Some Germans have an interesting term for their main-stream
media, it is “liar press” or luegenpresse
in German … see: Breitbart Article. I guess that it was inevitable that a polarization like this would occur when
militant Islamists in Europe keep pushing their agenda and the media there
keeps papering over what is occurring. Eventually demonstrations, like what
have occurred in Leipzig, Dresden and elsewhere in Europe, boil over and things
start getting uglier and uglier on both sides.
The PEGIDA (Patriotic Europeans Against the Islamisation of
the West) movement in Europe and now in Germany is disturbing in many ways. It
is reminiscent of the fascist anti-Semitic frenzy that characterized Germany
during the Second World War with all its brutal consequences. Yet it is also in
some ways similar to the Occupy Wall Street movement and anti-Ferguson police riots
here in the United States … both of which were instigated and encouraged by a biased
media determined to scandalize our societal norms by pushing an unrealistic
agenda.
To this observer, it seems that the consequences of the
Second World War are still being felt in the West’s obsession with tolerance
and diversity … perhaps to a fault. There is so much diversity in Europe that
many countries there are in danger of losing their national identity. And many European
countries are so tolerant that they allow sharia-law “no-go” zones where
non-Muslims dare not go. (Could we possibly call them “ghettos”?) Both of these
over-reactions to the horrors of the last big war have created a vacuum into
which Muslims have stepped. Who really knows what percentage of these Muslims
are militant extremists … but it is big enough to intimidate those who aren’t.
This is obviously a dangerous situation which is also slowly
creeping into the social fabric of the United States … augmented by a president
and much of this nation’s luegenpresse who
have not yet had the scales fall from their eyes. I actually believe that a
more realistic treatment of these diversity and tolerance issues relative to
our Muslim communities here would serve them far better in the long run.
But unfortunately, I don’t expect that this will occur
anytime soon.
