ドイツ連銀理事のトルコ、ユダヤに関する発言で騒動
「ユダヤ人にはユダヤ特有の遺伝子がある」「ベルリンに住むアラブ人、トルコ人には、野菜や果物を売る以外に生産的機能はない」と言い放ったので、どこぞの国のように「差別だ！」と反発されている。
「ユダヤ人は出身地がドイツ、スペイン、シリア、イエメン、コーカサスどこであろうが、不思議なことに共通の遺伝子がある」という話をユダヤ人が自慢げに話すのを、私は聞いたことがあるのだが（苦笑）。渦中の連銀理事も、同じ話を何かの本で読んだんじゃないの？
アラブ人、トルコ人も黙っていないで、「福祉で暮らしているドイツ人に、一体何の生産性があるのか説明せよ」と反論したら面白いのに（笑）。殺されるかな？（汗）
Outrage at German banker's comments on Jews, Turks
Monday, August 30, 2010
BERLIN – Agence France-Presse
A member of Germany's central bank whose remarks about Jews and Turks have prompted outrage sparked fresh protests Monday as he unveiled a new book amid calls for his resignation.
Several hundred people, some waving banners reading "stop far-right populism" braved the Berlin drizzle to protest against Thilo Sarrazin, 65, whose book "Germany is doing away with itself" hit the stands earlier Monday.
After several controversial comments about Muslims and Turks, Sarrazin's latest remarks about Jews resulted in fury across the political spectrum and were featured on most of the country's front pages on Monday.
He told the Welt am Sonntag weekly: "All Jews share a particular gene, Basques share particular genes, that differentiate them from others." Chancellor Angela Merkel slammed his comments as "completely unacceptable."
Sarrazin's party, the Social Democrats (SPD), decided on Monday to launch a procedure to expel him. Ralf Stegner, a member of the SPD's executive, told the Tageszeitung daily: "It would be better if he left himself but I fear he will not do that." "His comments have no place in the SPD," added Stegner.
In October, he said that Turks were "conquering Germany in exactly the same way the Kosovars conquered Kosovo: with a higher birth rate." "A large number of Arabs and Turks in this city (Berlin) ... have no productive function other than selling fruit and vegetables," he added.
Sarrazin's comments have reignited the debate about integration in a country with the largest Turkish population outside Turkey.
German banker in ‘Jewish gene’ dispute
By Gerrit Wiesmann in Berlin
Published: August 29 2010 22:26 | Last updated: August 29 2010 22:26
Axel Weber, head of the German Bundesbank and a frontrunner to become the next head of the European Central Bank, came under pressure last night to deal with a top member of the German central bank over views on Jews and Muslims.
Angela Merkel, chancellor, said last night she was “very sure” the Bundesbank would talk about Thilo Sarrazin, a board member who said Muslims did not want to fit into German society and on Sunday suggested there was a Jewish gene.
But the chancellor’s intervention threatens to expose the powerlessness of Germany’s central bankers and politicians, as the statutes of the independent Bundesbank give neither group power to unseat someone who has not broken any laws.
Mr Sarrazin, no stranger to controversy when finance minister of the city of Berlin, last week unleashed a fierce debate about integration when he said Germany was in danger of “abolishing itself” by letting in uneducated immigrants.
While even his critics were willing to engage with some of these views – part of a book on the subject he presents on Monday – criticism of Mr Sarrazin boiled over when he expanded on some views in a Sunday newspaper interview.
Prodded by the newspaper Welt am Sonntag on whether his views about Muslims were influenced by some idea of genetic identity, Mr Sarrazin replied: “All Jews share a certain gene, Basques have certain genes that differentiate them from others.”
The remarks drew swift and harsh criticism. Stephan Kramer, a top official at the central council of Jews in Germany, said: “Anyone who tries to define Jews through genetics, even if meant as a compliment, is falling victim to racial madness.”
In her TV interview on Sunday, Ms Merkel said the Bundesbank was an important symbol “important domestically and also internationally” and that Mr Sarrazin’s words, meant to make some social groups “despicable”, were unacceptable.
Guido Westerwelle, foreign minister, and Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg, defence minister, had earlier weighed in with heavy criticism of an unrepentant Mr Sarrazin, breaking Berlin’s weeklong silence over the issue and what to do about him.
The problem facing Mr Weber and the other board members of the Bundesbank is that they can do little to unseat a board colleague unless he has broken the law – which even Mr Sarrazin’s strident comments do not appear to have done.
Mr Weber has so far not commented, a lesson he may have drawn from a first row in autumn, when Mr Sarrazin ignored public calls by Mr Weber to resign over a controversial interview about immigration with a French publication.
The Bundesbank president did cut down Mr Sarrazin’s portfolio – he is now in charge of the central bank’s computer systems – but officials have said that Mr Weber was powerless to do any more, and presumably remains so to this day.
Mr Weber was last night flying back from the US Federal Reserve’s summer get-together at Jackson Hole in the US.
As a result, the Bundesbank said, it was not in a position to comment on Ms Merkel’s expectation of a board discussion.
「ユダヤ人は出身地がドイツ、スペイン、シリア、イエメン、コーカサスどこであろうが、不思議なことに共通の遺伝子がある」という話をユダヤ人が自慢げに話すのを、私は聞いたことがあるのだが（苦笑）。渦中の連銀理事も、同じ話を何かの本で読んだんじゃないの？
アラブ人、トルコ人も黙っていないで、「福祉で暮らしているドイツ人に、一体何の生産性があるのか説明せよ」と反論したら面白いのに（笑）。殺されるかな？（汗）
Outrage at German banker's comments on Jews, Turks
Monday, August 30, 2010
BERLIN – Agence France-Presse
A member of Germany's central bank whose remarks about Jews and Turks have prompted outrage sparked fresh protests Monday as he unveiled a new book amid calls for his resignation.
Several hundred people, some waving banners reading "stop far-right populism" braved the Berlin drizzle to protest against Thilo Sarrazin, 65, whose book "Germany is doing away with itself" hit the stands earlier Monday.
After several controversial comments about Muslims and Turks, Sarrazin's latest remarks about Jews resulted in fury across the political spectrum and were featured on most of the country's front pages on Monday.
He told the Welt am Sonntag weekly: "All Jews share a particular gene, Basques share particular genes, that differentiate them from others." Chancellor Angela Merkel slammed his comments as "completely unacceptable."
Sarrazin's party, the Social Democrats (SPD), decided on Monday to launch a procedure to expel him. Ralf Stegner, a member of the SPD's executive, told the Tageszeitung daily: "It would be better if he left himself but I fear he will not do that." "His comments have no place in the SPD," added Stegner.
In October, he said that Turks were "conquering Germany in exactly the same way the Kosovars conquered Kosovo: with a higher birth rate." "A large number of Arabs and Turks in this city (Berlin) ... have no productive function other than selling fruit and vegetables," he added.
Sarrazin's comments have reignited the debate about integration in a country with the largest Turkish population outside Turkey.
German banker in ‘Jewish gene’ dispute
By Gerrit Wiesmann in Berlin
Published: August 29 2010 22:26 | Last updated: August 29 2010 22:26
Axel Weber, head of the German Bundesbank and a frontrunner to become the next head of the European Central Bank, came under pressure last night to deal with a top member of the German central bank over views on Jews and Muslims.
Angela Merkel, chancellor, said last night she was “very sure” the Bundesbank would talk about Thilo Sarrazin, a board member who said Muslims did not want to fit into German society and on Sunday suggested there was a Jewish gene.
But the chancellor’s intervention threatens to expose the powerlessness of Germany’s central bankers and politicians, as the statutes of the independent Bundesbank give neither group power to unseat someone who has not broken any laws.
Mr Sarrazin, no stranger to controversy when finance minister of the city of Berlin, last week unleashed a fierce debate about integration when he said Germany was in danger of “abolishing itself” by letting in uneducated immigrants.
While even his critics were willing to engage with some of these views – part of a book on the subject he presents on Monday – criticism of Mr Sarrazin boiled over when he expanded on some views in a Sunday newspaper interview.
Prodded by the newspaper Welt am Sonntag on whether his views about Muslims were influenced by some idea of genetic identity, Mr Sarrazin replied: “All Jews share a certain gene, Basques have certain genes that differentiate them from others.”
The remarks drew swift and harsh criticism. Stephan Kramer, a top official at the central council of Jews in Germany, said: “Anyone who tries to define Jews through genetics, even if meant as a compliment, is falling victim to racial madness.”
In her TV interview on Sunday, Ms Merkel said the Bundesbank was an important symbol “important domestically and also internationally” and that Mr Sarrazin’s words, meant to make some social groups “despicable”, were unacceptable.
Guido Westerwelle, foreign minister, and Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg, defence minister, had earlier weighed in with heavy criticism of an unrepentant Mr Sarrazin, breaking Berlin’s weeklong silence over the issue and what to do about him.
The problem facing Mr Weber and the other board members of the Bundesbank is that they can do little to unseat a board colleague unless he has broken the law – which even Mr Sarrazin’s strident comments do not appear to have done.
Mr Weber has so far not commented, a lesson he may have drawn from a first row in autumn, when Mr Sarrazin ignored public calls by Mr Weber to resign over a controversial interview about immigration with a French publication.
The Bundesbank president did cut down Mr Sarrazin’s portfolio – he is now in charge of the central bank’s computer systems – but officials have said that Mr Weber was powerless to do any more, and presumably remains so to this day.
Mr Weber was last night flying back from the US Federal Reserve’s summer get-together at Jackson Hole in the US.
As a result, the Bundesbank said, it was not in a position to comment on Ms Merkel’s expectation of a board discussion.
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