It is true that as colonial powers, European nations committed atrocities. Denying that would be a perversion of history.
Check posts of mine all over this forum: I've always been the first to name and acknowledge things my own country has done in the past e.g. during its 'Golden Age' or as a colonial power.
However, one must give the devil its due. Where else has an entire civilization, simply out of a sense of liberal sensibilities and collective guilt, signed its own death warrant? All previous major powers have been felled by either war or gradual decay, but Europe has signed its own surrender treaty without a fight. The change in demographics that Angela Merkel has triggered will eventually overwhelm Europe (as we know it).
With a population of 80.2 million according to the 2011 census, rising to 81.5 million as at 30 June 2015 and to at least 81.9 million as at 31 December 2015, Germany is the most populous country in the European Union, the second most populous country in Europe after Russia, and ranks as the 16th most populous country in the world.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germany#Demographics
In 2014, about seven million of Germany's 81 million residents did not have German citizenship. As of 2011, about six million foreign citizens (7.7% of the population) were registered in Germany.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germany#Demographics
Just 1 million added over 3 years at most.
The Federal Statistical Office classifies the citizens by immigrant background. Regarding immigrant background, 20% of the country's residents, or more than 16 million people, were of immigrant or partially immigrant descent in 2009 (including persons descending or partially descending from ethnic German repatriates). In
2010, 29% of families with children under 18 had at least one parent with immigrant roots.
In 2015, the Population Division of the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs listed Germany as host to the second-highest number of international migrants worldwide, about 5% or 12 million of all 244 million migrants. Germany ranks 7th amongst EU countries and 37th globally in terms of the per centage of migrants who made up part of the country's population. As of 2014, the largest national group was from Turkey (2,859,000), followed by Poland (1,617,000), Russia (1,188,000), and Italy (764,000).[212] Since 1987, around 3 million ethnic Germans, mostly from the former Eastern Bloc countries, have exercised their right of return and emigrated to Germany.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germany#Demographics
Already pre-Syrian-civil-war high % immigrant roots
As of 31 December 2014, the Federal Statistical Office of Germany estimates that there were 118,196 people with Syrian citizenship in Germany. According to the German Interior Ministry, between January 2015 and October 2015, there were 243,721 Syrian citizens who entered Germany to seek asylum. Therefore, there are more than 360,000 Syrian citizens (combined 118,196 as of December 2014 and 243,721 as of October 2015) residing in Germany as of October 2015.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syrians_in_Germany
Does anyone seriously believe that taking in a couple of hundred thousand people from Syria will fundamentally change the demographics of Germany, which has a population of 81 million?
By the way, the Ottomans, the Mamluks, the Mughals, and so on, where all conquering powers with their own history of heinous crimes. Why is it that Europe has to be ashamed of its imperial history, whereas we have to collectively celebrate Islamic conquest?
Fully agree.
Illegal no!bing and invasion of Iraq the bombing of Libya. You must know that when you were bombing Libya it will create migrant crisis.
The migrant stream from north africa predates any intervention in Libya. Already during 2000-2005, an estimated 440,000 people per year emigrated from Africa, most of them to Europe.
More here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African_immigration_to_Europe
