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Hugh Fitzgerald: Should Germans be Forced to Study Arabic?

Aug 26, 2016 9:16 am By Hugh Fitzgerald

Thomas Strothotte

A senior German educator has called for all pupils in the country to be forced to study Arabic until they graduate in the interests of the multicultural state.

Professor of Computer Science Thomas Strothotte and President of a private Hamburg university has argued that German children should be forced to learn Arabic alongside German so they would better understand the country’s 1.5 million new migrants and make them feel more welcome. He said it would help Germany become “a country of immigration, and a multilingual society.

Germany is discussing frankly the problems of integrating over one million migrants that have arrived over the past year, especially in the light of the brutal sex attacks that have been blamed by some on a clash of cultures.

Some have called for newly arrived migrants to be taught about European norms, culture, and language, but professor Strothotte has suggested that teaching Germans Arabic instead will “strengthen integration”, reports Die Welt.

Prof. Strothotte predicts that the continued migrant invasion presents an opportunity for Germany’s youth to access the emerging Arabic market and justifies his call for required Arabic courses by saying that the next few decades will see a “profound transformation” of Europe and the Middle East in which he believes the Arabic language will be vitally important for business and cultural integration.

He claims the move will put Germany forward as an “economic, cultural, and political partner” for the Middle East.

Learning a foreign language is already compulsory in German schools, but students have a choice in what they chose to take besides German. Presently, most choose English. — Breitbart News

This is a curious example of a flag being waved in seeming triumph, but on closer inspection, turns out to be semaphoring civilizational surrender. Professor Strothotte makes the disturbing (but no longer surprising) claim that if all Germans were required to learn Arabic, that would do much to help Germans “understand” these new migrants, by which it is clear he means Muslim migrants, and “make them feel welcome,” and help Germany to truly become “a country of immigration, and a multilingual society.”

Let’s examine what his proposal would entail, and whether it makes sense.

First of all, compulsory Arabic classes, he says, will make Germany a “multilingual society.” But Germany is already a “multilingual society”: 95% Germans study English, and learn it very thoroughly. When Strothote says that Arabic should be made compulsory in German schools, he means either that Arabic should replace English as the one foreign language studied, or he is arguing that German children should learn two foreign languages, with Arabic being the one that is compulsory.

If he means to stick to the study of one foreign language, as now, and insists that it be Arabic, he would be depriving German pupils of the chance to learn English, the one universally recognized world language, the international language of science, business, finance, culture, sport, entertainment, in order that they study Arabic, which is the international language of nothing but terrorism.

How likely is it that German parents or pupils would stand for this? And if he thinks that German children should study three languages, with German and Arabic being the two compulsory ones, taught from first grade to the end of high school, and English presumably chosen by almost all as their third language, that would require that other subjects be cut to make room for Arabic.

The German curriculum is famous for its rigor; there is no dispensable fluff. So every semester, from first grade right through to the end of high school, important subjects would have to be abridged to make room for this exercise in “understanding” and “welcoming” Muslim migrants. What will be sacrificed for the dubious sake of this Arabic study? How many semesters of biology? Physics? Chemistry? History? Philosophy? Art? Music? German parents would be maddened at every bit of class time devoted to Arabic. For what is Arabic’s usefulness, as compared to English? If in addition to German another language is to be made compulsory, everyone – except Professor Stotthotte — would insist that it be English. But if some German pupils do choose a second foreign language, that language is likely to be either of great cultural (literary, artistic, musical) significance, such as French and Italian, or of great commercial importance (Chinese, Spanish for the Latin American market), or of geopolitical significance (Russian).

Knowledge of Arabic, Professor Strothotte insists, will help Germans in commercial dealings in a future Europe that has undergone a “profound transformation,” where Arabic “will be vitally important for business.” Will it? It isn’t now. Perhaps Professor Strothotte is unaware that in Riyadh and Abu Dhabi, and all around the Gulf, the language of business is English, as it is elsewhere in the Middle East; there is little or no commercial advantage to be gained from learning Arabic, certainly nothing to justify the enormous effort that would have to be devoted to the task of teaching all German students that difficult language. And there is no reason to expect Arab businessmen will suddenly start to insist on business dealings in Arabic if they have not done so until now.

But business advantage is not Professor Strothotte’s main justification for making study of Arabic compulsory in German schools. He thinks that Germans will “better understand” these new (Muslim migrants) if they learn Arabic, and consequently, “make them feel welcome.”

As to this dreamy belief that Germans can acquire a “better understanding” of Muslim migrants by learning Arabic, Professor Strothotte overlooks the fact that most Muslim migrants in Germany are not speakers of Arabic, but mainly Turks, who far outnumber the Arabs, with Afghans and Pakistanis and other non-Arabic-speakers rounding out the Muslim mix. Learning Arabic will not help Germans to better “understand” them. Turks in Germany will certainly resent that Arabic, rather than Turkish, was made compulsory, thus causing new problems, new sources of discontent and unrest among the already unruly Muslim population.

Professor Strothotte is eager to redefine Germany: it is, he says, a “country of immigration.” Germany is not quite there yet, but he wants to help it along, rather than try to stem the immigrant tide. He seems happy to accept what he predicts will be the “profound transformation” in Germany and Europe as a result of this ever-increasing population of Muslim migrants, rather than to think of ways to prevent it. Unlike the United States, a “nation of immigrants,” Germany only became a nation with significant numbers of immigrants in recent decades; most of those migrants have been from Muslim lands. Many of those Muslim immigrants (except for the first generation of Turkish “guest workers” who did, in fact, work) are content to remain unemployed for very long periods; 80% of Turks in Germany have been on the dole.

These Muslim migrants choose to come to Germany because of its generous system of benefits, and they take full advantage of the welfare payments for the unemployed, free medical care, education, housing, and family allowances. They are in no hurry to go to work, and when they do, they have not proven to be models of industriousness (as compared not just to the native Germans, but to other immigrant groups, such as the Chinese). The levels of Muslim criminality are much higher than for non-Muslims; the disciplinary problems with Muslim students can wreak havoc in classrooms. Though as yet there have been no grooming-gang scandals in Germany as in the U.K., groups of Muslim men have sexually attacked German girls and women in Cologne and Hamburg. And why not? For the Muslim predators, these girls and women are Infidels, they have it coming. And then, of course, there is the constant threat of Muslim terrorism (for recent examples of such terrorism, see Munich, Reutlingen, Ansbach, Grafing).

But, some will argue, even if what you say is true, doesn’t Germany “need” some of those Muslim immigrants as workers, despite these problems? No, it doesn’t. If Germany (or France, or the U.K., or any other European nation) needs immigrants, there are tens of millions of them, in South America, in Mexico, in the Philippines, in Eastern Europe (Filipinas and East Europeans, it might be noted, have already become the caregivers of choice for aging Italians) who would come in a heartbeat, bringing with them their rosaries and crosses instead of the Qur’an. Europeans have not made a systematic effort to admit these Christian workers, but for their own safety and general well-being, perhaps they will now recognize the wisdom of doing so.

More and more Germans are coming to a conclusion very different from that of Professor Strothotte: they don’t want to make Germany still more “welcoming” to Muslim migrants; they don’t want to accept this Muslim presence as inevitable; they don’t want to endure the transformation of their own country or to make it still more Muslim-friendly; they want to halt the flow of Muslim migrants and, wherever possible, to make their country not more but less welcoming for Muslim migrants, at first by limiting the generous benefits now available to them, and requiring them to be employed. And they certainly don’t want to be forced to learn Arabic.

Professor Strothotte allows himself to believe that Germans should learn Arabic in order to “understand” these new Muslim migrants. But exactly how will this gigantic pedagogical effort, requiring many years of study, help Germans to “understand” Muslims? Since all over Europe Muslims have not been able to integrate successfully into the larger society, this suggests that the problem is not a German, or a French, or a British one, but lies rather with the Muslims themselves.

What is it that causes Muslims to despise Infidels, to treat their manmade laws with indifference or contempt, to treat government benefits paid for by the Infidels as well-deserved Jizyah, to denounce the polytheism (shirk) of the Christians and the enmity of the poisonous Jews, to be permanently enraged at the refusal of both Christians and Jews to recognize Muhammad as the Seal of the Prophets? It is the ideology of Islam.

It is true that Muslims – or at least Arab Muslims – would take grim satisfaction in the news that Arabic were to be made compulsory. They would view this as an act of submission, signifying that the Infidels accept their fate: that Muslims are in Germany to stay, that they cannot be dislodged, that many more will be coming unopposed, and that compulsory Arabic for all Germans is a way to signal acceptance of this thoroughly multicultural New Order. The Infidels are yielding, and by imposing on themselves the study of Arabic, the language of Islam, they are not just adding another language to the required curriculum, but announcing that Islam is on the march, and that there is nothing they can do to stop it. (cf. Manuel Valls, the French minister who recently advised his countrymen about Muslim terrorism, “Get used to it”).

A few years ago a senior German civil servant, Thilo Sarrazin, startled his countrymen with a sober study of the effects of Muslim migration on Germany. He saw Muslim immigration as the undoing of Germany, and insisted it had to be opposed in every possible way. Sarrazin titled his first book on the Muslim invasion of his country Germany Abolishes Itself. To Professor Strothotte, that sounds not like a problem to be avoided but a solution to be embraced. His prescription is to give up trying to make Muslims assimilate into German society, and instead for Germans to meet their demands, or even, as with his astonishing Arabic proposal, to anticipate them.

Certainly Germans need to understand their Muslim immigrants. But understanding may make them even more alarmed and determined to halt Muslim immigration. Perhaps Professor Strothotte knows this, and that’s why he is so intent on promoting the study of Arabic, in order to deflect attention from the real problem. More and more Germans are discovering that no matter how generously they welcome these immigrants, they do not display either gratitude or a willingness to integrate. This is not what Germans expected, and not a state of affairs they should be forced to endure. Germans are not against all immigration, though often described as such (“racist,” “right-wing,” “anti-immigrant” – these are the media’s standard mix-n’-match epithets), but through unhappy experience they have slowly come to the conclusion that one kind of immigration, that of the Muslims who have been flooding into Germany, is dangerous for them and for their children.

Even the United States, famously a “nation of immigrants,” historically was not open to the whole world; until recently, its voluntary immigration was almost entirely from Europe. Our language, our literature, our laws, our customs, our music and art, were all based on what was brought from Europe. And Germany was never a “nation of immigration” until the last few decades. But misdirected guilt over World War II prevents many Germans from properly defending their own country from a Muslim-immigrant invasion that proceeds, insidiously, on every front. To make up for murderous antisemitism in the past, Germans are paradoxically easing the entry of today’s main carriers of antisemitism, Muslims, into the heart of Europe. That’s not the way to make amends.

Germans have come only reluctantly to the realization that not all immigrants fit in equally; they have drawn the melancholy conclusion that Muslim migrants pose special problems; that their presence has made life for non-Muslims more difficult, dangerous, and expensive; that Muslims are happy to exploit the welfare system, but receive benefits as a matter of right, an unofficial Jizyah.

Again and again the unavoidable question poses itself: Why is it that Christian Arabs — Arabic Copts, Assyrians, Maronites — have had no difficulty assimilating into German as into other European societies? Why is it that the Chinese, the Hindus, the South American Christians, the Sikhs, the Vietnamese Buddhists, have all been integrating without incident into the societies of Western Europe? And finally, why is it that all Muslim migrants, in no matter what country in Europe they may be, and no matter what their ethnic identity — Arabs or Turks, Afghans or Iranians, Bangladeshis or Pakistanis — have exhibited an inability to integrate into European societies?

Making Arabic compulsory would signal to Arabs, and Muslims in Germany, and around the world, that the language of Islam, of the Holy Qur’an, of Jihad, is now to be imposed on Germans, that Arabic will become Germany’s second language, that Muslims are in Germany to stay, and if problems arise, it is the duty of the Germans to change their behavior, their laws, their customs, even their school curricula.That’s also the view of Professor Strothotte; for him it is the Germans who must do the assimilating.

If Germany needs immigrants for economic reasons, shouldn’t it try to make those Muslim migrants feel “welcome” through these compulsory courses in Arabic, and thereby further the great business of that “profound transformation” of Europe through its Muslim population that Professor Strothhotte deems both inevitable and desirable? No. It would make more sense to rely on Christian immigrants who do not regard non-Muslims with contempt, and who are not in thrall to a belief-system that, over 1400 years, from the Atlantic to the East Indies, has always meant trouble for non-Muslims. There is no need for Germany to admit migrants into their midst who regard Germans, because they are Infidels, as acceptable targets for crime, including both the unofficial exaction of the Jizyah, and the sexual assaults on Infidel women we saw in Cologne and Hamburg. Too many of the Muslims in Germany have shown an unwillingness to work or, when they deign to be employed, exhibit an incapacity to produce at the level that the advanced German economy requires. As Sarrazin put it when discussing Muslim employment in Germany Abolishes Itself: “there is only room for so many fruit and vegetable vendors.”

Were Arabic to be made compulsory, instructors would have to be chosen from among native speakers of Arabic. In the West such teachers have often been found to offer, along with their language lessons, large doses of Arab and Islamic propaganda. Even the U.S. Army found this true of the Arabic-language instructors it employed in Iraq, and Christian Arabs were quickly brought in to replace the more egregious purveyors of Muslim propaganda among the language teachers. A penetrating analysis of how Muslim Arabs mix their language instruction with Islamic apologetics is offered by Franck Salameh, a Lebanese Christian who taught in Middlebury’s Arabic Summer School.

And thus the German government would likely find itself innocently paying for a vast army of teachers of Arabic who are also apologists for Islam: a pedagogic fifth column.

But it will not come to this. Professor Strothotte’s suggestion will be rejected. And though his suggestion is outrageous, it does raise the matter of what, if not Arabic, needs to be taught to all German adults? The German government presumes to protect and instruct its citizens, and it ought at this point in the history of a thoroughly confused West, recognize the need to offer courses on the rudiments of Islam.

Who would teach such a course? The teachers should not be Muslims, nor non-Muslim apologists for Islam. They ought, rather, to be Germans who have undergone rigorous training in both the ideology of Islam, and in the history of Islamic conquests. They ought to be able to discuss the contents of the Qur’an, Hadith, and Sira, to go through the most important “Jihad verses,” to explain the main events in Muhammad’s life, including his marriage to little Aisha when she was nine, and how he had the bound prisoners of the Banu Qurayza decapitated, and how he attacked the Jewish farmers of the Khaybar Oasis and divvied up the loot (including the women), and how he took pleasure in the assassinations of the mocking poetess Asma bint Marwan and the 120-year-old Jewish man, Abu Afak. And they should be able to explain that because Muhammad is seen as the Perfect Man (al-insan al-kamil) and Model of Conduct (uswa hasana) by Believers, his example affects the conduct of Muslims today.

These instructors should be able to explain the interpretive doctrine of “naskh” or abrogation, which effectively nullifies the more moderate, Meccan verses. They should be ready to explain that Qur’an 2:256 (“there is no compulsion in religion”) doesn’t quite mean what it appears to say, because the imposition of the Jizyah and many other economic, social, political disabilities on non-Muslims clearly amounts to such “compulsion.” They would be taught how 5:32, which seems to forbid killing innocents, can only be understood when read along with 5:33, which spells out exceptions so large a truck-bomber could drive right through them. (It is 2:256 and 5:32 without 5:33 that are usually trotted out by Muslim apologists, so these verses need to be given special attention.)

And these instructors ought, further, to be able to discuss 1,400 years of Muslim conquest of many different lands and the subjugation of many different peoples, and of what happened when Islam dominated, and Muslims ruled.

If such courses on Islam of this type were to be offered to Germans, adults rather than schoolchildren, would Muslim migrants claim to feel less “welcome”? Of course. But so what? Would such courses, on the other hand, help Germans to better “understand” those Muslim migrants? Yes, certainly. The Germans have been making Muslims feel welcome for the last few decades, and it has gotten them Cologne and Hamburg, Munich and Ansbach, Reutlingen and Gafing. It’s time to stop with the Welcome Wagons, it’s time to try the truth. Would Muslims try to prevent the government from offering such a course, insisting that “only Muslims” can teach courses about Islam? Yes, undoubtedly. But again, so what? The contents of that government-sponsored course on Islam should be transparent, with a fixed syllabus of readings (from the Qur’an, Hadith, Sira), posted online, accessible to all. The classes that are given live should be taped and made similarly available online. If Muslims claim to find inaccuracies in the government-sponsored course, they must make their complaints public for everyone to examine and corrections, if called-for, will be made by a government-appointed committee of experts. Complaints that are seen to be preposterous will only strengthen the case against Islam. If the course instructors are well-trained, intellectually nimble, and careful always to adduce supporting textual authority, they will be able to stand their ground, and unhappy Muslims will be at their wit’s end, for nothing upsets them more than Infidels who know their Islam.

Germans, now immunized against the sanitized version of Islam that they have been fed for so long, will realize that the problem with Muslim migrants has nothing to do with, and cannot be ameliorated by, compulsory instruction in Arabic. Alle deutschen Schüler sollen Arabisch lernen? Nein, a thousand times nein. And Germans will focus less on trying to sympathetically “understand” the Muslim migrants who have invaded their country, less on making them feel still more“welcome,” — there’s been far too much of both already — and more on understanding the meaning, and permanent menace, of Islam, and on ensuring that Germany does not “abolish itself” after all.

And who might be put in charge of this vital pedagogic effort? Not the benighted Professor Strothotte, with his sweetly sinister dream of a “profound transformation” of Europe by its burgeoning Muslim population but, if he’s willing to take on the task, that former German civil servant and dour truth-teller, Herr Thilo Sarrazin.

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Comments

  1. Lynne says

    Aug 26, 2016 at 9:27 am

    Utterly ridiculous! He’s just contributing to the complete takeover by Islam.

    • Jay Boo says

      Aug 26, 2016 at 10:36 am

      (Carpet Kissing) and making (Wudu Voo Doo ) can also be used for Elective credits toward graduation in the new multi-cultural bend-over and bow German state.

      • Lioness says

        Aug 27, 2016 at 4:20 pm

        Lessons in beheadings will be even more useful to make muslims feel welcome.

        • j_not_a says

          Aug 28, 2016 at 6:31 pm

          I’d like to learn arabic: how do you say in arabic: eff off nasty muslim swine.

    • Keith says

      Aug 26, 2016 at 10:43 am

      Of course that is exactly what many European politicians and academics want to happen. If they don’t they are dong a good job of making everyone believe it is what they want.

    • BC says

      Aug 27, 2016 at 3:47 am

      It is appropriate and necessary for the migrant to learn the language of the host country. They are the minority.
      Most educated Arabs can speak English anyway, they have to as very few non Arabs will learn Arabic

      • Jay Boo says

        Aug 27, 2016 at 7:15 am

        You are not being very Multi-Cult
        This is only harmless role playing.

        German children should also be taught how to properly behead Muslims in order to show how much they truly respect Islamic culture and religious customs.
        This is commonly referred to as “mirroring’

    • Shane says

      Aug 27, 2016 at 11:26 am

      Let them study all the books on Islam by Robert Spencer, Brigitte Gabriel and Raymond Ibriham! That will prepare them for the coming civil war.

  2. Baucent says

    Aug 26, 2016 at 9:38 am

    What a bizarre suggestion. This Thomas Strothotte is a complete dim dhimmis. Why not suggest migrants have the responsibility to learn German? What he suggests is civilization capitulation. The tail wagging the dog.

    • Carol says

      Aug 26, 2016 at 12:50 pm

      Thank you! But this is the same thing that happened in America. We need to learn Spanish. Well, no thank you. If you want to live somewhere it’s your responsibility to learn that language!

      • Carolyne says

        Aug 27, 2016 at 8:02 pm

        Before Obama was elected the first time, he made a speech suggesting that it is necessary for all Americans to learn a foreign language. He used as an example, that children should learn Spanish because when they grow up and become part of the corporate world, they might need to go to Brazil and they would need to speak Spanish. There is a big problem with this suggestion, but it just illustrates how stupid these global community people are.

        • j_not_a says

          Aug 28, 2016 at 6:38 pm

          Did Obama really say that? Because if he did, that would rank up there with his 57 states gaffe. This idiot doesn’t know that Brazilians speak PORTUGUESE, not Spanish. Sheesh, and they called Bush dumb.

      • gravenimage says

        Aug 27, 2016 at 11:28 pm

        It is not compulsory to learn Spanish in the American schools.

    • JawsV says

      Aug 26, 2016 at 2:30 pm

      The hefty dude should be forced to live in Yemen.

    • John Thomas says

      Aug 26, 2016 at 4:57 pm

      Damned right! It behoves every immigrant to learn German. Who the hell outside “Arabia” speaks it anyway.

  3. c matt says

    Aug 26, 2016 at 9:42 am

    On the other hand, it would be very practical in the near future of Eurabia. And of course, it would be difficult for “moderates” to say one thing in English/German/French for the gullible masses, and another in Arabic to express their true sympathies. I know unmasking the true nature of Islam is not Herr Strothotte’s goal, but it would be a nice side-effect.

    • Ginger says

      Aug 27, 2016 at 3:51 pm

      My own thought when I read the story. The German kids would understand how reviled they and their country are.

  4. Jaladhi says

    Aug 26, 2016 at 9:43 am

    What a moron. And to think these types of guys are teaching at universities. What are they thinking – are they wannabe Arabs and wan to convert Germany into Germanabia??

    • Vlad says

      Aug 26, 2016 at 7:27 pm

      Just get rid of this imbecile, permanently.
      And all the others that are infected with this stupidity.

  5. GlasgowRanger says

    Aug 26, 2016 at 9:49 am

    Another Talking Head from the hard-left beginning to come out the woodwork now that they seem to be getting the upper hand in their quest to impose Islamo Communism on us.

  6. Angemon says

    Aug 26, 2016 at 10:03 am

    This is a curious example of a flag being waved in seeming triumph, but on closer inspection, turns out to be semaphoring civilizational surrender.

    Indeed. Simply Orwellian.

  7. Jay Boo says

    Aug 26, 2016 at 10:30 am

    In the interests of the multicultural state.
    All MUSLIMS must study:

    “How to behave like decent human beings”

  8. linnte says

    Aug 26, 2016 at 10:34 am

    This will absolutely prevent assimilation of Muslims in Europe. And I mean the whole of Europe, because this mindset will spread throughout the whole continent. Language is the “key” that brings a people together. Why hasn’t Europe introduced a plan for all Nations in the EU to speak one language? Because the people are hanging on to the one thing that still identifies them as a Nation. And even Arabic speakers learn English for business deals.

    In America, if Hispanics can’t speak English, it prevents them from excelling at a good paying job. If Germany really wants her Arabic speaking people to be equals with the indigenous culture, learning German is the only way they will be successful and break away from poverty.

  9. Kay says

    Aug 26, 2016 at 10:36 am

    I actually want to vomit when I read this website. Horror after horror and then westerners advocting more pandering.
    It’s like they’ve never heard of bullying or abuse or evil. That this particular vehement and widespread case has a special name (jihad) almost makes no difference. In no case does one effectively deal with an abuser simply by giving in to more and more demands.

    The one benefit of some westerners voluntarily learning Arabic would be that we’d be able to more effectively monitor the mosques and other communications. But Strothotte’s idea would simply erode German education.

    Even if what is happening were benign intercultural mixing (which I don’t believe it is) then there are countless examples in nature, society, medicine etc that indicate a slower integration to ensure or hope for success. What is happening to the west (invasion) is akin to a tidal wave or hurricane.
    I am desperately hoping that the American population wakes up before November and we can have a hope of slowing the invasion.

    • 762x51FMJ says

      Aug 26, 2016 at 7:28 pm

      “Less well known is the paradox of tolerance: Unlimited tolerance must lead to the disappearance of tolerance. If we extend unlimited tolerance even to those who are intolerant, if we are not prepared to defend a tolerant society against the onslaught of the intolerant, then the tolerant will be destroyed, and tolerance with them.”

      Karl Popper..

      • Carolyne says

        Aug 27, 2016 at 8:06 pm

        I don’t think we can tolerate that!

      • gravenimage says

        Aug 28, 2016 at 12:29 am

        Yes.

  10. Alien Republican says

    Aug 26, 2016 at 10:41 am

    The proposal is an insult to the 4 Million Turk living in Germany for decades. If at all, Turkish should be placed way ahead of Arabic.

    Personally I think that stuying Arabic is a waste of time. There is simply nothing to be gained for it with the exception of saving ones throat (maybe) by rediting the koran accent free.

  11. De Doc says

    Aug 26, 2016 at 11:05 am

    Why Arabic? Why not Turkish? This guy is pretty naked in his motives, if you ask me.

    • Kepha says

      Aug 26, 2016 at 9:12 pm

      De Doc, the guy’s an ejjikummater (“educator”). I suspect he believes that Arabic and Turkish are the same. I teach world history, and warn my kids that I’ll come back and haunt them if they confuse China and Japan, Taiwan and Thailand, Austria and Australia, Russia and Prussia, Iran and Iraq, Slovakia and Slovenia, Martin Luther and Martin Luther King. Some of my colleagues hear about that and gulp!

      • Angemon says

        Aug 27, 2016 at 1:11 pm

        I second that warning, Kepha.

  12. common sense says

    Aug 26, 2016 at 11:20 am

    Ridicule of Islam and Muslims especially knuckle dragging refugees is necessary.

    “We doubt Muslim sincerity and that Islam teaches taqiyya, oppression, bigotry, slaughter and jihad and that many Muslims carry an air of supremacy.”

    I’d learn how to say that in Arabic because that is all Islam deserves to hear, no joke.

    • Cynthia in California says

      Aug 26, 2016 at 11:44 pm

      Ooooh, what a *terrific* suggestion! I’d even sign up somewhere to learn this bit of Very Targeted Arabic. I don’t even care if I’d have to learn it in–what?–Egyptian, Libyan, Tunisian, Algerian, Iraqi, Lebanese, Syrian, or another dialect of Arabic. They can’t be as distinct from one another as Portuguese and Spanish, and I used to converse with my aged Portuguese-speaking neighbor by using Spanish and some Italian. She understood what I was saying just fine.

      So…great idea; where can I sign up?

  13. Raymond Peringer says

    Aug 26, 2016 at 11:49 am

    A strange thing is occurring in the western world today. We have a death wish. Slowly every pillar that made the west great is being removed and replaced by mushy feel-good policies such as forced Arabic. Especially strange because at the same time, other Islamic countries are fighting back against forced Arabization. Historically, the contribution from Arab to world development has been meagre. What we call “arabic numbers” actually came from India. Arab astronomy was medium-grade astrology.

    Not even Hitler was as stupid as the present German government. This policy will do much harm. It will give greater cause to skinheads and other misfits.

  14. Charli Main says

    Aug 26, 2016 at 12:23 pm

    Learn Arabic ??? Arab Muslims have made no positive contribution to human civilization in the last 1400 years. Everywhere they have invaded has been pushed back into the dark ages. The Germans would be better put to learning chimpanzee than Arabic.
    PS. Please none of the crap about how they invented algebra, zero and the base decimal system 10, Blah, blah blah. All these systems were stolen from the Persians, Indians and Romano-Byzantines.
    Mind you, Mad Mohammed of Mecca did discover that camel piss would cure every ailment known to humankind.!!!

    • Kepha says

      Aug 26, 2016 at 9:13 pm

      I suspect that Arabic-speaking Muslims ceased contributing to the world when they started running low on Dhimmi peoples.

  15. Peter says

    Aug 26, 2016 at 12:42 pm

    Why not Vietnamese or Turkish? Arabic hints at Arab-Islamic imperialism and dhimmitude.

    Heil Muhammad!
    Sieg Islam!

    Nein Danke!!!

  16. Mark A says

    Aug 26, 2016 at 1:29 pm

    Excellent article Hugh Fitzgerald.

    • gravenimage says

      Aug 28, 2016 at 12:45 am

      Yes–kudos to Hugh Fitzgerald for all his fine work here.

  17. davej says

    Aug 26, 2016 at 1:51 pm

    This is how they will “assimilate” – by requiring you to learn their language.

    • gravenimage says

      Aug 28, 2016 at 12:45 am

      That’s the Muslim approach to “diversity” in a nutshell.

  18. mortimer says

    Aug 26, 2016 at 2:28 pm

    Thomas Strothotte would not suggest learning Arabic if he knew that there is ‘no Arabic’ standard language…merely a number of mutually non-intelligible dialect and so-called ‘classical’ Arabic. Arabic has a written language that is not spoken and a spoken language that is not written.

    Learning Arabic will not help Germans. It’s a waste of time.
    Thomas Strothotte is clueless about the Arabic dialects.

    • gravenimage says

      Aug 28, 2016 at 12:57 am

      I don’t think leaning this would dissuade him at all–this is not really about learning a useful language–it is about appeasing the crocodiles, so any dialect will do.

  19. Champ says

    Aug 26, 2016 at 4:23 pm

    The unholy islamization of Germany is moving at a fast clip …

    • gravenimage says

      Aug 28, 2016 at 1:11 am

      Grim but true.

  20. marina says

    Aug 26, 2016 at 4:55 pm

    Is this a joke? Don’t these morons know that Islam = world dominion. The islamic religion aka barbaric cult as been spread by the sway of the sword. Zero contributions on earth. They won’t assimilate.. they will take control as their pedo leader mo tried to do.

    Somebody please remove this Strothotte along with Frau Merkel and her cronies from office.

  21. Anke L. says

    Aug 26, 2016 at 5:03 pm

    Germany is my home country..and I have learned a few languages
    while growing up there…I feel like throwing up, reading this
    proposal.
    How far is this insanity going…I ask myself.
    People who subscribe to Islam’s evil ideology do not deserve an ounce of support from anyone anywhere.

  22. Westman says

    Aug 26, 2016 at 7:44 pm

    There is oniy one reason for anyone in the West to learn Arabic: reading Islam’s Ideology. We might as well set about learning Egyptian Hieroglyphics.

    Arabic has too many modifying marks to be efficient and useful in commerce; a commerce which moves more rapidly than caravan trading. Imagine the New York Stock Exchange in Arabic. Even the native text languages of computers, EBCDIC and ASCII, are coded to the Latin-English alphabet.

    Neither the language, culture, or economy is drawing the West to migrate to Muslim countries. On the contrary, Muslims are trying to escape Islam’s failures by migrating to the West and the languages they bring will be extinguished by the third generation. Why learn a language to use in the same geographical location where it is dying?

    • Kepha says

      Aug 26, 2016 at 9:18 pm

      Dunno. I’ve seen Chinese flash across a screen in LCD or whatever.

      But if you must learn a Semitic language, make it Hebrew and/or Aramaic (including Syriac).

    • linnte says

      Aug 27, 2016 at 9:41 am

      Best point yet! And comforting!

  23. Ordinary Joe says

    Aug 26, 2016 at 7:47 pm

    Germany have to vote AfD to turn things around, assholes like him need to be permanently exported to Saudi Arabia

  24. 762x51FMJ says

    Aug 26, 2016 at 8:03 pm

    We went to visit grandma Shaeffer in Munich in 1972. I was nine years old An introduction to terror at the Arabella Hotel in Munich Germany..

    A woman was thrown from floor 23 and she crashed through the glass skylight of the restaurant and landed next to me. They washed the blood off of me and escorted us to our room. The hotel went into lockdown, after machine gun fire it was all quiet.
    Turns out
    It had nothing to do with the Olympic hostages, Omar Mohammed in 2310 gave one of his wives a 23 story divorce…

    • Kepha says

      Aug 26, 2016 at 9:20 pm

      That must’ve been a horrifying experience.

  25. Mark Spahn (West Seneca, NY) says

    Aug 26, 2016 at 9:29 pm

    “the main events in Muhammad’s life, including his marriage to little Aisha when she was nine”

    Huh? I thought Aisha’s marriage took place when she was six. See
    http://wikiislam.net/wiki/Qur'an,_Hadith_and_Scholars:Aisha

    • Cynthia in California says

      Aug 26, 2016 at 11:58 pm

      We meet again, Mr. Spahn. Hi! There is a bit of “fuzzy” history attached to the story of Muhammad’s possession of young Aisha.

      He contracted for her when she was 6, but somehow managed to hold his lust in thrall until she was all of 9 years old. Even medieval Europeans, who sometimes betrothed quite young children to one another, waited until the boy was…ah…fully capable and the girl was post-menarche to allow them to live together. No way Aisha had experienced menarche at the age of 9.

      Up until the late 19th century, European girls (the only group whose history I’ve read thoroughly) often didn’t experience menarche until they were 15 or 16. This physical reality is probably the basis for the Latin American “quinceanyera” (Eng. spelling), or 15th birthday party, which historically doubled as a “here is our daughter, ready for marriage” party.

      Not 9 years old, and dear God not 6.

      • Charli Main says

        Aug 27, 2016 at 3:37 am

        I believe that he used to expended his lust on the 6 year old Aisha by masturbating between her thighs.
        xxxxxxx sick bastard should have been put down like the dog he was.( no offence to dogs intended. Just an expression)

        • Jay Boo says

          Aug 27, 2016 at 6:55 am

          MO the Molester Ogled little 5 year old Aisha in the schoolyard.
          He Married Aisha at her kindergarten graduation.

          But, Muslims around the world give each other HIGH FIVES because Muhammad did not fondle Aisha when she was a mere five and he “Expended his lust on the 6-year-old Aisha by masturbating between her thighs.”

          “… Whosoever rapes a little six-year-old girl for other than manslaughter or corruption in the earth, it shall be as if he had raped all mankind”

          Six is pervo sick, but nine is MO-dandy fine.

      • linnte says

        Aug 27, 2016 at 9:51 am

        Also known as “sweet 16” birthday party.

      • Carolyne says

        Aug 27, 2016 at 8:19 pm

        Ayatollah Khomeini, after being installed as dictator of Iran with the assistance of Jimmy Carter said that it was a “Divine blessing” to have sex with a pre-pubescent girl. He cautioned men to not let their daughters “See their first blood” in their homes. He married a 12 year old

        I hate Muslims too.

  26. No Fear says

    Aug 26, 2016 at 10:34 pm

    The purpose of any Arabic piece of text is to assert the political power of its writer. It is the way that language is designed.

  27. Cy Halothrin says

    Aug 26, 2016 at 10:55 pm

    “When Strothote says that Arabic should be made compulsory in German schools, he means either that Arabic should replace English as the one foreign language studied, or he is arguing that German children should learn two foreign languages, with Arabic being the one that is compulsory.”

    Actually, what “Professor” Strothote really wants is that the German language no longer be taught in German schools, but rather the entire curriculum be in Arabic, with English taught (optionally) as a foreign language. Yes, even Strothote understands that English is important in the world today – after all, how are jihadis going to make effective death threats that are widely understood if they can’t speak English?

    • Carolyne says

      Aug 27, 2016 at 8:20 pm

      It’s true. The phrase “I keel you” has a ring to it in English.

  28. Cameron says

    Aug 27, 2016 at 12:24 am

    “to be able to discuss 1,400 years of Muslim conquest of many different lands and the subjugation of many different peoples, and of what happened when Islam dominated, and Muslims ruled.”

    I really wish that there was a thorough, detailed and unapollogetic podcast on this material.

  29. simpleton1 says

    Aug 27, 2016 at 12:41 am

    No need to learn another language.

    Technology is such that with the written word you can do google translate or babel translate. Sure not perfect, but it gives the gist of context and an idea of meaning.

    If necessary then take/send the written copy to a translator, and any fee will be getting much smaller, but beware their are translators and translators, with their own biases.

    Technology is almost there with with the spoken word, which can easily be recorded
    Cell phones, apps, recorded to a computer.
    Even, better still you can digitally keep the original spoken copy, for if there is any doubt, then it can be perused by a really able translator.

    It is sort of there of just talking to a computer, once it customizes for your sound.

    Good intentions are easily sorted out, as more communication will convince. If there is doubt then it will be exposed for what it is, either deception/fraud or just lies, particularly if a bit of time is allowed.

    Look how the photos/videos/documents etc can be taken so easily, and transmitted world wide.

    Nothing should be able to slip past us, like in a mosque, 😉 if we are prepared to work at it.

    The biggest problem is that many of the rest of world just want to live quietly, leave democracy/free-speech for others to fight about.
    After all, life seems good for them right now, and it seems so easy just to comply.

  30. Enough of Jihad says

    Aug 27, 2016 at 4:14 am

    Maybe they should make the politicians learn Arabic, and then make them read the Quran.
    Perhaps after that, they will open their eyes to what they’re doing and might stop committing cultural suicide.

  31. John 3:16 says

    Aug 27, 2016 at 6:24 am

    Immigrants should be allowed enter the country of their choice providing within 12 months they can speak the language and they have found a national born in their chosen country, but not of their creed, to sponsor them &I only them!!!!!

    • Kepha says

      Aug 27, 2016 at 6:58 pm

      Disagree. People–including people who really want to learn the host country language–learn at different rates. Linguistic distance also makes a difference, as I once had the privilege of teaching three very ambitious teenaged boys (one Salvadorean, one Viet, one Ethiopian) in a class. It was clear that the Spanish-speaking fellow was making full use of the various links between two Centum Indo-European languages in developing his English skills.

      As for sponsorship, in the USA, you can only sponsor close relatives, a fiance(e), or an employee with rare and needed skills.

  32. Allan White says

    Aug 27, 2016 at 8:05 am

    This is the most scary thing I have read on Jihad Watch.

  33. David M says

    Aug 27, 2016 at 8:23 am

    This traitor should be in the same 6 x 6 cell as Merkel, In the darkest & deepest jail in Germany.

    • Linda Rivera says

      Aug 28, 2016 at 12:28 pm

      David, All of the traitors will spend Eternity in Hell for what they’ve done to our people.

  34. David says

    Aug 27, 2016 at 9:35 am

    OR: SHOULD THE MUSLIM invaders be forced to learn the language of the host country? ????????

  35. Sam says

    Aug 27, 2016 at 9:52 am

    As a dhimmi nation they should study Arabic which Allah spoke to the “perfect” pedophile Mohammad in that beautiful tongue of some of the cult members.

    What is wrong with humanity? Why even allow muslims to practice this evil crap.

  36. John A. Marre says

    Aug 27, 2016 at 10:11 am

    It’s not a simple question of a language. It’s promoting the culture of the invading army. It’s bowing down in willing submission to the conquerors.

  37. Alvin Woods says

    Aug 27, 2016 at 12:17 pm

    Germans as a collective people have a self destruct button every 50 or 60 years.

    What is wrong with these people?

  38. Denis MacEoin says

    Aug 27, 2016 at 2:03 pm

    I’m not against people learning Arabic. I have a degree in Arabic and have taught the language at university level. But it is not an ideal language for schoolchildren. For one thing, modern literary Arabic (which is based on classical Arabic) is very difficult. It is only spoken by well educated Arabs. If the purpose is to communicate with Arab immigrants, it will be nearly useless. The question then arises: which form of Arabic do you teach? The regional variations are so distinct that they are useless fcor mutual understanding, beyond the difference between Portuguese and Spanish. A Moroccan cannot understandf an Iraqi speaking colloquial Arabic (daraja), or a Saudi, and so on. It is so much less complictaed for immigrants to learn German. But, as the experience in the UK has shown, many Muslim incomers do not trouble to learn English, especially women, who are kept at home in ghettos. David Cameron even argued that learning English should be compulsory.

    • Kepha says

      Aug 27, 2016 at 7:00 pm

      Good for you, Denis. I studied and have since used, taught, and translated a “hard language” myself (Chinese). When I was with the State Department, I got taught Thai, and joined a club of “hard languages junkies”.

  39. simpleton1 says

    Aug 27, 2016 at 7:31 pm

    To learn another language such as arabic?,

    When more importantly free speech; conveying information,debate and discussion will be tied with PC/MC by people taking offence..

  40. gravenimage says

    Aug 27, 2016 at 9:49 pm

    Hugh Fitzgerald: Should Germans be Forced to Study Arabic?
    ………………………….

    *Hell no*. This will only further the “profound transformation” of civilized Germany into a violent Muslim sh*t hole.

  41. Twerzig says

    Aug 28, 2016 at 7:09 am

    Can Arabic survive or is it a dying language. What would happen if all the dialects were romanised and their vocabularies extended. Perhaps the Professor could provide some C code for printing the wide character type required for Arabic script. Its very difficult to find.

  42. Linda Rivera says

    Aug 28, 2016 at 12:24 pm

    Thomas Strothotte – You vile disgusting being. You are NOT a man. I don’t know what you are, but you are NOT a man. REAL MEN protect women and children. You evil woman-hater, child-hater.

    You poor excuse for a human being. You weak, girly male. You ought to be ashamed of showing yourself in public.

    Wicked British and European leaders colonised tiny Britain and the small countries of Europe with 50 million Muslims to persecute our people as taught in the Quran. The Muslims our people are forced to finance with their taxes.

    We understand that our leaders HATE our indigenous, Christian people. That the founder of Islam was a paedophile, thief, mass barbaric murderer, torturer, serial rapist, kidnapper and huge slaver and sex slaver of non-Muslims.

    We understand that Mohammed is regarded as the PERFECT MAN by Muslims and that Gang Rapes and Sex Slavery of non-Muslims is taught in the Quran and that our wicked leaders fully APPROVE and imported Muslims to Beat, Molest, Rape and Gang Rape our women and children.

    And Terrorise, Gang Rape, Torture and Force into Prostitution and Sex Slavery huge numbers of Britain’s little white girls.

  43. Thomas says

    Aug 28, 2016 at 4:03 pm

    This story is actually pretty old (February 2016). It is just one of many incidents that make you wonder if this is still reality or something from a dystopian novel. The crazed feminists and the greens party who downplayed the Cologne incident take the cake (‘not worse than the Oktoberfest in Munich’), in my humble opinion. This being said, I’m currently busy learning Dothraki and Klingonian, so no time for Arabic yet.

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