When former Berlin politician Thilo Sarrazin made critical remarks about Muslim immigrants four years ago, many found them offensive, though prosecutors rejected complaints, citing free speech laws. A UN committee disagrees, however, and has accused Germany of violating an anti-racism convention.

Battling Racism: UN Body Reprimands Germany over Sarrazin Comments

An United Nations committee, empowered by an international treaty, DEMANDS Germany to take legal action against free speech of prominent dissident Thilo Sarrazin, a former Central Bank chief.

Political correctness is installing a world wide dictatorship, undoing human liberties, civil and human rights dozens of generations of men fought to attain. This is a return to the middle age inquisition.

A United Nations committee has reprimanded Germany in strong language, saying that the country had violated an international anti-racism convention. At issue are controversial statements made in 2009 by Thilo Sarrazin, a former finance senator for the city-state of Berlin, about Turks and Arabs, who he said sponged off the state and were incapable of integrating, among other things. But a complaint submitted to public prosecutors in Berlin was rejected on grounds that the comments were permissible under Germany’s freedom of expression law. An appeal to the decision was rejected as well. According to the UN’s Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD), however, this constituted a violation of the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination, because it failed to conduct an "effective investigation" into the matter. "This is a historic decision," said the TBB Turkish Union, the cultural organization that submitted the case to the committee, in a statement on Thursday. "CERD has determined that Mr. Sarrazin’s comments touch on a feeling of racist superiority or racial hatred and contain elements of incitement to racial discrimination."

Battling Racism: UN Body Reprimands Germany over Sarrazin Comments

Political correctness is installing a world wide terror regime, from the top down. The United Nations and the European Union put out binding directives, be it to declare 17 year olds children, to repress prostitution due to falsified research about trafficking, put up draconian punishment for possession of so called "child porn" (see Copine scale). And now the UN wants to outlaw discussion about immigration policy?

Academic research is perverted in issues like race and iq, teenage sexuality, domestic violence, child porn (rind study, child sex trauma myth). Hate speech codes started outlawing calls to violence and mayhem and went down the slippery slope to outlawing free speech and academic research. Sexual harassment laws started outlawing quid per pro sexual extortion and now force companies and men to walk on egg shells when addressing women, lest they suffer crippling law suits.

The offending statements were made in an interview with the culture and political magazine Lettre International in September 2009, in which Sarrazin, also a former board member at Germany’s central bank, disparaged Muslim immigrants, alleging that they "constantly produce little girls in headscarves" and were part of an "underclass that does not take part in the normal economic cycle." He also said that "a large number of Arabs and Turks in (Berlin) … have no productive function other than in the fruit and vegetable trade." The UN committee concluded that such statements "contain ideas of racial superiority, denying respect as human beings and depicting generalized negative characteristics of the Turkish population, as well as incitement to racial discrimination." In 2010, Sarrazin repeated his sentiments in his controversial, best-selling book "Germany Does Itself In," which sparked a major debate about Muslims in the country.

Battling Racism: UN Body Reprimands Germany over Sarrazin Comments

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extended debate kicked off by the breathtakingly facile book on Muslims by Germany’s provocateur-in-chief Thilo Sarrazin, which argued among other things that immigration was bringing down the country’s IQ.

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