The Political Class Gags dissenting views. It Cannot Stand the Truth - It prefers the comforting Lies of PC and forces out those who refuse to conform. So much for 'Liberalism'.

                                                   Sarrazin has now resigned

There is at least one banker who knows what he’s talking about. Germany’s Bundesbank (‘Bank of England’ equivalent) board member Dr.Thilo Sarrazin, a member of the Centre-Left SPD party (from which he is resisting expulsion) has administered a strong dose of realism to the sickly German Political Correctness about the Islamification of that country in a book he had published.  As a result he has been forced to resign as at the end of September, notwithstanding the widespread support he enjoys for his views in Germany at large. A poll found 70% of Germans agreeing either in whole or in part with what they had heard of Sarrazin’s views (Bloomberg, 8 ix).

“In the long haul, nobody will stand it,” he said on German television of the pressure brought to bear on him.

Chris Brand: Psychologist and Race Realist

What follows is an edited and condensed version of articles on  the psychologist Chris Brand’s blog http://gfactor.blogspot.com ( IQ and PC- by Chris Brand), which deserves to be better known. Chris Brand has some worrying attitudes in some areas, such as his relaxed views on paedophilia, but his views on race, immigration, the islamification of the West and related matters are spot on.

Here he recounts in his own inimitable style the story of the kind of plain speaking in Germany that has gone out of fashion there as in Britain. Racial matters are of course a particularly sensitive issue in Germany for obvious reasons:

Germany Self - Destructs

‘In Deutschland Schafft Sich Ab: Wie wir unser Land aufs Spiel setzen, or ‘Germany is Digging its Own Grave,’ or ‘Germany Self-destructs,’ German Bundesbank Board member Thilo Sarrazin argued that most of the country's immigrants could not be integrated into society and actually contributed nothing to it. He also blamed foreigners – mainly Germany's Muslim population – for "dumbing down" society. He said that the rate at which Muslim women were reproducing meant that Germans might soon become "strangers in their own country."

The book was already a bestseller and had prompted comparisons of Sarrazin to Geert Wilders, the head of the Dutch ‘far-right’ Freedom party. The former Berlin finance senator said he wrote the book to outline his own fears that his grandchildren would grow up in a country where "their lives are measured out by the muezzin's calls to prayer."

‘At the book's Berlin launch, he rejected accusations that he was encouraging xenophobia and racism; but fat frump Mutti ('mummy')Merkel, the German Christian Democrat Reichskanzlerine, called for him to be disowned by the Bundesbank and the SPD (German Socialist Party) (Guardian, 31 viii, Kate Connolly).

‘Dr Sarrazin, 66, had caused an earlier uproar by suggesting that people on welfare should spend only $7 a day on food, mocking them for being overweight and sloppy dressers.

Islam: ‘A Drag on Society and a Source of Criminality’

‘His book said of Mohammedanism: “No other religion in Europe is so demanding of, and no other migration group depends so much on the social welfare state and is so much connected to criminality.” {Maybe he was not familiar with the Blacks of Jamaica?...} He went on: "The proportion of congenital disabilities is way above average among Turkish and Kurdish migrants. However, the topic is hushed up. It doesn't take much to think that hereditary factors might be responsible for the failure of some of the Turkish population in the German school system."

He also volunteered: “Arabs are no good for anything except picking fruit.” And: “I don’t have to recognize anyone who lives off this state, but rejects this state, and who doesn’t properly care for the education of his children while constantly producing more little girls to wear headscarves.” And: “The Turks are conquering Germany, just like the Kosovars conquered Kosovo, with a higher birthrate.”

Race Differences in Intelligence are Genetic

‘The bespectacled and moustachioed central banker (from a Burgundian Huguenot family but with a west-Prussian mother [the daughter of a big landowner]) also believed – along with an Israeli cabinet minister, Steven Pinker and Orthodox Jewry – that Jewishness was genetic (Ha’aretz, 31 viii); and that race differences in intelligence were genetic (The Local, 31 viii).

 ‘It began to emerge from press accounts that Sarrazin thought intelligence 50-80% heritable, that he knew of the problems of first cousin marriage (q.v.), that he had heard of the international comparisons made by Richard Lynn (q.v., FAZ, 7 ix) and that at least the leftist press picked up the links to Eysenck, Shockley, Burt and Galton (HeiseOnline, 29 viii; Netzwelt.de, 6 ix). 

'Der Spiegel': Sarazzin’s views are now socially acceptable – but not to the so-called Representatives of the People.’

The mass selling Der Spiegel magazine reckoned his views had ‘long ago become socially acceptable’ at least ‘to almost a majority’.

'‘The magazine made a qualified admission: “Of course, [Islamophobic] fears are not completely unfounded. Conditions in areas like Berlin's Kreuzberg neighborhood give rise to very real, justified concerns. There are schoolrooms where three-quarters of the students are from immigrant families, students whose German is barely good enough to get by. There are Arab and Albanian family clans that control crime syndicates and receive welfare benefits. There are phenomena like forced marriages and honor killings.

'In some mosques, imams are encouraging the faithful to engage in Islamist terror. All of this exists, and yet it has nothing to do with ordinary Islam and the day-to-day lives of well over 90 percent of Germany's Muslims.” (That’s what you say -Tim).

‘{Likewise, the IRA was usually said to enjoy only 10% support among Irish people; but this was enough – combined with the use of terror methods – to propel it into government as part of the Northern Irish ‘peace process.’}

Other Support for Sarrazin

'Die Welt'

Germany’s premier newspaper said of Sarrazin: "He is right on many counts. (…) One has to be appalled at a growing, passive-aggressive underclass, about miserable educational achievements and also about Turkish and Arab immigrants who refuse to integrate and to get an education. Even if many people claim that all this has long been known, nothing has been done. We still lack the political will to tackle this unpleasant conflict.

46% say: ‘Too Many Muslims’ Only 16.6% Think Islam Fits In

According to a study by the University of Bielefeld published in December, 2009, fully 46 percent of Germans agreed that there were "too many Muslims" in the country (Der Spiegel, 3 ix). Only 16.6 percent of German respondents agreed with the statement "the Muslim culture fits well into Germany," a result that was the lowest among the eight countries that were surveyed, including the Netherlands, France and Hungary.

Ex-Chancellor Helmut Schmidt in agreement: 'It's not what he said, it's how he said it'

‘One of the SPD’s most prominent ‘wise men,’ former Chancellor Helmut Schmidt, expressed barely-disguised affirmation of Sarrazin’s ideas, saying, “If he had expressed himself a little less crudely, I could have agreed with much of what he said.”

‘To Hell with the Evidence – You’re breaching a Taboo’

‘As to the attitude of Germany’s peecee political class, German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble rather gave the game away when, at a press conference in Berlin, he declined to discuss such scholarly authority or empirical evidence as Sarrazan may have invoked and just said that Sarrazan’s “mediocre nonsense” was “a breach of taboo” (Bloomberg BusinessWeek, 1 ix).

Sarrazin had cited The Bell Curve as testimony that intelligence was ‘a genetically linked characteristic of race.’ To back his claim that Germany’s average intelligence is destined to decline, Dr Sarrazin cited research that between 50 and 80 per cent of intelligence is hereditary and juxtaposed that with statistics showing that poorly educated Muslim immigrants had a far higher birth rate than ethnic Germans.

'Germany Self-Destructs’ reaches Britain

‘News of Germany Self-Destructs, previously confined to the BBC World Service, arrived in the UK press – Daily Mail, 7 ix. As his contribution to the debate, the Berlin correspondent of the [London] Times, Roger Boyes, rather than get bogged down in facts and figures about IQ, criminality, truancy, welfare-dependency or family sizes, just volunteered a lordly compromise (TheLocal, 7 ix): “I don’t believe Sarrazin is a racist, merely a misguided troublemaker. He is also extremely naïve.” {How many other German central bankers might be “extremely naïve” was left to readers to guess….}’

'Its all the fault of Nationalists': 'The Guardian'

‘It was not just Germany, France and Italy which were having trouble with low-quality immigrants. The Guardian reminded its lib-left readers that Holland and Belgium had been ungovernable for months thanks to the rise of nationalist parties that declined to sweep problems of dull and/or hysterical third-world immigrants under the carpet (7 ix).’

Ritual denials of ‘Racism’

‘Far-right politicians were eager to welcome Sarrazin into their ranks. The anti-Islam “Pro Deutschland” organization, which ran candidates in the state of North Rhine Westphalia, quickly offered him the chairmanship of their party. But Sarrazin protested: “I am not a racist. When you read my book, you will know that I have traced the integration problems of Muslim immigrants in Europe to their Islamic cultural background.”

‘Deutsche Welle reported (5 ix) that both Mutti Merkel and a leading SPD goon thought Sarrazin’s facts and figures should not be ignored – though preferring to think the answer to the Muesli problem was “education, education, education” (as lying b*stard Rev. Blair had promised in Britain of 1996-7);

'Der Spiegel' said: “Germany is changing. And although it is not yet a consistently Islamophobic society, a Sarrazin republic, it is certainly on its way to becoming one.”