Posted on 03/06/2011 1:11:14 PM PST by SonOfDarkSkies
Just three days into the job, Germany's new interior minister is already causing his government a headache after wading into a highly delicate debate about multiculturalism and claiming Islam was not a key part of the German way of life. "Islam in Germany is not something supported by history at any point," Hans-Peter Friedrich told journalists on his first day as Thomas de Maiziere's replacement on Thursday.
Friedrich was speaking in the context of a probe by German authorities into last Wednesday's killing of two U.S. airmen at Frankfurt Airport, in which it is believed the 21-year-old Kosovan suspect Arid Uka was a lone operator motivated by radical Islamist beliefs. His comments were a play on words, turning on its head an earlier remark made several months ago by German President Christian Wulff, who said Islam now "belongs to Germany" because of the 4 million Muslims who live there.
Friedrich's foray into the subject of immigrant religion and multiculturalism is in tune with comments made by other European leaders recently. British Prime Minister David Cameron said last month that multiculturalism has failed in Britain and left young Muslims vulnerable to radicalization, arguing for a more active policy to heal divisions and promote Western values.
Germany is home to Western Europe's second-biggest Islamic population after France. The single biggest minority is Turkish. In contrast to the situation in Britain or France, where simmering racial tensions sometimes explode into violence, German Muslims live relatively peacefully alongside mainstream society, but a lack of integration has long posed a problem.
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It doesn’t belong anywhere on the planet.
Hmmmm. I wonder if Germany is reeping what it has sowed some time ago.
How would the Germans feel about being led into chambers of death. How would the Germans feel about being led into gas chambers and ovens?
Just three days into the job, Germany's new interior minister is already causing his government a headache after wading into a highly delicate debate about multiculturalism and claiming Islam was not a key part of the German way of life. "Islam in Germany is not something supported by history at any point," Hans-Peter Friedrich told journalists on his first day as Thomas de Maiziere's replacement on Thursday.
Three days on the job? I say he's off to a good start.
This was my wife’s prediction. She was raised in Africa, but much of her family still lives in Europe - northern Italy and England, mostly.
She told me a while ago that the Europeans are excellent at ethnic cleansing and genocide. Yes, there is that thin veneer of polite society and elegance, but under that is the European who gleefully embraced Mussolini, Franco, and the communists. Her prediction was that once the Moslems really start causing trouble in a way that threatens local government, you’ll see ethnic warfare on par with the 30 Year’s War. You see, the Moslems have committed one tactical error - they’ve placed themselves into urban enclaves, and have created buildings that easily identified as Moslem, such as large mosques. The bloodshed and deportations will be extreme, she predicts. Take a look at the number of Protestants in France, or Jews in Spain, to get an idea of what is coming up for the Islamification of Europe.
At least that’s her guess. We’ll see.
Most of the Germans alive today had nothing to do with the holocaust.
I agree with your Mrs..
Its not just that the Eurpeans will see the Moslems as an existential threat to the european way of life.
The Moslems themselves are an existential threat to the way of life of anyone who is a non moslem.
If you look anywhere on the periphery of Islam — there is conflict. The conflict is all along the border between islam and non islam africa. You can see it in asia in the phillipines and thailand and indonesia. its there between pakistan and india. its there in western china. the moslem caucusus are always at war with the russians.
There is no place where the moslems meet non moslems that there is peace. And woe to a non moslem minority in a moslem country. Their fate is slow strangulation.
When he breaks out the Sarin I’d say he’s off to a good start.
I agree, Europeans like to stick their noses up and claim to be more enlightened than the aggressive and racist USA but Europe's history of violent eradication of the "different" goes back many centuries with repeated pogroms against the Jews in particular. The Jews were an easy target, they are peaceful and thus easily persecuted and bullied.
They allow the Muslims to be in their countries but only as a permanent underclass on the fringes. So helpful to have a cheap labor pool so you can have 35 hour work weeks and six weeks of vacation and all that. But when that pool starts burning your cities, well, they either leave or they get eradicated. Mulsims are not peaceful people though, they will fight and the blood will flow. This situation is going to get ugly, I think.
The west has created a huge strategic blunder. We allowed them to settle among us and they have a book that describes what thier designs are. Like some other fellow with a funny mustache that nobody took seriously.
She told me a while ago that the Europeans are excellent at ethnic cleansing and genocide.
If a had a magic wand and with one wave send could send every last Muslim back to the Middle East, I would do it with no regrets.
Would this be ethnic cleansing? No.
I wouldn't be deporting people because of race. I would be deporting them because their book tells them too kill infidels, and they are very vocal about the destruction of the United States.
Islam is not just another faith. Hindus blend in better, so do Buddhists.
Muslims do not. They segregate themselves and refuse to obey any law they can safely violate.
How nice it’d be if a politician in the US could say the same thing... and get away with it.
Hand them the most powerful weapon in the world, and they'll use it.
China made a statement the other day that the threat of terrorism is low (to them). They are fools.
Liberals, Buddhists, scholars, artists, socialists, communists..on and on are not safe.
You either become one of them, or you die. Period.
I believe Leftisms point was most Germans had not even been born, and almost none were consenting adults during the Nazi era.
Doesn’t his statement make even just a little bit of sense to you in that context?
You are preaching to the choir here.
Right. It was their duty, their responsibility to all mankind even, to have gotten themselves born sooner so that they could have prevented the Holocaust!
I stand amazed at your intellectual prowess, NGZ. I admit, I would never have thought of that one.
Now, about those smallpox blankets...
Not going to happen.. We a thing called freedom of worship..
Ya, freedom of one religion to enjoy more freedom the any other, and to plan the destruction of all others... Freedom is not free, if Islam is not willing to help pay the price for it, they should not enjoy the fruit of it...
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