During the Syrian civil war that began in 2011 and ended in December 2024, millions of Syrians fled to countries in Europe, especially Germany. They were in the main Sunni Muslims, fleeing persecution and war at the hands of the Alawite dictatorship of Bashar Assad. Now that war has been over for a year and a half; Assad has fled to Moscow; Sunni Muslims now rule in Damascus. And there are still in Germany 700,000 Syrians who show no signs of wanting to return to their native land.
Some Germans in the governing CDU coalition want to let them remain, though their numbers swell the ranks of the Muslims, who now constitute 7% of the total German population. And other Germans, in the same political coalition headed by Chancellor Friedrich Merz, just as firmly want them to leave voluntarily or be deported. More on their dispute over how to treat those 700,000 Syrians can be found here: “German Coalition Rift Widens on Deporting Syrians,” by Tamás Orbán, European Conservative, June 15, 2026:
Interior ministers of Germany’s federal states are set to meet on Wednesday, and there is one topic on everyone’s minds: What to do with some 700,000 Syrian refugees now that the civil war has ended and the country is relatively stable again?
As some might recall, the swift deportation of Syrian refugees was one of the main campaign promises of Chancellor Merz and his center-right CDU ahead of the 2025 February elections.
Fifteen months later, Germany is still just discussing the question, with the two old establishment parties within Merz’s grand coalition having wildly different takes on it.
CDU ministers, desperate to regain the trust of their voters and stop them from switching over to the nationalist AfD, are pushing for the implementation of Merz’s campaign promise and finally beginning large-scale reexaminations and returns.
The anti-Muslim immigration party, Alternative für Deutschland, headed by the charismatic Alice Weidel, wants there to be a complete halt to Muslim immigration, and for Muslims already in Germany who been granted asylum, including the Syrians, to be deported back to their country of origin when conditions there had changed sufficiently so that there was no longer any danger of persecution or death. The AfD has soared in the opinion polls, and is now more popular than the governing CDU coalition. In order to remain in power, that coalition has to show that it is just as tough as the AfD on the question of Muslim migrants.
The Socialists, meanwhile, are digging their own political grave by defending those 700,000 Syrians from calls to deport them. Few Germans want the Muslims now in their midst to remain. It turns out that this European-wide experiment in proving that “diversity is our strength” has proven quite the opposite. The Muslim migrants in Germany are determined to batten on all the benefits that the generous German welfare state provides: subsidized or free housing, free medical care, free education, family allowances, unemployment benefits, and more. They are in no hurry to be employed. And some of them, not content with those welfare benefits, add to them by committing crimes of property — street robberies, house burglaries, shoplifting, drug trafficking. Muslims in Germany make up 7% of the population, but 30% of its prison population. As for crimes of sexual assault and rape — Muslims are responsible for more than 50%.
The CDU has a fateful decision to make. If it refuses to deport the 700,000 Syrians now in Germany who can no longer be treated as refugees — they lost that status when Assad’s regime collapsed and a Sunni Muslim regime was installed in Damascus — it is certain to lose more support from voters on the right, who will switch to Alternative für Deutschland. The AfD will replace the CDU as the main party in a different coalition from the current one, this one consisting of rightist parties who share an opposition to Muslim migrants. Weidel will replace the hapless Merz, with his 19% approval rating.
However, if Merz and his CDU do deport those 700,000 Syrians in one fell swoop, the Social Democratic Party (SDP), the center-left member of Merz’ coalition government, which retains a pro-Muslim migrant policy, will likely quit the current coalition. Without the SPD, the CDU coalition government will fall, and Merz will be out of a job. He’s damned if he does, and damned if he doesn’t.
There is one possible way for Merz to save himself and his CDU/SDP coalition. That is for him to announce that yes, of course the 700,000 Syrians must go home, but not overnight. Their departure will be handled “with all deliberate speed” — that is, in a compassionate manner so that they can wind up their affairs in Germany — closing down or selling their businesses, selling their homes, slowly and properly. That might satisfy both the anti-immigrant right and the pro-immigrant left members of his coalition.
ploome says
lol
Germans know what to do with unwanted population
Hugh Fitzgerald says
A sinister comment.
ploome says
sinister people
they make good bread, and good cars
I remember people. my parents friends, with numbers tattooed on their forearms, in near hysteria talking about the Germans
these new unwanted will not go willingly
ploome says
https://www.algemeiner.com/2026/06/17/germany-records-historic-surge-antisemitic-incidents-authorities-warn-deepening-normalization-hate/
Germany continues to experience persistently high levels of antisemitism, with newly released figures showing record highs in the past year, pointing to an increasingly hostile climate for Jews and Israelis marked by sustained harassment, violence, and intimidation.
On Wednesday, Germany’s Federal Association of Departments for Research and Information on Antisemitism (RIAS) published its latest annual report documenting 8,725 antisemitic incidents recorded nationwide in 2025, marking a slight increase from the previous year and setting a new record.
How are Jews expected to live in this now, in your face, antisemitism everywhere?
tgusa says
The Third Reich would support that. History is rhyming again.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
That generation of Germans are dead. What we have today are sissies all too willing to hand over their country to people who hate them just to prove that they’re not racist
Obviously not Hitler, but I’d take an Otto von Bismarck over the current bunch any day
Hugh Fitzgerald says
Bismarck? A litte too blut und eisen, I think. What about someone along the lines of Walther Rathenau?
࿗Infidel࿘ says
Wie war er?
ploome says
but wait….
Daily Reality for Jews in Germany
https://www.algemeiner.com/2026/06/11/antisemitism-becomes-daily-reality-jews-germany-hate-crimes-hit-record-high/
Antisemitism in Germany ‘worse than any time since the Holocaust,’ annual figures show
https://www.timesofisrael.com/antisemitism-in-germany-worse-than-any-time-since-the-holocaust-annual-figures-show/
ploome says
this is the “new generation” of sissies
wonder what the statistics are for haterd of muslims?
Anyone know?
gravenimage says
Grim link, Ploome–thanks.
tgusa says
Muslims fleeing persecution. That’s rich. Persecutors fleeing persecution, oh no.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
Yeah, what Assad did was keep them from doing what they’re now doing to non-sunnis in Syria
Westman says
There is a simple solution to the problem. People tend to see government as a monithithic entity with bottomless pockets.
Break out Muslim social support as a line item in the budget then spread that over the working population proportional to each taxpayer’s last years taxes and send a monthly bill for the amount. There will be gnashing of teeth but also a realization that the taxpayers are personally footing the bill.
The attitude would shift in but a few months. Lefties want the “rich” to pay all the bills and imagine it can be so. When they get the bill they pay attention.
MK says
Germany will never grow up. Look at UK, it is almost an Islamic nation and Christians are finding it hard to live there. Hope Germany wakes up
Davidka says
Every article about the mass Muslim migration grossly understates the problem. Anecdotal evidence is that most antisemitic crimes are not reported because the perps are not known, or don’t get caught, or don’t get prosecuted, or get trivial sentences even for the most vile crimes. The percentage of crimes committed by Muslims is far far greater than the % of Muslims in Germany. Some estimates put it at 15x or 20x Muslim population percentage. Similar crime waves are victimizing every country that has had a Muslim influx, with Sweden being the most notorious disaster.
Another understated estimate is the rapidity with which the “great replacement” will take place. There is already increasing emigration of native Europeans to whatever country they can find safety in. I.e., did not allow heavy Muslim immigration. This will increase. In addition, Muslims are getting political power in many places, since they vote as a bloc their influence is very high. As they reach a certain point, they will be able to influence immigration laws and policy to increase Muslim immigration. The tipping point is far closer than standard estimates.
ploome says
Davidka,
best assessment yet, excellent comment-
Beans🫘 says
Yes it is hard to catch l these anti semtic attackers and report it on the news. The numbers are so high. 9,000 last year in NYC. It’s just hard in the police, they’ve got a lot in their hands.
The stupid ones get caught. And when they do, they’re praised by the police and the judge and let back on the street. Wink, nod… go do it again.
It’s so shameful. The Jews brought New York back from the dead. That city was in ruins. This is the thanks they get, mostly from woke right, Muslims and the communists.
OLD GUY says
While we hope Germany and the UK wakeup to the islamic migration, America should pay close attention to the muslim/islamist migration into America also.
John1 says
If they’re under or unemployed, on public assistance, deport. If they commit crimes, deport. That’s an easy first step, not just for Syrians, but all of them.
ploome says
try it
good luck
“they” are incredibly organized, and funded
where does all the money come from……first stop that
and when will the koran and the kutbas’ uttered by the imams in their moska, be recognized as the incitement to hate and violence that they are?
don;t the frequent MEMRI?
Stacy says
they lost that status when Assad’s regime collapsed and a Sunni Muslim regime was installed in Damascus — yes call the former ISIS and AL QUEDA terrorists…. Sunni muslim.
gravenimage says
In Germany, What to Do With the Syrians?
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If they had *really* just been fleeing the tyranny of Assad *of course* they’d go back. But now they have an Infidel country with great benefits to conquer, so they want to stay put.
And terrorist Al-Sharaa has openly said that he does not want to take them back.
Andra says
And the German government hands out the passports within three years. Düring that time it does not matter wether they learn German and get a job or live on welfare, sell drugs, rape or murder.