Famous Refugee Says There Are "Too Many" Arab Refugees In Germany

There are “too many” refugees in Europe, the Dalai Lama told Germany’s Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung newspaper. The spiritual leader of Tibet, a famous refugee who fled China into India after the Tibetan uprising in 1959, packaged some oddly xenophobic tones between his sympathies.

Europe, for example Germany, cannot become an Arab country. Germany is Germany. There are so many that in practice it becomes difficult.

“When we look into the face of every single refugee, especially the children and women, we can feel their suffering,” he also noted. For the Dalai Lama, who has previously expressed some truly fuckboy thoughts on women’s faces, the “too many” refugees in Europe sentiment isn’t new. “It’s impossible for everyone to come to Europe,” he said in September of 2015. But the majority of Arab refugees fleeing Syria are actually seeking asylum in Turkey, Lebanon and Jordan, not Europe. Germany, with a population of 80 million, has accepted over 1 million refugees. (Seven months ago, the US pledged to resettle 10,000 refugees by the end of the fiscal year; a mere 1,736 were accepted by the end of April.)

This “Germany is Germany” thing is new, and it’s just the kind that the country’s recently resurged right-wing nationalists are going to eat right up.

Speaking “from a moral standpoint,” the Dalai Lama said that the refugees should “only be accommodated temporarily” until they can be sent back to “rebuild their countries.”

Earlier this year, Angela Merkel introduced a mandatory integration law, requiring that asylum seekers take “language classes” and “lessons in German laws or cultural basics” or lose support.