Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the Freedom Center, is a New York writer focusing on radical Islam.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel insisted that refusing to take in Muslim migrants is a “danger for Europe.” Merkel as usual had it backward. It’s her program of taking in Muslim migrants that represents the gravest threat to the freedom and future of Europe since the fall of the Soviet Union.

Merkel may have already doomed Germany. The Bild newspaper published a leaked secret government document estimating that the number of migrants invading Europe this year might reach 1.5 million.

And that bad news gets much worse because the document estimates that each migrant will bring in as many as eight family members once they’re settled in, bringing the year’s true total to 7.36 million.

That’s almost 10 percent of the population of Germany. In just one invasion.

And the migrants are mostly young men entering a rapidly aging country whose young male population is under 5 million. Germany’s Muslim population already approaches 5 million. The median age of Germany’s Muslim population is 34, while the median age for the overall population is 46.

Merkel has rapidly sped up the rate at which Germany’s young male population becomes Muslim.

The document predicts up to 10,000 invaders entering every day. It foresees no end to the arrivals even when it gets cold. These words add up to the end of Germany and the end of Europe.

With numbers like these it’s no wonder that Merkel is frantically trying to shift the burden, berating Eastern European countries for their nationalism and failing to learn from history even though as a former Communist and a German leader, she represents the two political forces that historically did the most to deprive these nations of their national rights and their independence.

Merkel invokes the Berlin War to claim that fences don’t work. But the Berlin Wall kept people from leaving. The fences that Hungary has built are constructed in self-defense, not to keep Hungarians in, but to keep invading Muslims out. It’s Merkel whose EU totalitarianism represents a new Berlin Wall that mandates open borders for Muslim migrants while preventing countries from leaving the EU.

When Merkel states, “The refugees won’t be stopped if we just build fences. That I’m deeply convinced of, and I’ve lived behind a fence for long enough,” she is not only deliberately mangling the moral difference between a fence that keeps invaders out and a fence that keeps people in, but her own complicity in these fences. East Germany needed a fence because people wanted to flee its totalitarian regime. The European Union needs political fences to keep countries from escaping its political regime.

The choice isn’t between open borders and the Berlin Wall. Rather the open borders that Merkel advocates are another form of the Berlin Wall. Communist countries don’t make immigration difficult. They make emigration impossible. Free countries make immigration difficult, but emigration easy.

That’s how democracy is supposed to work. It allows the people of a nation to decide who can enter while allowing anyone to leave. Merkel’s EU brings back the USSR’s ‘Prison of Nations’ where everyone can enter, but no one can leave.

Merkel warns European countries that refusing Muslim immigrants is “not negotiable.” This is the type of language that totalitarian regimes use.

Europeans are told that they will lose their credibility if they don’t take in Muslims. “Who are we to defend Christians around the world if we say we won’t accept a Muslim or a mosque in our country?” she asks. “That won’t do.”

But taking in Muslims has prevented Germans from defending Christians even in their own country, not only in the Middle East.

Christian refugees in Germany report being persecuted, threatened and beaten by Muslims. An Iranian Christian refugee spoke of death threats from Syrian Muslim migrants. An Iraqi Christian family was beaten and told, “We will kill you and drink your blood.”

A Lutheran pastor says that he is asked by refugees, “Will we have to hide ourselves as Christians in the future in this country?”

That question is better addressed to Angela Merkel and her mad Muslim vision for Germany.

Islamizing Germany will not enable it to defend Christians in the Middle East. Instead it will make the government even more vulnerable to terrorist blackmail and political pressure from Muslims. And if Merkel were really concerned about Christians, she wouldn’t be fighting European countries that want to take in Christian refugees instead of Muslim migrants. Not only hasn’t her appeasement of Muslims done anything to help Christians in the Middle East, but it has endangered Christians in Germany.

Despite resistance from her own party, Merkel continues doubling down. She has seized control of refugee policy from her own interior minister, who was skeptical of her action and who may have helped leak the Bild document, and she continues to ignore calls for refugee limits from her own party.

Meanwhile Muslims in Germany are vocal about refusing to accept any limitations of Muslim immigration.

Merkel isn’t really an open borders fanatic. She’s a political hack who made a tragic mistake and is desperately trying to dump it on the rest of Europe. After originally taking the correct line, Merkel folded and rather than admit that she made a mistake whose implications will destroy her country, she is desperately manufacturing one ridiculous excuse after another to defend her actions.

Her calls for sharing the burden amount to dumping the consequences of her unilateral policy on the rest of Europe. It’s exactly the type of behavior she condemned from Greece, only to hypocritically practice a version of it that is far more disastrous, both from the standpoint of security and economics.

Merkel’s plan is to unilaterally demand that the rest of Europe “share” in the welfare, crime and terrorism of the Muslim migrants that she chose to take in. And there’s nothing fair about that.

But the Eurocrats can’t wrap their heads around the idea of border fences. The closest they can come to the idea is to hypocritically plead with Turkey to secure the borders that they refuse to secure.

The Turkish solution still requires Europe to take in another 500,000 Muslims from Turkey in exchange for its tyrannical Islamist ruler agreeing to secure its borders. This means outsourcing European border security to a hostile Muslim country whose ruler dreams of reviving the Ottoman Empire and boasted, “The mosques are our barracks, minarets our bayonets, domes our helmets, the believers our soldiers.”

That’s the sort of man that Europe will be turning over its security too. Meanwhile those 500,000 Muslims will also have to be “shared” all across Europe.

Merkel claims that the migrants “present more opportunities than risks.” What opportunities are these exactly? Half the Muslim “youth” in Germany are already unemployed.  Barely a third of Muslim immigrants earn a living through professional employment.

What opportunities will adding millions of Muslims to the welfare rolls accomplish except to create more jobs for the government bureaucrats who sign their welfare checks?

Merkel’s allies claim that she deserves the Nobel Prize. She certainly does. Hitler and Stalin were both nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize. And Merkel has done more damage to Germany and Europe than any leader since these two worthy gentlemen before her had.

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Scripture: 1 Timothy 4:10

“This is why we work hard and continue to struggle, for our hope is in the living God, who is the Savior of all people and particularly of all believers” NKJV

Wasim’ s struggle continues:
“I was very discouraged knowing that at any time a Muslim could come to kill me. One evening around 9:00 PM I was sitting in a Church longing to return to my home. I was thinking this pain and suffering was too much for me. I just couldn’t take it anymore. Here I am alone, hungry, weak, tired and torn.

Suddenly I felt as if I am sleeping and my body becomes a little baby. There is someone dressed in a white robe holding me in His arms. He is caring for me and sustaining me like a mother holding her sick child. And the child feels so safe and comfortable in his mother’s arms. I could not see His face, as I was just a child being held His arms. After a few minutes I was lying on the floor feeling so comfortable. The comfort re-energized me making me strong. Then the vision was over. Since that day I’ve sensed Jesus with me, always taking care of me. He encourages me when I feel discouraged. He sustains me at the time of sorrow. He lifts me up when I am down. He lights up my life when things are the darkest.

My brothers in Christ decided that I should leave Afghanistan for a while. I agreed and ran to other countries so I could disappear from sight. I went to Turkey, Syria, Cyprus, Bulgaria, Yugoslavia, Austria, Lesotho, Botswana and China among other countries.

God is so good to me. I learned He can use his servants everywhere and anywhere. He used me in Syria. Upon entry into Syria, at the border, police put me in a deep, dark, lightless basement prison. I asked, ‘what is the charge?’ They did not answer. After a week in the lightless basement prison they took me to the central prison in Damascus. There I learned that my charge was possession of a full bag of Christian Bible scripture. I was told, ‘You cannot preach Christianity in our country.’ I was sentenced to prison. When I entered prison I met a fellow Christian prisoner, an Australian citizen named David. We were immediately separated. He was sent to a different part of the prison where we had very little contact.

I was praying to the Father asking, ‘Why did you bring me here?  Please, let me know what I did wrong.’ I was feeling very alone in prison. Most of time was spent in prayer and singing praises to the Lord.

After nine weeks the police brought a young British man named Allen into the prison. He was dressed in Syrian clothes. Allen was moved immediately to the Muslim prisoners and workers. He joined them in praising their God. I asked another prisoner the reason Allen was together with the Muslims and he said, ‘the British man changed his Christian religion and now he is a Muslim. They were all happy now that he will go to heaven. They were all celebrating the conversion of a Christian to Islam.’

It was a very sad situation. It was against my faith. Allen continued going to the prison mosque participating in their prayers.

I was angry, ‘Father, how can Allen convert to Islam?’  Then I cried, ‘O, Jesus, I am sure Allen is not aware of the dangers of Islam. Why does he deny you before so many people?’

I wanted to talk with Allen and ask him so many questions. ‘What fault does he find in Jesus?’ ‘Is the fault that Jesus has died for you?’ ‘Is the fault that He was crucified for you?’  I prayed, ‘Father, give me wisdom and knowledge, and I will talk to him.’

Eleven o’clock that night, I went to Allen’s bed. I feared that he might tell the Muslims about me but I had to know.” Part 5 tomorrow.

Prayer: Father thank that in Your perfect plan Jesus has answers that melt away all doubt. In the name of the Lord Jesus Christ. Amen!

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