A wave of fury has descended on Germany with poor Dr Sarrazin being placed in the firing line of political and public opinion. The Social Democratic Party of whom Sarrazin is a member has promised to expel the gentleman. The Bundesbank have also handed out statements condemning him for his words as has German Chancellor Angela Merkel.

Thilo Sarrazin’s book, ‘Deutschland schafft sich ab’ which translates to ‘Germany does away with itself’ is a 464-page study of the effects immigration has had and continues to have on modern-day Germany. The book is heading for the best-seller lists and Dr Sarrazin has insisted “It’s very balanced”.

Below I address the words which have caused so much anger and add my penny’s worth on each.

“most of the cultural and economic problems are concentrated in a group of the five to six million immigrants from Muslim countries”

This is true. Whether it’s politically incorrect or not to say so is irrelevant. An interesting article on this can be found here: Study says Turks are Germany’s worst integrated immigrants.

A particular study mentioned in the above article found that, “Immigrants of Turkish origin were also found to be the least successful in the labour market: they are often jobless, the percentage of housewives is high and many are dependent on welfare.”

Last year in a magazine interview Thilo Sarrazin stated:

“I do not need to accept anyone who lives on handouts from a state it rejects, is not adequately concerned about the education of their children and constantly produces new little headscarf-clad girls.”

A 1996 book called Turkish Culture in German Society Today (Culture & Society in Germany) by Eva Kolinsky and David Horrocks found that while 2nd and 3rd generation Turks usually adhered to German culture in school, outside of school, Turkish culture was still very dominant even for those who’d been born in Germany. They found the self-desired “segregation line remains just as effective as ever”.

This fits into my own experiences of living in the German capital city of Berlin. I lived in the centre of the city for 15 months and found little to no shared community between the Germans and the Turks, regardless of whether the latter had been born there or not. I never saw what could have been a Turkish girl walking hand in hand with a German boy, nor did I see Turks generally conversing with their German neighbours. Most spoke Turkish and very poor German.

My own experiences tell me another of Sarrazin’s comments was also based in reality:

“I don’t want the country of my grandchildren and forefathers to be in broad swathes Muslim, where Turkish and Arabic is widely spoken, where women wear headscarves and where the daily rhythm of life is set by the call of the muezzins,”

Apart from the call of the muezzins, this quote sums up exactly what I saw and heard on the streets of Berlin. I attended German classes with young Turks whilst living in the city and became acquainted with a number. The girls mostly wore headscarves and a few of them were met at the gates of the school by their parents, dressed in Islamic Turkish attire who gave rather unsavoury looks to myself and East European friends I was with. These were girls of 19 or 20 who could easily have made their own way home on the very safe German transport system.

“A large number of Arabs and Turks in Berlin have no productive function other than selling fruit and vegetables”

Dr Sarrazin’s words again echo with my experiences. I lived in a very Turkish neighbourhood of Berlin and so saw first-hand what society was like. Turks and Germans lived completely separate lives except when it came to fruit and vegetable stalls. There were hundreds of these stalls all over the city and all, without fail, were manned by Turks or Arabs. The only occasion when the lives of Germans and Turks collided was during shopping and the asking of particular portions of fruit and veg. This was, really, the only period where the two peoples acted as though they were one.

Another comment by Thilo Sarrazin was one about Jews and genetics. As a strong Judeophile, I briefly squirmed at the following sentence and thought the anti-Semite accusations might be sticking for good reason.

“All Jews share a particular gene, Basques share a certain gene that sets them apart,”

This single line has caused fury and delirium in Germany and for reasons I don’t particularly understand. Is he not right? Is what he said merely scientific fact? According to Jewish religious law, “a child is not Jewish if the child’s mother is not Jewish.” and is best known as matrilineal descent. Most Jews I know agree with this. If this isn’t a shared genetic heritage, then what is?

What are your thoughts on this?

The United States, the European Union nations and Israel have met this Persian nuclear breakthrough with barely a word in opposition. Experts and leaders claim the reactor is not likely to be a key component in any possible nuclear weapons manufacture. Under the close supervision of the International Atomic Energy Agency and the Russians, Bushehr is guaranteed to be purely for domestic power purposes and not for nuclear weaponry and this might be true.

However, the damage which has already been done is not related to the dangers posed by the Bushehr nuclear reactor itself but by the benchmark it has provided other nations in the region. Already, in the last week alone, three countries have stated their intentions to build similar reactors. This is where the true catastrophe of this Iranian success story lies and why, in the coming months, something must be done to extinguish the Iranian nuclear reality.

Today, Egypt announced it would be constructing a nuclear power plant on the Mediterranean coast. Egypt’s President Hosni Mubarak, who is said to be suffering from cancer and is not expected to live for another 12 months, first announced plans for nuclear power back in 2007 and has stated he has no desire to create nuclear weapons. This may or may not be true but it is nonetheless irrelevant as the resulting plants will be operational after he has gone and with the Islamist Muslim Brotherhood on the rise.

Yesterday, it was revealed that the African nation of Sudan plans to build a nuclear power plant. Like with Iran, the nation’s leaders proclaim the technology will be used for peaceful purposes but one must remember the Sudan is an Islamist-run state and is responsible for the genocide of the people in Darfur as well as the harbouring of Islamic terrorists.

Lebanon is another country that has expressed its desire for nuclear technology albeit mentioned via the Shia terrorist organisation Hezbollah, which has an iron grip on the ineffectual secular government. As has been seen over the last five years, Hezbollah’s desire to eradicate Israel and act as a proxy for Iran has been clear to anyone willing to open their eyes to the reality on the ground.

Joining these three nations are countries that have previously expressed, although often hesitantly, a desire for nuclear power in the past and who will no doubt push forward with their plans over the coming months if nothing is done to halt the Iranian nuclear ambitions. These countries include Saudi Arabia, Syria, Kuwait, Qatar, Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia and United Arab Emirates. Now Iran has reached the aforementioned milestone, the nuclear race has been set well and truly in motion. Due to rogue Islamic regimes, lack of proper infrastructure, natural disasters and terrorism, the results could be devastating.

It may be, of course, a coincidence that the candidates, Diane Abbott MP and Yasmin Alibhai-Brown, a newspaper columnist, are both from ethnic minorities.

The rather taciturn ‘may be’, a useful get out of jail card, in this case highlights the seemingly convinced mind, behind the wording, regarding the guilt of the accused. A little later into the paragraph, linked to above, another nail in the coffin is nailed with the semi-cliché ‘a coincidence too far’.

The final paragraph of Spencer’s article is the one that caused most surprise however where he refers to Ms Abbott’s recent scolding on the BBC’s This Week.

And finally, by the way, what if it were true – what if West Indian mums do love their children more than the average, as measured by race? Neither Murray or Neil consider that possibility, which is a much more interesting question.

I wonder if he would have even dared put down in writing a contemplation, however weakly, of whether white mothers love their children more than black mothers? I highly doubt it. Remember Rod Liddle anyone?

Yasmin Alibhai-Brown is of course the women who accuses all non-white right-wingers as “Uncle Toms” and says ‘indigenous Britons’ deep down, want to tear ethnic minorities to pieces. You can read more of her diatribes here. Ugandan-born Alibhai-Brown, by the way, was given welcome sanctuary in Britain just before the expulsion of Ugandan Asians by Idi Amin.

Diane Abbott is the woman who claimed “blonde, blue-eyed Finnish girls” might be unsuitable to work in London hospitals because “may never have met a black person before”. Then of course there’s her more recent “West Indian mums will go to the wall for their children” in which she included herself in that category. This from a woman who was born in Paddington, London.

Update: You can read Douglas Murray’s reply to Richard Spencer here.

Below is a series of pictures, which are mostly rather gruesome to look at. However, for Islamists and indeed, many moderate Muslims, there is one image that will drive the rage-o-meter off the scale. Can you guess which one it is? (click on the image to enlarge)

Amazing isn’t it?

Yesterday (20th May) was ‘Draw Mohammed Day’. A Facebook page was set up for people to post their drawings of the Islamic Prophet Mohammed. Over 90,000 people became a ‘fan’ of the page and at the last count around 4,000 images had been posted. Admittedly, some of the pictures were gratuitously offensive in that they showed Mohammed with items and in scenes that would make your grandmother blush. However, that’s not the point. Many were neutral and even positive reproductions of classical and mundane portraits of Mohammed or Arab-looking men with beards.

What went wrong? Facebook went wrong. Today the page no longer exists as Facebook has removed it. While one only has to type in ‘Jews’ and ‘Israel’ into the search box to find rabid hate groups, mostly created by Muslims, a simple page of drawings and cartoons which were a symbol of freedom of expression, has been obliterated.

Danish and other European cartoonists live in fear of their lives because of drawings they created portraying Mohammed. Some have had their homes attacked whilst infamous incidents such as the murder of Theo Van Gogh still haunt the streets of Amsterdam. These cartoons and drawings were a symbol of post-Enlightenment values being defended against 7th Century barbarism. The capitulation of Facebook over this, is disappointing to put it mildly but sadly, not surprising.

The question remains, when will we, the West, stand up for our values and liberty? Before or after it is too late?

Image courtesy of American Thinker.

See also: Dhimmitude and Draw Mohammed Day. (Michelle Malkin)

“The hate for the West swells like a fire fed by the wind. The clash between us and them is not a military one. It is a cultural one, a religious one, and the worst is still to come.” Oriana Fallaci

“I intentionally say this here – Hamas is a terrorist movement and it has to be denounced as such.”

It’s not every day that a European Union, United Nations or Human Rights group official openly condemns Hamas and calls it what is really is. Louis Michel, European Commissioner for Development and Humanitarian Aid, did just this.

He then went on to say: “Public opinion is fed up to see that we are paying over and over again – be it the [European] commission, the member states or the major donors – for infrastructure that will be systematically destroyed,”

You bet we are Mr Michel! European tax payers money is being pumped into a terrorist enclave which results in further attacks by Islamist terror groups on a peace seeking democracy. Israel is sick of aiding and feeding the very people who seek her demise too.

Hamas said it was “shocked” at his comments. They weren’t the only ones but for differing reasons.

Unfortunately, as would be expected, a number of onlookers are questioning the reasons for Mr Michel’s correct annaysis. This includes questions as to his heritage.