In Germany, Bild Magazine has recognised what many others have seen in other European nations. What they’ve recognised is that importing massive numbers of people with extreme cultural differences to Western societies is a terrible problem. Don’t get me wrong, relatively small amounts of migration to the West from elsewhere of people with needed and necessary skills is nothing to be complained about. However importing those who adhere to ideologies that are at odds with Western societies and whose ideology demands that the West is destroyed and replaced by the imported ideology is utterly and completely wrong.
What Bild magazine has done is to categorise what is acceptable in Germany and what is not in the form of a manifesto for Germany. It is clearly aimed at telling those migrants, who are mostly from Islamic cultures, that their current behaviour is wrong and decidedly un-German.
Here’s the first bit of the Bild manifesto for Germany, you can find the rest HERE.
Our world is in chaos, and we are right in the middle of it. Since the terrorist attack by Hamas on Israel, we are experiencing a new dimension of hatred in our country – against our values, democracy, and against Germany.
The recent days reveal what has been simmering and boiling in our society for a long time: In our country, there are many people who oppose our way of life. People who celebrate the murder of innocent civilians. Those who teach their children to hate others, because they are “infidels”. Those who want to forbid women from wearing skirts or trousers. Those who despise the Basic Law and instead listen to radical preachers. They exploit tolerance because they want a different society.
We must not accept this! This cannot continue!
Germany must now say NO! To anti-Semitism, to misanthropy, and to all those who say “No” to us.
Because in our so wonderful and embracing country, the dignity of EVERY person is inviolable: No matter what hair color he has, which language she speaks, what one believes in. We must defend this! If we stumble now, we fall.
That’s why BILD has formulated a manifesto.
A kind of house rules, a guiding idea for what keeps our free society together. The text is addressed to all people living in Germany.
Because: Never again is now!
Since 2015 alone, our country has taken in more than three million refugees, many of them from the Arab world. We held up “Welcome” signs. “We can do it!” was Chancellor Merkel’s mantra.
However, the photos on these pages show that we haven’t managed to make clear what we expect from everyone who wants to live in this country with us. That we do not want to change our way of life just because we have guests.
And we forgot that there are two words that are much more important than “We can do it”. They are: “Never again”! And “Never again” is now! They mean: Never again anti-Semitism in Germany, never again tyranny and racism. All of this applies to all people who live in this country.
Bild then went on to provide a list of fifty things that make a German, well German. Things like the dignity of man, the lack of infidels in German law and society, the primacy of the German Basic Law and how Germany now has no tolerance for intolerance, which I read is that Germany has no tolerance for intolerant ideologies.
Here’s part of the Bild list
1. For everyone living in Germany, Article 1 of the Basic Law applies: “The dignity of man is inviolable.”
2. For us, there are no infidels! Everyone can believe in whatever they want – even Santa Claus.
3. Anyone who considers our constitution and our legal system as a collection of non-binding recommendations should leave Germany as soon as possible.
4. Anyone who wants to live here permanently must learn German. Only when we speak the same language will we understand each other.
5. Everyone can demonstrate peacefully in Germany for their convictions. Free speech does not include threatening people, assaulting them, throwing rocks, burning cars, or celebrating murderers.
6. We don’t wear masks or veils; we look each other in the face (unless it’s Carnival or Corona).
7. Respect and charity sustain our free society.
8. Against the backdrop of the darkest chapter in our history, Israel’s security is a matter of German national interest! This means: Standing up for the security of the Jewish people is non-negotiable. Criticism of Israel’s politics is, of course, allowed.
9. We say please and thank you.
10. We gladly shake hands as a greeting or farewell.
11. We see the police as “friend and helper,” not as a repressive force or an enemy.
12. Many Germans eat pork. Of course, not everyone does. By the way: We have 10 million vegetarians or vegans because freedom also goes through the stomach.
13. The state has a monopoly on violence. Apart from the state-appointed agencies, nobody has the right to use violence against people or things.
14. We accept that our freely elected parliament sets the rules for our coexistence, which can be checked by independent courts.
15. Men are allowed to love men and women women. Whoever has a problem with that is the problem himself. Love and let love!
This list when read in its entirety is clearly and squarely aimed at Germany’s Muslim population, the nature of the criticisms most definitely show that. It’s certainly not aimed at any Britons who live in Germany or who have become naturalised Germans and obviously not aimed at Germany’s post-Soviet Jewish population who moved to Germany in the 1990’s and until the arrival of Merkel’s Mobile Muslim Mayhem from 2015, lived in relative safety.
I really hope and pray that the list that Bild put up represents the views of the majority of ordinary German citizens. If it is then there is hope for Germany. I want them to recognise the problems that they have with extreme and almost impossible to integrate Islam and deal with them in the most effective and fair way possible which should include removal of citizenship or residence status as a first policy port of call. I never thought I’d find myself saying these words but I find I must and those words are: Go, Deutschland. Sortieren Sie Merkels Fehler (Go, Germany and sort out Merkel’s mistakes).
There is a related post here:
https://www.samizdata.net/2023/10/intersectionality-in-todays-nhs/
It isn’t only Germany that has a problem. I can’t see our political class having the balls to put up a list of rules like this. Comment number ten by Kirk is bang on the nail but also pretty depressing.
Stonyground.
Certainly agree that it’s not just Germany with this problem but in all Western nations who have swallowed the poison pill of extreme liberalism and who have abandoned that highly necessary cynicism that should be deployed when it came to treating extreme Muslims as being a low threat.
Well, that’s going to get quietly buried.
How do you remove a substantial proportion of the ~5 million Muslims from the Country?
Does anyone think they would go quietly?
Imagine how all the “Refugees welcome” crowd, wokists, NGOs that make millions out of them would react.
In the attempt Germany would either be
(A) hamstrung by its obligations to international law.
or
(B) have to say a huge “F you” to international law, the UN etc. and also accept being labelled a Fascist country once again.
And what Country would accept them? I can pretty much guarantee no Muslim Country would, it would defeat the purpose of the immigrants Hijra to the West.
Turkey in particular would be apoplectic given the number of Turkish “guest workers” in Germany.
So nothing will be done, nothing will change except Germany will continue along its current path (along with the rest of Europe).
That might not be the case. Whilst agree that the left will try to us ‘international law’ to keep their savage pets in Germany. The German got is already seemingly on a path to kick out dangerous Muslim migrants. As for the Turks it’s clear that the main Islamic problems are not coming from the Turks at least from what I have seen but from the ‘Syrians’ and fake ‘Syrians’ that Merkel allowed in.
Longrider on the subject of International Law.
https://longrider.co.uk/blog/2023/10/25/international-law/
Great piece that. The lack of impartiality when applying so called international law shows it up for the pile of shit that it is.