Anniversary of the European Migration Crisis organised by the Mathias Corvinus Collegium (MCC) and the Migration Research Institute (MRI).

by Blazingcatfur•October 1, 2025October 1, 2025•0•Camp Of The Saints, Germany

Refugees in Four-Star Hotels as Germany’s Bill Hits €193 Million

Germany’s largest cities are shelling out hundreds of millions of euros on housing thousands of refugees in hotels, as local authorities struggle to cope with a lack of social housing and emergency shelters. Despite a decline in the overall number of asylum applications, the inflow of Ukrainian refugees entitled to initial accommodation has left city administrations with little choice but to turn to the private sector.

According to Bild, Germany’s ten largest cities—plus Essen, Dresden, Potsdam, Hanover, Chemnitz, and Rostock—reported that 11,809 refugees were living in hotels and guesthouses at the end of June. The cost in the first half of 2025 alone amounted to more than €193 million.

by Blazingcatfur•September 30, 2025September 30, 2025•0•Camp Of The Saints, Germany

Germany state elections: AfD makes gains, Greens fall behind

On Sunday, around 13.7 million people went to the polls in Germany’s most populous state, North Rhine-Westphalia. The results were losses for the center-left Social Democrats (SPD) and a bitter blow for the environmentalist Greens.

The conservative Christian Democratic Union (CDU) saw a respectable showing, but it was the partly right-wing extremist Alternative for Germany (AfD) that made the strongest gains.

At stake in the local elections were around 20,000 parliamentary seats in almost 400 towns and municipalities, as well as mayorships in larger cities.

by Blazingcatfur•September 15, 2025September 15, 2025•0•Germany, Germany - AfD party

Western Germany: AfD set for success in local elections

With a roaring noise, the yellow excavator razes the last remains of another derelict property in the Bismarck district of Gelsenkirchen to the ground. An entire street with seven houses is being flattened to make way for new houses and a kindergarten.

The dilapidated properties and piles of rubbish in the street were not only a huge nuisance for local residents, but also a big campaign issue for the far-right populist Alternative for Germany (AfD)which linked it to labor migration from Southeast Europe.

by Blazingcatfur•September 13, 2025September 13, 2025•0•Germany, Germany - AfD party

Asylum Ruling Appeals Hit New Record in Germany as Syrians Refuse to Go Home

Germany: Well integrated Muslims demand Caliphate

Germany is experiencing a new migration conundrum. While judges are overwhelmed by tens of thousands of new appeals against asylum decisions, only a handful of Syrians—fewer than 2,000 out of nearly one million living in the country—have requested official assistance to return to their homeland, despite the fall of Bashar al-Assad having been celebrated as the condition that would make their return possible.

The first half of 2025 brought a record number, 76,646 lawsuits by migrants initiated before administrative courts, more than in all of 2023 (71,885) and three-quarters of the 2024 level. Densely populated states such as North Rhine-Westphalia (13,304), Bavaria (11,412), and Lower Saxony (over 11,000) account for much of this surge.

by Blazingcatfur•September 8, 2025September 8, 2025•0•"Islamophobia", Camp Of The Saints, Germany, Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West

Essen Stabbing Highlights Knife Problem in Germany

Police in the western German city of Essen took a suspect into custody on Friday, September 5th, after a teacher was stabbed at a vocational college. Authorities confirmed they no longer considered the situation to be dangerous.

The attack took place at the school earlier in the day. The victim, a female educator, was rushed to hospital and underwent emergency surgery. No further details about her condition have been released.

by Blazingcatfur•September 7, 2025September 6, 2025•0•Germany

The German parties’ pact to silence criticism of immigration

Every mainstream party running in Cologne’s local elections this month has agreed not to criticise immigration. Those bound by the so-called fairness agreement say they will not depict asylum seekers or migrants in a ‘negative’ light. Candidates are also warned not to ‘exploit’ migration as an electoral issue.

by Blazingcatfur•September 7, 2025September 6, 2025•0•"Islamophobia", Camp Of The Saints, Germany, Germany - AfD party, Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West

The Crumbling of Cologne’s Multicultural Consensus

Last week, news of a round-table agreement banning criticism of immigration in Cologne made headlines—not least because it caught the attention of Elon Musk. Seven parties, from the center-right Christian Democrats (CDU) to the SPD, Greens, and Left Party, had signed the so-called Fairness Agreement, pledging not to criticize asylum seekers or migrants during election campaigns. The agreement has existed since 2017, but now, ahead of the municipal elections on September 14th, it has finally cracked.

by Blazingcatfur•September 4, 2025September 4, 2025•0•"Multiculturalism", "Societally Destructive Immigration Policy", Camp Of The Saints, Germany

Germany’s draft revival prompts surge in conscientious objectors

When the recruiting sergeants came to mobilise Odysseus for the siege of Troy, the guileful king of Ithaca feigned madness, driving his plough back and forth across a beach and seeding it with grains of salt.

In decades gone by, Germany’s draft dodgers and conscientious objectors resorted to an array of similarly inventive ruses, from faking chronic illness to devising long autobiographical texts on the roots of their pacifism.

Now, as the government prepares to bring back a small-scale form of national service, the old boxes of tricks are being dusted off.

by Blazingcatfur•September 4, 2025September 4, 2025•0•Germany

‘Western democracy at risk without asylum reform’

The “existence of western democracies” is in peril without fundamental reforms to the European asylum system, one of Germany’s most eminent legal figures has warned.

Hans-Jürgen Papier was previously the most senior judge in the country, which became a European standard bearer for liberal immigration policy. Papier said the current rules had opened the floodgates to “uncontrolled and unconditional immigration” and needed to be radically revised before the public lost faith in conventional politics.

Unfortunately people like Hans are more afraid of losing access to the trough than they are of mass immigration from incompatible cultures.

The only thing that scares them more is the AfD.

by Blazingcatfur•September 3, 2025September 2, 2025•0•"Immigration from incompatible cultures", "Societally Destructive Immigration Policy", Camp Of The Saints, Germany

AfD: Appointed for Death?

Six candidates of hated party die just before local elections In German state. Coincidence?

What is the likelihood that four candidates and two reserve candidates of the same political party, in the same region, would drop dead suddenly, within 13 days of each other—and just before local elections? It happened in North Rhine-Westphalia to Alternative for Germany (AfD) candidates on the September 14 ballot.

The four candidates were Ralph Lange, 66; Wolfgang Klinger, 71; Stefan Berendes, 59; and Wolfgang Seitz, also 59. All were running for local offices in the northwest German state, where voters will go to the polls in less than two weeks. German election officials have invalidated previous mail ballots due to the deaths.

by Blazingcatfur•September 3, 2025September 2, 2025•0•Germany, Germany - AfD party