German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s New Year address defended her open-door mass migration policy which has brought Muslim terrorists to her nation, saying that her government would win the fight against terrorism with compassion. She said the recent Muslim terror attacks were not attacks on Western civilization but attacks on “refugees” and Germany’s “welcome culture.”
Merkel asserted “confidence” for 2017 and that Germans needed “openness” and “an open view of the world.” Merkel has in the past referred to the Muslim migrants as Germany’s “chance of tomorrow.”