German Chancellor Angela Merkel criticized Hungary’s child protection law during a Franco-German Parliamentary Assembly last week, saying the new law “discriminates against underage homosexuals”. The criticism comes at a time when Merkel continues to remain silent about the Somali asylum seeker’s knife attack in Würzburg that resulted in the death of three women, and which authorities believe was an Islamic terrorist attack.
At a hearing at the German-French Parliamentary Assembly, Merkel — in response to a question from a German Social Democrat on the EU’s possibilities for enforcing the rule of law — said that the new Hungarian law “recognizes discrimination against homosexual juveniles”. In the “very comprehensive” debate on the legislation at the last European Council, the vast majority of its members underlined that the EU is not only an internal market but also a foundation of values, and that these values cannot be called into question.
“However, the scope for enforcing them is very limited and should not create false expectations,” Merkel said.
Merkel silent on terror attack in Germany
Merkel’s criticism of Hungary comes at a time when her own country suffered an Islamic terrorist attackby a Somali asylum seeker who arrived in the country during 2016 — the same year in which she said Germany’s borders were open to Syrians, sparking a mass rush by over a million migrants, many who were not from Syria in the end.
The 24-year-old asylum seeker is reported to have screamed “Allahu Akbar” while stabbing the woman, and told the police after that attack he did it for “jihad”. Despite him clearly admitting he did the attack for
Her open borders policy also led to a number of terror attacks plots in the country. The mass sexual assaults that occurred during New Year’s 2015/2016, for example, were also largely conducted by Middle Eastern and North African migrants.
Her silence on the attack in Würzburg is drawing criticisms from the German media, with the country’s most popular newspaper, Bild, writing:
“The Islamist attack in Würzburg was eight days ago. Eight days.
And the Chancellor is still silent.
No personal word so far about the three fatalities, the injured. And not a word about the alleged assassin from Somalia who came to Germany in 2015.
It’s shameful.
With her silence, Angela Merkel gives the fatal impression that none of this is her business. As if it wasn’t worth mentioning that an asylum seeker abused our hospitality rights in the worst possible way.
As head of government, Merkel has vowed to prevent harm to the German people. This also includes the fight against Islamism.”
Merkel’s lack of attention to the terrorist attack in Würzburg may be largely based on politics. Over the past six years, stories of dramatic crimes and terrorist attacks from migrants — most who entered under Merkel’s watch — have driven support for the Alternative for Germany (AfD) and raised questions about her open borders policies.
Merkel seeks to exert an iron grip on lawmaking bodies outside of Germany’s borders, but she refuses to acknowledge and take responsibility for the deadly consequences of her own government’s failed policies. As of this report, the German chancellor has yet to comment on the deadly rampage which took place last Friday in the Bavarian city of Würzburg. So far, Merkel hasn’t expressed a bit of sympathy for the victims or their family members, she hasn’t visited the site of the attack, and she’s failed to recognize the role her open borders policy played in the attack.
However, Merkel has found time to criticize Hungary’s child protection law, as that is the current cause célèbre of the Brussels crowd — the same crowd that desperately wants to ignore the type of migrant attacks seen in Würzburg.
Merkel pointed out that because of the decision-making process based on the full agreement of the member states, it is “not very easy” to “encourage a member state to uphold the rule of law” because “there are countries that will not vote against each other”.
At the same time, not only the “formality of the law” must be applied, but also “very, very comprehensive and in-depth debates” must be pursued, and in addition to naming accusations and objections, efforts must be made to resolve contradictions, otherwise the European Union will not remain.
“This was very clear during the debate on the new Hungarian law in the European Council on Thursday evening,” Merkel said, adding that “it is possible to distance ourselves very quickly and very definitively, but in this way problems have never been solved in Europe, so perseverance is needed, and I predict now that we will need it in the coming months”.
Hungary recently came under concerted attack because of its new child protection law which the mainstream liberal media and politicians labeled as anti-LGBT, but Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán wrote on Monday in an article that his country — like any other — had the right to protect its children.
“This right cannot be challenged by another state, especially because Germany has taken on the flagship role. Whether it is wise to demonstrate again in armbands and rush onto the pitch with a rainbow flag during the Hungarian national anthem in the Munich football stadium, I am not sure. But I am sure that it is up to Germans to decide on the education of German children. I am also certain that only Hungarians can decide on the education of Hungarian children, and certainly not the Germans, Dutch or Belgians,” Orbán wrote.
Merkel’s political rivals seek to shine a light on her policies
Conversely, Alexander Gauland, the chairman of the Alternative for Germany (AfD) parliamentary group in the Bundestag, has attributed the Würzburg attack directly to Merkel’s reckless open border policy.
“After the terrible knife attack in Würzburg, which shook us all, it is not enough to mourn the victims and then go back to business,” Gauland said. “We have to name those who are politically responsible for this act and finally draw the conclusions. To be very clear: these three victims would still be living if it weren’t for Merkel’s irresponsible policy of open borders. Because the perpetrator came to Germany from Somalia in 2015, the year the border was opened.”
The former AfD co-leader then called on Merkel’s government to acknowledge the harmful impact that its pro-mass migration policy has had on German citizens.
“After this bloody act, the politically responsible in the federal and state governments are not allowed to fob off the citizens with generalities and appeasements. They must finally take responsibility for their policy of open borders and must not again downplay the act of Würzburg as an individual case.”