Why has multiculturalism in Germany 'failed'?

The BBC were most upset to have to report that

'Attempts to build a multicultural society in Germany have "utterly failed", Chancellor Angela Merkel says.

She said the so-called "multikulti" concept - where people would "live side-by-side" happily - did not work, and immigrants needed to do more to integrate - including learning German.'

The BBC tried to link this understandable feeling with Germany's past sins - ' our correspondent says... there also seems to be a new strident tone in the country, perhaps leading to less reticence about no-go-areas of the past.'

However the BBC chose not to illustrate their report with any examples of multiculturalism failing. I am not so reticent...

Islamic proselytizing in Gladbach


'No go' areas in Berlin & Essen



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And from 2008 a Sky News report about Michael Nazir-Ali, the Bishop of Rochester's, fears for Britain...