In Germany, he's being called the German Geert Wilders. He is Social Democratic Party (SPD) politician and bank director Thilo Sarrazin, and in a new book he argues that Muslim immigration is threatening German culture. Germany's response: uproar.
Thilo Sarrazin, member of the Executive Board of the Deutsche Bundesbank, released his new book Deutschland schafft sich ab (Germany Is Abolishing Itself) on Monday. In it, in addition to his anti-Islam message, he also put forward a controversial genetic theory.
Outside the hall where he appeared to talk about his book, hundreds of people gathered to demonstrate. Inside, it was crammed with journalists. Cups, plates and saucers crashed to the floor as photographers and cameramen clambered onto chairs and tables to get a good shot of him. Then Mr Sarrazin stood up to speak.
Downfall
Thilo Sarrazin is not a talented speaker. It's hard to stay focused while listening to him, even though what he has to say is as clear as day. Certainly not in a Germany which, thanks to the crimes of its past, works so hard to honour the rights of minorities.
The essence of Mr Sarrazin's message is this: Germany, the country and its culture, is being ruined by the large-scale immigration of the past decades.
"The German people and the German state have reached a turning point in history, one whose scale and character is not yet clear to everyone. After a history of a thousand years the German race is, in a quantitative sense, on the road to abolishing itself."
He bases his claims on demographic studies that show the native German population shrinking and the immigrant population growing. And immigrants, Mr Sarrazin is convinced, will never be part of German culture.
The biggest problem
In addition, he makes a distinction between different groups of immigrants. Muslims, he says, don't integrate and are therefore the source of the biggest problems.
"The responsibility for these problems lies not with ethnic descent but with those descended from the Islamic culture. With all immigrants except Muslims the problems disappear so that differences between them and Germans are impossible to pinpoint."
But Mr Sarrazin goes further in his book, where he writes not just about cultural differences but also about genetic differences. He believes that Jews share a common gene, as do Basques, that sets them apart from others.
The war
In his book, Mr Sarrazin presents himself as the German face of the anti-Islam movement in Europe. While he is not the first person in Germany to attack Islam, he is certainly the most notable politician to do it so openly. And his pronouncements about immigrants and Jews are a source of extreme discomfort to a country so painfully conscious of its Nazi past. Mr Sarrazin says you must never forget the war, but adds that you must not become a hostage to history in solving the problems of the here and now.
Distance from Wilders
So is Mr Sarrazin with his anti-Islamism a German Geert Wilders? In their statements about Islam they're definitely on each other's wavelength. But genetics is not a theme Mr Wilders touches on. And Mr Sarrazin is careful to distance himself from Mr Wilders.
"I deplore the developments in the Netherlands quite as much as the majority of sensible Dutch people do. It was the job of the major political parties in that country to tackle the problem on time, so that it never ended in such an election result. I find the trend towards right-wing nationalist parties extremely dangerous."
This is why Mr Sarrazin has no desire to form his own party. Instead he wants to remain in the Social Democratic Party so he can bring the problems he sees, and his solutions, to the public's attention. But his party now wants him out. And the Bundesbank has invited him for a discussion about his future there.
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The memeplexes of religion and culture are competing for dominance. See Susan Blackmore's work on memes and their evolution.
Sam Harris has written on the failure of religion to provide for real human flourishing. Only rationality will improve our well being.
As yet we have no heroes of the caliber of Wilders and Sarrazin in the leadership, among the so called political elite, or academia in the U.S. There is a brave congressional candidate named Allen West who has a very good chance of winning a seat in November. He knows the Muslims well, having served in combat and been involved in training them in Iraq and Afghanistan. He has no illusions about them and does not mince words.
He's being supported by voters around the country who hope to see him in Congress. A very smart guy with an astonishing knowledge of world history.
Geert Wilders is a "HERO"and should get an award for his courage in confronting the greatest planned threat that Christian civilization has ever confronted.He is alerting the western world to a very real planned threat to all non Islamic communities that seems to have turned polotitions to water. to believe the "equality theory" is "utter Skypie. All people who believe this are in for a very unpleasant suprise. Why are the western Christians not permitted to defend themselves? We are not allowed to hide behind a Burka nor can we openly advocate slaughter of "infidels" and unbelievers nor openly practice barbaric laws that allow the abuse of women and the total domination of females.I f we believe in this equality theory I am also a Saturnian astronaut . Tud.
Mr Sarrazin speaks the truth.
What a bunch of nonsense... Wakeup Germany and stand against this stupidity.. People should be judged based on their actions not by the religion they follow or the color of the skin... Let's move forward in this world for a change..
"People should be judged based on their actions not by the religion they follow or the color of the skin"
That's exactly what Thilo Sarrazin does: elaborating on objective evaluations of statistics show muslim people are tendencially more violent, disintegrated, badly educated, living on welfare benefits, and even racist anti-german, so what's your point?!
Racism has no chance in Germany, our multi-cultural and pluralistic society - which overborded in the Ideology of Cultural Relativism all throughout Europe - as well as the horrific reminder of the Shoah makes no valid political extremist movement in Germany possible.
Exception: Die Linke (Left-wing-radical Anti-Zionists, Socialist weirdos) AND The Islamist movement. How people can ignore the Anti-Democratic monocultural reality of Islamic societies and stick to their optimism and "Laissez-faire" frightens me.
Europe has to wake up, and face the dangerous implications of the absurd idea of Cultural Relativism!
I have (secular living) muslim friends and would defend them against racists any time, but the discussion is not about individuals or folks from other ethnic or religious backgrounds, it's about Statistics, Humanism and Ideologies!
Voltaire, De Spinoza, Kant? - Why are "Liberals" of today weiring Burka?!
I totally agree with you: The European culture is forged via free speech, vigorous debate of opposing ideas, democracy and the rule of law. These values need to be upheld by everyone who wishes to reside here, regardless of race. This is what is threatened by so called multiculturalism. The first of these to die is freedom of speech, just ask Geert Wilders, Elisabeth Sabaditch Wolf and others, on trial for voicing an opinion!
Sarrazin is not the only person waking up to a new immigration jihad threatening to take over Europe followed by the U.S. with the goal of setting up horrible Islamic Sharia that abolishes all Western values of freedom, all directed from Saudi Arabia. Keep up on the daily world news and op-ed articles free with the Historyscoper at http://tinyurl.com/islamwatch
The native European populations are in a state of catastrophic collapse. A birth rate for the last 30 years of 1.2 means that the total number of births is FALLING by 40% each generation (you need a birth rate of 2.1 to keep the population stable)/
This century native Germans will fall from 90m to just 9m , the Brits from 60 to just 6m. Islamic women have more than 3 average so the number of Muslims will overtake other communities with a few decades at the most.
Generous sums must be paid for the first two children and stopped after the birth of the third child.
They should import those white South Africans who are being slaughtered in their beds. They originally come from Europe anyway, mostly Dutch, French, German, some Portuguese and English etc.
In fact, jihadis there are saying "all whites should be killed, because they're evil, including the babies and old people".
(Google "Atlasshrugs2000 jihadis incite south african blacks to kill all whites")
The other day a 2 year-old little girl was picked up by her hair, and shot in the back of her head before being dumped on her dead parents. Some groups "saluted" the killers and the jihadis cheered them on.
(Censorbugbear-reports at blotspot - 18 Dec 2010)
Oops I mean blogspot...
The population size FLUCTUATES. Having a temporary down-slope does not mean permanent reduction; if it does it would mean there will at some point be no Germans left at all. If that happens it will not be because of a low birth rate but rather because of complete displacement, which is exactly what our leaders are apparently aiming for.
Tell me this: what exactly was the question, if "replace our population by people from a completely different and wildly incompatible culture" is apparently the answer? How can our complete cultural destruction be the answer to any of our problems?
Finally, if we really must import people from other countries, why wouldn't we select countries that share at least some of our values? South American countries, for example?
The cultures of South American countries are not the same as the culture of Germany, same with values, because of different geographic and social conditions. The German culture is unique in its own respect, but if the immigrants from the Middle East and North Africa doesn't integrate with and accept the German culture as whole, then it would be replaced by a culture based on Arabic and North African values, not German values. It's a cultural suicide if the natives does not sustain themselves by replenishing with new generations and to carry on unique German culture. Making Germans guilty for the sins of their Nazi kind, Germans are no longer motivated to produce German children to sustain the German culture.
They are all coming out of the proverbial "woodwork" now!!
"They are all coming out of the proverbial "woodwork" now!!"......Mr. Berridge, they are coming-out the "woodwork" because they have the insight to see and understand the dangers of the Jihad. It is not just a few extreme Muslims committing the acts of terrorism but a very large percentage. They are not stupid. They know their "woodwork" has been invaded by a force that slowly creep-up on them and they let it get out of hand. Now they are yelling for help!
WHY ISLAM NEEDS TO BE BANNED FOR MENTAL HEALTH :
IT IS NOT DRUGS THAT TURN PEOPLE REALLY INSANE..it is islam that turns people insane…. Islam is so bad for a human’s mental heath that to ignore this malaise is to invite mental retardation into your lineage after your life….
Islam is the only CULT DISGUISED AS A religion that compels its followers to destroy all other religions and forcibly impose islam. Islam can't tolerate competition, scrutiny, criticism, or ridicule because it is the most violent, decadent and immoral creed on earth and will never be accepted by decent people who understand it. There is no tolerance, good will, or reciprocity to be found among muslims and it is evil and suicidal to tolerate the intolerant.
The world is on a civilizational collision course of unprecedented magnitude. We are facing nothing less than an ISLAMIC WORLD WAR, driven by the totalitarian ideology of Mu-ham-mad's Islam.
There are only 2 ways to end this:
1) the ideological destruction of Islam, or
2) massive world war
We should do everything in our power to destroy the ideology of Islam as to avoid world war. We don't need guns or bombs, and we don't want death and destruction.
A "phobia" is an irrational fear. Thus, "homophobia" is an irrational fear of homosexuality.
Which, of course, is silly on several levels. Islamophobia refers to an irrational fear.
But Fear of islam is totally rational.
SO THE TERM ISLAMOPHOBIA IS NOT SILLY, BUT IT IS MISLEADING, IN A VERY VERY HAZARDOUS WAY.
Get your facts right girls and boys .islam is not a religion. islam is a cult. In the pure definition of a cult. Started by a mass murderer and a legendary pedophile. if you still do not know this fundamental fact about islam it is not your fault. but you are starting to learn. welcome to the world-wide awakening on the islam cult. even Muslim men are starting to realize in their born into the islam cult imprisoned states what muslim women always knew behind their burkhas and scars but are too scared to say it .islam is evil. And evil is rising.
Mother nature is trying her level best to eradicate islam from her body but it's taking too much time.. Maybe we should give her a helping hand ..after all she taught us the secrets of the atom.. Time to use the atomic stuff to eradicate this evil. Once and for all. Let us give mother nature a helping hand before all her body gets covered with the islamic eczema and she has to wear a burkha...god forbid.
The dirtiest and filthiest stone in the world is in mecca.
The faster we get rid of islam the better it is for all of us . Think of all the money we'll save..
A group of muslims is called “a nest of muslim parasites”.
DO NOT BE AFRAID TO CALL ISLAM EVIL OR DIRTY OR FILTHY OR GUTTER CREED SLIME. THE KORAN CALLS ALL OTHER FAITHS AND PEOPLE AND COLORS VERY DIRTY NAMES . BLACK PEOPLE ARE RAISIN-HEADS AND ONLY TO BE SLAVES EVEN IF MUSLIM IN FILTHY ISLAM. JEWS ARE PIGS AND MONKEYS ACCORDING TO CREEPY ISLAM. AND THE LIST IS ENDLESS. READ IT FOR YOURSELVES. GO AHEAD FEEL FREE .CHECK OUT WHO YOU ARE IN THE GUTTER SLIME OF ISLAM. THESE DIRTY DEGENERATE TERMS WERE COOKED UP ON A DAILY BASIS BY THAT TOTAL PSYCHO MOHAMMAD IN THE DESERT HEAT AROUND NOTHING BUT SAND AND LOTS OF SPARE TIME. MOHA-MAD BOY IS THE CLASSIC TEXTBOOK CASE OF AN IDLE MIND AND HANDS BEING THE DEVIL’S WORKSHOP.
EXCESSIVE PRAYING IS A SIGN OF LAZINESS. ISLAM HAS NO PRAYER ACTUALLY. ISLAM HAS JUST A BUNCH OF SLOGANS ABOUT A COOKED UP EVIL NUT CALLED ALLAH WHO’LL KILL THEM IF THEY DIDN’T AND HOW STUPID EVERYONE ELSE IS. IF ISLAM HAD NOT BEEN COOKED UP AND MO-BOY HAD NOT HAD SUCH AN ACTIVE AND EVIL IMAGINATION ARABS WOULD HAVE PETERED OUT AND GOT LOST IN THE TESTICLES OF DECENT MEN. BUT THIS DID NOT HAPPEN AND ISLAM IS NOW SUCH A PROBLEM BECAUSE DECENT MEN HAVE BEEN DECEIVED BY IT . THE FLASHPOINT IS BEING REACHED. DARK TIMES ARE COMING. DECENT MEN WILL HAVE TO FIGHT TOO. CAN YOU IMAGINE THIS LOVELY PLANET WITHOUT ISLAM. ISLAM IS A HERITAGE VANDAL. LIKE A RAMPANT GENETICALLY DEFECTIVE MONKEY IN A CHINA SHOP. AND RABID TO BOOT. THINK OF ALL THE CULTURES OF MAJESTIC INDIA LEFT IN PLACE INSTEAD OF THIS MESS YOU SEE IN THE NAME OF MURDERERS . REAL MAJESTIC INDIA IS AND WAS PRE-ISLAM VANDALISM. THINK OF BEAUTIFUL EUROPE IF THESE MUSLIM MONKEYS HAD NOT BEEN INVENTED IN THE DESERT HEAT AND DUST .THINK OF ALL THE BUDDHIST ART IN STONE ISLAM HAS DEPRIVED US OF APPRECIATING. THE WORLD TRADE CENTRE WAS MAGNIFICENT. DESTROYED BY ISLAM. ISLAM NEEDS TO BE PUT TO SLEEP. I CAN’T IMAGINE THE BLOOD-SHED BUT IT WILL HAVE TO HAPPEN.
PRIMITIVE MAN WILL SURFACE FROM MODERN MAN TO CHALLENGE AND LANCE ONCE AND FOR ALL THE PRIMITIVE CULT OF ISLAM AT IT’S OWN GUTTER LEVEL. ISLAM IS THE NEXT SMALL POX THIS PLANET HAS TO ERADICATE. ONCE ISLAM IS OUT OF THE PLANETARY SYSTEM PC WILL ONCE AGAIN BE COOL AND GOOD MANNERS. WATCH !
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