When Thilo Sarrazin, a German banker previously mentioned on Un:dhimmi here, commented about the status of immigrant groups in Germany, he drew a lot of criticism and started a firestorm of debate.  On the one hand, his proclamation that Jews have a “Jewish gene” hearkens back to the dark days of Nazism, and the response was understandably negative.  I am not a biologist, but I doubt that this “gene” exists. If he meant to say that the Jewish people are genetically linked to one another, then that would at least make sense.  It’s possible that his phraseology was just a little off.

Mr. Sarrazin also commented about the resistance of Muslims to integrate into German society and their propensity towards violence, and in those two things he was right on the money.  The BBC News quotes him as saying  “most of the cultural and economic problems are concentrated in a group of the five to six million immigrants from Muslim countries.”  I would like to find statistics on that, but have not been able to nail them down as yet.

From the New York Times:

Though Condemned, German Author Opens Debate

BERLIN — When a German banker and former government official spoke publicly about a unique “Jewish gene,” when he attacked Islam as a source of violence and stunted development, when he espoused genetic theories that evoked the fright of the Nazi past, the political leadership here quickly condemned him as racist and called for him to be fired.

But Thilo Sarrazin, an executive with the central bank, or Bundesbank, and former senator of finance from Berlin, has not emerged as the marginalized hate-monger the initial condemnation foreshadowed. His book, “Germany Does Away With Itself,” which laments the growing number of Muslim immigrants, arguing they are “dumbing down” society, was released Monday and is already in its fourth printing, with sales expected to exceed 150,000 copies, according to his publisher. Read More

Better make that quintuple – it turns out one of the four people these cowardly bastards slaughtered for no reason whatsoever was pregnant. And then 3000 of them decided to celebrate, just like they did after 911.

Their mothers must be so proud. Another ‘give ‘em a state’ moment from those adorable ‘Palestinians’:

JERUSALEM – Palestinian gunmen opened fire Tuesday on an Israeli car in the West Bank and killed four passengers on the eve of a new round of Mideast peace talks in Washington. The Islamic militant group Hamas claimed responsibility.

Assailants firing from a passing car riddled the vehicle with bullets as it traveled near Hebron — a volatile city that has been a flash point of violence in the past. Some 500 ultranationalist Jewish settlers live in heavily fortified enclaves in the city amid more than 100,000 Palestinians. Read More

Time once again for the team to pack up the Un:dhimmi-mobile and head off to a villa at an undisclosed beach location in sunny Southern Europe, to see out what remains of the Summer.

And to fill in while we are away, (although we may still post the occasional article ourselves) we once again have a high-calibre guest writer stepping in to allow us to take a break.

Introducing Star CMC, dedicated US counterjihad and anti-media bias blogger since 2006.

In what we hope will be a refreshing change from our British ’stiff upper lip’, Star is American – and she’s pro-Israel, pro-military and a proud mother of four children whom she home-schools in order to protect them from the far-left indoctrination running rife in the US education system.

Star, like ourselves, doesn’t believe in the hippy-drippy ‘why can’t we all just get along’ vibe, so often espoused by intellectually-lazy liberals.  She says: ‘at some point we need to draw the line and not permit others to cross it. We must defend our countries against the scourge of radical Islam.  And to start, learn to recognise it; and call it by name.’

Quite.

More revelations about the terrorist links and agenda of the Turkish IHH organisation, which was at the forefront of the Gaza Flotilla violence in May:

One of the activists who had taken part in the Gaza flotilla had participated in previous terror attacks, according to a recent report in the Turkish newspaper Hürriyet.

According to the report, Erdinç Tekir, who was wounded during the fighting which occurred after the IDF raided the Mavi Marmara on May 31, participated in a terrorist attack on a Russian ferry in the Black Sea in 1996.

The purpose of the attack was to bargain for the release of Chechen prisoners in Russia, and as far as is known, it was carried out by an armed group of Abkhazian/Caucasian radical Islamists, which were supported by Turkish Islamists. Read More

Those mad mullahs and their rabid supporters in the Iranian media don’t like uppity women – even when they’re the wife of the French President:

Carla Bruni-Sarkozy has been branded a ‘prostitute’ by Iran after she publicly attacked the country for threatening to stone a woman to death.

France’s First Lady is part of a campaign to save the life of Sakineh Mohammadi-Ashtiani, a 43-year-old mother of two.She is accused of cheating on her husband and then helping to kill him, and is now facing capital punishment for her crimes.

Carla Bruni-Sarkozy, who became President Nicolas Sarkozy¿s third wife two years ago, has signed a petition calling for Sakineh’s release Read More