In the following interview, a young immigrant to Germany named Feroz Khan expresses his opinions on the Great Migration Crisis, and the street demonstrations in Chemnitz that were a result of it.

Many thanks to MissPiggy for the translation, and to Vlad Tepes for the subtitling:

Video transcript:

00:00 Would you like to explain why you have joined the demonstrations here?

00:04 I’m not here to join the demonstrations. I just want to have a look and see for myself.

00:08 I was already at the leftists’ demonstration. Then at the Pro-Chemnitz event for a while, and went by the AfD/Pegida group.

00:12 I just wanted to have a look around and see for myself. And also to reverberate a little.

00:16 Because the media outlets have created the impression the last few days that anyone dark-skinned couldn’t walk through here.

00:22 That you would be stalked. I got warnings from my family living in western Germany to be on guard, don’t go outside .

00:27 Chemnitz is a neo-Nazi nest (brown swamp) with extreme right mobs. —So what’s your impression now?

00:33 My impression is and I want to be very clear, I walked right through the Pro-Chemnitz demonstrators

00:37 No one did anything to me, they are very restrained. I’m not going to deny that I got some dirty looks.

00:44 In total, it was done in a legally acceptable way. I can’t complain.

00:53 So… what do you think about everything that has happened since the death of the German man last weekend?

01:04 Yes, well, I am actually surprised that it took so long. That it took so long until this many people took to the streets.

01:12 It is absolutely predictable and a logical consequence that the people use the means available to them

01:24 against a government that ignores them or worse, works against them.

01:28 Have you experienced any hostility toward you while you were here?

01:32 I have been living in Dresden three years now and I’ve heard these fairy tales since the beginning, even before

01:36 I arrived here. I was told, “You gotta watch out there.” All this can be lead back to the media’s instigating incitement against

01:44 its own population. When referring to refugees everyone has to be extremely sensitive. With them, everything is differentiated.

01:50 And don’t you dare try to throw them in a pot or generalize. But it is OK to do that to people living in Saxony. People on the right?

01:54 They’re all the same. That’s not considered “hate speech” or discrimination. Generalities are no problem.

01:58 This double standard… personally, it really concerns me, but that’s irrelevant. It creates significant sociological damage,

02:08 and we are witnessing that today. So, there something that bothers me, for example, is when

02:14 people on the train look around suspiciously, and everyone protectively gripping their bags because of the increase in theft.

02:18 Do you think some of that is prejudice? That would be prejudice that I understand, because I catch myself doing it too.

02:32 I’d like to throw in one component here and that’s the Law of Attraction — you get what you expect. This is not

02:41 completely transferable to this situation, but the dynamic exists. Overall, I’m not bothered by dirty looks — what bothers me more

02:48 are murders, rapes, sexual assaults, manslaughter and robberies. Which occur here on a daily basis here

02:55 in Germany. Just take any local newspaper and have a read. There are incidents every day — that’s what upsets me.

03:01 I’m partial to setting priorities. Foreigners getting dirty looks and being screamed at is NOT the problem in this country.

03:10 The problems are far more tangible and are in a completely different milieu and I just mentioned it.

03:18 Umm… What’s your opinion about refugee policies? —It is grossly negligent, what occurred three years ago.

03:25 What happened is a result of the laissez-faire strategy. It was an absolutely irresponsible act by the politicians. Well, actually,

03:32 they didn’t act at all. It is not true that Merkel “opened the borders”. That’s the top argument of the leftists.

03:37 There was no border opening. Instead of protecting the border, as suggested by the police; instead of

03:42 regulating or intervening — nothing was done — in order to prevent having those unsightly images at the border.

03:54 And the politicians still don’t want to take responsibility for it all. That’s also a symptom of the mental state of this country in 2018.

04:03 The elite politicians and journalists refuse to take responsibility. There are endless murders, but I don’t see anyone stepping down.

04:12 Not one has resigned from office as a result. —Do you find it, for example justifiable to lump everyone together for

04:27 the few acting unacceptably? It’s just unfair. It is unfair. They are hitting the wrong target. We have to get to the root of it.

04:37 I know that young, I don’t say all, it is an interesting theory, in public places, groups of young Arab men are the most dangerous

04:45 Group, according to the police. It’s my theory. And I know many of the people here will say I’m right. And the criminal statistic too.

04:54 That it’s young men, there’s not a fight about that. No, the “racism” claims start when we say it is young ARAB men. I know it.

05:04 I just know that it is. I know how my compatriots act. I even know how the people in neighboring countries act.

05:08 I know that and I can say it out loud. That is the reality that we have to deal with. That’s the root in this matter.

05:16 Because of that, a woman will change the side of the road when I come in her direction. I can’t make

05:20 any reproach of these people. They are, as I’ve said already on public television, conducting themselves out of fear.

05:27 Fear is an emotion. For an emotion a person doesn’t need to justify themselves. I cannot reproach anyone for that.