This is Merkel’s new, “diverse” Germany, where antisemitism is cool again.
“Fury as German rappers accused of anti-Semitism over lyrics comparing themselves to Auschwitz prisoners are awarded music prize on Holocaust Remembrance Day,” Mailonline, April 15, 2018 (thanks to Blazing Cat Fur):
Outrage has grown in Germany after a rap duo accused of anti-Semitism over lyrics comparing themselves to Auschwitz prisoners was awarded a music prize on Holocaust Remembrance Day.
German rappers Kollegah and Farid Bang reference the Nazi death camp in their song ‘0815’, saying their bodies are ‘more defined than an Auschwitz prisoner’.
Despite the controversy which followed, on Thursday they won the Echo Music Award’s Hip-Hop/Urban prize after selling more than 200,000 copies of their album ‘Young, Brutal and Handsome 3’.
The award came on the day that Israel marked Yom HaShoah, its Holocaust Remembrance Day, dedicated to the six million Jews killed by the Nazis during World War II.
Both rappers have said they reject all anti-Semitism, and Kollegah has offered free ‘lifetime’ tickets to the duo’s Jewish fans.
But the lyrics have sparked a heated debate in Germany, which is still haunted by lingering memories of Nazi crimes.
Charlotte Knobloch, former head of the Central Council of Jews, said Friday giving them an award in the hip-hop/urban national category was a ‘devastating sign’ amid growing signs of ‘anti-Semitism in our society, especially in schools.’
Germany’s Justice Minister Heiko Maas said such ‘anti-Semitic provocations’ were ‘simply repugnant’.
‘It is shameful that this prize was awarded on Holocaust Remembrance Day.’
Ronald Lauder, head of the World Jewish Congress group, told the Bild newspaper: ‘In Germany, you now get rewarded for despising women, glorifying violence and mocking Auschwitz victims?’…
Yep.
penelope says
germany is done, stick a fork (the muslims) in them , they are done. their culture is fading away quickly, why do they not step up and fight this jihad by the immigrants and others. why are the German people settling for this crap?????
mortimer says
Farid Bang was born in Melilla, Spain, and grew up in Málaga, Spain. At the age of eight, he moved to Düsseldorf, Germany with his family. Inspired by his friend “Tekken”, Bang started rapping at the age of 19 and, with the help of his friend Summer Cem, soon met Eko Fresh, who had already achieved a certain level of fame in Germany.
etc. depressing, violent, scurrilous lyrics
Creole Gumbo says
Because Germans are followers.
Rev G says
How long is a lifetime, if one identifies oneself as a Jew to these “rappers”? Welcome to the surreal life, people.
Halal Bacon says
Perhaps they should try the showers at Auschwitz if they want to be culture appropriators?
Infidel says
The entire rape episode of a Muslim girl in India is now turning out to be a false fabrication ..
Ps read,
https://www.sundayguardianlive.com/opinion/anatomy-of-a-concoction
gravenimage says
Why am I not surprised?
jack cade says
First, we remove the authorities who aid and abet Islam. Then, we can remove Islam from the West.
Peterson says
Then why Merkel was not removed from power?
World@70 says
Personally I have a problem referring to RAP as music. But that aside, I thought music was forbidden in Islam.
Lebel says
It’s not forbidden if you want to use it to make a post about Muslims on jihadwatch.
In other words, it’s haram when we need it to be haram but we are happy to completely ignore this on a slow news day.
Next week: Muslim liquor store owner says “f**k Israel” – the ethanol anti-semite jihad continues.
gravenimage says
More sneering from the appalling Lebel.
Firstly, many Muslims are drawn to rap not just because it is often so violent, but also because it often does not have musical accompanyment, and hence is *not* banned islam. Certainly, there is nothing so Islamic as Nasheeds.
But even where Muslims are lax in some ways, this does not mean that they are not apt to wage Jihad, as Lebel well knows. This is pretty much his saying that you should applaud if you are raped or murdered by a Muslim who sneaks a drink now and then or snacks in secret during Ramadan.
In fact, one of the notable tenets of Islam is that waging violent Jihad is the *only* action that can cancel out a lifetime of lax adherence to Islamic diktats, and can grant an otherwise lax Muslim access to paradise.
And notice that Lebel has not a word of criticism for these Mohammedans sneering at the victims of the Holocaust–but then, why would he?
mummymovie says
We are seeing a lot redemptive jihad these days.
What a farce.
Lebel says
Yes, I don’t think it’s anti-semitism, so what?
Yes, I don’t think someone is “jihading” just because they have have a Muslim name. I think we need more evidence than a Muslim name if not every single bad or offensive ever done by anyone with a Muslim name in the last 1400 years is Islamic…which is really dumb and therefore perfect for this site.
These are rappers which means they have chosen a non-Islamic way of life. In one sentence off of one song they make an offensive rhyme, so what? is this jihadwatch news? is this jihad? the rap jihad? I’ve just wasted two minutes of my life explaining something to you that you appear unwilling to understand.
gravenimage says
The appaling Lebel wrote:
Yes, I don’t think it’s anti-semitism, so what?
Yes, I don’t think someone is “jihading” just because they have have a Muslim name…
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No one has a problem with these rappers having Muslim names, as Lebel pretends. The issue is their taunting the victims of the Holocaust.
More:
These are rappers which means they have chosen a non-Islamic way of life. In one sentence off of one song they make an offensive rhyme, so what? is this jihadwatch news? is this jihad? the rap jihad? I’ve just wasted two minutes of my life explaining something to you that you appear unwilling to understand.
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Hatred of Jews is a key part of Islam, as Lebel knows–but he hopes that we don’t.
Peggy says
Lebel says
Apr 17, 2018 at 2:01 am
Yes, I don’t think it’s anti-semitism, so what?
Yes, I don’t think someone is “jihading” just because they have have a Muslim name. I think we need more evidence than a Muslim name if not every single bad or offensive ever done by anyone with a Muslim name in the last 1400 years is Islamic…which is really dumb and therefore perfect for this site.
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When you have so many rotten apples in a barrel we can’t afford to give all the apples benefit of a doubt.
You see Muslims always say that it’s a minority but they never do anything about that minority. We need action, not words and then we might change our thinking.
Richard says
I have never understood that because I have listened to records by a famous Egyptian woman singing songs in Arabic. The Christian Lebanese woman,,Fairouz (or however its spelled – it means “Turquoise) is a superstar in the Arab world. She was treated almost like a goddess when she went to Syria some years back. I assume that, yes, singing may be taboo in Islam, but it is in the same way dogs are unclean in Islam, so they deem saluki hounds to not be dogs. Nice trick if you can get away with it!
gravenimage says
Richard, there have always been lax Musims–that does not mean that pious Muslims will not kill for it.
As for salukis, these are hunting dogs. The “Prophet” was persuaded to spare working dogs. Not many Muslims keep dogs as pets. And the few who do suffer for it under Shari’ah law:
“Iran cracks down on ‘vulgar Western’ dog owners by seizing pets for ‘vaccination’ then destroying them”
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3660234/Iran-cracks-vulgar-Western-dog-owners-seizing-pets-vaccination-destroying-them.html
Emilie Green says
“Germany’s Justice Minister Heiko Maas said,.‘It is shameful that this prize was awarded on Holocaust Remembrance Day.’”
Pal, it was intentionally awarded on that day. Really, the Germans do have a set of either clueless or duplicitous so-called leaders.
Muslims steal from other cultures, including stealing celebrations from other cultures by denying or spoiling the holy or festival days of those other cultures. In this they see themselves as triumphant. Think of the building of the mosque in Jerusalem on top of Temple Mount. It’s an “in your face” sort of thing.
JM says
German Minister of Justice Heiko Maas is one of Angela Merkel’s most notorious pit bulls in the campaign to stifle in the crib all potential opposition to the population replacement strategy.
Liz says
[Ronald Lauder, head of the World Jewish Congress group, told the Bild newspaper: ‘In Germany, you now get rewarded for despising women, glorifying violence and mocking Auschwitz victims?’…]
In America, you saw it here first. We started rewarding rappers for despising women and glorifying violence, decades ago. Awarding lyricists who mock Auschwitz victims?…. by writing their bodies are “more defined than an Auschwitz prisoner?…” If this is a representative example of their work, they are lousy writers. But this is the way of hatred as politics. Their lyrics are hateful, but the German music industry is as happy to cash in on it as the American music industry did with our own hateful rappers. I’m sure there are also rafts of journalists, academics and music industry people vamping away on the importance of giving voice to these haters, insisting their hatred must not be judged, but understood.
Leave it to leftists to make use of hatred and violence like this, for social change, by awarding it. It won’t be long before “I Hate Israel” (a real song, out of Egypt in the 1990s, I believe) hits Western music charts, too. Just you wait.
Blangwort says
I’d say that things look pretty grim for any Jews living in Europe. Warning signs don’t get any bigger than this.
SukieTawdry says
Free lifetime tickets? And that’s not considered a punishment??
Asally says
I’m sure it was considered a joke.
They were just being sarcastic/ironic.
Daniel Moshe Johnson says
Shalom Aleichem
I’m not surprised, as the atrocities of this era has been transferred by media, novels and historical reels of endless documentaries.
The monsters of a world that did not assist, much like today, similar atrocities take place and its like no one condemns it in great voices of unity publicly.
Israel takes attacks daily, but it isn’t televised or glamorized nor used as a way to complain openly to win favor from the World!
Israel plays defense and keeps the daily democratic priorities of operation in place.
The Reich has not slumbered in the ability to be handed down to an eager generation nearly, that followed, emerges a conviction in heard of in support.
Recently, in Northern Ontario, I spoke to a fled market vendor, who told me that his number one sell is Nazi emblems, flags etc…even duplicate copies.
And this guy was a Jew, profiteering off of things that represents deep deep hatred and ignorance, I kindly asked him to remove the items from his display, as I had received a message from a survivor of the child camps, living in Ontario.
He removed the items, to my observation, many individuals who were around noticed what was happening, and it was clear, they did not support the idea of me challenging the vendor.
Inciting that which causes pain, I deem a hate crime.
The longevity of this movement is based in one major error, Germany, unfortunately, should have been made to abolish the recognized identity in name and country.
This punishment, would have been a powerful message, that silence is solidarity, and when people conform to evil without resistance, it will eventually envelope that people in time.
Lebel says
I know I’m going to get racked over the coals for this one but I just don’t see why this is anti-Semitic.
” saying their bodies are ‘more defined than an Auschwitz prisoner’.”
Perhaps my “mask is finally slipping” and I am showing my “true colours” but I just don’t see.
I would also add that if that line concerned another ethnicity, jwatchers would not have an issue either.
byzantion says
they compared their bodies to the clearly noticeable starvation of a human being destined to die, what’s not to get? At best such lyrics are a pretty insensitive statement.
The line couldn’t possibly concern another ethnicity unless it concerned fellow Auschwitz prisoners such as Polish political dissidents. The holocaust is the holocaust, and muslims (old nazis) are not the new jews.
JM says
Any reasonably decent person would only mention Auschwitz in a circumspect manner, out of respect for the unimaginable suffering that took place in that hell on earth. After perusing the lyrics of German rappers Kollegah and Farid Bang, with gloating about raping whores and other vile acts as standard fare, there is no way that their reference to Auschwitz prisoners can be construed as anything other than extremely offensive and morally repugnant. And since Auschwitz represents the summit of anti-Semitism in action, the words in question are anti-Semitic, for their extremely insensitive mockery of the lack of fat on the victims’ emaciated bodies.
gravenimage says
*Of course* Lebel doesn’t see sneering at Jews starving to death in Auschwitz as antisemitic. This doesn’t surprise me at all.
gravenimage says
I don’t mind typos, Jay Boo. Thank you.
Lebel says
Yes, Lebel’s mask has slipped revealing the hideous face of jihad.
Or
People have different opinions than you on what constitutes anti-semitism. I don’t think that rhyme is anti-semitism even though that automatically makes you a Hitler on this insane site. I won’t be cowed into accepting your version of political correctness.
gravenimage says
*Of course* Lebel does not want us to see sneering at Holocaust victims as antisemitic. Just a bit of hijinks from those wacky Muslim felllows!
And the idea that if you are concerned about taunting the victims of genocide that you are “politcally correct” is just disgusting.
Garfield says
What. The. Hell.
Every day. EVERY DAY there is more hideous crap just on JW….what is the world coming to?
mummymovie says
There is too much of it to even keep up with on this site anymore. Robert and the JW writers/bloggers/etc. do an outstanding job, obviously, but the amount of islamic jihad going on out there is increasing at an alarming pace, and it is overwhelming. There is simply too much of it out there, too much news, and too many developments related to it to cover.
This tells you that muslims worldwide (the “ummah”) are smelling blood in the water- they have decided that they now have the upper hand and -with events in Europe-they think are on the verge of the world domination they so often threaten us with.
They have decided the time to strike is now. And they are giving it their best shot. Not that it won’t get worse— it will. But they are determinedly kicking into gear and feverishly chasing the prize they think they have coming: all of Western Civilization.
gravenimage says
Yes–I am always stunned by how much Robert Spencer and JW staff are able to report. They are indefatigable. That there is so much Jihad out there is just horrifying, though–and I know that even they are not able to cover everything.
Jayell says
This story has appeared in the UK national press, but it doesn’t mention that the rappers are muslim.
JM says
Kollegah and Farid Bang are both Muslims.
Here’s a video where they talk about their Islamic faith (in German, sorry):
Kollegah & Farid Bang über Islam und den Sinn des Lebens
Islam Kanal
Published on May 1, 2014
344,082 views, 4.7K likes, 712 dislikes
Link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Ofz_UfSf3w
mummymovie says
TRASH
Ric says
Fuhrer Merkel’s strategy for sanctioning the deluge of Muslim immigrants into her New World Order was so that they, the Muslims, would rid Germany of its Jewish population. Germans, after-all, do not dare step out of the closet in their Nazi regalia; hence, granting the Muslims the opportunity to eradicate the Fatherland’s Jews. In this Fuhrer’s twisted perversity, Finalizing the Final Solution.
This so-called Muslim Rap Group, suffice to say, is goosestepping to Fuhrer Merkel’s beat. Fuhrer Merkel, her Fourth Reich, and the German non-Muslim Volk will suffer the consequences, in the end; being led to a Halal abattoir to a fate that will be entirely justified.
Undaunted says
Brutal and handsome? They look like a couple of mutts to me. And, for those not as muscled as those two depicted in the picture, if they attack you, shoot into their chests until they cease being a threat.
Boom.
Older Canadian says
Disgusting.
Now this is really scraping the bottom.
Yes fine example of where germany was going, and will arrive shorty.
Lydia Church says
I’m ready to vomit.
And I have a stomach of steel.
JM says
In the German-language interview (video link posted above), the rappers speak calmly, rationally, and sincerely about their Islamic faith. Perhaps they produced this vile, anti-semitic line purely for the provocative appeal to gain notoriety and sell more albums. Then again, maybe these two fine gentlemen calmly, sincerely, and rationally harbor a pathological hatred of Jews. I’m guessing it’s both factors working together, which does not bode well for Merkel’s “We Can Do It” utopia.
gravenimage says
Nope; sorry.
In this piece from Cicero Magazine, they go on about “son of a bitch Holocaust” and rant about swastikas, threaten gays, talk about shooting “punk bitches” in the face, sneer at the victims of Charlie Hebdo, and talk about beating grandfathers into comas.
They threaten to mass murder Christians. Here is one of their lines, “We come and then it is assassination, mass grave. (…) Say your Ave Maria, Ave Maria. Last prayer, before the Kalash massacres you.” (‘Kalash’ is a Kalashnikov).
They also threaten to blow up children at a splash area, and to run over victims at a Christmas market.
They also talk about massacring German politicians in the Reichstag, about supporting “Palestinian” Jihad, Hamas, about Mujahideen, and about Islamic terrorism in general.
They hate Israel, Jews, Germany, and America.
https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=de&u=https://www.cicero.de/kultur/echo-kollegah-farid-bang-fard-celos-abdi-rapper-antisemitismus&prev=search
(Original in German; clunky but serviceable English translation Google Translate)
Nicolas Darkwater says
I clearly may be mistaken, but isn’t it illegal to be a Holocaust denier in Germany? If so, what is the rationale for sanctioning those who deny the Holocaust, but celebrating those who mock it?
Ren says
Insane!
gravenimage says
Germany: Muslim rappers who mocked Auschwitz victims given music prize on Holocaust Remembrance Day
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Just repulsive.
nicu says
” Rappers ” in Germany are white trash – Muslims !!! One of therm ” Bushido ” belongs even to an Arab Mafia clan !
I wish Jews would work with us against Muslims , but they stay among themselves, too .
gravenimage says
Israelis are our allies–not Muslims.
nicu says
Now that Merkels Muslims may rape and kill us –we are the new Jews in Germanistan !
A_German says
At least they got booed by the audience when they got their award, and another award winner spoke out against those rappers.
Still, it’s an utter disgrace they received that award – not only on Holocaust memorial day, but any day.
gravenimage says
That’s good to hear, A German.
Peggy says
There is one thing I don’t understand. Merkel just won another election. I thought Germans were fed up with her and wanted a patriot to lead their country.
Do you suspect corruption or most Germans are still asleep?
It baffles me that any pro Islam politician can win an election these days.
gravenimage says
Peggy, Merkel did not get a majority of votes–most Germans voted for someone else. The problem was that the opposition vote was fragmented.
Terra Nova says
Unless peoples consciousnesses change, people will not change, and Germans will always be Germans in the state their brains are in. It is in their blood too. It might sleep for a while, but it is all still there. It will take a very long time, same as with the muslims, and almost every country, And their governments are that way and people follow most of the time their governments. Governments corrupt, people corrupt, and why should n’t the people? The is why as politicians, councils etc. Should be clean and stay clean in everything and if you can’t you should not be a politician. Nothing is what it seems. We spend so much money for the poor countries and people and where does it go. How did Arafat,s wife (Palestina) got left with 22.000.000
dollars or euro’s. How did he get that money, but he ” fought” for his poor people. Well they are still poor, and that is how it all goes, I have no illusions any more, not one. And luckily! And we only know a small piece of the truth, we hardly could handle it, if we knew everything.
FYI says
Surely,as devotees of the barbaric islamic murder cult with its Godless,putrid,satanic beliefs, they could do with a much better name..like..say..
Farid kakaBoom und Kolera…..Ibn Shaitan….Mo’s morons ..
How would they feel about someone making a funny rap song about ..Srebrenica;would that too,be so amusing to these muzak-merchants?
Peggy says
Srebrenica pails in comparison.
Women and children were put on busses and allowed to leave. It’s men and any male who was fighting with them that got killed and that’s only after Muslims slaughtered so many Serbs in surrounding villages first.
But having said that I can understand that they wouldn’t like songs like that about Srebrenica.
Steve says
Perhaps I missed something but I translated the Germany lyrics into English and Auschwitz is mention only once. What is mentioned many times is the F word and how they are going to rape woman. So it doesn’t appear to be Antisemitic as it appears misogynistic.
gravenimage says
These Muslims rap about raping women? Why does *that* not surprise me? *Ugh*.
Peggy says
Can’t it be both since they do mention Auschwitz?
It’s sick and disgusting. How can something like this win an award? What sicko decided on it?
Ewanda says
It’s really feeling like the world is upside down and there is less and less chance of the world righting itself in the face of the atrocities of Islam being overlooked and excused. We are trying to turn disbelief towards Islamic Ideology into the reality for which it is. Islam-creep can get one down. It is really hard work to awaken an interest in people to find out more about the truth of the threat without the rolling of the eyes, the hurried changing of the subject and being thought of as racist, bigoted, prejudiced,.. etc.
V.L says
Holocaust is a LIE !!!!!
Learn the history and the data PLZ !!!
gravenimage says
I see we have a sickening Holocaust denier here. *Ugh*.
And ever notice how those who deny the Holocaust ever happened so often want to see the genocide of the Jews?
Peggy says
We know history and have seen evidence.
Go and BS somewhere else.
Lebel says
“Both rappers have said they reject all anti-Semitism, and Kollegah has offered free ‘lifetime’ tickets to the duo’s Jewish fans.”
Ah yes, the “free ticket jihad” – this is an old Islamic trick, bring all the jewish rap fans into one place to better attack them.
well done, team.