Since a study regarding youth violence by criminologist Christian Pfeiffer genuinely states that Muslim immigrants are more violent than Germans, do-gooders all over have had expressed clear outrage. Thus, the Integration Commissioner of the Berlin Senate, Günter Peining, sees no sense in the study, and the Green education politician Özcan Mutlu rejects division by ethnic origin. No wonder!

Der Tagesspiegel reports:

The Berlin-wide school study by the Lower Saxony criminologist Christian Pfeiffer is provoking further criticism. 5000 pupils are currently being surveyed regarding experiences with violence, family situation, the number of books at home and political attitudes. Also, ethnic affiliation is being asked; for immigrant children and for Germans there are partly differing questions. The Greens’ education politician in the House of Representatives, Özcan Mutlu, rejects the study, “When surveys are varied according to ethnicity, that is a manifestation of distinction.” Of course there are profound problems with violence, in socially weak immigrant neighborhoods as well, “but we have long known that.” The questionnaires from Pfeiffer’s Criminology Research Institute (KFN) have a “biased” effect, according to Mutlu, and aren’t open-ended.

(Hat Tip: Bruno N.)

The controversial project was ordered last year by State Secretary Thomas Härtel in the name of the Berlin District Commission Against Violence. At that time, Pfeiffer held a presentation before the district commission — a seminar that went uncomfortably for both sides. The nationwide study on youth violence carried on by Pfeiffer’s Institute had hardly any significance regarding the violent tendency of youth in Berlin. Regretfully for the scientist, only a few schools had stated their readiness to participate in the study. In order to get better data regarding the situation, Härtel ordered his own school survey for the capital city.

The concept has already provoked discussions in the district commission. The Integration Commissioner for the Senate, Günter Piening, was somewhat skeptical from the beginning, “The form of questioning by Pfeiffer isn’t clear to me.” He finds it problematic that the questionnaires are divided into youth “of German origin” and “not of German origin.” 94 questions on 38 pages make up the study. 3,000 pupils in the ninth grade were surveyed; after school holidays, an additional 2,000 will be included in the survey.

Therefore, nothing can exist that isn’t allowed to exist!

Cosar Karadas, a member of the Berlin Immigration Council expresses criticism of methodology. “Answers are assumed here, no study can be conducted in one or the other direction in this fashion,” he says. Thus, pupils from immigrant families must state their level of agreement to such expressions as, “The Germans are of less value than the people of my origin,” or “A proper man is ready at anytime to strike back at anyone who would speak badly of his family.” According to Karadas, there is a targeted result that will only be reinforced with numbers. It implies: Turkish and Arab youth are more violent than others, and the more religious they are, the more violent they become. The fact that some young people from German, Evangelical families are also violent fall through the cracks in Pfeiffer’s studies. Especially irritating to Karadas is, that Kurdish background is questioned in the context of murderers and rape under one single point. “That implies that this group is exceedingly difficult.”

For Criminology Research Institute director Pfeiffer, this question is, on the contrary, completely logical, “We don’t have to classify Iranians and Vietnamese as groups because they have assimilated well, and therefore present no relevance for an Institute of Criminology,” he said. Muslims from the former Yugoslavia and Turkey, however, tend to have an expressly ingrained “Machoculture.” “It would be blind, not to list unique ethnic groups.” If things would be correct at home, then the Turk would no longer be distinguishable from the German. However, many Muslim children are being shaped by an imported macho culture, “a principal of survival in East Anatolia.” As regarding the reliability of his survey technique, Pfeiffer says that he has experience since 1998 with surveys of pupils. “We have our tricks for testing whether the answers really add up.”

Pfeiffer better be careful. He is very quickly becoming a right-winger.

Since a study regarding youth violence by criminologist Christian Pfeiffer genuinely states that Muslim immigrants are more violent than Germans, do-gooders all over have had expressed clear outrage. Thus, the Integration Commissioner of the Berlin Senate, Günter Peining, sees no sense in the study, and the Green education politician Özcan Mutlu rejects division by ...

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