It is extremely foolish and short-sighted of Angela Merkel to dismiss this movement as “racist” and “xenophobic.” The refusal to acknowledge legitimate concerns cannot end well. At very least, it should lead to the end of Merkel’s political career, and her retirement to private life.
“Survey finds one in three Germans supports ‘anti-Islamization’ PEGIDA marches,” DW, January 1, 2015:
An opinion poll has found that one in eight Germans would join a march against ‘Islamization’ if one were held in their home town. A series of rallies in the city of Dresden have drawn growing numbers, with more planned.
The poll of 1,006 people by German news magazine Stern found that 13 percent would attend an “anti-Islamization” march if it were held near to their home.
The survey, while small, does show a residual level of support for the weekly rallies being held in the eastern city of Dresden, one of which attracted more than 17,000 people in the days before Christmas.
It also found that 29 percent of people thought the marches by the group Pegida, or Patriotic Europeans against the Islamization of the West, were justified because of the degree of influence that Islam was having on life in Germany.
Support for the marchers was particularly strong among supporters of the euroskeptic party Alternative for Germany (AfD), which recently has increasingly campaigned on an anti-immigration platform. The poll found that 71 percent of AfD supporters felt the rallies were justified.
About two thirds of Germans asked by the polling group Forsa felt that the threat that “Islamization” posed within Germany was being exaggerated by PEGIDA….
Jovial Joe says
When will this false equation of racism and anti-Islamism be broken in the minds of these appeasers? When one of Allah’s slaves murders Merkel? When one of them murders Cameron? Obama? The thing is none of them would; they know a friend when they see one.
particolor says
Very Jovial but True Joe !!
mortimer says
Islam is an ideology and a political system and a national constitution that includes a state religion.
Islam is state within the state of Germany.
Muslims do not recognize the German constitution as valid, so they should not be made citizens. They are not citizens like other citizens because of their primary allegiance to the Ummah.
AM says
Excellent point!
Rob Porter says
Mortimer, I think you know that it’s not just in Germany that Muslims do not recognize the constitution of the non-Muslim government or host country government under which they live. No doubt the multiculturalism and diversity-besotted Canadian government doesn’t think so, but nowhere do serious Muslims – as apposed to nominal Muslims – ever assimilate and entirely embrace the laws and constitution of a non-Muslim country. Their first allegiance is always to Islam.
STEAKMAN says
GOOD POINT ROB.
This is everywhere one looks in the West. Seems no one on the planet is doing anything for Islam … if you believe the Media and Respective Western governments – all these nut bars yelling Allah Ahkbar are simply “mentally ill”. ISIS is of course 15,000 mentally ill patients as well.
So In Canada we have had two “mentally ill” patients…nothing to do with Islam – move along.
Pure unmitigated BS…by our own Govt.
God (or someone), help us all if that immature little pretender Justin Trudeau manages to become our Next Prime Minister.
Kevin Walker says
Even the ‘nominal muslims’ integrate to a very superficial level, only to a limit where they could earn their living run their businesses, that is if they are not on govt. dole. beyond that any mohammedan would never venture. Assimilating in to host culture is NOT a mohammedan thing.
cathal says
I SAY to all Germans and Westereners…START BREEDING…throw away your contraceptives and use your body as God intended…to increase and multiply…for Heaven is the Christians homeland not the muslims….
particolor says
I don’t think we can afford too breed ?? Only them on Welfare from the Infidel can !!
Rob Porter says
You can afford to breed if prepared to make some sacrifices – like denying yourself some comforts and luxuries – like a new care every 2 or 3 years and steak two or three times a week! My late wife and I made sacrifices to have three children and so did many others. I have a daughter in England who has four small children – and they are not on welfare. I know what you mean about the welfare issue and what exists is disgraceful, but it is nonsense to say that only those on welfare can afford to breed.
joseph e. says
If you think these guys think logically you will be in for a rude shock! No kufar is a Muslim’s friend and even though it might work against them they’d still kill one to revel in it. The happiness is in being the one who did it.
Shane says
Too many Western politicians fail to acknowledge the threat to our culture that is Islamofascism. I will take the side of any group that opposes are greatest enemy – Islamic jihad. Neither Bush nor Obama are willing to state that Islamic jihad is our enemy.
Pere LaChaise says
The fact that 1/3 of those polled show interest in PEGIDA proves that post WWII ‘denazification’ of Germans, which produced (largely appropriate) deep shame over the abuse of nationalist chauvinism has begun to wear off. The article fails to mention which Germans were polled: Easterners who lived under socialism would have experienced none of this cultural makeover and have historically shown much more rightwing attitudes. The fact that PEGIDA is based in Dresden says a lot.
I basically agree with PEGIDA’s point, that Germans need to push back against a foreign, aggressive cultural takeover. Too bad it can so easily be misconstrued as something ‘nazi’. To counter this, PEGIDA must emphasize positive democratic values: secularism, rule of law, public safety, intolerance toward intolerance. Appeals to vague notions of germanness will be counter-productive. PEGIDA, if it is indeed NOT a rightwing movement, should forge links a multitude of secularist groups and coalesce into a popular, widely-based movement for sane public policy. I wish PEGIDA well and hope they avoid getting typecast. We don’t need a German Golden Dawn.
KiwiKaffir says
Yes we do, Germany it appears is leading the way! More power to the people!
tpellow says
“Why We Fight Islam”
BY NICOLAI SENNELS.
http://10news.dk/nicolai-sennels-why-we-fight-islam/
dumbledoresarmy says
That piece by Sennels is a good one.
Worth spreading about.
Holger Dansker *is* awakening.
particolor says
Serves every Western Nation Right for ever letting the Ref Thuggees and Mental Asylum Seekers into their Country’s in the First Place !!.. Forgot the Wooden Horse of Troy did We ??
Kieran Pavlick says
Some of the problem in dealing with Islam is that followers of it can be radicalized to kill critics. Not just the critics but a whole group using some sort of suicide action. I don’t know if Germans are able to carry handguns to defend themselves. But if you can’t defend yourself the only thing you can do is shut your mouth and walk away when confronted by a bully or a fanatic. Islam must be disassembled by a probing that committed suicide does not send you to paradise but to hell. Also the Prophet that created Islam must be exposed as a liar. Allah and the God of Jesus cannot be one and the same because all I supposedly rewards those who kill infidels even if they are children with life in Paradise.
Jannik says
No.40 years ago it was possible in germany to buy guns by mailorder.From this day it get harder and harder.
Now they don´t allow one hand knifes or autmatic knifes anymore,pepperspray is only allowed against dogs,airtaser are forbidden in 2008,most electroshockers are forbidden.Gaspistols are only allowed with a so called “little licence”.
We have millions of hobby shooters and hunters but they also don´t have the right to walk with guns arround or have a gun for self dence at home!You must have them in a special safe and gun and munition in different safes!
Only very few are allowed to have a gun,when there is a high risk.
But you can often read when Muslims have a conflict that somebody pull out a gun,or go away and came back with a gun or muslims say infront of the court”in are culture everbody have a weapon” or police say its normal to find guns or handgrenades in cars from the balcan(Ex-Yugoslavia).
Even the police was happy when Rockers had foght back the red light district from Albanians because then it was no more shootings.All of them came as Asylum seekers…politicians said they all go back when the war is over but they are still all here.
particolor says
Islam’s Rule is the War is never over !! Islam’s Aim is to Rule the World !!
Kevin Walker says
Seems like Germany’s Firearm laws are similar to what we have in Canada, but we do have 3 categories of firearms and none are allowed to be carried in person (except hunting in the bush outside of vehicle) or kept at home ready for defense.
Anyways, mohammedans are amassing firearms & other weapons in preparation -I can say that about Canada, at least- if they can’t buy them legally they’ll get it illegally because they care a damn about our laws.
Betty says
JANNIK SO IN OTHER WORDS IT IS OK FOR THE MUSLIMS TO GO AROUND ARMED BUT NOT YOU?. THEY CAN KILL YOU BUT YOU CAN’T KILL THEM IN ORDER TO SAVE YOUR OWN LIKE? YOUR GOVERNMENT MUST BE AS STUPID AS OURS. TRYING TO TAKE OUR GUNS AWAY.
Salah says
“But if you can’t defend yourself the only thing you can do is shut your mouth…”
This is exactly the status of Dhimmitude: unbelievers must pay jizya and “feel themselves subdued.”
So it’s a choice between Pride and Humiliation, between Strengh and Weakness, between Armed and Unarmed.
Gun control advocates are a bunch of cowards who would rather bend over than FIGHT. And needless to say, our enemy looooves them!!!
Angemon says
29% of Germans are “racists” and “far-right”? Merkel won’t be getting a good night of sleep very soon…
particolor says
Never mind the 29% %Racist” I would be 100% Racist if I saw 100,000 Philistines coming over the hill !!!
I think I meant “Religion of Peace” Settlers coming over the hill !! I got a bit carried away there !
Meri says
Outrageous, she sides with anti-Semitism. I doubt the German people are impressed with her over this.
dumbledoresarmy says
29 percent.
That means that those Islamosavvy Germans who are raising the alarm must *not* give up. They must push harder, talk louder and more often; band together; and aim to win over another 22 percent.
I would encourage PEGIDA to keep going. Keep holding rallies, town by town, city by city.
In the public squares and in front of the churches and town halls.
I would suggest carrying white roses – at this time of year, you’d have to use artificial roses – in order to remind people of the White Rose Society who defied the Nazis. Make posters with borders of white roses; make T-shirts or banners. Chalk a white rose onto footpaths and walls.
One of the original members of the White Rose Society, Susanne Zeller-Hirzel, joined the counter-jihad movement in her grand old age, and was active in it during the last years of her life, before her recent death.
http://www.newenglishreview.org/blog_direct_link.cfm/blog_id/23329
Wednesday, 30 September 2009
The White Rose: An Interview with Mrs. Susanne Zeller- Hirzel
Excerpt from that interview: ”
“Adams: You are now involved in the “Peoples Movement PAX EUROPA” (BPE) in Germany. We understand this to be one of the more important anti-Jihad organizations in Germany. What prompted you to get involved in the anti-Islamist movement?
“Zeller – Hirzel: I read many, many books on the subject; especially the books by Mark Gabriel (see “Islam and Terrorism”). So I realized that one must not simply accept these things passively but also do something about it. One must support this cause by necessity.
Adams: Do you see similarities between Islam and Nazism? If so, what are these similarities?
Zeller – Hirzel: **The fanaticism, the absolute claim of possessing the only truth and the spiritual simplicity are very similar between Islam and the Nazism** {my emphasis – dda}.
Adams: Do you view opposing Islamization as the same battle you were fighting when the White Rose fought Nazism?
Zeller – Hirzel: Not quite yet. Critics of the Nazi ideology were then immediately arrested. We have not yet reached that point. But if we do nothing, it will come back to that. Then they might lock up the critics of Islam…”.
*The* best way that modern Germans can honor the memory of Sophie Scholl and the White Rose Society, is by raising their voices, and coming out onto the streets – and also by casting their vote – to resist Islamisation. Muslims are not the ‘new Jews’ of Europe…they are the New Nazis, or more correctly, the *old* Nazis, so to speak. Muslims have attempted and indeed committed genocides wherever they have gone. Muslims are pickled in Jew-hatred.
A further suggestion for any person associated with PEGIDA who may be reading over my shoulder: declare unequivocal support for the Jewish community that is being threatened and attacked, by Muslims first and foremost and also by non-Muslim Jewhaters, all over the West…and declare unequivocal support for the jihad-beleaguered Jewish state of Israel. Wear a Star of David; carry an Israeli flag alongside the German flag. If you are a young or middle aged German, born after WWII, and you ever read about the Shoah and wondered what *you* would have done, had you been living at that time….if you ever read stories about the Righteous, who risked their lives to save their Jewish friends, neighbours, colleagues…then think about this. *YOU* are being called to do the same…NOW. This is *your* call, to step forward as Righteous Among the Nations; to defend the House of Israel, which is in so many ways the House of Life. To defend it and your *own* house, against the Religion of Death, that is Islam.
those who want to say you are Nazis, or accuse you of racism, will have difficulty looking credible, if when they look at a crowd of PEGIDA marchers, they see a sea of mingled German and Israeli flags; if they see PEGIDA marchers wearing the Star of David and holding placards that say “NO to Islamic Antisemitism”, “NO to the Genocidal Jihad against the Jews”.
Charli Main says
DDA I am a great admirer of your posts and fully understand the situation in Germany that has given rise to PEGIDA. I also totally support their anti Islamisation campaign.
My great fear is what is going to stop anti Islamisation rallies evolving into anti immigrant, anti Semitic Nuremberg style Neo Nazi rallies.???
Where will all those immigrant communities, living peacefully and quietly in Germany stand if PEGIDA is taken over by more sinister groups whose ideology is almost identical to the Islamists???
Has PEGIDA taken pains to clearly differentiate between immigrants and the MUSLIM IMMIGRANTS that are trying to take Germany over.???
I wish this group luck but they should be closely monitored for any changes in their anti Islamisation policy.
Peter Buckley says
“Many people in Germany have legitimate concerns about the spread of radical Islamic ideology, which promotes violence against non-Muslims, robs women and girls of their natural rights, and seeks to require the application of Sharia law. That citizens are expressing these concerns in nonviolent demonstrations is good and right. It is a sign that these people do not feel that their concerns are being taken seriously by politicians. It is an incentive for all politicians to act more decisively at a time when political Islam is challenging and calling into question our rule of law.
“That PEGIDA protesters have advertised their goals in an exclusively peaceful manner is to be welcomed. Because the rule of law, tolerance and freedom of religion are fundamental Western values, the PEGIDA movement must leave no doubt that it is precisely these values that it seeks to defend.”
http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/4951/germans-islamization-pegida
What we are witnessing is the end of political correctness and multiculturalism in the West. Its inhabitants will demand and get it.
steakman says
I will pray to whatever God there may be …. that the TYRANNY Of Political Correctness is finally starting to fall apart…It is the Islamists favourite weapon and where the term Islamophobia came from.
It is the main tool of Islamists in the Muslim Brotherhoods stated desire (the “PROJECT”), to create a western Kaliphate.
These marches In Germany are righteous and good.
Let them continue and grow in their numbers.
If I were there, I would join in a heartbeat, but at some point in the future I have no doubt that these marches will originate here in North America.
Demsci says
Well said, very encouraging, I hope you are right, Peter.
What struck me about the name “PEGIDA” was Patriottische EUROPEANER Gegen Islamisierung “Des ABENDLANDES”.
It seems to me that the organisers looked toward the whole of Europe (Abendland) and not just to Germany. And furthermore that they were PATRIOTS for Europe. To me that means a lot, it means that they not just are AGAINST something they don’t like, that they fear, but that they also know what they love and want to protect.
For a long time now I regret the combination in Geert Wilders” Freedom Party and also in the UKIP of them being both anti-European and anti-Islamic. Of course, one of the main reasons for that was weak and faulty politics concerning immigration allowance by “Brussels”, which ran counter to the wish of the Freedom Party and UKIP to limit immigration.
Maybe, just maybe, “Brussels” and pro-Democratic, pro-European cooperation groups like PEGIDA can solve their differences through discussion and negotiation. And the Freedom Party and UKIP will become more pro-European Union while remaining firmly agaist Islamisation. So that a united European Union, proud of it’s history and culture, can better resist both Islamization and the disgusting lack of patriotism and too much political correctness of so many Europeans and the leaders they vote(d) for
It seems to me a bad way to go to separate from the European Union for Holland and England. For me it is “Divided we fall, United we Stand”.
Peter Buckley says
I disagree with you on Europe. The whole point is that the bureaucrats who run the EU are all politically-correct multiculturalists who don’t give a monkeys about how the average working-class inner-city dweller actually feels about immigration. Below these clowns are just more layers of identikit multiculturalists. The only way to change is to leave it. I think Britain will be first, certainly within three years, and others will follow.
The National Front is now the largest party in France.Marine Le Pen’s statement:“What is happening in France heralds what will happen in all European countries, the return of the nation.”. Inevitable.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/france/10855797/Marine-Le-Pen-wins-record-victory-in-French-elections.html
Demsci says
Or the people could THREATHEN to leave the EU. Through voting on the Anti-European Anti-Islamic parties. This could then cause a chain-reaction which forces either a break-up of the EU or a sea-change in political thinking, leadership. I am so fed up with political correct leaders, like Cameron, Merkel and also those in Holland, that I am tempted indeed to put pressure on them by voting Freedom Party. And I hope many more will do this.
nationalist says
They are helped by the “two thirds” who think it’s exaggerated. That will be the headline. And because people are social animals with the biggest fear is to be ostracized- that part of the “poll” will be used to greatest psychological advantage. The question is: when will the spell be broken?
Darren says
When there are mass killings daily and car bombings and shoot outs.
nationalist says
love bomb- “About two thirds of Germans asked by the polling group Forsa felt that the threat that “Islamization” posed within Germany was being exaggerated by PEGIDA….
it’s not working like it used to. But it serves to stall.
nationalist says
Is the purpose to have lots of Islamic immigration and other immigration- but assimilate them? Or have a pluralism? Is there a cut off point? or what is the purpose it all? If they just wanted to be Germany to mostly be for ethnic Germans- why is that bad? I’m not German and don’t take it bad.
particolor says
The cut off point was NONE of them in the First Place !!
pumbar says
Herbert Marcuse asked, “who will save us from Western Civilisation”? The answer is islam and the cultural marxists who think they’ll pick up the pieces once it’s destroyed.
steakman says
the point is this:
MUSLIMS DO NOT INTEGRATE….PERIOD. And as such they tend to create as we see in France, No go Zones, implementing their own Islamic Laws (Sharia)…and things go straight to hell from there. But the Progressive left with their Diversity / Multi Cult PC brainwashing…see’s any criticism of Islam as Racist and anti Immigrant.
This is false and that is the point we in ALL of the Western Democracies need to continually point out to all who would listen.
I’m Canadian – an immigrant. I have no issue with: East Indians, Chinese, Central American, Filipino, Eastern European immigrants whatsoever. WHY..??? THEY INTEGRATE – THEY ASSIMILATE…they become Canadians. Muslims for the most part DO NOT.
Why let them in here in the first place.??
Kepha says
Something tells me that Overseas Chinese in Germany, Syriac Christian immigrants, and ex-Soviet Jews might not feel particularly threatened by PEGIDA.
Wellington says
Something tells me that too, Kepha. BTW, Happy New Year. Hopefully 2015 will be a year in which more people worldwide, and especially those in the West and who haven’t to date, come to the realization that Islam is bad news for all of mankind and that continuing to make excuses for the spiritual fascism which is Islam is, well, stupid and suicidal.
Meri says
@Kepha I assume your talking about multicultural communities in Germany?
If so I agree, to long the many and varied cultures that moved into our countries have been exploited by Islam, used by it as a shield.
It is the same in Australia, We have various Asian, Indian, Mediterranean, Islander and Middle Eastern people who aren’t Muslim. They’re ok as communities, they’ve all settled and integrated. It’s not always with out a few problems, not perfect, but overall things solve.
Now they’re starting to try and hijack the mentally ill. We mustn’t let them.
katarzyna says
Merkel, Obama, Cameron and others(plus some media outlets): “We have no choice. We have to fight racism”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XgTmGIXT8ow
http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/anti-muslim-pegida-movement-rattles-germany-a-1009245.html
jay says
You’d think Germany would notice Nazism when it sees it, but I guess enough time has passed that most do not. I bet more would march if they weren’t afraid of being shanked by a self radicalized angry youth.
Rob says
Winston Churchill said that the future fascists would be the anti-fascists. I think we could also substutute Nazi and anti-nazi’s here. Projection perfectly demonstrated!
jewdog says
Leftists like to see everything in terms of racism. It never seems to occur to them that the old hatred and discrimination can take on a different guise. Germany was the source of the concept of the Master Race, but now we have the Master Faith coming from Islamic supremacists. It’s not too difficult to understand that the new dogma can be as lethal as the old since they both create entire classes of people who stand in the way of utopia.
bobm says
should guarantee at least 50 % increase in demos numbers from here on… thanks Angela… nice salute.
Tradewinds says
Merkel needs to have her head examined.
particolor says
Mental Illness is Contagious !!
Salah says
“…one of which attracted more than 17,000 people in the days before Christmas.”
I’ve been advocating for these kind of peaceful massive demonstrations for more than two years here on JW. I’m glad it’s starting in Germany. I hope it will spread all over the EU and the US.
A couple of years ago, the Egyptian people took to the streets to denounce the Islamisation of their country in the biggest demonstration in the history of mankind: 33 million.
http://crossmuslims.blogspot.com/2013/07/the-end-of-muslim-brotherhood.html
particolor says
33 Million Kettles calling Pots Black !!
expat says
For the record, Merkel years ago has said that Christians be numbers are the most persecuted religious group worldwide. Also for the record, Jewish leaders in Germany have spoken out against PEGIDA, because it is not inclusive of all minorities or something like that. If Merkel would speak in support of PEGIDA, pictures of her with black mustache would be in all European newspapers the next day, her de facto leadership of Europe threatened and Club Med(iterranean) take over. Then what, Greece would sell more of its islands for Petrodollars.
Myxlplik says
The elites want to “talk” about things now.
Their plans for cultural suicide seem to be unraveling, and they know it.
http://www.dw.de/german-development-minister-gerd-müller-calls-for-debate-on-anti-islam-movement/a-18166993
mortimer says
Counterjihad has a lot of work to do in Germany. The Germans are willfully blind to the jihad threat. They will not change until they have many more jihad attacks.
dumbledoresarmy says
Notice something about that picture? Many of the marchers are *young* people, not greyheaded oldies. I wonder…are these the young people, not Muslim, who have begun to feel the heat from Muslim bad behaviour on the streets and in the schools? Or who, even if not affected themselves, have heard, via social media, from *other* young non-Muslim Germans, in other parts of the country, and beyond, in the rest of Europe, who *have* been thus affected?
It is a very good sign that younger non-Muslim folk are getting involved. Because they are the ones who have been exposed to intensive brainwashing over the past twenty/ thirty years…and yet it hasn’t completely ‘stuck’. It hasn’t got them all. They’re thinking for themselves.
duh_swami says
One small match, if properly applied, can burn down a whole forest. Is PEGIDA that match?
Kiwikaffir says
Let’s hope so!
Pica pica says
I just read about Angela Merkels try to stop people from participating in Pedgida demonstrations and saw an ex-journalist holding a speach in Bonn. As a Swede I recognize and agree with many of his points. Take your time an listen, its texted in English too.
http://vladtepesblog.com/2015/01/01/brilliant-speech-at-a-pegida-demo-in-germany/
Elias says
Heil Muhammad!
Sieg Islam!
Sound familiar?
Paul says
Here in the UK at the moment Jihad attacks are being covered up. Yes these attacks are being reported but they make sure all reference to islam or jihad are not reported.
Richie says
Just watch, leftists in power in the EU will demand sweeping laws that criminalize and any public protest against islam. Of course Muslims will be allowed (and encouraged) to openly advocate the murder of Jews and the destruction of Israel
Isabella says
Up to now, I admired Angela Merkel. Right now, she is abondonning the Germans who want Germany to remain the Germany with the freedom they always knew. She is wrong and she is getting really bad advice. I wonder if some of her advisors are Islamists.
Kiwikaffir says
Yes it would make you wonder!
Michael says
They are talking percentages so they have to take into account 5.4% of those asked are Muslim so the number of core Germans against would be reduced from 66% to 60% then those with emotional sympathies ;possibly 3 to 5 times so lets say 5.4% plus say 18% so we are down to possibly 52% looks in reality the real vote is very even because the Muslim vote on not marching is not really valid based on the question, so its really border line I would say if its clearly analysed with personal emotion removed.
werner says
The Problem is the german still vote for the old partys.
When the Sarazzin from the oldest german Social Democratic Party bring out his book about problems of immigration with Muslims in poles 90% sayed he was right.But it has nothing changed in the votes.
When the new party AFD started and talked about the problems of the EURO in poles often 30% sayed they are right,but they get only 4,7% in the elections(and 5% is minimum to get into power).
And in Munich the party DIE FREIHEIT(very Islamcritical and pro Israel)get only 0.9% also in Berlin(Berlin have much more muslims and criminals) the get only 0,9%(1% is needed to get money back from the state for promotion-im sure some leftwings have throw away some votes-this happened also for the AFD where many old communists live-the AFD get 0 votes but the Leftwingparty get all the lost votes…but this was so stupid that it came out-in Bremen the conservativ PArty BIW have failed the elections because of 1 vote!!!But than a guy sayed that hi voted in the street where no one vote was counted-so the election in this area was hold a second time and inthis area they get 27%).
So Manipulation is real in germany.
IluvSharia says
Why isn’t Angela Merkel wearing a burqa?