The Leipziger Volkszeitung reports:

Islam Critic Ulfkotte: Sarrazin is Right — “A completely absurd immigrant industry has come in to being”

Islam critic and book author Udo Ulfkotte sees an “increasing ignorance of politics” in the majority of opinions by German citizens in the sharp criticism of the immigration issues by Bundesbank head Thilo Sarrazin (SPD). “We are seeing again in surveys that people like Thilo Sarrazin have two-thirds of the population behind them. But all of the leading politicians are calling him crazy. It is a pure question of how much time before this is avenged,” Ulfkotte said to the “Leipziger Volkszeitung” (Friday edition). Before as now, it is not the desire for ruthlessly naming the problems of immigrant policy and putting a stop to undesirable mistakes. “Instead, we are probing further into the enactment of the story ‘The Kings New Clothes.’ The simple citizen is not allowed to say that the king is naked; as simple citizens one can only gossip. So this is how it is in modern Germany, but sometime the story will come to an end.

The harsh chastisement of immigrants reluctant to work, without German language ability, and defrauders of social aid must not be misconstrued as an undifferentiating blanket statement. “Even the immigrant citizens who are assimilating as much as they can, living properly, going to work and paying taxes ask themselves why we don’t do something to remove these black sheep from our ranks, and even favor them,” Ulfkotte said. In truth, they are the disadvantaged ones of the desirable developments coming from immigrant policy.

Ulfkotte supports the substance of Sarrazin’s controversial themes regarding immigrant problems and the outgrowth of Islam. It must eventually be discussed that, up until 2007, a deficit of more than one billion euros has arisen solely due to immigrants in the German social systems. “We have let a completely absurd immigration industry come into existence. A net of 1252 euros could conceivably be put back into the pocket of every German taxpayer if we wouldn’t expend these crazy sums for immigrants who are resistant to education and behind the times. Immigrants who have no German language skills and are perpetually dependent on social transfers due to their education level are criticized by Ulfkotte as “destroyers of prosperity.” The Islam critic also supports Sarrazin in criticism of Muslims. Islam, above all is an aggressive ideology “that should not be allowed a place among democracies in Europe,” Ulfkotte said. (…)

Meanwhile, the SPD is now starting another procedure to throw Sarrazin out of the Party of Comrades. The CDU is going a step further and would like to see Thilo Sarrazin removed from the Bundesbank.

» LVZ: Extensive interview with Udo Ulfkotte on the subject

(Many thanks to all contributors)

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HNA.de reports:

A procession planned for Saturday has been banned by the Marburg Mayor Egon Vaupel (SPD). In his estimation, the death of the 25-year-old is being abused by Right extremists. “Out of respect and esteem for the deceased, I have prohibited the procession,” Vaupel said. A wake was planned to proceed to a little before the Marburg pub in front of which a 25-year-old man was beaten to death back on August 14th. He died a week later as a result of serious head injuries he received in the beating.

The mourners are even being forced to remove their Website. The following is still to be found there:

The memorial procession for Samuel on Aug. 26, 2010, has been forbidden by order of the City of Marburg! We are filing suit against the ban in court, and expect that the ban will be canceled. Right now, that means that a complete prohibition stands against the Sunday evening meeting in memory of Samuel in the City of Marburg. On these grounds, we must sue against the ban so that you can remember at the scene of the crime without the police carrying proceeding against you the mourners.

Likewise, we have received an order of fines amounting to 250,000 euros so that we can no longer advertise for the wake, which is not what we are doing. We are likewise countersuing against this second order.

Even more follows…

Everything on the grounds that the “Right extremists” have presumably attempted to undertake the memorial is simply not true! — We are having to delete this memorial site under pressure by others and will do this in the coming days!

We want to thank you for your overwhelming participation!

Don’t forget Samuel, keep him in your hearts!

I am doing this, my friend — I thank you that I have been able to meet you!

You are missed! — Dear parents, we have the deepest sorrow for what has become of the memorial, and that it has gotten out of hand this way. We apologize of the bottom of our heart…

Contact:

Oberbürgermeister Egon Vaupel
Rathaus
Markt 1, 1 . Stock
35037 Marburg
Tel.: 06421/2 01 – 2 01
Fax: 06421/2 01 – 7 00
Email: oberbuergermeister@marburg-stadt.de

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The Süddeutsche reports:

The SPD Party head Sigmar Gabriel has announced that he will examine the new, controversial book from SPD politician and Bundesbank committee member Thilo Sarrazin. He will check to see if Sarrazin makes character judgments about foreigners in his book. ‘If he did that, then it is certainly racist,’ Gabriel said in Worms. As far as expulsion proceedings by the party, Gabriel didn’t want to state any details. Such a decision has to be able to stand up in court. In his book on the subject of integration, the former Berlin Finance Senator Sarrazin charges many immigrants of not intending to integrate into German society and bring more expenses than benefits.

In Spring he said that Arabs and Turks had ‘no productive function other than for the fruit and vegetable trade.’

Bet Dr. Christian Pfeiffer gets a well remunerated commission very soon…

BILD Series on the new Sarazin book “Germany is Dismantling Itself”:

» Every pupil should wear a uniform!
» We’re becoming foreigners in our own country
» Germany is becoming more impoverished and stupid!
» Why Islam makes integration so difficult

(Hat Tip: M.S. / Translation: Anders Denken)

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Whether the rape of little girls forced into marriage with old geezers can be experienced in a playful way, the report makes no mention of that.

Ad hoc News writes:

The first five book titles will appear in the Fall.

Questions will be posed by “Der kleine Hassan (Little Hassan)” about the prophet Muhammad just as they are about Jesus, about the Islamic Victim Celebration (Eid al-Adha) and Christmas. In “Fayzal der Krebsfänger (Fayzal the Crab-Catcher),” a young person will learn to deal with his illness (Translator note: ‘Krebs’ is German for ‘crab’ or for ‘cancer’ thus the fun title of ‘crab-catcher’). “Mein erstes Gebetbuch” (My First Prayerbook) playfully guides by means of cheerful images into Islamic prayer ritual being accompanied by kittens that also take a try at bows. “Arabisch lernen mit Simsim” (Learning Arab with Simsim) is a teaching book for elementary pupils. Here the teaching pattern pursues new ways of imparting language for Muslim children growing up in Germany. “Das Geschenk” (The Gift) imparts the value of the word as a special gift to a young boy as given by the grandfather or prophet Muhammad.

For Salam Publishing head Ahmad Milad Karimi, who in 2009 was the first to bring the Quran poetically and true to the original text into the German, and is publisher of literature and art periodical “Kalliope”, this new form of publishing has the meaning of “pioneer work at every level,” as he stresses. The goal in this is not “to spread Islamic body of thought, “rather to support Muslims in Germany in their own religiosity and complexity.”

Christian Zell, interim head of the Pastoren city kindergarten facility in Bremen, in which “70 to 80 percent are mostly Islamic immigrant children” being cared for would “heartily welcome” it, if he had a better selection of literature geared toward children that covered Islamic celebrations and intercultural subjects. He remembers, however, when at the last Victim Celebration Turkish mothers from the Kita advisory council went around with self-authored writings from group to group in order to explain the meaning of the Muslim holidays to the children.

We find it fantastic that it is a whole-society edition that brings children closer to Islam. It is really an encouragement that Muslim parents themselves have to explain the butchery of the Victim Celebration to their children!

The publisher’s idea “is more than overdue,” said Sineb El Masrar, producer and head editor of the “Gazelle” in Berlin, the only intercultural women’s magazine for immigrants. The daughter of Moroccan immigrants has known nothing of any German children’s literature up until now dealing with life in the new cultural circle and especially with the “integration of Muslim girls.” She herself “often missed out” as well. The 29-year-old creates a great demand for the books today not only for families rather in elementary schools and kindergartens as well. As member of the German Islamic Conference (DIK), she sees an important mission in all of this as first of all to awaken interest in this literature.

Bülent Uçar, German-Turkish professor for Islamic Religious Pedagogy at the University of Osnabrück and author of the teaching book “Mein Islambuch” (My Book of Islam) developed for German elementary schools, complains that up until now there has been “only sparse materials” in tis country for the purpose of “strengthening” the coexistence of “Muslims and Christians.” The scholar welcomes the reasons of the publishing house. They take up subjects of the Islamic Conference and “meet the demands” for doing more “for the normalization of Islam” in Germany.

Milad Karimi called in a “scientific advisory council” to accompany his publishing idea. Besides Sineb El Masrar, Bülent Uçar, as well as co-publisher and Islam scholar Nora Hodeige, he was also able to get the distinguished German-Iraqi author with Christian-Aramaic roots, Rafik Schami, and the Austrian human rights advocate Alfred Zauner.

In order to first be able to bring the small production of 2000 to 3000 copies for each title to the market, Andreas Hodeige — Rombach publisher and main owner of the Salam publishing house as well as several booksellers — intends to deliver to the place “where the people are.” For this, he has put views on German and Muslim schools, mosques, Imams and kindergartens. However, not booksellers because in his experience Muslim parents only seldom visit one, since up until now there were hardly any books in German geared to children with Islamic background.

Aha! So that is the reason. Not exactly, say, because of a complete inability to speak German, or being unacquainted with reading.

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(By the Editrix / Picture: Head of a Japanese, Burma 1945)

What does Google, always so helpful, say? If one googles for “trophy photos soldiers” one gets 531,000 hits, some as interesting as this one or this one. And no, they are not about Israeli soldiers.

Life Magazine,May 22 1944

Arizona war worker writes her Navy boyfriend a thank-you note for the Jap skull he sent her.
Defense worker N. Nickolson writes to her sweetheart thanking him for his letter and “souvenir.” This skull of a Japanese soldier bears the inscription: “Here is a good Jap — a dead one!”

As it ought to be, and I am serious here, those pictures are put in a historic perspective by many contemporary and more recent commenters. It is an enlightening lecture about history and human nature. If one goes then on googling for “trophy photos soldiers -israel -jews” one gets 322,000 hits, for “trophy photos soldiers -israel -jews -iraq” only 242,000. What conclusion can be drawn from that? I’m not 100% sure, but a possible one would be that American war crimes, real or perceived, only started to become truly interesting for a wider public, and not even mainly in Germany, when America had mutated in the public eye to the Ersatz-Jew, acting as proxy for Israel, the Über-Jew.

This is the execution of Sergeant Len Siffleet of the Australian Z Special Force Unit on October 24, 1943, at Aitaoe beach, New Guinea, performed by a Japanese civilian. Such a duty was considered an honour. Japanese have immaculate manners.

The faded photograph was found in a Japanese soldier’s pocket and yet still chills the heart of Australians.

I’m sure the Australians wouldn’t have gotten their knickers in such a knot had they only known, what Israelis would do to their prisoners sixty-odd years later.Not to forget the recent cases, but they are part of the culture of the performers and thus above criticism per se. Culture is wonderful, as long as it’s not Western. Never forget, too, that they are deeply traumatized by the cruel treatment they received from the West. And who are we, anyway, with our past and present, capitalism, imperialism, White Supremacy, colonialism, not to speak of the Holocaust, to be arrogant enough to lecture them what is wrong or what is right.

That, we must only do to the Jews.

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“Junge Freiheit” (Young Freedom) reports:

Hopeless Battle Against Wikipedia

The “Outraged Citizens” (Bürger in Wut) group is upset at Wikipedia. At the online-encyclopedia site, until last week, there was a statement about the nationwide voter coalition stating they were “right-wing populist.” The “Outraged Citizens” do not agree with this evaluation.

In addition, they reject the statement in the Wikipedia article that the group arose from the Schill party. This couldn’t be, since “Outraged Citizens” had already been founded in 2004, however, the Schill party dissolved only in 2007. The voter alliance, therefore, is calling for an appropriate change in the Wikipedia article. But this will only happen with difficulty.

Basically, any user of Wikipedia can put together articles and change texts. Thus, even “Outraged Citizens” have started to try and change the article according to their ideas. The new version, however, was reformulated an hour later back to its original version by another author — a common and often criticized practice with Wikipedia.

The approach on the discussion page at Wikipedia about the BIW article is, in fact, incredible. It seems especially important to Wikipedia author ‘häuslebauer’ to press the stamp of “right-wing populist” on various political groups…

It appears important to that populist practice be recognized and shut down.

Let’s look and see what the “populist” future has in store for us…

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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.

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(By La Valette / Translation: Anders Denken)

They are indeed:

- The choice of the location
- The planned grand opening date of September 11, 2011, ten years to the date after the attacks
- The choice of the name “Cordoba House” — The first mosque in Spain was built by the Islamic conquerors in Cordoba.

One has to be somewhat naive to believe that all of this is simply coincidence — and not somehow planned humiliation for the victims of the attacks, the citizens of the United States and all inhabitants of Western countries that identify with the values of the West. However, Islam and its apologists in the West seem to think of us as somewhat stupid. This is the attitude of Hannes Stein in Welt Online, whom I at one time considered to be a reasonable author, that the protest against the mosque project was exaggerated, that said mosque was not to be built directly on the Ground Zero campus, rather near to it. In the same article, Michael Bloomberg, mayor of New York, is quoted in this statement:

“I believe it is fair to say that nobody would shout if someone were to build a church or synagogue on this plot of land. And it is a fact that the Muslims have the same right.”

This comparison can only be described as cynical, for in a Jewish or Christian house of worship the loved ones of the dead would be mentioned in prayer. In a mosque of Islam, even that religion, in whose name every victim is murdered, they are ridiculed.

What’s really interesting, however, is a look at the Imam who is behind this Cordoba House project. His name is Feisal Abdul Rauf (photo above), and he appears at first look to be an exemplary representative of that “moderate” Islam that is invoked everywhere. Welt Online portrays him thus as a model man of God. Born in Kuwait, he is highly educated, studied physics and “committed to interreligious dialog.” For this reason, he is especially appreciated by the Jews — even Rabbi David Rosen of the American Jewish Committee.

With such a cosmopolitan gentleman for an imam, one can truly sell a mosque at Ground Zero. If I were a left-wing reactionary do-gooder, I would pose the argument that even Muslims were among the victims of 9/11, and the building of a mosque would be more than justified for their memorial. However, a few years’ occupation with the religion of peace and their agents produce a certain mistrust of the nice appearance. One doesn’t trust the attractive coat of paint so much anymore and begins to scratch at it. This must be done with care because one will often encounter the whole façade of Taqiyya (deception).

Thus, one finds out about Rauf that the oft-sought interview partner of Rabbi Rosen is not of the same mind as all of the honorable Rabbi’s fellow believers. It especially came out that Rauf belongs to a Malayan “peace movement” that is part of the main sponsors of the Gaza flotilla. The visitors of the opening Internet page are greeted with a dark, blinking Mahathir bin Mohamad, Prime Minister of Malaysia from 1981-2003. In the past, this Muslim attacked Jews quite often with racist and anti-Semitic statements. Thus he asserted, “they are not just hook-nosed, but also instinctively understand money.” Spielberg’s Film “Schindler’s List” was banned by Mohamads government in Malaysia because it was “too pro-Jewish.” His statement under the image is interesting:

“Peace for us simply means the absence of war. We must never be deflected from this simple objective.”

In this statement is again found that which mirrors the moral contradiction of pacifism, for the sake of “dear peace,” any injustice is acceptable. Following this philosophy, long-standing terrorization of Israeli civilians by means of Qassam rockets from the Gaza strip is presented as no interruption of “peace,” military action by Israel for the purpose of preventing this is however the opposite. Any true, peace-loving person who has just the least sense of justice can only turn away repulsed by such “pacifism.” The solidarity between Islam and the peace movement is logical, however, because both operate with equivalently hypocritical concepts of peace. The term “hudna (‘truce’ or ‘quiet’) is worth mentioning here.

A further search on the Internet reveals that the contacts with hypocritical friends of peace more than likely belong to Raufs earlier venial sins. Walid Shoebat, no stranger to PI readers, endeavored to compare the Imam’s English language expressions with expressions he has dealt with on Islamic websites. The result is taken up with giving novices of Islam criticism an introductory course on the concept of Taqiyya. Thus, Shoebat refers to an article of Rauf in the newspaper New York Daily News from May 25, 2010, in which he fosters his image as that of being defender of interreligious dialog:

My colleagues and I are the anti-terrorists. We are the people who want to embolden the vast majority of Muslims who hate terrorism to stand up to the radical rhetoric. Our purpose is to interweave America’s Muslim population into the mainstream society.

Only two months before, in an article on March 24, 2010, for “Rights4all”, the website for the media division of the University of Cairo, he wanted to have nothing to do of all things with religious dialog. Under the headline, “The most prominent Imam in New York: I do not believe in religious dialog.’” He writes there:

This formulation is inaccurate. Religious dialog, as it is usually understood, is an array of events with discussions in large hotels, in which nothing gets accomplished. Religions lead no dialog, and dialog is not present in the actions of their followers, regardless of whether it deals with Christians or Muslims. The image of the Muslims in the West is complex, something that has to be stopped.

Only one day after his article in the New York Daily News, Rauf openly advocates for the establishment of Sharia on the popular Islamic website Hadiyul-Islam. This is exceeded even more by a TV appearance on 60 Minutes where he states that, in his opinion, the US with its policy is responsible for the death of numerous innocent individuals worldwide, and complicit in the crimes of September 11th, climaxing in the statement, “In fact, Osama Bin Laden is a product of the USA.”

This just isn’t the statements of a man of God who has waved the banner of reconciliation among the religions. Which devil rode the Republican mayor of New York to give his approval of the Cordoba House project is still a mystery. In any case, there are still those who have protested, on the right side, against this mockery of the 9/11 victims. Islam critics of the whole Western world should exercise solidarity with them.

Like his Penzberg colleague Idriz, Imam Rauf shows that glimpses behind the tolerant and peace loving façade of his sign always bring the hateful, intolerant and violent mug of the true Islam come to the forefront. Walid Shoebat also confirms this. In an interview with Pajamas TV, he states that the single Muslims as individuals are for the better part peaceful and not interested in the institution of Sharia. The Islamic theologists and interest groups such as CAIR, however, are not to be trusted. They advocate pure Jihad thougt. Rauf himself is the founder of such a group. His father was in the Muslim Brotherhood, and he has never distanced himself from him.

Here is the interview with Walid Shoebat in which he describes how differing the statements of leading Muslims are in the English and Arab languages.

Their intentions are to infiltrate parts of Islamic law, the Sharia, piece by piece into world societies. Shoebat also cites a few revealing statements by Imam Rauf from his article on “Rights4all.” And he is carrying out, as audacious as the plan is, the building of a mosque at Ground Zero of all places. No Islamic association can be trusted, and so the permission to build a mosque should be given generally nowhere in the US.

After a few years of dealing with this totalitarian ideology that disguises itself as religion, faith in a “moderate Islam” is somewhat like faith in dry water.

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Are the applicants allowed then to send a representative to the interview and probation time, or do they all have a sack over their head?

The FAZ writes:

In Germany, a pilot project has been begun for anonymous job applications. This was announced by the leader of the anti-discrimination office of the federal government, Christine Lüders. “We have been able to win over three large German firms from Dax and two international concerns for this project,” Lüders said to this newspaper in Berlin. Among them are the consumer goods producers Procter & Gamble and L’Oréal.

(…)

Lüders admits that this will not necessarily protect against prejudices in further employment processes. If an employer ultimately discriminates in their decision for personnel, then an accusation may be considered in any case because of the offense against the General Law for Equal Treatment. “However, sometimes it is already worth gold just be invited to get beyond censorship,” Lüders said.

At best, firms can be completely forbidden from meeting a candidate. Then in the interview, at the latest, would it be seen whether the applicant can even speak German. What that has to do with “censorship,” is beyond our knowledge.

Lüders signifies “multiple discrimination” as a special problem — like when a young woman of Turkish origin, with head covering and poor German skills, is unable receive a position or get an apartment. Gender, origin, age and religion of the affected individual all possibly come together as grounds for discrimination. Typical complaints also come from young men from Africa or Arab countries who, for example, have been refused entry at a disco by the doorkeeper. Lüders mentions the primary goal for her work as networking of various on site advice centers. Other than that, she intends to sensitize society regarding the problem of discrimination.

For what reason do we need to be sensitized? Is it because Muslim immigrants often do not master the language and have no school diploma?

Fundamental doubt has been raised by Düsseldorf economics professor Justus Haucap about the use of antidiscrimination centers that cost the taxpayer 2,8 million Euros annually. The president of the monopoly commission recommends the abolition of the Berlin authority with its staff of 22 and advisory board of 17 people. According to a study, more than 1.7 milliard (American ‘billion’) Euros in bureaucratic cost to the economy would result from the antidiscrimination law. There has been a significant increase in complaints. Haucap thinks that the German Civil and Employment Law already offers enough protection from discrimination; the Berlin center is “absolutely unnecessary.”

Well, what now? It does guarantee employment positions, and even for a good purpose!

(Hat Tip: LupulusLotarius / Translation: Anders Denken)

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The following headline caught my eyes at Google News. Of course, I already knew of the incident. It was the was it was worded:

Youths attack Jewish dance group in Germany

(By the Editrix)

So “youths” did that. How … youthful of them! Here’s the rest for those who bother to read past the headline:

By KIRSTEN GRIESHABER (AP) – Jun 24, 2010

BERLIN — Arab youths threw stones at a Jewish dance group during a street festival in Hannover, injuring one dancer and forcing the group to cancel its performance, German police and dance officials said Thursday.

The teenagers also used a megaphone to shout anti-Semitic slurs during the attack Saturday, Hannover police spokesman Thorsten Schiewe said.

“I don’t remember such a dramatic attack in Germany in recent times,” said Michael Fuerst, the head of the Jewish community of the state of Lower Saxony. [Which is of course the height of idiocy. If synagogues need police protection -- and they do: Why is that? Ethnic Germans have, in their majority, ceased to attack Jews physically, at least for the time being. (As it is, they just let "youths with a migration background" get away with it.)]

Six suspects have been identified — five Arabic immigrants and one German [And we can safely assume that this is the official euphemism for "second generation immigrant with a German passport" because ethnic Germans rarely dwell among "Arabic immigrants". But it makes us all feel better that "Germans do it as well", doesn't it?] — and police are looking for the other three, police said. The six range from nine to 19 years old and have been questioned by police.

Hannover prosecutors are investigating those involved on suspicion of incitement and causing serious bodily harm … blah blah yabber yabber yack yack.

By the way, the organisers of the street festival didn’t call the police, who was only involved later. Gee! I wonder why.

And now imagine for a moment what would have happened had ETHNIC German skinheads attacked a Turkish or Arab dance group (or any other group with an “oriental” background).

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“KRAKOW, Poland – U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton says the Obama administration will seek $15 million contribution to the Auschwitz-Birkenau Foundation. She made the pledge while visiting the Oskar Shchindler [sic!] enamel factory where the German protected Jews from the Holocaust.”

(By the Editrix)

“Today I am proud to announce the intention of the Obama Administration to work with Congress to secure $15 million in funding for the Auschwitz-Birkenau Foundation,” she said.

“We encourage other nations to join us in contributing to this fund. In just one year, 2009 alone, more than 1.3 million people from around the world visited the museum and memorial of Auschwitz,” Clinton added during a sombre speech.

“Our contribution will help preserve the camp so that future generations can see for themselves why the world must never again allow a place of such hatred to scar the soul of humankind,” she said.

So while the empathy for and solidarity with dead Jews is strong (and cheap), the same Obama administration that gets quite dewy-eyed and sombre over a world that must never again allow a place of such hatred to scar the soul of humankind, is blocking key weapons projects for Israel, rejecting requests for AH-64D Apache Longbow helicopters, while at exactly the same time happily approving advanced F-16 multi-role fighters for Egypt plus approving more than $10 billion worth of arms sales to Arab League states, including Kuwait, Jordan, Morocco, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates who all have a key interest in the survival of the Jewish people and not to allow ever again a place of such hatred to scar the soul of humankind.

And to let no doubt whatsoever that this ilk is totally unembarrassable, she goes on:

“We see here the two realities of the Holocaust. One involves the cold, mechanized slaughter of millions of men, and women, and children, many of them wrenched from their communities, herded into boxcars by their neighbors and sent to die, including, not far from here, in the gas chambers of Auschwitz,” Clinton said.

“And yet we also see and are heightened by the stories of the righteous, the thousands who risked lives, fortunes, and reputations to rescue friends and strangers from the horrors of the Shoah,” she added.

“The courage of Oskar Schindler and Minister Bartoszewski gives us proof that, in the face of the worst that humanity is capable of, there are amongst us individuals who are defiant, and who are unwilling to accept that alternative reality.

“We have an obligation to remember both sides of that experience of the Holocaust,” she said.

First, dear Hillary, only Jews use the term “Shoa”. Gentiles who do so show a deplorable lack of taste, distance, discernment and respect. And no, there are NOT “two realities of the Holocaust”. It was NOT not about “scars on the souls of humankind”, but about six million dead Jews. Remembrance isn’t, either, about restaging “thousands who risked lives, fortunes, and reputations to rescue friends and strangers” who wouldn’t have needed to do that in the first place, hadn’t millions of others, the overwhelming majority, done nothing — or gleefully complied. Trust anybody as debased as yourself and the faux Messiah in the White House to turn remembrance of the Holocaust into a feel good experience for gentiles.

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(By the Editrix)

SPIEGEL ONLINE International performed an interview with him that was full of as-hard-as-nails-investigative questions and gems of replies from the interviewee, such as whether he had ever been to Gaza (“no”), whether he knows the IHH and the Free Gaza movement (“not well enough to be able to form an opinion”), whether Hamas was a source of hope for him (“I don’t know enough about the issue”), or why he ignored repeated Israeli warnings that they would not allow the convoy to reach Gaza (“At least they should have let us continue for another two hours, until we were just off the coast”) and nobody laughed and the world listened in awe.

I quite liked that one as well:

You know, I was born in 1948, the same year as the establishment of the State of Israel, so this conflict has accompanied me my entire life. For me, the thought that this conflict will still exist when I die is unbearable.

Whether the fact of having been born in the same year as the old fart who has hair growing out of his nose and ears makes the Middle East conflict so precious, the as-tough-as-nails-investigative journalists from SPON forgot to ask — or why he doesn’t give an aviating fornication for all the many other still unresolved ethnic or political conflicts worldwide, for that.

But this is priceless:

By the way, I have many Jewish friends, my books are published in Hebrew [which he considers to revoke] … and a branch of my family is Jewish.

Just like the Führer!
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Videos of the full session say more than a thousand words:

After Ünal’s speech, the President of the Assembly, Regina von Dinther (CDU), puts the proposal to a vote:

“Ladies and gentlemen, the procedural order didn’t forsee a statement of this… um… this… uh… opinion. Therefore, we can vote. Whoever wishes to empower this preliminary procedural order, please show by sign of handraising. … Thank you very much. All opposed? Abstainers? Good, then we are now in agreement for inclu… uh… concluding.

What does “conclude” now mean, Ms. Assembly President? But, of course, that has nothing to do with us…

(Hat Tip: nurednal / Translation: Anders Denken)