The Lip News
Episode 87
Muslim Radicalism and Migrant Backlash in Europe with Anne Zielke
On New Year’s Eve 2015 roughly 1,500 men, including asylum seekers assembled around Cologne’s train station where they drunkenly robbed and sexually assaulted hundreds of people throwing into question Angela Merkel and the world’s immigration policies. 1.1 million asylum seekers arrived in Germany in 2015, but did the Cologne attacks change everything for refugees? Journalist and writer Anne Zielke discusses the beginning of the end of political correctness in Europe, the political fallout from the recent spate of sexual assaults committed by migrants in Germany and Europe and Germany’s attempts at migrant integration in this Lip News interview hosted by Philippe Assouline.
Episode Breakdown
00:01 Welcoming Anne Zielke to the Lip.
00:45 The Cologne attacks.
04:00 Press coverage and cover up.
06:41 Germany’s moral dilemma.
09:43 Germany’s muslim community.
11:10 Criticism, racism and the conservative party.
13:34 The current climate in Germany.
16:45 A shift in the press and policy in regards to migrants.
19:12 Multicultural and migrant integration.
20:54 How Germany’s values can combat terrorism
21:50 Thank you and goodbye.
Guest Bio
Anne Zielke studied philosophy in Munich, was briefly editor of the SZ-Magazin, then editor in the features section of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung, for which she also worked as a columnist. From 2003 to 2004 she lived as a correspondent in Brazil. Besides literary works, Zielke works as a lecturer at the University of Hildesheim and lives in Cologne. She is a member of the Professional Association Freischreiber.
Hosts
Hosts
Lissette Padilla
Mark Sovel
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