Today, Rand Paul, Republican senator from Kentucky and son of presidential candidate Ron Paul, was detained when he refused a pat down by Transportation Safety Authority (TSA) officers. The reason given was that “there had been an anomaly with the body scan.”

Said detention caused him to miss his flight from Nashville, Tennesse, which he was taking to Washington to speak at a “March for Life” rally.

TSA Spokesperson Jonella Culmer stated that irregularities found during a screening process must be resolve before the passenger is allowed to proceed to the secure area of the airport. Those passengers who refuse to complete this process are not granted access to that area. This is allegedly for the purpose of ensuring the safety of those who are travelling by air.

And now, they’re even denying that they detained him.

So, if not even a lord government official is safe from the TSA’s actions, how much less are those of us who are serfs members of We the People.

– Anders Denken

Recording of the Monitor report on the Berlin school conflict:

The forced consolidation of those unwilling to learn with normal pupils by means of administrative acts, it appears to be the last means of choice not just in Berlin, where Reds and Greens make the decision. In northern Cologne, in spite of the decision by the local representative assembly, a secondary school in Worringen was closed and consolidated of all things with the secondary school in Seeberg where a pupil was beaten to death on the playground (we reported). The GREENS remark cynically that the incident could even reasonably affect the reception of the new students:

SPD and Greens voted for the closure of the school in Worringen and its fusion with the secondary school in Seeberg. With this, the majority of the commitee followed the wish of both schools, but voted against the decision of the local Chorweile representatives. They had demanded that the consolidation of the schools be delayed after the death of a pupil in Seeberg. The ninth-grader had been beaten into a coma by a fellow student on the playground at the end of May and died a few days later.

In the special situation with which the Seeberg school had to deal, there was no doubt in the decision of the school committee. The brutal attack, however shouldn’t be an obstacle for the consolidation. By means of this, a “high sensitivity” has developed that could even facilitate the acceptance of the new students, so the Greens believe.

(By Team Quotenqueen for PI / Translation: Anders Denken / Many thanks to all contibutors!)

20 Minutes writes:

Information available to the editors of 20 Minutes indicates that the young politician of the strict, religious Federal Democratic Union (EDU), Matthias Kim Leng Teh participated in the Facebook posting orgies. In an anti-Islam group, mass postings to the administrators of the liberal Club Helvétique were called for in his name … When addressed about this, Teh answered: “I vehemently reject incitement against other groups or calls for violence.” He couldn’t remember any calls against profiles. And the young politician countered: “Fake profiles and smear campaigns have been carried out against me. Of course I have posted these persons and also called them to post.” The proof against him could originate of a fake profile for the purpose of causing him harm, Teh said. …

Bettina M.* has taken the hate of the Facebook crusaders on. M. has repeatedly stood up in the public group “Can this minaret have more fans than the SVP (Swiss People’s Party)?” against racist slurs. “What amazes me so much is the age of these crusaders,” Bettina M. said, whose Facebook account has been blocked three times due to organized mass postings. “They are women and men in their forties and fifties, parents – and many pass a lot of hours doing this, to unload about me and other unlikeable people, or to post to the profile in order to render us silent.

And now the warrior for the minaret who as the hero against the crusaders allegedly has more fans than the SVP is being portrayed as the discriminated victim.

Matthias Teh fights against the smear campaign with a reply:

I fault the poor and one-sided research of a few journalists in Switzerland. Those who know me even just a little know that I vehemently resist any form of “modern crusading.” Those who incite against people, be it Muslims, Jews, Christians, women, men, etc., have wasted their efforts on me. If I discover a FB friend doing this, I address them about this and delete them immediately off my friends.

I don’t move among primitive groups in which dissident thinkers are called to do postings. I reject unfounded posting by dissidents. I am of the opinion that one cannot rule out an opinion or outlook unless it’s a personal attack below the belt against other persons.

I myself have experienced that somebody in a pro-minaret group (with 50,000 members) called for postings against me. Also, a fake profile of me was posted in which inciteful and racist remarks and reports were made in order to blackball me and to bury me in posts.

I am very disappointed that journalist Oliver Wietlisbach is drawing me along into this public denunciation. The images and names of every person except mine were made unrecognizable. It appears to me that this journalist, whom I don’t personally know, has also set is target on me. To this I ask whether journalists aren’t made aware when targeted people (dissident thinkers) are blackballed. I apparently belong to the wrong political camp.

To the wrong political camp belongs ANYONE who doesn’t extend a welcome to Islam as a new leading culture into the Western world with a kiss of the hand.

» Contact the chief editor: hansi.voigt@20minuten.ch

(By Felizitas Kueble, leader of the Catholic KOMM-MiT publishing house in Muenster / Translation: Anders Denken)

Apparently one was ahead of his time in the Westphalian metropolis of Muenster: An “especially multi-religious celebration” had already taken place back in mid-January 2011, or such was the title in the “Wesfälischen Nachrichten” (WN) newspaper on January 21, 2011.

Furthermore, the newspaper article complete with a photo of this “celebration” says:

The participation by the Dutch Imam Suat Aydin imparted the title of “unique” to the multi-religious celebration at the 1st German/Dutch corps. Together with religious leaders from France, Spain, Italy, Greece, the Netherlands and Germany, Suat Aydin celebrated the Mass. Soldiers from twelve nations and civilian members of the staff tracked this multilingual service of a unique sort.

The same article along with photo was afterward found verbatim on the internet portal of Das Deutsche Heer.

The newspaper image from the WN shows an altar with candles, flowers and cross surrounded by a half dozen “officials,” among which was an imam on the right, on the left a Protestant pastor – in between five Catholic and Anglican ministers of which one blessed one of the present soldiers with the sign of the cross. A Jewish rabbi was apparently not one of the representatives at this “celebration of a special kind.”

Who here isn’t rubbing his eyes and raising the question: “How can the imam, a religious representative of Islam, ‘celebrate the mass’?” as cited verbatim in the newspaper report.

The Catholic publicist Rudolf Willecke from Muenster wrote a critical letter to the “Westfälische Nachrichten” that was also published on January 27, 2011. It says:

Wasn’t the rabbi from Muenster invited? Did the imam celebrate the Mass according to ordained or unordained ritual? Can an imam celebrate a “mass”?

You call this unique, multilingual service of a special kind a “mutual, multireligious celebration”; everyone is praying at the same time in one room.

To which God then are the 7 religious ministers along with the soldiers and civilian staff members praying? Each to his God, all to a certain God – or “mutually” to “a God of the Jews, Christians and Muslims” who we know doesn’t exist? Was the celebration in truth multireligious, interreligious or irreligious?

Counterfeiting of the Sacrament as Sacrilege

In a further statement as yet unpublished, Rudolf Willeke in addition talks about what follows from this “multireligious celebration”:

I am neither philosopher nor theologian nor Islam scholar. In order to understand the “Westfälischen Nachrichten,” one simply needs common sense to recognize and be able to assert that this article is full of contradictions and that it reflects a “Babylonian confusion of tongues” and a counterfeiting of the Sacrament as a sacrilege.

How can an imam celebrate a “mass” or a “service of special nature”: co-celebrated and assisted by 6 ministers? Did the ministers and the soldiers know w h a t the imam prayed or sang? What was so “special” about this multireligous celebration?

The co-celebrating ministers didn’t make known to the public which faith or which “God” they were confessing or which “common elements” tied them with the Quran and Islam: perhaps in respect to the Person of Christ as the Son of God and Messiah or with reference to Cross and Resurrection, or with reference to the Trinity?

The “god” of the Quran (Allah) is not identical with the God of the Holy Scriptures (Father, Son and Holy Spirit in one Deity), rather fully and completely unidentical.

Christians profess the Three-in-One, the trinitarian God whom the Muslims reject and fight against – and Christians hold – supported by the Holy Scriptures (1 John 2:22) – with all respect to the Muslims (2nd Vatican) that Quranic Islam is a heresy, and the one who rejects Jesus Christ the Messiah as a liar and antichrist.

This precise statement by Rudolf Willeke, in my opinion, brings the theological state of affairs to the point and accomplishes clarity in the important “essentials.” In contrast, this “soldiers’ mass” in Muenster was only cause for confusion and led the participants of this “service of a special kind” down detouring paths of synchretism heading toward religious mixing in the spirit of error.

» Official page of the German-Dutch Corps in Muenster
» Contact: pao@1gnc.org

(Photo above: The Dutch imam Suat Aydin at the multireligious “celebration” of the First German/Dutch Corps in Muenster)

It truly takes pure gall to represent the opinion at a demonstration that it is better to deal with a child than to abort it to begin with. The height of insolence, however is when such an opinion still yet is stated by Catholics that were a greater part of the participants and with whom the author of this article professes his allegiance.

However, one female represent of the Munich PI group showed that it isn’t necessary to be member of a church in order to advocate for the protection of life. Let it be said at the address of our atheist and agnostic readers that it is far from me, as with most other members of my church, to want to compel those of different thought to accept our ethical fundamentals by means of law or even with violence – which is often what it boils down to. But in things regarding abortion logical arguments, outside of the ethical ones, can be brought into consideration as well.

The 1,000 crosses stand for the thousand abortions that are carried out each day in our country. In order not to fall under the suspicion of advocating Christian fundamentalist positions, I will leave of from the ethical-religious arguments here and attempt a common sense approach to things. If we lay the foundation of a five-day workweek for the abortion clinics, we come to 5,000 abortions per week, reaching a sum of 20,000 each month. This is the population of a small city. This fact must certainly be taken into consideration if one is searching for the reasons of our demographic problems that indeed make up the main issue of the Islamic threat of our country as well as the all of the Western world. Besides that, the desire for progeny is one of the most natural instincts which explains why the propagation of abortion not only runs counter to religious commands, but also human nature.

In the invocation of the event was said:

We cannot silently look on when innocent babies are murdered in the womb because the mother is of the opinion that “my belly belongs to me.” If the child under her heart could speak, it would say, “And my life belongs to me, mom! Please let me live! I am dependent on you for my survival. Mom, I implore you, please bring me into the world and not to my grave!” Children are having to die, who would want to be loved, who want to live, who need a place in our society, who would give their parents a sense in life and with their unique and unmistakable talents and capabilities would have contributed to the well being of the general population. Germany will have a future only if we build up a culture of life instead of destroying human life en masse.

However one might usually stand on the issue of abortion: for a democratically minded individual it should be natural that the freedom of expression guaranteed by the Constitution also applies to opponents. A friend from Spain stated with astonishment that opponents to abortion in Germany can do so only under massive police protection.

Participants who were at this event last year indeed stated that the number of counter-demonstrators had decreased. But they overall understood that their small numbers could compete by means of a loudspeaker and underscored this with an outfit that they considered to be really original and creative.

A “demon” shot a bird, whose middle tip of his trident was decorated by a condom and who was flailing this in our direction. One day before Halloween, his costume was at least appropriate for the season. The fact of a person who would otherwise perhaps advocate views that we would most likely call “do-gooder” here appearing in the costume of the devil doesn’t go without a certain amount of irony.

Otherwise, the phrases which the counter-demonstrators reserved for us weren’t features of imagination. It is only astonishing that they never represent their “values” with respect to Muslims. In this case, the principle of respect and tolerance applies to these hypocrites and individuals with double standards.

As a musical program, a whistle concert of undistinguishable tone form, however presented with a devotion that excluded any virtuoso mastery of the instrument. The totally thought out message that was imparted to us along the way was, “Whether children or not, should for only women be the thought,” “No God, no State, no Patriarchate,” “Crucify the Christians!”, “Fascist Pack,” and the obligatory as well as the original from such circles: “Nazi’s leave!”.

Out of respect for the organizers’ request to remain in prayer and not allow oneself to be provoked by the counter-demonstrators, I forwent an answer to these as well as on October 3rd in Berlin.

A few waved the rainbow flag of the homosexual movement, which brought up the question of how homosexual sex can lead to a situation in which an abortion would be necessary. But logic is not necessarily the strongest side of our revolutionary friends. However, one argument for abortion was almost able to stir up a hard-shelled Catholic like myself:

“Your children will become just like us!”

This phrase was surpassed in its overwhelming power of persuasion only by the eggs that were thrown at us.

The Munich police, as is to be expected from them, stopped any form violence right at its beginning.

One of the counter-demonstrators snatched up a wooden cross in an unobserved moment and then demonstrated all that unlived activity which lie dormant within him:

The right of filming and photographing a public event is apparently nothing to these companions:

In the face of these leftwing opinion guerillas with their highly intellectual chain of argumentation and totally unique behavioral pattern, one almost had to feel sorry that their parents apparently didn’t consider prevention too important…

Video of the event:

(Text: Florian Euring “La Valette” / Translation: Anders Denken / Photos: Roland Heinrich / Camera & Video Editing: Manfred Schwaller – Munich PI Group)

The Frankfurter Rundschau reports:

To Parliament With the Subject of Integration

Bremen Turkish Party plans to appear at the citizen election in the Hansa city of Bremen in 2011. Their main focus is the integration of immigrants for which, as an example, they will call for an immigrant quota.

For the first time in Germany, a party founded by German-Turks only will participate in a regional election. They call themselves “Bremen Turkish Party (BTP) and hope to appear in the citizen election in May 2011. Their main focus is the integration of immigrants.

Back in the NRW regional assembly election already, someone candidated from “Bündnis für Innovation & Gerechtigkeit (BIG) (Alliance for Innovation and Justice)” which was founded by immigrants. The difference from Bremen was that not only did those of Turkish background participate, and BIG, in addition, was seen as heavily influenced by Muslims. The BTP, in contrast, is “not at all” religious, their leader Levent Albayrak (38) said to the Frankfurter Rundschau on Friday. “We are people who have successfully integrated,” said the gasoline station owner who was born in Germany. The 60 founders are made up of scholars, information scientists or craftsmen, among whom were longtime SPD, CDU and FDP members. A fifth of the committee people are women.

Migrant Quota Demanded

According to Albayrak, the new party would like to “take those in need of integration by the hand and help them” — for example, they will persuade them to learn German and to stay in school as long as possible. The party would like to see, for example, an integration quota in majority society in public service, and anonymous applications for employment so that foreign-sounding names don’t end up getting sorted out.

The BTP sees itself as a bridge and interface between majority and minority, but also as a mouthpiece for immigrants — not just those from Turkey. Albayrak: “We are open for all.” Unfortunately, the BIG Party is over the new founding because they themselves, with their Bremen Regional Association, would like to be candidates for the township.

» BILD: Auto Sales Boss Starts First Turkish Party (in German)

(Many Thanks to all Contributors / Translation: Anders Denken)

The first surprise was already at the beginning: at the question of a Sparkasse employee as to how many of the 100 persons present could show an immigrant background, only five or six raised their hand, two of those were Muslims. Those around whom the subject was to revolve were, therefore, in below-average numbers in the party. In the face of the high proportion of immigrants (one could also say: Muslims) in relation to Wiseloch’s population and the towns in the vicinity, this was a message hardly ignored. Are there Muslims, for example here in our country, to whom integration and participation in society (of the majority) is simply and grippingly unimportant?

After Gert Weisskirchen let loose with a few introductory empty phrases, Rita Süßmuth began her lecture on the subject. For the most part, she supported the following positions:

1. Germany is a country of immigration, the Germans have long refused to recognize this.

2. All the problems we have with immigrants today (with which immigrants, she couldn’t say), are as a result to be causally traced back to the Germans

3. Fortunately, the situation that Germany is an immigrant country has meanwhile become accepted, and the measures that have been undertaken for the integration of the immigrants would perform veritable miracles.

As Rita Süßmuth often expressed it on this particular evening, we are “on the way.” Whether she herself in any case knew where this way led, was unfortunately not to be discerned.

For instance, while she, being visibly touched, brought the example of a Turkish mother into the discussion, whose four children had managed to find their way into career life, and tried to use this to make it clear that generally all immigrants (she constantly used examples of only Muslims – why not?) are willing to assimilate, she also tried at the same time to warn of the dangers arising from German society as an immigrant society.

After she had warned among other things about rightwing populism and the “steps backward” coming from the current discussions started by Thilo Sarrazin (“of course, there are only negative examples given!”), she struggled to make the following statement, “There are always many things being told about the Quran, that simply are not in there. The Quran teaches peacefulness and humility!”.

By this time many present were already shaking their heads in disbelief. Did the former Federal President show in this expression that she is incapable of reading, or rather that she really had not read the Quran? How could the following by chance have come from her in a lecture about this book:

“And slay them, wherever you run into them, and drive them out from the places where they have driven you out; for the seduction to unbelief is worse than killing. And don’t battle against them at the holy mosque until they battle against you there. However, if they fight against you, then kill them. Such is the reward of the infidels.” (Sura 2, Verse 191)

It continued outrageously further. In the question hour, now moderated by Gert Weisskirchen, the question, for example, whether the people that like to call the Germans “sh— German potatoes” are really supposed to become integrated, was answered only so far as Rita Süßmuth truly admitted, that “occasionally” such insults occur, but at the same time spoke of the evil, evil discrimination that “migrants” have to endure.

Then a man answered with the question whether she (Rita Süßmuth) didn’t also see that with even the overwhelming number of immigrants not the slightest problem existed, but Muslims, however, often drew attention to themselves through criminality, unemployment and a disregard for German society. The imprecise answer by Süßmuth was limited to playing up the integration problems of other immigrant groups. By not dealing one single time with Muslims at all in her demonstrations, she answered this question only indirectly, if even with an unwilling “yes.” Such a thing could justifiably be called “beating around the bush.”

Still a few questions of the same kind were asked, and overall, the remark could be made that a good number of listeners were anything but satisfied with the multiculti smoke and mirrors routine by Süßmuth.

What once again heated up the ire of many who were present at the end of the question time was the fact that, throughout the whole discussion time those “uncomfortable” questioners of Gert Weisskirchen were constantly being stifled out, while at the same time the two Muslims present were allowed a full thirty minutes of speaking time. No – not time for asking questions, rather time for tying up those present in a long horror story of alleged discrimination. Thus, for example, one of the Muslim speech brawlers, who according to her own statements is an employee of Heidelberg University and is still horribly discriminated against, broke into tears with the sentence “I have to fight for a lot of things that really should be normal course,” as if on cue for a film.

Thus, at the end, the SPD man ended up not being spared the accusation from the public of being abandoned; not only did he steer the discussion along party lines, but he also paid the two Muslim wailers as well.

In spite of the ensuing conversations in which the effort was made to smooth out some of the waves, the two representatives of the “peoples’ parties” had to go home on Wednesday with the unsettled feeling that their Islamophilic and Do-Gooder course didn’t successfully get through to the citizens that were present.

So that still many other politicians can achieve the enjoyment of the new freedom of speech and discussion in Germany, all PI readers are herewith called upon yet again to join with their local PI groups.

(Text und Photos: Vaterrhein, Rhein-Neckar PI Group / Translation: Anders Denken)

Johannes Bräuchle, an evangelical pastor from Stuttgart who has been active in Stuttgart 21 for years, brought up the subject:

“I have been stamped as the bad guy for this, and such a thing shouldn’t be done to a person. One can do a lot to a person, but he shouldn’t vilify him.”

Here is the impressive TV report in which Henryk M. Broder also takes up words:

Of course, there are supportable grounds for being against such a project as Stuttgart 21. So the question is justified throughout of whether the costs and utilization of funds are in the right proportions. However, it is completely unacceptable to villify those who think differently as being immoral, even if they are in error. Since perfection here on earth has not been reserved for us, we will always have to take mistakes and errors into account, whether in the government or in the economy.

To declare oneself free of error is a monument to totalitarian ideology, and worse than this idiocy of self-perfection is the justification of any means for carrying out one’s own aspirations. For this reason, it is no coincidence that PI, besides the totalitarian ideology of Islam, is constantly the subject of ecological rigorism. For the fanaticism with which ruthless “environmental protectionists” support their body of thought, such as the alleged climate catastrophe, is taking on features that make religious fundamentalism look tame by comparison.

But since there is no further way short of physical threats to slander the opponent, the TV report shows an example from Allershausen SPD town councilman Sepp Lerchl who received a threat of murder as a “Christmas gift” on December 23rd because he dared to advocate for a third runway at the Munich airport.

It is now high time that physical and psychological terror appearing in the sheeps’ clothing of morality be brought up in the taxpayer-financed media as well.

(Text: Florian Euring “La Valette” / Translation: Anders Denken)

It is nearly incomprehensible how much the German mediascape ignores the sensational results in Vienna. Of course, PI won’t go along with this kind of action:

The Recklinghäuser newspaper didn’t report with complete neutrality either:

The party extended invitations to a presentation with scientist Dr. Thomas Tartsch in the Lindenhof restaurant. Instead of the expected 40 listeners, around three times as many people thronged into the much too small room. Also among the visitors were both pastors Bernhard Lübbering and Dr. Jürgen Schwark who with their clear pro-mosque position in the RZ provided for sensation.

UBP head Tobias Köller described his party’s line at the beginning. “We are for freedom of religion in the country, but against the construction of mosques.” With this statement, he met not just with agreement. Some residents came to make it clear that they didn’t have anything against the construction of a new cultural center. “The mosque has been here for 33 years. Up till now, there haven’t been any conflicts. Why should that change with a new construction,” one neighbor lady said. It was expressed in several ways that there was nothing against a mosque, however a residence home for children was rejected.

The VIKZ (Verband Islamischer Kulturzentren – Association of Islamic Cultural Centers) has for years already fallen under criticism quite often because children in its homes have been indoctrinated against the Western system of values (RZ reported). Speaker Tartsch admonished in his presentation that residents are often not questioned regarding construction projects by cultural associations. “Building law is often unfortunately bent by the authorities.” He cited in particular the VIKZ opinion of Prof. Dr. Ursula Spuler-Stegemann accusing the association of disintegration. Tartsch, however, didn’t remain silent about the fact that there is currently a study from Prof. Dr. Ursula Boos-Nünning (Duisburg University) that gives the youth work of the association a positive assessment (…)

» Recklinghäuser Zeitung: Pastors mobilize against the UBP

(By the Editrix)

Humanity and life triumph over satanic statistics which reduce “people to numbers”. Even the chancellor, herself a scientist, took up the new cuddly speak and let us know how she really felt. Everything else would mean to talk about one’s own shortcomings anyway.

Because Thilo Sarrazin states what can’t be denied: A minority refuses to integrate because they despise this society, its culture and the native population, whose representatives don’t dare to demand the necessary respect. That is the main issue of the debate, which will now be hunted down and mopped up — together with Thilo Sarrazin.

It is of previously unknown sleaziness what is sold to us as debating culture, as open-mindedness and vibrant multiculti. The representatives of the German-Turkish community are acting miffed and deny the problem.

Politicians are counting on votes from that clientele and nobody speaks up for the native population who have, very probably, reasons for not wanting to be told towards whom they ought to be culturally sensitive.

And Sarrazin? He is the whipping boy who is met with sheer and undiluted dehumanizing contempt and hatred, and who, despite of all this, tries in an almost touching way, again and again, to get across a reasoned argument.

All those involved have made utter fools of themselves with their phoney, hypocritical “humanity” and the majority of Germans now see Sarrazin as an upright, honourable man who has integrity and backbone and who lacks the slippery sliminess with which the others have made themselves unassailable.

The causa Sarrazin is a historic turning point for this country, and that doesn’t suggest anything good.

This is a feature by rbb, a public law (state-controlled) broadcaster. The good thing is that, in its attempt to discredit Sarrazin, it shows the hypocrisy of the political and opinion making elite in full fly.

Obviously, Sarrazin has the charisma of a floor vase, which makes him rather more credible.

The above text down to the video is an excerpt and a rough translation of a radio commentary by Dr. Cora Stephan, political scierntist and journalist.

Thanks to both.

(By the Editrix)

All this is stunning. Those people are not afraid of modernity, they are afraid to LOSE modernity (whatever that is) and to be sent back to prae-modernity. To call this “Middle Ages” would be unfair to the — to our — Middle Ages.

It is beyond belief what the simple truth is able to trigger, if somebody speaks out who can not, different from little and even big bloggers, be ignored. And what is even more beyond belief is the cynicism and contempt of the oh-so enlightened media for their readers.

(By the Editrix)

Quoting the leading, well, THE, German newsmagazine DER SPIEGEL it says:

Thilo Sarrazin’s book “is not convincing, but it has convinced many people,” said the influential Spiegel magazine, which this week has the Bundesbank executive on its cover, calling him a “people’s hero.”

And further down in the article:

Sarrazin has no intention of doing any such thing [i.e. setting up his own political party], but the survey raised fears that a charismatic right-wing populist in Germany, like anti-Islam MP Geert Wilders in the Netherlands, could win considerable political support.

This is misleading on several levels.

First,somewhat naturally, it doesn’t get across the sneering, contemptuous overtones of the German DER SPIEGEL article and the English translation is toned down considerably. For example, while the English DER SPIEGEL article is headed “Why Sarrazin’s Integration Demagoguery Has Many Followers”, the cover of the print edition says bluntly: “Volksheld Sarrazin — Warum so viele Deutsche einem Provokateur verfallen”. This is disingenuous because anything connected to the word “Volk” evokes, in German, memories of Nazi-terminology and is cunningly exploited by those who intend to give others a bad name. So “Volksheld” doesn’t just mean “people’s hero” but has nasty overtones which subtly allude to something sinister and unwanted. Second, Estimated 18% share Sarrazin’s views and 18% do not a people’s hero make.

The subtitle of the cover says: “Warum so viele Deutsche einem Provokateur verfallen”. This can be translated simply as: “Why so many people fall for a trouble maker/rabble rouser/agitator/somebody who fishes for a reaction”. (I couldn’t find a 1:1 English translation for the word “Provokateur”. But what is really interesting is the verb “verfallen”. It can indeed be translated as “to fall for”, but it has strong overtones of “to get addicted to” or “to become a slave of”. It used to be used in a sexual sense as well, but has become somewhat archaic. To use it in this context insinuates an extracerebral reaction from those who are supporting Sarrazin. They don’t see his points, they don’t support him because they have come to see that he is right, they have become addicted to him, or his slaves.

Talk about demagoguery.

The Yahoo/AFP article then says that the support for Sarrazin raises fears that a charismatic right-wing populist in Germany, like Geert Wilders in Holland, might win political support on a large scale. I have said before that Sarrazin has carefully distanced himself from Geert Wilders (whether that was a good thing to do or not is a different question) and has the charisma of a floor vase, so there goes the “populist”. Part of this is that, different from Wilders, Sarrazin is entirely void of any vanity. He is one of the leading economists of his generation, not a politician, although he used to hold a public office. To insinuate that he might set up his own party and thus evoke fear of “right wing extremism” is not just disingenuous, it is demagoguery of the vilest sort.

One last point: Sarrazin is not “right wing” by any definition. If anything, he is a somehow surviving fossil of the European Socialdemocratic “Old Left”, law-abiding revisionists with a strong law and order strain. Eugenics were openly discussed in Germany among Social Democrats pre-1933, but to no practical avail, notabene because of the resistance by the conservative bourgeois powers, men who are considered now “right wing extremists”. Of course, nobody of the readers of this blog will know all those long-dead (many of them prematurely because of REAL “right wing extremist” action) old Germans, but maybe some remember Tommy Douglas, another one of that extinct breed.

“Right wing extremism” has nothing do do with it, but it sounds good, pushes the right (or rather: left) buttons and keeps the people where they belong: Anxious, frightened, insecure and addicted to and slaves of the debased left wing ideology as preached by, for example, DER SPIEGEL.

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)

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

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)

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.

(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.

“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…

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.