.... Such hand-wringing in Germany about its Muslim population, extremist or otherwise, is not uncommon. This one, however, is different.
Far from being an accidental upheaval of angst resulting from the publication of a book by the likes of the anti-immigration treatise by Germany's provocateur-in-chief Thilo Sarrazin or comments from the country's top politicians, its timing and nature was determined far from the country's conventional opinion makers. It is a particularly unique case of the tail wagging the dog -- and in this case, the tail is the tiny, Islamophobic political party Pro-NRW. [Spiegal Online] Read more
