Strangers in Our Own Country
3rd September 2010
Thilo Sarrazin was fired today by the Bundesbank for reporting the truth about Muslim immigrants in Germany. His recently-published book has brought down the wrath of the German establishment upon his head, but all the shunning and condemnation haven’t silenced him.
If you break from the Crust, they call you a flake.
In all countries concerned — whether Britain, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium, Denmark or Norway — one makes similar observations about the group of Muslim migrants, namely:
- Below-average labor market integration;
- Above-average dependence on welfare benefits;
- Below-average participation in education;
- Above-average fertility;
- Spatial segregation with a tendency towards the emergence of parallel societies;
- Above-average religiosity with growing penchant for traditional and fundamentalist movements in Islam;
- An above-average criminality, from “ordinary” violent street crimes to participating in terrorist activities.
In Germany, an army of integration committees, Islam researchers, sociologists, political scientists, organizational representatives and a group of naive politicians work intensively, hand in hand, on trivialization, self-deception and denial of the problem.