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The Hollow Laurels Of Angela Merkel

After resisting the military invasions of the Caliphate for centuries, Europe, led by German Chancellor Angela Merkel, decided to open its borders wide to migrants with entrenched supremacist beliefs.

Lars Møller | June 12, 2026

From Wikimedia Commons: Battle of Vienna (Józef Brandt, 1873)

On May 19, 2026, the European Parliament inducted Angela Merkel into the inaugural European Order of Merit as a “Distinguished Member.” In this capacity, she holds a status comparable to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and former Polish President Lech Wałęsa. The award purportedly recognizes contributions to European integration and the defense of shared values. In a ceremony marked by protests from the Patriots for Europe alliance, who decried the event as an exercise in elite self-congratulation (complete with hired spectators to fill empty seats), Merkel was feted for a legacy that many Europeans now experience as a slow-motion catastrophe.

The honor bestowed on Merkel is politically tone-deaf, reflecting an equally arrogant and grotesque inversion of reality. Her signature policy—the 2015 decision to suspend the Dublin Regulation and declare “Wir schaffen das” (“We can do this”)—unleashed a civilian invasion by military-age males from Muslim-majority countries with cultural, religious, and civilizational frameworks profoundly at odds with the Judeo-Christian and humanist foundations of Europe. 

Far from an act of enlightened humanism, Merkel’s policy represented a catastrophic failure of prudence, foresight, and loyalty to the European peoples whose future she abruptly decided to wreck. A decade later, the consequences—social fragmentation, security crises, cultural erosion, and demographic displacement—stand as monuments of shame to a leader who prioritized narcissistic global acclaim over the intergenerational continuity of her own civilization.

The portents were immediate and visceral. On New Year’s Eve 2015 in Cologne, four months after Merkel’s “open invitation,” over 1,200 criminal complaints were filed, including hundreds of sexual assaults perpetrated by group predators from North Africa and the Middle East. Police reports and subsequent investigations documented coordinated mob attacks: women surrounded, groped, robbed, and........

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