Time for more mass migration to overwhelm European states even more
The German state fails to protect its citizens
"Every terrorist attack and every victim is tragic. In Germany especially, attacks seem time and again to be the result of a chain of unfortunate “circumstances.” If authority X had acted sooner and listened more carefully to official Y, and if judge Q had made a better decision, this tragedy could have been prevented. But these are far from unfortunate incidents.
Does the following sound familiar? The suspect was known to the authorities, moved in Islamist circles, and had been in juvenile detention or under the care of support services until just a few weeks earlier. Places such as Aschaffenburg, Solingen, Mannheim and Magdeburg, which otherwise few Europeans would ever have heard of, are now etched into our collective memory as targets of Islamist terrorism.
These are not unfortunate incidents, but the direct consequences of an overwhelmed system. Far more tragic than the life Abdul Ballout took a week ago, is the fact that German authorities once again failed in numerous ways, yet the failing system remains in place. The impotence of the German state to protect its citizens is the true scandal...
With every new case of “known to the police,” European states lose more of their authority. On top of that, after the attack, German police were not allowed to share images of the terrorist on social media because of data protection rules. Once again, the rights of terrorists and murderers are protected at the expense of the safety of the overwhelming majority of citizens. The very idea that a Muslim whose family members are involved with ISIS can be brought back on the ‘right path’ through a deradicalisation programme, reflects a naive belief in the idea of a manageable society that can only be found in Western Europe.
When will Western European authorities abandon the illusion that they can make people who hate our societies and everything we stand for love us? Our endless desire for “connection” with those who do not want to be connected to us is fatal. The man tasked with Ballout’s deradicalisation is also the chairman of an NGO that spread Islamic propaganda and made young girls pose wearing headscarves. His Violence Prevention Network received €70 million in subsidies between 2014 and 2024.
More important than the institutional failure in this particular case is the fact that German authorities have been overwhelmed for years. According to Berlin’s ‘intelligence service’ (Verfassungsschutz), around 900 “violent Islamist extremists” currently live in Berlin, and that number is rising. The Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA) knows of 28,600 people considered “potentially Islamist.” Police consider around 420 of them to be dangerous. Many are still walking free. But thankfully, the Brandenburg Gate was lit up on Sunday with the words Berlin, City of Freedom, the day after someone’s freedom and right to life had been taken away. Against the backdrop of these bleak facts and statistics, such hollow symbolism increasingly looks like a sign of weakness.
Foreign nationals who should have left Germany years ago are often involved in such attacks. But here too, the state is overwhelmed. At the end of 2024, more than 220.000 people who had been ordered to leave Germany were still living there illegally. And that is only a small part of the total number of illegal migrants. In 2025, Germany deported just 23.000 of them. Nearly 180.000 were given a ‘toleration permit’. At the end of 2024, there were even 72.500 people in Germany who should have left at least six years (!) earlier. And in October 2025, according to BILD, there were 934.553 foreigners in Germany whose asylum applications had been rejected.
Chancellor Friedrich Merz’s promised Rückführungsoffensive to increase deportations remained just a promise. In the first half of this year, Germany deported only 9663 people, fewer than during the same period a year earlier. Who enters Germany, who remains in Germany, and who should have left long ago: the German state often doesn’t even know. A state that knows that tens of thousands of people are living within its borders, including thousands who pose a security risk, yet cannot monitor or deport them, is itself part of the problem. The fact that the German state has been unable for years to perform one of its most basic functions - deciding who lives within its territory - partly explains why the AfD is polling as the largest party at 28%.
The weakness of the German state was symbolised further by the endless, meaningless statements from politicians such as ‘there is no place for this in our societies’. Starting with Berlin Mayor Kai Wegner (CDU), who tweeted: “It is an attack on our free and open society (...) Berlin is the city of freedom and today our freedom has been attacked in the most horrific way. My thoughts are with the victims, their families and friends.”
I cannot stand this hollow rhetoric anymore. The problem is that there clearly ís place in our societies for people who want to destroy them, while our societies are becoming less open and less free as a result of policies pursued for years by parties such as the CDU. So stop sending tweets and clean up the mess you created. No one gives a damn who your thoughts are with. Especially because the biggest attack on Germany’s free and open society came from Angela Merkel’s (CDU) Wir schaffen das policy. As a result, tens of thousands of people now live in Germany who hate Germany.
The same CDU tweeted that it would “defend the freedom of our society.” Those words have lost all meaning log ago. The current CDU Chancellor, and Europe’s biggest political idiot, Friedrich Merz, went so far in his speech the day after the attack as to describe intolerance, exclusion, discrimination, offensive language and “stupid jokes” as “part of the violence experienced by the queer community.” Islam and migration were not mentioned once. Merz’s remarks might almost be funny if the situation were not so tragic and people were not dying because of political and state incompetence.
On the left side of parliament, things are even sadder. Green Party MP Katrin Göring-Eckardt tweeted “You will not get our hate.” Das stimmt! Instead, people who hate our European societies receive billions of euros in welfare, citizenship, suspended and juvenile sentences, and lenient judges. Why should terrorists who hate us, our societies and everything we stand for not deserve our hatred? Towards them, hatred is the only logical and healthy response for a liberal democracy that wants to defend its values.
The far-left Die Linke went even further: “We must not look away and we must not generalise. We must name hatred without suspecting entire communities.” That means: we generalise and suspect people when it suits us, but deny reality when it does not, because upholding our worldview matters more than the security of our citizens.
I do not generalise, meaning by drawing conclusions from one or a few cases. But anyone who refuses to draw conclusions from statistics about nationalities, population groups and thousands of cases is not merely blind, they simply do not want to see. For the willingly blind: Germany and Western Europe have a problem with migrant violence, especially from Islamic countries. In Germany, Syrians are overrepresented in violent crime by 800% compared with the average German. Afghans are overrepresented by almost 900%. According to an analysis by the Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung, foreign nationals make up almost 45% of the total prison population in Germany...
Germany deported Afghans without a criminal record for the first time. There was exactly one. The other thirty had in fact been convicted...
