If enough people speak up, the Islamists will not be able to silence all of us. Kudos to Herr Friedrich!
Guardian: German interior minister reopens bitter row over Muslim integration
(h/t: pulpark)
Hans-Peter Friedrich criticised after claiming Islam ‘does not belong’ in Germany
Helen Pidd in Berlin guardian.co.uk, Friday 4 March 2011 13.26 GMT
Hans-Peter Friedrich, Germany’s new interior minister, was accused by the opposition SPD of a ‘misjudgment’. Photograph: Soeren Stache/EPA
Germany’s new interior minister has said Islam does not “belong” in the country, reopening a bitter debate over the integration of Germany’s 4 million Muslims.
Hans-Peter Friedrich, who took office on Wednesday, was being asked by reporters about a gun attack at Frankfurt airport in which two US servicemen were killed and another two injured. Investigators suspect the attack, carried out by a 21-year-old Muslim immigrant from Kosovo, was an act of Islamist terrorism. A federal judge in Karlsruhe on Thursday ordered the suspect be remanded to jail on two counts of murder and three of attempted murder, pending further investigation.
In his first press conference as minister, Friedrich said on Friday that Muslims should be allowed live in modern Germany, but he added: “To say that Islam belongs in Germany is not a fact supported by history.”
He was immediately criticised by another government minister. “Of course Islam belongs in Germany,” said the justice minister, Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger, of the FDP party, which rules in a coalition with Chancellor Angela Merkel’s Christian Democratic Union (CDU). “I assume that the new minister will follow the lead of his predecessor [Thomas de Maizière] and will take his responsibility for integration policy seriously, and campaign for cohesion rather than exclusion,” she added.
Another FDP politician, Hartfrid Wolff, said on Friday in Berlin: “Islam has been a real part of Germany for several generations … It is just as unhelpful to deny this fact as to naively romanticise multiculturalism.”
Dieter Wiefelspütz, of the opposition SPD party, said Friedrich was talking “nonsense”. The interior minister had started his new job by making a “misjudgment”, he added.
Friedrich was promoted to his post after Merkel was forced to reshuffle her cabinet because of the high-profile resignation of her defence minister, Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg, who was disgraced in a plagiarism scandal.
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Just wondering…
If there is still a labor shortage in Germany, why is Germany not recruiting and importing unemployed or underemployed American tech workers, particularly well-educated older workers with good track records and considerable breadth of experience? US workers would make excellent replacements for workers from Muslim countries who are disrupting German society and presenting an unacceptable security risk. Unemployment in the US is still hovering around ten percent. Is there too much regulation and red tape in Germany, not to mention excessive taxation, to make this happen? If so, isn’t it time for Germany to consider deregulation, lower taxes, a rollback of socialism, and eventually, disentanglement from the EU?
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Tags: European Union, Hans-Peter Friedrich, Islamic Immigration, Islamic Imperialism, labor shortage, Unemployment
