The growing number of Muslims in Germany represents not a threat but a learning opportunity, said Finance Minister Wolfgang Schäuble, discussing Islam in the wake of the Manchester attack.
The German Finance Minister’s outrageous statements may be an attempt to absolve himself and his party of any responsibility for what Muslim migrants are bringing to his country. Germany spent more than $21,000,000,000 on refugees in 2016, as its Muslim migrant crisis outstripped state budgets. In addition, the number of migrant criminal suspects soared by more than 50% in 2016.
Germany has been brutalized by Muslim migrants, with an epidemic of sex assaults, attacks on churches, and a massive crime surge.
Finance Minister Wolfgang Schäuble’s shameless propaganda in the face of this chaos is the all too common pose of leftist politicians as they continue to burden taxpayers, betray their own citizenry and tradition of democratic rule. They are astoundingly insensitive to victims of Muslim migrants.
“German Finance Minister Responds to Manchester Attack: Christians Can Learn from Muslim Migrants”, by Virginia Hale, Breitbart, May 26, 2017:
The growing number of Muslims in Germany represents not a threat but a learning opportunity, said Finance Minister Wolfgang Schäuble, discussing Islam in the wake of the Manchester attack.
“It is fanaticism, not only in Islam, that leads to terrible crimes,” he said, speaking on German public radio station Deutschlandfunk Wednesday evening, when asked about the Islamist attack in which 22 mostly young people, including an eight-year-old girl, lost their lives.
“It is certainly a misunderstanding of religion when belief slips into fanaticism or, at worst, violence.
“The world’s great religions all preach the message that one must look upon others as their sisters and brothers, and that one must live with the other because man cannot live alone,” Schäuble told presenter Christiane Florin.
“‘Islam is part of Germany’ is a sober, factual statement,” the minister remarked, commenting on sentiments voiced by Chancellor Angela Merkel on more than one occasion – which are not shared by the majority of Germans.
“Anyone who denies this denies reality and is therefore not suited to being a politician, because politics begins with the confrontation of reality,” he added.
The country’s rapidly growing Muslim demographic presents an “opportunity” for “Christians, and all who live in Germany”, Schäuble stated, adding: “We can learn from them.
“Many human values are very strongly realised in Islam. Think of hospitality, and other things like, what is there… And also tolerance, I believe, for example.”
Discussing his recently published book, Protestantism and Politics, the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) minister said the church has no monopoly on truth and criticised voices within who “argue too much in secular matters from a point of religious conviction”.
Commenting on how the “star” at the biennial congress of the German Protestant Church on Thursday was to be Barack Obama rather than any religion-linked figure, Schäuble lavished praise on the former U.S. president, describing him as “a man who can truly inspire people, like few others”.
The minister expressed frustration with Obama’s successor Donald Trump, lashing out at the president’s ‘America First’ platform…..
Art says
This political hogwash has lost its clout. Free thinking ppl sound the world have woken up and are fighting back. Bull shitting political hacks can be replaced whereas lives cannot.
Guest says
Here’s what he said in detail re what we can learn. We was incredibly vague and hesitant, LOL: http://www.deutschlandfunk.de/religion-und-politik-wir-koennen-von-muslimen-lernen.2540.de.html?dram:article_id=387054
“Florin: What can we learn?
Schäuble: Well ok, good, I think one must always, when together with others, be prepared to not only consider one’s own way correct. In islam many human values are also very strongly realized. Think of the hospitality and similar things that are there. And also tolerance. I believe for instance, that jews had less to suffer in islamic countries over the centuries than in christian countries.”
Tami Misledus says
(Human) values which only apply to muslims and do not apply to non-muslims.
Tami Misledus says
Just one more reason (as if I needed any) for leaving EU.
Lodesman says
If the Germans do not publicly condem this ignorant twit there is no hope for them as they have lost their critical thought capabilities. This is bad because that last time they lost their reason twenty million people died before their time.
mgoldberg says
It is unbelievable, how much denial and self deception disorger occurs in the minds of politicians who lack the decency to face the problems they’ve brought upon their people.
“The world’s great religions all preach the message that one must look upon others as their sisters and brothers, and that one must live with the other because man cannot live alone,” Schäuble told presenter Christiane Florin.“‘Islam is part of Germany’ is a sober, factual statement,”
And indeed, the first statement is wrong, inaccurate and needs to be understood from the standpoint of ‘Jihad’ which denies the equality of all other religions that do practice such equality, and do not have ‘Jihad’ as the preeminent practice of it’s theolgoyh.
The second statement, about Islam being a part of Germany is a facile statement. If immigration was halted from muslim nations and all muslims were held accountable for the crimes, the murders, the assaults, upon ‘all others’ in Germany, then the ‘sober factual statement, about them being a part of germany would have meaning. All other groups are indeed held to a higher standard and do not get the
deferential treament and denial about their peoples criminal actions. Only Islam gets that treatment.
And indeed the ministers of Germany, and Merkel have hidden all this from discussion by only referring to their support for the unfortunate ‘refugees’ rather than the reality of what they brought to germany and how destructive this has become and assuredly will be for all of Europe.
goran wrambeck says
This Finance Minister Wolfgang Schäuble must be compleatly out of his mind as a communist what more to expect… Hopefully the germans will throw these idiots away.. Wonder what our Swedish PM Stefan Lofven will do as he lets a lot of these muslims in to our country burning cars, rape our woman, burglarys, killings etc.. Maybe we could learn from them as well.
Good Luck you idiots but time will tell that your legacy will be doomed…
somehistory says
He is a politician…and it isn’t reality that distinguishes, but the passion for telling lies. He is a liar and is hoping to enable the beast with its horde of liars.
Everything he said is a lie. No truth in him. This makes him a son of the devil, satan the father of lies.
somehistory says
Tolerance: moslums insist on anything and everything they do be tolerated, no matter how evil and perverse.
Hospitality: moslums know how to take full advantage of hospitality extended to them by Christians and others, to the point of raping and murdering those who have extended it to them.
Truth: moslums never speak it, and when it is spoken to them, they claim it is hate speech.
Gen Jones says
So much sheer ignorance and outright lies in one article. The picture does a perfect job illustrating that Herr Schäuble is the village idiot.
RichardL says
He is not a village idiot. He has all the qualities of Heinrich Himmler. Himmler had a doctorate. Stupidity is not an excuse for this lovely Swabian.
no_one says
Good that I don’t live in the country of this POS.
Robert says
… tolerance. Balderdash !
IQ al Rassooli says
Every time I had hoped one of the European elites would disconnect their mouth from their back side, I am grievously disappointed. It is incredible that the very Germans who helped the extermination of millions of people because they considered them SUBHUMAN are so welcoming of Muslims who have every intention of destroying them which brings me repeatedly to the most prescient article regarding Europe’s future ever written which I shall put forth every now and then to hopefully wake up the brain dead.
EUROPE DIED IN AUSCHWITZ
I have been predicting for over ten years (on 1260 radio & TV talk shows in the USA) that almost the entirety of the European Elites (political, media, academic and clergy) are literally committing national suicide by accommodating Muslims who will NEVER ever either integrate or assimilate but will actually undermine the security, welfare and economies of the West.
Watching the latest mass murder in Manchester and reading repeatedly the latest acts of intimidation, rape and terror committed entirely by Muslim men – so called ‘refugees’ – against Christian females all over Western Europe, I realized it is about time to convey the following article to the attention of the American and British people before the Elites in the USA & UK also bring about the destruction of the American and British ways of life hoping that enough of them will wake up and join parties and or organizations that will stop more Muslims from immigrating as well as making Sharia a criminal offense.
Please be aware that since this article was written, Muslims are now over 35 million (if not greater) in Western Europe and hundreds of thousands more are being allowed in both the USA, UK and Europe
The following is a translation of an article which was published in Spain
AFTER the Madrid bombings by a Spanish journalist Sebastian Vivar Rodriguez: November 21, 2004:
“I was walking along Raval (in Barcelona) when all of a sudden,
I understood that Europe died in Auschwitz.
We assassinated 6 million Jews in order to end up bringing in 20 million Muslims!
We burnt in Auschwitz the culture, intelligence and power to create.
We burnt the people of the world, the one who is proclaimed the chosen people of God.
We must admit that Europe, by relaxing its borders and giving in under the pretext of tolerance to the values of a fallacious cultural relativism, opened its doors to 20 million Muslims, often illiterates and fanatics that we could meet, at best, in places such as Raval, the poorest of the nations and of the ghettos, and who are preparing the worst, such as the 9/11 and the Madrid bombing and who are lodged in apartment blocs provided by the social welfare.
We have also exchanged culture with fanaticism, the capacity to create with the will to destroy, the wisdom with the superstition.
We have exchanged the transcendental instinct of the Jews, who even under the worst possible conditions have always looked for a better peaceful world, for the suicide bomber.
We have exchanged the pride of life for the fanatic obsession of death.
Our death and that of our children.
What a grave mistake that we made!!!
***************
Having studied these subjects over a period of two decades, I would like to point out the following simple facts that invariably escape the attention of people who do not have the time or make the effort to reflect upon these issues:
1 Jews have lived in Europe for nearly 2000 years (long before a single European state existed) especially after the conquest of their country Judea by the Romans.
2 Jews were NEVER a threat to Europe nor to Christianity in any way shape or form:
a) Not numerically
b) Not militarily
c) Not economically
d) Not culturally
e) Not theologically
f) Not racially
g) Not demographically
h) Not intellectually
i) They assimilated without losing their identity
j) They survived in spite of their persecution and slaughter
k) They contributed enormously in the sciences, economics, medicine and other fields out of proportion to their numbers
l) They fought in the defense of their countries of residence whether French, German, English or Russian
m) They obeyed all the rules of the lands they lived in and were utterly loyal to them
3 On the other hand:
a) Muslims do NOT integrate or assimilate, because they are prohibited from doing so by Muhammad’s Quran
b) Muslims demand their religious rights in our democracies while they deny every which one to us (none Muslims) in their countries
c) Muslims declare publicly, and in their mosques every Friday, their intention to subvert our systems of freedoms and human rights and subjugate them instead to Allah’s Islamic Sharia
d) Muslims use our own democracies and liberties to bring about the very changes that will destroy us
e) Muslims are a threat demographically and theologically to Christian Europe and the USA
f) Muslims’ loyalty is first and foremost NOT to the countries they reside in but to the UMMA (nation) of Islam
g) Muslims’ threat to our freedoms, our religions, our liberties and our democracies is both Internal as well as External
If some of these observations may sound racist or inflammatory to the ultra-sensitive ears of the Politically Correct dim wits, they are NOT, since they are based entirely on facts and reality as we read about them and see them daily in our news.
Our worst enemies are from within us represented by many of:
Our spineless politicians, our criminally ignorant media, our uncomprehending and misguided clergy and last but not least our utterly contemptible academicians, all of whom are thus aiding, abetting and colluding with the very Muslims who seek our destruction and the subjugation of our children and our future generations
I sincerely hope that many of you will reflect upon what I am stating and hopefully act instead of waiting for others to do so.
Again I challenge any Muslim (or anyone else) to prove anything I reveal as either wrong, false or misleading.
IQ al Rassooli
Kafir & Proud!
no_one says
You may predict this, but a number of Russian saints have predicted that close to the last times all Slavic nations will unite around Russia and the horrors from the Revelation will not apply to them.
Geoffrey Britain says
His point of view is entirely in keeping with that of an appeaser, who hopes that the crocodile will be satiated before it gets to him. There are no limits to the number of sacrificial victims the appeaser will feed to the crocodile. Cowardice lies at the heart of appeasement. The coward will betray anyone and everyone to save their own worthless existence.
TH says
This guy is either a consummate idiot or a consummate liar, or a combination of both.
traci94 says
Good point; I’m going with a combination of both!
Lu says
Nope – he is not and neither one. Just take a walk in any major city in (Western) Germany, and what you see is exactly what he said:
“‘Islam is part of Germany’ is a sober, factual statement,” the minister remarked.
This is where it all has lead – establishing Islam in Germany.
The learning thing is paradoxically true as well – learning from the present would help us to get ready for a bloody conflict in Europe.
So all in all – in their consummate faculties the traitorous pols are just about correct.
traci94 says
He said being a politician is to confront reality, which he CLEARLY has failed to do. He also said that all major religions call upon followers to regard others as brothers and sisters, which is BS. Don’t these politicians ever read a book? Can they not pick up a Koran and see the clear call to violence against non-Muslims, Christians and Jews ? It seems clear to me that the only way that Germany, England etc. will remove their clueless, feckless, callous leaders is by force. These politicians think that the rest of us (deplorables) are so incredibly stupid that we can’t see and interpret what is going on with our own faculties; we need these jerks to tell us what it all means, that it all has nothing to do with Islam.
abad says
Learn what? How to rape, kill, suicide bomb?
My guess is this finance minister has an incredibly weak grasp of Christianity. There is nothing for Christians to learn from Islam.
Voytek Gagalka says
Let see what Christians can learn from Mohammedans. Use lie and deception to undermine Islamic influence everywhere? Check. Take away from them what they stole from westerners and western companies (oil fields)? Check. Force them to open their holy cities to all non-Muslims for tourism and scientific research and to build places of warship there without any restrictions and discrimination? Check. Recapture all places which Mohammedans conquered over the past centuries (call it anti-hijra)? Check. The list is open-ended and can be extended for further concessions as they might come, depending on behavior of those said Mohammedans.
tedh754@gmail.com says
Nazis were part of Germany once also. Remember how that turned out?
Santa Voorhees says
Right. How wonderful to learn how to behead people, hating homosexuals and jews because they are homosexuals or jews.
“It is certainly a misunderstanding of religion when belief slips into fanaticism or, at worst, violence.”
What part of “kill the unbelievers wherever you find them” do you not understand? That is written in the Quran you fucking moron.
“Anyone who denies this denies reality and is therefore not suited to being a politician, because politics begins with the confrontation of reality”
Oh really? I mean… really?!? This man must have a distorted view of what reality really is. What he basically said is that he wouldn’t be suitable to be a politician. But I don’t think he even realizes that.
“Many human values are very strongly realised in Islam. Think of hospitality, and other things like, what is there… And also tolerance, I believe, for example.”
Tolerance?!? Go to Saudi Arabia with a cross on your neck and you will be jailed.
And yes, that’s the birthplace of Islam, surprise! And no, do not tell us after that that the Saudis are misunderstanding Islam because the Quran it’s their own constitution.
Go to other muslim countries and chances are that you will beaten up for that.
Vyx says
For what it’s worth, I see a concerted effort by the leaders of the EU to make Western Europe a Muslim nation.
Why?
They will not work, and only drain the population.
They are vilent, yet are not put in jail or deported.
So… why?
The only theory that makes any sense is that someone (George Soros) perhaps is using Islam and Cloward Piven to destroy Western Europe and remake it into something else. A New World Order so to speak.
After that? I’m not sure of the goal. outside of a European army comprised of Muslims.
MasQueNada says
Are you now married, Christine? If so, congratulations … and best wishes ! 🙂
Lou says
Christine ?
Is this a wrong number ?
somehistory says
No, it’s a difference in the name of the writer of the article before the news piece. An addition to the name.
Lou says
Thanks for the reply ! I was wondering … : )
mortimer says
What can we learn from Islam? Read the words of Maimonides, one of the greatest of Jewish sages:
“God has cast us into the midst of this people, the nation of Ishmael [that is, Muslims], who persecute us severely, and who devise ways to harm us and to debase us…. No nation has ever done more harm to Israel. None has matched it in debasing and humiliating us. None has been able to reduce us as they have…. We have borne their imposed degradation, their lies, their absurdities, which are beyond human power to bear…. We have done as our sages of blessed memory have instructed us, bearing the lies and absurdities of Ishmael…. In spite of all this, we are not spared from the ferocity of their wickedness and their outbursts at any time. On the contrary, the more we suffer and choose to conciliate them, the more they choose to act belligerently toward us…”
gravenimage says
Good quote, Mortimer.
jim conch says
Aye, and it is only a learning experience for him because he lost no one in the attack. He should ‘learn’ that the koran promotes violence in the name of islam. What kind of ignorant people do the Germans elect anyway?
Peter says
Lesson: migrate to Muslim lands and undermine their civil society as you work to destroy their way of life and impose your own. Clearly, that was the lesson the European colonialists did not learn. Had they, the non-Muslim world (not just “the West”) would have been spared the “peace, justice and tolerance” of Islam and its adherents.
Barbara Ethel says
That man has lost what was left of his mind. That he is not challenged and will be re elected goes to show how farthe European leadership has fallen. I pity the young in all this. They will lose the most enlightened free way of life humanity has ever tasted. I am heading for my 3 score…and I am grateful to have seen and done what I did. My poor children will not be ao fortunate. Where did we go wrong.
John Hawk says
Who cares about Germany? It has turned into a dhimmi clown show.
gravenimage says
Germany is the largest economy in Europe and is very influential. Even if you care nothing about the German people, it is impossible to ignore what is going on in Germany.
Charli Main says
Learn from Muslims??
No thanks. I have no wish to learn how to be a mass murdering rapist, child molesting paedophile, liar, thief and goat sha**er.
jewdog says
Yes, a wonderful learning experience – what NOT to do.
Guest says
The only thing Christians have to learn from Muslims is “What not to be.”
Alien Republican says
You can’t mention Merkels attempt of silencing dissent without naming her most devout and willing executioner Heiko Maas (“Justice” Minister).
Heiko Maas wrote the best book ever an here’s a link to amazon.de
https://www.amazon.de/product-reviews/3492058418/ref=cm_cr_dp_hist_five?ie=UTF8&filterByStar=five_star&reviewerType=all_reviews&showViewpoints=0
The amusing fact and reason why I’m posting it is that there are currently 99 reviews, all except for 4 ar 1-star ratings. The 5-star ratings are even worse as clearly satirical or ironical to german speakers.
Now how can it get any clears that on a commercial platform there is no way that 100% of the reviewing customers are “far right extremists” or “far right populsists”. That’s how the reviewer are labelled by Heiko Mass’ “standards”.
I wonder how long it takes before either the reviews get deleted or the author acknowledges making a fool of himself.
John A. Marre says
So much to learn. The feel of dull steel as it separates your head from your body. The impact of a nut or a bolt as it flies through the air and embeds itself in your flesh. The true meaning of “Allahu Akhbar” as you hear it, even as your mind slips into unconsciousness.
Ben Kennedy says
Governments Terrorize citizens for exactly the same reason that the moslems do. Both facets want absolute power over the citizens. Both are looking for the day the citizens will grovel at their feet like some helpless animal until the Stockholm Syndrome has taken over the minds of the citizenry. With the people as malleable as clay to be molded into what ever the political forces desire, the only remaining question is which power will usurp the other one.
Will the established secular forces of evil overthrow the religious forces of evil crusading under the Mohammedan banner? Clearly the world is not big enough for both of them, as each wants the world entirely unto themselves.
Both of these Satanic powers should remember a thought expressed in the Declaration of Arbroath (said during the time of Robert the Bruce regarding Scotland’s Right to Independence and Freedom):
“As long as a hundred of us remain, we shall never be subject to English domain. Because it is not for glory or riches or honors that we fight, but for Freedom alone, which no worthy man loses but with his life”. (written in 1320 AD). So be ye warned both agents of Hell, Secular and Religious Mohammedan alike. Both seek to enslave the human spirit of people to their particular passions and lust.
To the majority of the Human Race, that has the distinction of being the Target of these servants of Satan, I call upon you to remember this:
“If ye continue in my word, then ye are my disciples indeed; and ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you FREE”. (John 8: 31-32)
“Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us FREE, and be not entangled again with the yoke of BONDAGE”. (Galatians 5:1)
Remember that Satan and his children, either secular or Mohammedan, do not rule in Hell; Satan is it’s chief PRISONER.
Lou says
Looking at his picture: Finance Minister Wolfgang Schäuble has the fitting face of a madman in an asylum.
Keith Jordan says
I think they searched for the worst picture they could find of him. He does not usually look that bad.
Michael Copeland says
Of course. After all, Hitler was a learning opportunity.
gravenimage says
German Finance Minister: Christians can learn from Muslim migrants
………………………….
We can certainly learn that humans are still capable of utter savagery if they embrace an evil ideology–that’s about it.
Joe says
The bullet which went through his head some years ago destroyed obviously his brain. Too bad German citizens voted for him and mad Merkel and will continue to do so.
Michael Poulin says
G.K. Chesterton anticipated the future submission of England paved by its elites enamored with everything Islamic in his 1914 novel “The Flying Inn.”
http://www.crisismagazine.com/2014/chestertons-islamic-england
J_not_a says
What a disgusting, revolting “leadership” Germany has given itself, manifested by this man and Maas and Mur-kill for example. He looks very ready to do a serious muzzlum butt kissing session in this photo lol!
Matthieu Baudin says
“… The minister expressed frustration with Obama’s successor Donald Trump, lashing out at the president’s ‘America First’ platform…”
The U.S. Presidents platform has become a ‘Life First’ platform in defence of ‘Our Civilisation’ spanning the lives and hopes of people across the globe. The Independent Central European political leadership understand the presidents message and the need to act.
nicholas tesdorf says
The“German Finance Minister Minister Wolfgang Schäuble should learn from recent Muslim attacks what the risks from Muslim Migrants really are, stop taking more in and send the rest of the so-called Refugees back to their own Governments and Countries.
Rufolino says
According to this criminally pathetic fool, Moslems misunderstand their own religion.
utis says
Schauble better hope the Germans don’t learn from his migrants. The “elites” may be the first to suffer the enthusiastic students.
Atheist Kaffur says
What a bonehead. Germany is under attack from within. Inside job.
Elizabeth says
I can see the day when western Europe will be the same as the middle East and the pakistani shit holes because of Muslim immigration, and the only refuge for non muslims will be the Eastern European countries like Hungary and Poland if we are lucky. then there will be war between East and Western Europe. Open your eyes politicians, this scum is using our liberal values and human rights policies against us.
Gordon Miller says
His face says it all.
Lydia says
The only thing there is to learn from them is how false and evil their religion of islam really is.
Muslims need to learn from Christians; the gospel and how to love your neighbor as yourself, love your enemies, do good and not evil, etc.
It’s just more fodder for their one world religion they are plotting.
S.von Karmo says
Wow, his wisdom is a paragon of virtue! He just needs to live in Pakistan, Indonesia, Tunisia or Egypt and be a Christian, Atheist, Hindu, or Buddhist and learn the taste of the wonderful Islam. Until he does, he better shut-up and I will give Germany another five years and see what a wonderful tolerant, accommodating, humane and virtuous country it would be. Good effing luck!
Cretius says
I thought Germany had enough criminals and rapists before they let in the Muslim hordes. Their politicians seem to think more is better.