As we have noted here many times, in Germany one cannot raise any concerns about mass Muslim migration and Sharia supremacism. Those who dare to do so are immediately branded as “neo-Nazi” and “Islamophobic.” The elites have decided to take the nation down the path of national suicide, and they will brook no dissent. “Daughter […]
In Its Failure to Ban Hezbollah, Germany Undoes Itself (Part 1)
Several years ago, Thilo Sarrazin, a former executive with the German central bank, wrote a book detailing the catastrophic effect of mass Muslim migration on his country; he called it “Germany Undoes Itself” (Deutschland schafft sich ab). Sarrazin described how Muslims who had migrated to Germany from Turkey and other Muslim countries had failed to […]
Hugh Fitzgerald: Thilo Sarrazin Confounds His Critics with Common Sense (Part IV)
Von Schwerin claims that “it’s his [Sarrazin’s] basic thesis that appears the most questionable, in which he claims that all the Muslims’ social and economic problems can be blamed on their religion — or as the second part of his book’s title states: “How Islam Impedes Progress and Threatens Society.” Nowhere does Sarrazin make the […]
Hugh Fitzgerald: Thilo Sarrazin Confounds His Critics with Common Sense (Part III)
Anyone who has ever been to Istanbul, Granada or Cairo can only be astonished to read Sarrazin’s declaration that “an independent Islamic building culture never developed.” Anyone who knows Iran’s impressive Naqsh-e Jahan Square in Isfahan, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, can hardly agree with his statement that Muslims do not know anything “about urban […]
Hugh Fitzgerald: Thilo Sarrazin Confounds His Critics with Common Sense (Part II)
Ulrich von Schwerin accuses Sarrazin of claiming that the Qur’an is “obsessive” about sexuality. Look at the many Qur’anic passages in Part I that are about sex. Isn’t that list — which is not even exhaustive — enough to convince the fair-minded that Sarrazin’s observation is true? Von Schwerin then implicitly attacks Sarrazin for claiming […]
Hugh Fitzgerald: Thilo Sarrazin Confounds His Critics with Common Sense (Part I)
Here is a hostile review by one Ulrich von Schwerin, a freelance writer based in Istanbul, of Thilo Sarrazin’s just-published Feindliche Übernahmen (Hostile Takeover), which is a sequel to Sarrazin’s best-selling Deutschland schafft sich ab (Germany Abolishes Itself), published in 2010. The first book’s theses on integration and immigration sparked a heated debate in Germany. […]
Hugh Fitzgerald: Thilo Sarrazin and Censorship in Germany
Thilo Sarrazin is a former German central banker, soft-spoken and thoughtful, who has for years been observing the effect on German society of the millions of Muslim migrants it has welcomed into its midst. Though he is now inevitably connected in the Western media with the anti-Islam Alternative for Germany party, he is in fact […]
Random House axes book critical of the Qur’an because it might “amplify anti-Islam sentiments”
Bild cited sources at the publisher as saying that the new book could “seize on and amplify anti-Islam sentiments.” Would Random House hesitate for a nanosecond to publish a book that might seize on and amplify anti-Christian sentiments? Anti-Jewish sentiments? Of course not. But in its cowardice — masked as respect — regarding Islam, Random […]
Hugh Fitzgerald: Is Islam Really Part of Germany?
In Germany, these past weeks, we have been treated to a back-and-forth among politicians about Islam and whether it should be considered “part of Germany.” Some say yes and some say no. Angela Merkel, doing her imitation of Molly Bloom, keeps saying “yes I mean yes I said yes” to Muslim migrants, and has stirringly […]
Hugh Fitzgerald: What’s the Matter With Merkel?
“In October 2010, Merkel told a meeting of younger members of her conservative Christian Democratic Union (CDU) party at Potsdam that attempts to build a multicultural society in Germany had ‘utterly failed,’ stating that: ‘The concept that we are now living side by side and are happy about it’ does not work and ‘we feel […]