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The Duisburger Institut für Sprach- und Sozialforschung (DISS) (Duisburg Institute for Language- and Social Studies), which is affiliated to Duisburg university and thus a recipient of public funds, is considered a vanguard for and paragon of politically correct discourse and stands for everything that is considered good and valiant in Germany: Fighting right wing extremism, fighting racism, fighting antisemitism, fighting right wing extremism oh yes, and did I mention fighting right wing extremism?
Such an unholy trinity suggests smokescreening per se and, to be blunt, to me it seems as if DISS is broaching the issue of right-wing antisemitism to deflect from the antisemitism of the Left.
Why do I think that? First, because anti-Zionist Moshe Zuckermann seems to blend in seamlessly with the otherwise laudable criticism of antisemitic clichés about Israel in the German media, but hey, maybe it's just intellectual sluttery.
What I find more conclusive (and, frankly, well nigh incredible) is the fact that Irmgard Pinn is a member of DISS' advisory board.
Irmgard Pinn (born 1946) is a German sociologist who teaches in Germany and in Iran. She converted to Islam in 1981 and made herselfknown as a fighter for the politically correct, anti-racist cause by defending the right of Muslim parents to keep their children away from school out of religious consideration. Pinn, too, denies any discrimination against women in Muslim countries. As sociologist and anti-racism researcher (whatever that is) she is fighting "resentment and prejudices" against Islam in Germany and the fact that it is still seen mainly as a Gastarbeiter ("guest worker") religion.
Her main point is that Germans who are wary of Islam "do not know nearly enough" about it, as if it weren't exactly that knowledge that makes them wary in the first place.
Here is the video of a German chat show that shows Pinn ("There is no Islam-problem, just a "money" problem." Hello Osama bin Laden!) debating Ayaan Hirsi Ali.
(Tho read the entire article click HERE!)
The next entry About the Aesthetics of Converts is probably interesting as well, although even more "Germanocentric".
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- Exit The Editrix
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- Solidarity With Ralph Giordano
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More Hypocrisy from Germanistan
The Duisburger Institut für Sprach- und Sozialforschung (DISS) (Duisburg Institute for Language- and Social Studies), which is affiliated to Duisburg university and thus a recipient of public funds, is considered a vanguard for and paragon of politically correct discourse and stands for everything that is considered good and valiant in Germany: Fighting right wing extremism, fighting racism, fighting antisemitism, fighting right wing extremism oh yes, and did I mention fighting right wing extremism?
Such an unholy trinity suggests smokescreening per se and, to be blunt, to me it seems as if DISS is broaching the issue of right-wing antisemitism to deflect from the antisemitism of the Left.
Why do I think that? First, because anti-Zionist Moshe Zuckermann seems to blend in seamlessly with the otherwise laudable criticism of antisemitic clichés about Israel in the German media, but hey, maybe it's just intellectual sluttery.
What I find more conclusive (and, frankly, well nigh incredible) is the fact that Irmgard Pinn is a member of DISS' advisory board.
Irmgard Pinn (born 1946) is a German sociologist who teaches in Germany and in Iran. She converted to Islam in 1981 and made herselfknown as a fighter for the politically correct, anti-racist cause by defending the right of Muslim parents to keep their children away from school out of religious consideration. Pinn, too, denies any discrimination against women in Muslim countries. As sociologist and anti-racism researcher (whatever that is) she is fighting "resentment and prejudices" against Islam in Germany and the fact that it is still seen mainly as a Gastarbeiter ("guest worker") religion.
Her main point is that Germans who are wary of Islam "do not know nearly enough" about it, as if it weren't exactly that knowledge that makes them wary in the first place.
Here is the video of a German chat show that shows Pinn ("There is no Islam-problem, just a "money" problem." Hello Osama bin Laden!) debating Ayaan Hirsi Ali.
(Tho read the entire article click HERE!)
The next entry About the Aesthetics of Converts is probably interesting as well, although even more "Germanocentric".
-
GERMANS WORRIED ABOUT ISLAM IN NEW SURVEYFrom Avi at The Astute Bloggers: Gatestone Institute finds some good news in Germany, but also bad news concerning what the Turks who live there think: Germans are overwhelmingly mistrustful of Islam and...
- Berlin's Center For Research On Anti-semitism Forgoes Study Of Jew-hatred To Study "islamophobia"
Surprise, surprise, the Germans want to forget about the Holocaust and study why people are bothered by Muslims. Now, consider this; among the people most bothered by Muslims and their beliefs are Jews. Why is that? Because Islam teaches it's adherents...
- Academic Field Or Preventive Political Tool To Balance Injustice?
From Roncesvalles: While I am writing this, the spat between the German political scientist Matthias Küntzel and Andrew Bostom has acquired some notoriety. Pamela Geller offers at Atlas Shrugs an excellent overview. In his book "Hitler’s Legacy: Islamic...
- Exit The Editrix
I guess my disenchantment with blogging is obvious for some time now. During the last weeks I went through an intense thought process. It started with a campaign in the mainstream media here in Germany against Islam-critical blogs and specifically against...
- Solidarity With Ralph Giordano
This is the, so far, last chapter of the Cologne mosque drama. What started as a travesty has developed into a major tragedy in the meantime. Like many other people critical of Islam, German-Jewish anti-Fascist journalist and writer Ralph Giordano, a...