The Mighty Sarrazin

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Monday, September 6th, 2010 | blogging

Thilo Sarrazin, an executive on Germany’s central bank whom we last met saying that “immigrants are making our country dumber”, now “triggers a fresh storm with views on the ‘Jewish gene’”.

Central bank official Thilo Sarrazin, already under fire in Germany for using shock talk about the country’s Muslim immigrants, has sparked a new uproar by saying that “all Jews share a common gene.”

German central bank executive Thilo Sarrazin has stirred fresh controversy over the weekend with discriminatory remarks concerning religious minorities.

“All Jews share a particular gene,” Sarrazin said in an interview published on Sunday, August 29. “That makes them different from other peoples.”

Sarrazin, who is currently promoting his book “Deutschland schafft sich ab” (“Germany does away with itself”), remained undeterred in expressing his views despite criticism and calls for his resignation from the board of the Bundesbank.

“The cultural peculiarities of the peoples is no myth, but determines the reality of Europe,” Sarrazin told the newspapers Welt am Sonntag and Berliner Morgenpost.

Berlin’s former finance chief has said in the past that Muslims living in Germany do not contribute to the country’s economic prosperity, reducing their role to the running of fruit and vegetable stands.

He reiterated his view that Muslim immigrants all over Europe were integrating more poorly than other immigrant populations into the societies of their host countries.

In 2009, the central banker, who is a member of the Social Democratic Party (SDP), had said he would prefer immigration “if it was by eastern European Jews with a 15-percent-higher IQ than the German population.”

Wide criticism

The Jewish community in Germany reacted with indignation to Sarrazin’s attempts at racial profiling.

“Whoever tries to define Jews by their genetic makeup, even when it is superficially positive in tone, is in the grip of a race mania that Jews do not share,” said Stephan Kramer, secretary of the Central Council of Jews in Germany.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel weighed in on Sarrizin’s comments in an interview on ARD television, saying his remarks were “completely unacceptable” and “run down entire groups of society.”

The chancellor added she was sure Sarrizin’s remarks would be discussed within the Bundesbank.

German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle also responded to Sarrazin’s latest comments. He said statements “that promote racism or anti-Semitism have no place in political discourse.”

While Sarrazin made reference in his interview to the alleged unique genetics of social groups, he also claimed he was not racist. It was not ethnicity, he said, but rather the culture of Islam that kept Muslims immigrants from integrating into European societies.

The article just about speaks for itself, basically consisting of denunciation after denunciation from all the bright and good that anyone could dare to take notice of different ethnic groups and their differential impact on a nation. The bit about a “Jewish gene” – singular – is of course mistaken, but on the right track. The fuzzy set that comprises the people we know as Jews, a mixture of ethnicity and religion, confuses people, but nevertheless to say that there’s no such thing as Jewish ethnicity is absurd.

What all the denouncers want is to keep importing “diversity” into Germany without anyone noticing. The latest round directed at Sarrazin is obviously meant to warn anyone else who wants Germany to remain German to keep their heads down, or they’ll mete out the same treatment. Sarrazin is getting Watsoned.

But notice that this isn’t the first time that Sarrazin has expressed his desire for a German Germany, and so far he has not backed down. Furthermore, nothing he said expressed hatred of anyone; he merely expressed hatefacts.

Of particular interest here was the grand denunciation of Sarrazin by Stephan Kramer, head of the Central Council of Jews in Germany, for saying that Jews had higher IQs. This is an example of Derbyshire’s Law, which states that anything at all said about Jews, no matter how anodyne or even praiseworthy, will be taken by someone as anti-Semitic.

Obviously, anything concerning Jews in Germany is of a highly sensitive nature, but it isn’t Jews that Sarrazin worries about, but a Muslim takeover. And the globalist leaders of Germany want him to sit down and shut up.