Angela Merkel is accused of encouraging Islamic terrorism by opening the border to asylum-seekera Sean Gallup / Getty ImagesAngela Merkel has dismissed suggestions that the influx of 1.1 million migrants last year brought Islamic State extremism to Germany. The German chancellor told a questioner at a party event in her home state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania last night that Isis had a foothold before the surge in arrivals, which she is accused of encouraging by opening the border to asylum-seekers. “Islamist terrorism ... is not a phenomenon that came to us with the refugees, it is one that we had before too,” she said. Mrs Merkel also told the meeting that the government was recruiting more personnel to investigate…

Source: The Times August 18, 2016 11:03 UTC