In a recent display of ethnic violence, two young men, one Greek and one Turkish, beat an elderly German man in a subway station until his skull fractured and he was bleeding internally. The assailants spat at the 76-year-old man before taking him out to the platform to repeatedly kick him in the head. This event, which took place in Munich on December 20, sparked outrage across Germany and led to calls for the deportation of foreign criminals.

The governor of the German state of Hesse, Roland Koch, responded to this assault by declaring that Germany has too many “criminal young foreigners” and that immigrants must stick to the rules of Germany’s “Christian-Occidental” culture. “We have spent too long showing a strange sociological understanding for groups that consciously commit violence as ethnic minorities,” Koch said. “Foreigners who don’t stick to our rules don’t belong here.”

Koch’s call for a crackdown on criminal foreigners has been widely criticized by the Social Democrats and Green Party of Germany. He was not criticized for discrimination against foreigners, however; he was criticized for using cheap campaign rhetoric in order to tap into popular sentiments before the January 27 election.

Approximately 18 percent of the German population comes from an immigrant background. Germany’s surge in immigration is not being paralleled by a surge in assimilation, however. Unlike America, Germany has no history as a melting pot. “In our country we don’t get many cultures meeting to form a new one,” Koch stated. “Germany has had a Christian-Occidental culture for centuries.”

Large numbers of German immigrants are not assimilating into this “Christian-Occidental” culture. A recent study conducted by the University of Hamburg’s Institute of Criminology indicates that 40 percent of German Muslims would justify the use of violence if they felt Islam was being threatened by the West.

This represents a massive cultural and ideological divide between the mainstream German population and German Muslims—one that portends more ethnic violence and crime in Germany.

Koch’s comments do not mean that Germany is going to start deporting illegal immigrants. It started doing that years ago. What his comments indicate is that such deportations could expand to include legal immigrants with a criminal background.

The response to his comments also indicates that this could actually be a popular decision. Large numbers of Germans are getting tired of the amount of crime being perpetrated by “foreigners.” In their view, these people can either accept Germany’s Christian culture or get out.

It is not only Germany that is calling for the deportation of foreigners. Detention camps are springing up all over Europe. It is estimated that there are now 224 detention camps across the European Union. These camps are used as temporary holding places for immigrants awaiting admission into or deportation away from the EU. These camps are collectively able to hold 30,000 people; many asylum-seekers and illegal immigrants are held in administrative detention for as long as 18 months, some longer. It is more economically feasible for the nations of Europe to hold immigrants to be deported until there are enough to ship them back to their home country in a sizable group.

This network of detention camps has been established with little scrutiny and few established standards. They may be located in a railroad depot, an old grain store, a recycled factory, an anchored ship, or in a prison. Some, like Rivesaltes in France, are recycled concentration camps from World War ii.

The International Herald Tribune writes the following in regard to the patchwork of standards found in Europe’s detention camps:

Even the best centers are strung with cameras and coils of barbed wire; the worst are infested with vermin, lack medical care and, according to a 300-page study commissioned by the European Parliament, are subject to riots, arson attacks and suicides. … The psychological impact of incarceration can be severe, particularly for the young. In Denmark from 2001 to 2006 the rate of suicide attempts among inmates was six times that of the Danish population, according to the Danish Asylum Seekers Advice Bureau.

The standards of these detention camps are far from widely known in Europe. The Tribune article continues:

Governments are reluctant to admit to their existence, let alone permit entry to the camps; a reporter was denied access to centers in Greece and the Canary Islands of Spain; under the government of Silvio Berlusconi, Italy barred even the United Nations refugee agency from its center on the Italian island of Lampedusa. The current prime minister, Romano Prodi, allowed the agency in.

The UN refugee agency’s border monitoring officer in Greece, Panagiotis Papadimitriou, stated of the officials running the detention camp near the Turkish border: “If conditions are too good, they think it might be a ‘pull factor’ for more aliens to come.” Both the Greek Interior Ministry and the border police denied reporter access to any of the detention camps near the Turkish border.

This month, the European Parliament will debate a directive that would limit the amount of time an illegal immigrant can be held in a deportation camp to 18 months across the entire European Union. Even though this directive would stop cases of five-year detentions that have occurred in places like Malta, it would also unify EU policy on an issue that is vehemently opposed by human rights bodies.

As Islamist violence and immigrant crime increase in Europe, calls for deportations and crackdowns against foreign criminals are increasing. As European leaders talk about “Christian-Occidental” values and European Muslims declare their support for violence in the name of Allah, a clash of civilizations is growing imminent.

Watch for Europe to take more extreme measures in the future to resolve the immigrant problem. History and prophecy reveal that Europe will indeed act forcefully to solve the “Muslim problem.” Read “The Coming War Between Catholicism and Islam” for a rundown of Europe’s history of dealing with Islam and an explanation of the coming final clash.