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Anti-Muslim Prejudice Revived By Right Wingers In Germany
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Tue, 10/13/2009 - 18:47
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BERLIN, Oct. 12, 2009 (IPS/GIN) - Immigrants and foreigners were again targeted through the election campaign last month by right-wing politicians looking to win votes through racist statements.
The campaign is over, but the debate on the German management of immigration goes on, fuelled by anti-Muslim remarks by Thilo Sarrazin, a director in Bundesbank (the German central bank) and former minister of finance in the Berlin city administration.
Sarrazin, a leading member of the Social Democratic Party (SPD), said in an interview with the Berlin-based quarterly Lettre International Oct. 1 that the Muslim immigrant population in Berlin is only good at "producing more headscarf wearing girls."
He said Turks are "conquering Germany very much as the Muslim population conquered Kosovo - through a quite high birth rate." A large number of Turks and Arabs in Berlin, he said, "have no productive task other than trading in vegetables and fruits." (Global News Network)
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