Sarrazin's theories on the de-Europeanisation of Germany

Bundesbank board member Thilo Sarrazin will present his controversial book Deutschland schafft sich ab (Germany abolishes itself) today. According to Sarrazin Germany is being dumbed down due to the higher birth rate among the lower classes and generally poorly qualified Muslim migrants than among academics. An important contribution to the debate on immigration, writes Richard Wagner in the blog Achse des Guten: "At stake here is whether we want Germany to continue participating in the West and the European idea as an ally of the United States and Israel, or whether we adopt 'multicultural democracy' and cultural relativism and toss in the constitutional state in favour of an Anatolian basar subject to religious rules of thumb all of which contradict Christian theology. ... At stake here is whether we view freedom as central to our way of life, from the freedom of opinion to free enterprise, the equality of the sexes and the personal responsibility of citizens, or whether we resign ourselves to the 'culturally sensitive' transformation of our society and the de-Europeanisation of our country. With his statements the social democrat Sarrazin has turned society's attention to a topic which we can no longer ignore."

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