and this, by Will Hutton: As France is shaken to its core by recent events, Germany will want to see the atrocities as the acts of a murderous cult fuelled by marginalisation rather than join in any putative clash of civilisations. It knows better than any other European country where that leads: why it will successfully handle its own backlash against Islam, Pegida. Equally, if there is a British referendum on EU membership, Germany will offer whatever British government the deal necessary to keep Britain in. Its mission is to try to hold Europe together, keeping at bay the temptations of Islamophobia, nativism, political extremism and protectionism. It may not succeed. But imagine if it did not try or if Germany itself gave in to the same temptations.
Posted on: Sun, 11 Jan 2015 21:55:48 +0000
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