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Turkish group demands apology from Seehofer
Published: 11 Oct 10 08:45 CET | Print version
Online: http://www.thelocal.de/politics/20101011-30403.html
Outraged Turkish groups and German politicians on Monday demanded an apology from Horst Seehofer after the conservative Bavarian state premier suggested over the weekend Germany put a stop to immigration for Turks and Arabs.
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On Monday chairman of the Turkish Community in Germany (TGD), Kenan Kolat, demanded an apology.
“The latest comments by Seehofer are defamatory and unacceptable,” he told daily Berliner Zeitung, speaking of an attempt to stigmatise certain ethnic groups and trump former Bundesbank board member Thilo Sarrazin’s inflammatory assertions about Muslim immigrants.
Meanwhile politicians from across the spectrum expressed their dismay over Seehofer’s suggestion.
Germany’s Christian Democratic commissioner for integration, Maria Böhmer, said she was "very shocked," while Seehofer's fellow CSU party member and parliamentary liaison at the Interior Ministry Ole Schröder accused Seehofer of trying to talk around his own state’s problems with integration.
Bavarian Free Democrat and Justice Minister Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger called Seehofer’s words an “intentionally simplified populist debate.”
Opposition parties the environmentalist Greens and the centre-left Social Democrats accused the Bavarian leader of pandering to far-right populism.
But other members of Seehofer’s Christian Social Union defended him. Head of the CSU’s parliamentary group, Hans-Peter Friedrich, told daily Hamburger Abendblatt that his party leader was "absolutely right."
Instead of allowing more immigrants from abroad, Germany should focus on bringing in other European workers, he suggested.
“These people are easier to integrate into Germany than those who come from foreign cultural groups,” he said.
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amazing to see how quickly these scoundrels race to the bottom with their demagoguery. they must be taken lessons from the US congress...
You will get your wish next year. In 2011 the labour market becomes flooded with eastern europeans, Bluecard holders, and Indians resulting from the EU trade deal.
It would obviously be a wonderful thing, if all humans were to someday learn to love and respect themselves, and therefore commit to achieving the very highest level of morality.
Let's all be honest. Every rational person wants to preserve their culture and identity. The main problem is that people continue to fail, to elect government leaders fully understand this.
I am black, i studied in Germany, masters in communication engineering. I didn't pay a dime, but i tried to get a job, but of course no one is ready to give a black man a professional job in Germany . I had to leave , now i am in Canada working as a communication engineer in a big firm. Now who is the looser and who is the gainer? Canada is so good and welcoming, Just right at the airport the police guy looked at me and after series of questions, he told me welcome home, i couldn't believe it. But what did i get in Germany, everyday the polizei would always stop you and ask you for your ausweiss as if I was a criminal, its just too bad, very very sad. But now I am enjoying life in Canada working and living with people from all over the world.
And before anyone jumps on me and calls me a racist or any other epithet for that matter I can happily state that I am not. I really don't care what colour or ethnicity anyone is at all, it is how they behave that counts! I don't even blame the Islamics for following the dictates of their pernicious hate manual, they are just doing what it says in the book. In fact I have met some very nice Muslims, but when the chips are down they are compelled to 'follow orders'. and those orders are to turn every nation in the world into an Islamic state, by whatever means necessary!
It really is time to shake off all the the liberal fluffiness and political correctness and open your eyes folks. Read the Koran, I did and it is certainly NOT the word of God!
If other countries are so keen to welcome people from another "cultures" weelllllll
YOU ARE WELCOME TO TAKE THEM ALL!. We prefer people that will find it easier to assimilate into our society or at least are NOT HOSTILE to our culture in our OWN country. We don't have a problem with Other cultures (Islam for instance) ...but they seem to have a problem with us.....STRANGE DON'T YOU THINK?