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Thursday, 8 February 2018

Likings and Loathings: February 2018 (updated regularily)




LIKING 

Sometimes you pick up the cutest things on Twitter......if "a picture is worth a thousand words" how much is a moving-in-more-ways-than-one picture worth? 






With apologies to the original poster of this video, I could not find the link. Should you pass by these pages, please let me know and I will gladly post it. 







LOATHING! 

There is a genocide going on in South Africa, white Farmers, I hear, are massacred systematically and with the implicit approval of the "leadership", I will get into this subject more deeply in later posts but have a look at this, I found it on Vlad Tepes




















ET TU ?  Nelson Mandela ? !!!
























I always thought African songs were just sooooo beautiful.......especially when I thought I understood the words....

















A thousand storeys up from 
"Loathing" . 


A few months ago I broke my hand which needed re-training. The Hand-Therapist was a 30-something blonde woman, an outstanding Hand-Therapist.  She  had arrived, a couple of years ago or so,  from South Africa. She was as far from melo-dramatising things as I am close to it. She just said, matter-of-factly: 

"I am sooooooooo clad we have been accepted into Australia." 

The girls (her daughters are in the 12 - 14 age group) cannot get over the fact that they don't need walls, security screens, and more.....but her parents are still over there...not qualifying as "refugees"... 



My hand is fixed, South Africa obviously not yet...

Okay, lets call this new category: 





"Fearings" 










Liking


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Monday, 5 February 2018

Young German Women tell the Real Story


15 y.o. Mia massacred by an Afghan "refugee"





















Maria L. raped and murdered by a "Refugee" 







Are you listening Merkel & Co ? 







No ?














I didn't think so








Pamela Geller - Fatwa


Yesterday I went to my local book shop after my motto "shop locally" and asked whether they had the latest book of Pamela Geller "Fatwa"(*).  

Not only did they not have it, and - ostensibly checking their their list of sources - they told me their normal stockists did not list it either - but they had never even heard of Pamela Geller. 

Okay, the two owners of the shop  are professing to be "of the Left" (if you are into mainstream commercial and professional survival you just have to conform to the dictates of bullydom as even the lowest strata of Western society are  "dressing to that side" now) but I sometimes have seen the odd crack in their submissive front from where  a sliver of "the right side" was escaping. 

Admiring the work of the "Counter Jihad" and  a fan of Pamela Geller, I had long thought that this courageous American-Jewish woman did belong in the company of those who are  known by their first name alone - Pamela - ....I had forgotten about Pamela Anderson....

Anyway, here is a speech by Pamela Geller - it's a long speech in a small venue, but this Queen Esther is definitely  worth listening to. 

Her speech starts at about minute 3.30 and while  question time is a little "raw" it brings up some interesting points. Do have a look at the very end, where she comments on George Sorros and certainly does not take him "prisoner". 





































(*) Disclaimer: I don't even like Amazon and this is an unpaid advertisement 



Friday, 2 February 2018

Letter from a German Childhood Friend






This is a letter I wrote recently to my friends/acquaintances/contacts, including to M. :




From: Rita
Sent: Saturday, January 27, 2018 1:16 AM
Subject: International Holocaust Remembrance Day 2018



Hi friends,

If you too should  suffer from “compassion fatigue”, this post is not heckling for “compassion”, but for your anger or whatever feeling motivates you to say NO, and to say it loudly, to your child, spouse, neighbour, colleague, green grocer. You WILL make a difference, even as that pebble in the shoe, because - be not mistaken - we are witnessing a repeat of the 12 darkest years in Germany’s history. My older compatriots (I am German) always told me “we did not know”, I never believed them. 

Someone recently said: “never again just means again-and-again-and-again”. Looking at the renewed Jew Hatred mounting in Europe we must not look the other way this time,  but must SPEAK UP!  This time the Jew-Haters don't wear German uniforms but are Allah-U-Akbarists who speak Arabic, and are card-carrying (so far mostly) leftist (*) enablers of deadly anti-semitism. On the streets of Berlin, Paris, London, they are allowed to screech:  “JEWS TO THE GAZ !!!”. 

Angela Merkel not only opened this dance macabre by importing 1.5+ million mostly Muslim males in fighting age  into Germany since 2015 alone - ILLEGALLY - but she is  doubling down on that, now not only allowing but organising the deadly “family reunion program". She and her partners in crime, e.g. the SPD (German Socialists) have been caught out lying, on one hand declaring to the “stupid herd” that there would be an upper limit of new “migrants", yet off camera appeasing their supporters from the Left that there would be no such upper limit. 

When people suggest that Angela Merkel, the “second worst German Chancellor” as some call her, is “naive”, I hold  with the wo/man who said: "When the consequences of naivety and malice are the same, it is safer and wiser to assume malice". 



Herzlichst
Rita 

(*) By silencing and  contemptuously referring to the normal, critical but decent Germans (such as Pegida, or the new conservative Party the AfD - Alternative für Deutschland) as  “the Pack”, Merkel and her Stasi Mafia are encouraging the real Extremists to emerge - at the moment, despite the propaganda from the state controlled main media , the “extreeeeeeeeeeme rrrright”  are relatively small in numbers.

PS: and don't forget: it may start with “the Jews”, but it never ends  with “the Jews”......first they came for the Saturday people, then for the Sunday people…...






M. was a childhood friend but when our educational and geographical trajectories went in different directions, the contact became sporadic and was even interrupted entirely during long stretches. Yet the affection that has its genesis in friendships that are formed  in Kindergarten and Primary School remained.....HOWEVER....this answer from my academically very accomplished friend has made me realise that,  politically and philosophically we are now worlds apart. 




Carl Spitzweg - Jugendfreunde (ca.1855)




I fear that M. is  far more representative of Germany's educated class than I will ever be. 





Translation of M's answer: (original at end of this post). 


"...I have problems with your concern: perhaps my rudimentary English is now too bad to understand you .... I do not understand the numbers (1.5 million, when should they have come to Germany and where are they now ??) and I can not believe that you have any understanding for AfD or Pegida, who literally deny the Holocaust and above all want no further discussion or reviewing ..... I think you are too far away for the reality of life in Europe and I seriously fear that you cannot form an objective picture -

I am, of course, not in Berlin and thus right in the centre of the action (the so-called anti-Jewish demonstrations, which come mainly from the confrontation of Palestinian - Jews and refers to the situation in Israel) and the media are of course spreading "fake news" (as the most powerful man in the Western world has taught us), but I think if I take my views from print media and TV and critical observation of my environment - and not just You tube - I can not be so wrong.

You are certainly right that there is a latent anti-Semitism not only in Europe but also in other parts of the world - but we will never let go of it with emotional and counter-hatred attacks! - only with education!


The fact is, if, in Germany,  you look  the people on the mouth who sit  around the "Stammtisch"  there the function of the scapegoat, which is to blame for everything, has long been "the refugee", no-one speaks of Jews here (Germany).


It is a pity that we can not discuss  directly: I would understand you better and we could respond better to  individual arguments .....

Affecionately"



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And for those who feel like singing along to this very very old German Volkslied, here are the lyrics:



Wahre Freundschaft 

Wahre Freundschaft soll nicht wanken 
Wenn sie auch entfernet ist 
Lebet fort noch in Gedanken 
Und der Treue nicht vergisst 
Lebet fort noch in Gedanken 
Und der Treue nicht vergisst 

Keine Ader soll mir schlagen 
Wo ich nicht an dich gedacht 
Ich will für dich Sorge tragen 
Bis zur späten Mitternacht 
Ich will für dich Sorge tragen 
Bis zur späten Mitternacht 

Wenn der Mühlstein trägt die Reben 
Und daraus fließt kühler Wein 
Wenn der Tod mir nimmt das Leben 
Hör ich auf dir treu zu sein 
Wenn der Tod mir nimmt das Leben 
Hör ich auf dir treu zu sein













Original Letter: 

"Hallo Rita,
ich habe Probleme mit deinem Anliegen: vielleicht ist mein rudimentäres Englisch inzwischen zu schlecht um dich zu verstehen....Ich verstehe die Zahlen nicht (1,5 Millionen ? wann sollen die nach Deutschland gekommen sein und wo sind sie jetzt?? ) und ich kann auch nicht glauben, daß du irgendein Verständnis für AfD oder Pegida hast, die ja wortwörtlich den Holocaust leugnen und vor allem keine weitere Diskussion oder Aufarbeitung wollen .....Ich denke du bist doch zu weit weg um die Lebenswirklichkeit in Europa zu sehen, - vor allem befürchte ich, daß du dir kein objektives Bild machen kannst.-

Ich bin natürlich nicht in Berlin und damit direkt im Zentrum des Geschehens (bei sog. antijüdischen Demonstrationen, die vor allem aus der Konfrontation Palästinenser --Juden kommt und sich auf die Situation in Israel bezieht) und die Medien verbreiten natürlich "fake news" ( wie uns der Mächtigste Mann der westlichen Welt belehrt hat), aber ich denke ,wenn ich mir meine Ansichten aus Printmedien und TV und kritische Beobachtung meiner Umwelt, - und nicht nur Youtube - bilde, dann kann ich nicht ganz so falsch liegen.

Du hast sicher recht, das ein latenter Antisemitismus nicht nur in Europa sondern auch in anderen Gegenden der Welt herrscht, - aber mit emotionalen und Gegenhass-Angriffen werden wir ihn nie los! - nur mit Aufklärung !


Tatsache ist, wenn du in Deutschland an den "Stammtischen dem Volk aufs Maul schaust" dann hat die Funktion des Sündenbocks ,der an allem schuld ist, schon lang "der Flüchtling", von Juden spricht bei uns kein Mensch.....

Es ist schade, dass wir nicht so direkt diskutieren können : ich würde dich besser verstehen und wir könnten auf die einzelnen Argumente besser antworten.....
Liebe Grüße  "




Sunday, 28 January 2018

Merkel's Germany - Parable of an Invasion




I do not know the name of this speaker, but assume that he is a member of the AfD, Alternative für Deutschland. This young party is  the main, if not the only hope in Merkel's Germany which from here looks like being euthanized yet again, this time  by Stasi Executives taking Islamic dictation. 







P.S.: I know that, at least visually, my sub-titles leave not only "room", but vast regions for improvement. It will come, I'm learning ;)



A typical 'fraternisation scene' in  Merkel's Germany 

One of many get-to-know-you meetings between "unaccompanied refugee children" and welcome-refugees-German girls, organised by school/town officials. 














Update from "Volksentscheid in Deutschland" who tell me that the name of the speaker is Kionoski and the place where he spoke was in Baden-Württemberg. 





Friday, 26 January 2018

International Holocaust Remembrance Day 2018





"What Happened to Me in Auschwitz"


A raw testimony 

Make the time to watch it...to the end

I did and I cried









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Never say that there is only death for you,

Though leaden skies may be concealing days of blue,

Because the hour we have hungered for near;

Beneath our tread the earth shall tremble — we are here!




From land of palm tree to the far-off land of snow,

We shall be coming with our torment and our woe;

And everywhere our blood has sunk into the earth,

Shall our bravery, our vigor blossom forth.




We’ll have the morning sun to set our day aglow,

And all our yesterdays shall vanish with the foe;

And if the time is long before the sun appears,

Then let this song go like a signal through the years.




This song was written with blood and not with lead;

It’s not a song that summer birds sing overhead;

It was a people among toppling barricades,

That sang this song of ours with pistols and grenades.




Never say that there is only death for you,

Though leaden skies may be concealing days of blue,

Because the hour we have hungered for is near;

Beneath our tread the earth shall tremble, — we are here!


























YIDDISH



Zog nit keyn mol, az du geyst dem letstn veg,

Khotsh himlen blayene farshteln bloye teg.

Kumen vet nokh undzer oysgebenkte sho,

S’vet a poyk ton undzer trot: mir zaynen do!




Fun grinem palmenland biz vaysn land fun shney,

Mir kumen on mit undzer payn, mit undzer vey,

Un vu gefaln iz a shprits fun undzer blut,

Shprotsn vet dort undzer gvure, undzer mut!




S’vet di morgnzun bagildn undz dem haynt,

Un der nekhtn vet farshvindn mit dem faynt,

Nor oyb farzamen vet di zun in der kayor –

Vi a parol zol geyn dos lid fun dor tsu dor.




Dos lid geshribn iz mit blut, un nit mit blay,

S’iz nit keyn lidl fun a foygl oyf der fray,

Dos hot a folk tsvishn falndike vent

Dos lid gezungen mit naganes in di hent.




To zog nit keyn mol, az du geyst dem letstn veg,

Khotsh himlen blayene farshteln bloye teg.

Kumen vet nokh undzer oysgebenkte sho –

Es vet a poyk ton undzer trot: mir zaynen do!





























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A Love Song for Merkel and some German Humour



This posturing and virtue signalling by the "second worst German chancellor" as some describe Angela Merkel in this video has so incensed me today, that, after my initial hesitation, I have translated the parody of a "Love-Song to Angela Merkel". 

First though this hypocrisy personified, which insults the intelligence of anyone who has walked upright for longer than one generation. 

Thanks to VladTepes for the Subtitling and to Anton for the translation:










The following song is a parody on one of the "greatest German hits" of the sixties. I don't think Otto Waalkes, the singer (one of my favourite German comedian/writers/actors/wits) has necessarily written it for Merkel, but it works. 











Here is my favourite sketch by Otto Waalkes, where he does "his thing" at one of  Madame Tussaud's Wax Museums. So many years later this one has me still rolling on the floor and  I don't think it needs sub-titling...:D















And here is the 1965 Nilsen Brothers Hit  "Aber dich gibts nur einmal für mich" which inspired the "Love song for Angela  Merkel": 















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Thursday, 25 January 2018

The Devolution of Germany - A Metaphor




Credit: CEN




Superficially, this  may be on the tabloidy side, some less generous folk might even label it a  "freak show", but as a near  perfect metaphor for the devolution of Germany, it packs a punch...don't you think? 












German Flight attendant-turned-glamour model Martina Big - who identifies as a black woman after she had tanning injections - has now claimed that her hair has become 'naturally African'.




The 29-year-old, from Germany, originally spent over £50,000 ($70,000) on plastic surgery for her massive 70S (UK cup size 32S) breasts, which are thought to be the largest in Europe.



Martina then decided that she wanted to stretch her extreme look even further, and began the controversial transformation to 'become black' - explaining that she would get 'darker and darker and see what the limits are'.




She now identifies as a black woman, having made use of a new medical procedure in America that darkened her skin tone with three melanin-boosting injections.


But as well as the change in skin colour, Martina has said that her hair's looking pretty different these days, too - claiming she's the proud owner of 'naturally African hair'. 

"I have great news!" Martina wrote on Face book. 

"I was at my African hair dresser to change my extension. 

"After taking out my extension I noticed how much my hair structure of my own hair has changed. 

"I compared my own hair with the hair of the other Africans in the salon. They are identical."

She added: "That's the clear proof that I'm a real black woman now".






Credit: CEN






In the post she also said that some fans ask her who her black female role model is, to which she said: "I do not have a solid, black role model. I just want to unfold my own black beauty", explaining that her transformation has been 'an internal one' that has changed her whole body.


"The change in my skin colour was the fastest to see," Martina continues. "Then the change in my hair colour and eyebrow colour. Then the eye colour changed. Then I clearly felt how my feelings changed. Then I saw how my hair structure changed more and more.


"These are just a few examples of the most obvious changes. Many of my changes are very slow, but continuous. If my transformation continues to be so good, I will soon be identical to other black women. 

"You can not imagine it is a great feeling to become more and more a black woman."

She concluded her message by simply saying she's very 'proud and happy'...  (my bolds)


Featured Image Credit: CEN







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Tuesday, 23 January 2018

The War on Men



The Feminist: 
(Triggly Puff)












The Man: 
(Paul Joseph Watson)










The Woman: 
(Marlene Dietrich)














And here with the original German lyrics by composer Friedrich Hollander, the genius responsible for the music score and songs for the legendary 1930 film "The Blue Angel". 





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Frühling kommt, der Sperling piept, 
Duft aus Blütenkelchen! 
Bin in einen Mann verliebt 
und weiß nicht in welchen! 
Ob er Geld hat, ist mir gleich, 
denn mich macht die Liebe reich! 

Kinder, heute abend, da such ich mir was aus 
einen Mann, einen richtigen Mann! 
Kinder, die Jungs häng'n mir schon zum Halse raus, 
einen Mann, einen richtigen Mann! 
Einen Mann, dem das Herze noch in Lieb' erglüht 
einen Mann, dem das Feuer aus den Augen sprüht!! 
Kurz: einen Mann, der noch küssen will und kann 
einen Mann, einen richtigen Mann! 

Männer gibt es dünn und dick 
groß und klein und kräftig 
And're wieder schön und stolz 
schüchtern oder heftig 
Wie er aussieht, mir egal 
irgendeinen trifft die Wahl! 

Kinder, heute abend, da such ich mir was aus 
einen Mann, einen richtigen Mann! 
Kinder, die Jungs häng'n mir schon zum Halse raus, 
einen Mann, einen richtigen Mann! 
Einen Mann, dem das Herze noch in Lieb' erglüht 
einen Mann, dem das Feuer aus den Augen sprüht!! 
Kurz: einen Mann, der noch küssen will und kann 
einen Mann, einen richtigen Mann!

















Monday, 22 January 2018

Passport Germans who hate Germany and Germans





Here is a short extract from a long and fascinating Speech by AfD Member of Parliament, Albrecht Glaser, given in August 2017 in Frankfurt/Main during the election campaign.


In this extract the German/Turkish journalist, Deniz Yücel is quoted wishing for the death of Germans and Germany and suggesting to give his hated  host country to the Palestinians "or other needy people".


Yücel seems to be one of those typical cases where the 2nd and 3rd generation of migrants are actually more problematic then their parents. He was born in 1973, son of Turkish guest workers in Flörsheim on the Main and holds the German and Turkish Nationality.


Since the beginning of last year he  is sitting  in a Turkish prison as guest of Erdogan for "incitement to terrorism" (but not, of course, because of his obvious hatred for Germany; I daresay that this is something he might even have in common with Erdogan.) 







I dislike this Erdogan-with-Kalif-ambitions intensely and think that he is dangerous to a point where I give him the middle name of "Adolf", but accusing this passport German of incitement to hatred of a people - he might just have a point and might actually be doing Germany a favour, for the first time, because Yücel really does seem to be a 'piece of work'. 


They say, show me your friends and I show you who you are...or words to that effect. 


Well, when one of his close friends, another Turkish "German" with "migration background", Mely Kiyak, attacked Thilo Sarrazin, whose face is partly paralysed on the right side following the operation of a tumour, and described him after his appearance on TV as a "lisping, stuttering, twitching caricature of a human being" she harvested some animosity. Yücel sprang to her defence and wrote in his column that this description, while not funny, was perfectly usable and he added that one could only wish for Sarrazin, that "...his next stroke will do its work somewhat more thoroughly"



While Merkel and her Gang seemed desperate to have this guy back in Germany and  were joined by the lamenting hash-tag-send-him-back chorus of whining sheep, most of the decent German folk, the ones that Merkel once called "the Pack", were not all that keen to see this Germany-Hater back. 


This tweet below  is a finely ironic example of that "we-don't-want-him-back" feeling: 







This finely ironic tweet reads:
Germany-Hater Deniz Yücel is sitting in a Turkish jail for #inciting people to hate.
So, like Germany, #Turkey finally seems to be acting rigorously against such sedition. 














Bye Bye mein lieber Herr ...... 















Update 17 February 2018:




Thanks to the efforts of Merkel & Co, who seem to share the hatred of Germany with this "journalist", Deniz Yücel will, according to reports from Germany, soon be on the way back to his hated Germany. I will update, when the news is confirmed and more detailed. 





Saturday, 20 January 2018

Movie Time: Ode to an Armenian Grand Father



To my Canadian and American friends: I can reassure you, the world will not end today, as it's already tomorrow in OZ. ;)

This is a touching little movie by a French film-maker, Gérard Boyadjian (born and brought up in Paris France) who is currently prosecuted in France for a film we are going to sub-title soon. We will tell you that story then.

For now enjoy this delightful Ode to an Armenian Grand Father: 


























Thursday, 18 January 2018

The Mass Brainwashing of Germany


I don't know for how long the Merkel Mafia can still  hide the nasty reality  from the tourists.  Overseas visitors still report glowingly from their travelling the  Romantische Straße, take selfies at the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin, drink  beer still brewed to the  Bavarian Rheinheitsgebot, served  by buxom German girls at the Octoberfest, and they assure us that they have seen nothing untoward, no Islamic invasion, no faux refugees, and that all that talk about gang rapes, knife attacks, slaughter of german girls is probably just right wing propaganda. 

Between the travel brochures and this video from Paul Joseph Watson, published on 15. January, 2018,  an informed observer will know  who of the both has looked more closely  at the dirt that  has been swept under the carpet by the unholy German  trinity: Government/Media/Judiciary: 














"...When the Stasi inflicted a reign of psychological  terror on the German People, they achieved it by a combination of relentless  propaganda and threats of arrest and internment for anyone who dared to speak out. 28 years after the fall of the Stasi, many Germans are now asking: "Has that much really changed? " 














And I fear, even this would  come too late now...
















Saturday, 13 January 2018

Childabuse on Merkel's State Media ? (updated)



The original of the sub-titled video below was published on 12. January 2018, by Politikstube.de 


It could be parody/satire (*), but in view of Germany's State-encouraged propaganda for the Islamisation of their country, and in view of other manipulative programs for Children/Adolescents, even if it was Satire, to me it seems to be a quite pertinent reflection of Public Broadcasting in Merkel's Germany. 


Politikstube commented:



"Unglaublich was sich das Zwangsfernsehen leistet: „Ab heute nennen wir Gott Allah“

Uns fehlen die Worte, was man im Zwangsfernsehen alles unternimmt, die Islamisierung voranzutreiben. Gegenüber dem kritisierten KIKA Beitrag ist das der Gipfel. „Alle Kinder sind Moslems“ – „Es gibt keinen Gott außer Allah“




["Unbelievable what forced-on-us television allows itself: "From today we call God Allah".

The words fail us about what the "Forced-on-us-Television" does in order to advance the Islamisation. Compared to the KIKA contribution which was criticised, this one tops it:

"All children are Muslims"..."There is no god but Allah".]



(*) The video is neither parody nor satire, see update at end of post. 














Is this ^^^ a  German version of Palestinian Children TV ? All that is missing is the call to kill  Jews...













But there is hope.......and it seems to come from Persia ! 

"Make Persia Great again" 





found this gem here:



:


Someone with the name of  "Old white guy" commented

"And a child shall lead them"















A little afterthought from the department of "thinking-aloud": 


“Give me a child until he is 7 and I will show you the man” is a quote that has been attributed from Aristotle, to St. Francis and the Jesuits, even to Sigmund Freud. These attributions are not mutually exclusive, I think the idea is valid. 

Although, child abuse does come in many forms and is evolving/devolving, today the saying could be: "give me a German child to the age of 7 and I give you a Muslim(a)". Or even, in this age of bizarre gender-manipulations: "give me a boy until the age of 7 and I'll give you the girl"









UPDATE 1 

And no, it was not satire! 





German State TV Series: "Lindenstraße" Episode 1084 "Islam"
Murat (Erkan Gündüz is surprised how much Lisa (Santje Peplow) is defending Islam


That little schmaltzy video was a scene from a German State TV series, broadcast in 2006, one year after Angela Merkel became chancellor, and when she was  still pretending to be for  Germany and a "Conservative".  Then she met Sorros,  Erdogan, Obama etc....and the rest, as they say, is history. The number of Muslims in Germany  then was around 3.3 million. While exact statistics today seem  unreliable, the estimate of over 1.5 million Muslims having arrived in Germany  since 2015 is said to be conservative. 

The series was called "Lindenstrasse" and the young woman who "converted" - or "reverted" as Muslims call it - played the role of a young mother, Lisa, engaged to a Turkish Muslim, Murat,  who was working very hard to earn the money for the wedding. I watched that episode and a few that followed, until I came close to a saccharine overdose. You got a taste of it in the video above. 

More information to "Lindenstraße" here






Update 2




Some Germans seem to have fallen for the manipulation in this series. Here is one sample of one such comment at VladTepesBlog




"...I’ve said this before: the Lindenstrasse clip with the mother and the child is actually CRITICIZING the conversion of the mother.

Watch the conversion scene from 1:34 on, listen to the creepy music, look at the child’s disturbed face.
I have checked back with friends who actually watched Lindenstrasse back then. They told me that as the series progresses, the Turkish character that this woman is going to marry talks her out of her fanatical nonsense.... "




My response:



In Answer to some who seem to “defend” this low-brow but extremely manipulative soap “Lindenstrasse” . 


I have been sitting through 8 or 9 episodes of “Lindenstrasse” last night – not very enjoyable. 


The scene depicted in the video is not so much “taken out of context” as it is the distillation of the main “message” from this TV series. The fleeting moment of the child’s frown is merely a subtle pretend criticism to better catch the “stupid German flies”. I actually ironised the Arabic “Shahada” in my translation, but translated the “serious” text faithfully. 


For those who are pressed for time the short version of the soap’s “message” obviously was: ...


...to paint the Muslims (in this case Turks) as the “moderates” and the “Germans” as the silly and/or fanatics. They obviously succeeded in this, reading  about the reaction of those who watched the soap “at the time”. 


Let me be a little more cynical, after sitting through this slush for a few hours:


Soap creators (in this case German State approved, probably even State employed people) are far less simplistic than their Target audience. The story line which for me crystallised from the 8 or 9 episodes I watched was: 


– German girl falls in love with (Turkish good Muslim).

- The child is not hers, so he “even” accepts to be a “dad”, how good is that!

- She reads up on Islam and, as Germans do, goes berserk ie “reverts” (converts), adheres to the strict rules of Ramadan and, what in 2006 was still on the “extreme” side, puts on the  islamic head scarf.

–  All the good Muslim boyfriend does is:

work work work to save enough money for their wedding.

Complies but timidly complains about her strict rules of fasting during Ramadan. (He is oh-so cute when he sneaks into the fridge to stuff his face during the official "fast" and she, the “authoritarian” GERMAN-turned-muslima catches him.)


When she decides to “wear the head scarf”, he tries to dissuade her – first softly, then with his own “muslim victimoid” anecdotes:

He tells her how, “looking Turkish” (which he does not too much really) in the Tramway, a woman “this very morning” moved away from him and his big bag filled with toys for the little boy, insulting him by suggesting he was a Muslim Terrorist “I had a little boy with me, and teddy bears etc were visible on the top of my bag”. And he gets into a plaintive rant about all the Muslim terrorists being Pakistani, Arabs, North Africans, yet the stupid Germans took HIM, the loving moderate Turkish Muslim for a Terrorist…..etc. “we are asking for trouble from the Germans if we SHOW we are Muslims…we have to be Muslim on the inside” etc. 


This persuades her to abandon her Head Scarf.

She is on the way to “see reason”, and become a good muslima but not show it too much as her innate German fanaticism had tempted her to do.


Then there are the obligatory few side-characters who are really “intolerant, racist, bad and stupid” (even attacking TOLLLLLERANT Germans) and yes, you guessed it: the baddies and stupidos were Germans. 


While the Islamisation of Germany might have had the seeds in the earlier large influx of Turkish Guest Workers, it took flight in this – seemingly stupid – but in fact VERY manipulative Soap. There were soppy side stories, again where the actors represented the good, brave, intelligent, integration-willing “refugees”. 


In the countries I live in, there is the equivalent of manipulative propaganda, often aimed by their time-slots and level of intelligence  at children/adolescents and the more gullible adults. 

Suffering from Islamo-Nausea, I find these means as, if not more dangerous than the “out-there” islamist, because they administer the poison slowly, and sugar-coated to the “masses”. 





Update 3


I'm a big fan of Robert Spencer and feel like a little bragging right now, since Jihad Watch picked up the story :)