04 October 2009

Bundesbank official under police investigation after blasting Turks for 'conquering Germany'

Dr Thilo Sarrazin, a member of the executive board and head of the bank's risk control operations, told Europe's culture magazine Lettre International that Turks with low IQs and poor child-rearing practices were "conquering Germany" by breeding two or three times as fast.

".... What's more, they cultivate an aggressive and atavistic mentality. It's a scandal that Turkish boys won't listen to female teachers because that is what their culture tells them", he said. [telegraph.co.uk] Read more

Germany's Turks indignant at comments by Bundesbank board member Germany's Turkish community expressed indignation on Thursday over derogatory comments by Thilo Sarrazin. Sarrazin, 64, had said in an interview that many of Berlin's Turkish and Arab population were 'unwilling, and unable to integrate,' and worsened conditions in the German capital. [Monsters and Critics.com] Read more