A top official at the German Bundesbank is under police investigation after giving vent to a wild outburst against Berlin’s Muslim population, resorting to language reminiscent of Nazi race theory. Dr Thilo Sarrazin, a member of the executive board and head of the bank’s risk control operations, told Europe’s culture magazine Lettre International (KLASSE STATT MASSE, kun uddrag) that Turks with low IQs and poor child-rearing practices were “conquering Germany” by breeding two or three times as fast. “A large number of Arabs and Turks in this city, whose number has grown through bad policies, have no productive function other than as fruit and vegetable vendors,” he said. “Forty per cent of all births occur in the underclasses. Our educated population is becoming stupider from generation to generation. What’s more, they cultivate an aggressive and atavistic mentality. It’s a scandal that Turkish boys won’t listen to female teachers because that is what their culture tells them”, he said. “I’d rather have East European Jews with an IQ that is 15pc higher than the German population,” he said Bundesbank official under police investigation after blasting Turks for ‘conquering Germany’

Der er udbrudt en veritabel Sarrazin-fejde i Tyskland over  interviewet i Lettre Internationale. Måske var der alligevel noget den tyske valgkamp “glemte” at handle om. Tildligere formand for tysk industri, Hans-Olaf Henkel, forsvarer Sarrazin helhjertet, som man kan høre  ovenfor. Andetsteds hedder det Jagten på Sarrazin minder om Inkvisitionen. Men den tyske venstrefløj er gået amok, og i Tyrkiet hedder det “Allah möge Sarrazin mehr Verstand geben”.  På TAZ skriver en indvandrer:

Jeg har selv en arabisk “indvandrerbaggrund” og kan kun være enig med hr. Sarrazins udtalelser. Jeg bor ikke i Berlin, men i Offenbach, hvor der sker det samme som i Berlin. Man skal være døv og blind, for ikke at se tyrkere og marokkaneres parallesamfund i her i byen. Det pisser mig helt ærligt af, at se flere og flere piger og kvinder med tørklæder og lange frakker.For ikke at nævne testosteropumpede, unge mænd der hænger rundt her i horder, opfører sig superagressivt og knapt forstår tysk. Min far, selv muslimsk indvandrer fra et arabisk land, siger altid, at han aldrig vil kunne forstå, hvorfor tyskerne slipper sådanne “afskum” ind i deres land og lader sig byde alt af dem. Netop som han [Sarrazin] tænker, tænker mange veluddannede og integrerede indvandrere, vær venlig ikke at se bort fra det. Desværre er det netop denne højtråbende automatreaktion, som i tilfældet Sarrazin, hvis man så meget som vover at berøre kendsgerninger, som i sidste ende forhindrer en ærlig debat. Jeg håber, at dette snart hører op, for det kun er kun til glæde for højrepartier som NPD. Tiden er kommet til sandhed og klarhed i Tyskland, hvad angår spørgsmålet om integration. Først derefter kan vi virkelig ændre noget. (TAZ – Snaphanens oversættelse)

S: Den kroniske krise

Det gamle arbejderparti får kun opbakning fra 21,5 procent af vælgerne og står dermed til at tabe syv mandater sammenlignet med katastrofevalget i 2007. Det er den dårligste måling for S siden marts 2008, hvor partiet stod til,  20,2 procent. – »Målingen er en kold afvaskning for Helle Thorning-Schmidt. Hvis S ikke vinder rege rings-magten ved næste valg, er hun færdig som formand. For så har hun ikke bare tabt valget, men også sendt masser af vælgere til SF som følge af den tætte alliance mellem S og SF.« Socialdemokraterne bløder. Grafik: DF går frem til 30 mandater, SF og R tilbage. Thorning er tæt på smertegrænsen , Across Europe, the embattled left loses its clout.

(I Norge  og Sverige er socialdemokratierne stadig partier med over 30 procent. I Sverige er det dog lykkedes oppositionen næsten at sætte hele  sit kæmpeforspring til, så valget næste år kan ikke  bare trilles i mål som det så ud før.)

Måske “ham der, Arne Hardis” (Heltbergs udtryk) alligevel havde ret i Deadline i går. Havde Heltberg ikke en heldig hånd i udsendelsen, så havde DR det heller ikke i programmet Univers om stormoskéer, hvor de indleder  med at sende en naiv Nørrebro præst til Islamic Center i Malmø, hvor han kan stå og romantisere for åbent kamera. Hvis man ser bort fra de mange brande, ikke mindst den meget mistænkelige store brand i 2003, (moskeens leder Bejzat Becirov havde  oprettet en telefon i Skånepartiets navn, fra hvilken der var indtelefoneret trusler mod moskéen. Brandstifteren er  aldrig pågrebet. Da svensk politis efterforskning antydede et insiderjob, blev der stor opstandelse, trusler og pludselig medietavshed,) så er den på papiret helt moderate moské netop i disse dage under tiltale for økonomisk svindel i millionklassen. Men det venter man naturligvis ikke at DR  og Nørrebropræsten ved noget om endsige Bondam, der også har været i moské i “Ikea-land”. Det er hallelujah over  hele linjen, og hvis de havde vidst noget, ville de alligevel ikke have nævnt det. Kan være at Becirov og Islamic Center er rene som barnenumser, men den statistiske sandsynlighed svinder for hvert år der går.Länskriminalen gick i förra veckan  ut och hävdade att mordbranden var ett insiderbrott. Skånepartiet anmäler Islamic Centers grundare för bedrägeri. Tilbage til DR´s Univers. Cherif El-Ayouty, civilingeniør, forfatter:

“Situationen er uholdbar. Danske myndigheder har ikke kontrol over det, der bliver sagt i moskeerne nu. Vi får vores danske muslimske børn uddannet af imamer der kommer fra Sudan, Saudi Arabien, Somalia og så videre. For tre uger siden var jeg på en fredagsbøn i Det Muslimske Trossamfund og imamen bad Gud om at tilintetgøre USA, Islams fjende. Her i Danmark ! For tre uger siden! Og så gik han videre efter Israel, kristne og jøder, amerikanere, så fandt han ud af at han havde glemt Danmark. Så kommer han tilbage og siger “Gud tilintetgøre Danmark”. Vi stod der fuldstændig lamslåede. Det gjorde jeg. Ikke én af muslimerne dér bevægede sig. Kun efter bønnen kom en af de meget pæne, muslimske danskere hen til imamen og sagde : “Hvordan kan du sige sådan noget vås her i Danmark i dag?” De danske myndigheder har ingen kontrol”.  (se også Sunnimuslimsk stormoské i Njalsgade om to år.)

Jack Straw “lidt for tæt” på ekstremister

En fremtrædende arbejderpartipolitiker med tvivlsomme tråde til Hamas. Hmm. Hvor har man hørt det før? Man behøver vist ikke at være en af Allahs profeter for at forudsige at slibrig konvergens mellem socialdemokratiske partier og muslimske stemmer til fals er et fænomen som Europa kommer til at høre meget mere til i de kommende år (LFPC).

A SECRET MI5 report on Islamic extremism in Blackburn has raised “potential concerns” about some radical Muslim factions known to Jack Straw, the local MP and justice secretary.

A senior security figure who has seen the report said it underlined concern among cabinet colleagues that Straw could be “too close” to the Muslim Council of Britain (MCB), a prominent Muslim umbrella group. The government formally severed links with the group after a blazing row over extremism earlier this year.

“Jack’s a bit too close to the MCB — he sometimes appears to suggest they are the only game in town. There is a concern that proximity to them may colour [his] judgment,” the insider said.[…]

When Tony Blair sacked Straw as foreign secretary three years ago, it was suggested that the move was prompted by White House concerns about his views on the Middle East. Condoleezza Rice, then US secretary of state, was said to have been shocked to discover the influence of Muslims in Straw’s constituency when she visited him there in 2006.[…]

Despite the ministerial “blacklisting” of the MCB, Straw remains close to several of the group’s key figures in Blackburn. Critics claim that through a network of mosques they are able to deliver “blocks” of hundreds of votes among Muslim Labour voters. Although there is no suggestion that Straw supports suicide bombings, colleagues said they believed his line showed he might have aligned himself a little too closely with the MCB on the issue. […] Jack Straw ‘too close’ to pro-Hamas faction

Fodbold

Jeg ser  hver dag igennem hvad svenske aviser skriver om Danmark. De sidste 16-17 dage har det næsten kun handlet om fodbold, så jeg tænkte, at den kamp var nok lige op over. Det  var den ikke, det er først på lørdag. Det siger lidt om prioriteringen af Danmarksstoffet. Man må nok hellere luske ned på den lokale og se  kampen. Én af de 31 sejre så jeg i idrætparken, formentlig den mest utrolige: Danmark-Sovjet, 4-2 sejren grundlovsdag 1985. Vi badede i byens springvand. Kun overgået af – Nya Ullevi, 1992, selvfølgelig, nok den mest ekstatiske dag i byen siden 4 maj 1945.

Danmark har 31 raka VM-kvalmatcher på hemmaplan utan förlust.Danmark har alltid ett enormt publikstöd hemma i Parken. Det är sällan man förlorar där.Ser man till enbart VM-kvalmatcher har danskarna inte förlorat någon av de 31 senaste. Ett fantastiskt facit. Senaste hemmaförlusten kom 1981

Fra teori til praksis: Miljøpartister møder multikulturen

The Ghettos of Brussels: A couple of weeks ago the leader of the Dutch green party spoke criticallyof how Islam is affecting her multicultural neighborhood. Now it’s the turn of a Flemish parliament member for the Green party, MEP Luckas Vander Taelen, who wrote an editorial in De Staandard about the situation in his own neighborhood.

I live next to a neighborhood in Vorst, from the Merodestraat to the Brussels-South station (Gare du Midi/Zuidstation), that even with the most multicultural bias you can’t describe as anything but a ghetto. My daughter long ago gave on on going into that neighborhood. For she’s too often just called many bad things .

I bike through there every day and experience more and more a different adventure. Double parked cars, drivers who block a junction in order to speak with each other, youth hanging about who look at you as if you’ve entered their private domain.

In particular don’t try to say anything if you’re run over again: the last time I did that, a bystander not even 16 years old heaped abuse on me, and ended his insulting tirade with a message that I won’t translate: ‘Nique ta mère.’ [fuck off] That was not as bad as the previous time, when another young Magrebian driver felt insulted by my behavior: I had dared to take my right of way. His honor was so offended that he could apparently only rectify that by spitting in my face…

Thus: keep silent. Because if you try to make it clear that 70 km an hour is too fast in a 30 zone, then you immediately have a right to a confrontation with the sense of honor of a young new-Belgian who can’t have somebody forbidding him anything, and who is ready to punch you for it.

Twenty years ago I was convinced that the young new-Belgians would quickly be assimilated. But now a generation of rebels without a cause grew up in Brussels who always feel offended and wronged. Never responsible for anything, it’s always the fault of somebody else: of the government, of the racist Belgians. And also within their own families the young Maghrebian men remain unassailable. When the police in Molenbeek arrested a boy, the father immediately organized a protest because his son ‘wouldn’t even steal an apple’.

The efforts of the government in the problem-neighborhoods ensured that the youth don’t feel the need to leave them, an ULB study showed last year. Thus you create the confines of a village in the big city.

A daughter of Moroccan friends has a Belgian friend. She never goes out with him in the neighborhood, since they’ll be immediately jeered at. Because almost all the young immigrants may have Belgian citizenship, they don’t have any identification with this country. On the contrary: ‘Belgian’ is a curse-word…

Indeed, you never see young women alone in the neighborhood. And certainly not in the cafes: there they’re not even tolerated. When a worker of the municipality asked for a coffee there, it was quickly made clear to her that she shouldn’t count on being served. When I bike into the Merode-neighborhood, I know that far past the Zuidstation, I won’t see one woman on a cafe terrace. And I don’t need to speak about the double sexual morals which are still expected from young immigrant women, that they’ll demonstrate their virginity during the wedding night, though everybody knows that Brussels hospitals restore the hymen with a simple operation.

A renowned French-Moroccan artist displayed a remarkable work exhibit in Brussels till last week: a row of prayer rugs with shoes. The art gallery immediately received threatening calls, the glass in front of the artwork was spat at and damaged. the commotion arose because by one prayer carpet you could see red women’s heels. The artist wanted to raise in this way ‘the place of the woman in Islam’. But that isn’t allowed anymore in Brussels: after a couple of days the artwork was removed.

Maybe we should ask ourselves once how it happens that we accepted that principles such as the freedom of the artist and equal rights for men and women don’t hold for everybody in this country. Why don’t we dare stand up for what is really essential: respect for the laws and values of the land where we live? A headscarf ban is no solution. But maybe we should consider how can assertively make clear that we dare defend what we think important?

It was to the credit of the Left to ask for more attention for discrimination and the social gap. The problem is sadly deeper: we were afraid to force our values on immigrants. Those values are really too dear for me to forfeit them.

Source: De Standaard (Dutch) via Islam in Europe