re: #41 Kenneth

I’m just curious… precisely when did these European Neo-Nazis stop hating Jews and switched to hating Muslims instead?

Wrong question.

They never stopped hating Jews, just pretended to. It’s a tactic.

And they’ve been hatin’ on immigrants, especially Muslims, ever since the first Gastarbeiter (“guest worker”) arrived at the invitation of the (West) German government in the 1950s to meet a critical labor shortage.

Die ersten Gastarbeiter, die in dieser Zeit angeworben wurden, kamen aus Italien, Spanien, Jugoslawien, in geringerer Zahl auch aus Griechenland (sog. Anwerbestaaten). Ab 1960 kamen auch Gastarbeiter aus der Trkei und Portugal. 1964 wurde in der Bundesrepublik der offiziell einmillionste Gastarbeiter, ein Portugiese, begrt. Er bekam zur Begrung ein Moped geschenkt. Zu den Anwerbelndern kamen auch Tunesien, Marokko und Sdkorea, mit den Philippinen wurden Anwerbevertrge fr Krankenpflegepersonal geschlossen. Schlielich gab es 1971 auch einen Anwerbevertrag mit England. Im September 1971 waren damit ber zehn Prozent der in der BRD beschftigten Arbeitnehmer Gastarbeiter.

The first guest workers to be recruited in this period came from Italy, Spain, Yugoslavia, and to a lesser extent also from Greece (so-called recruitment countries). From 1960 guest workers also came from Turkey and Portugal. In 1964 the Federal Republic welcomed the one-millionth guest worker, a Portuguese man. He received a moped as a welcome gift. The recruitment countries were joined by Tunisia, Morocco and South Korea, while recruitment contracts for health care workers were made with the Philippines. Lastly there was a recruitment contract with England in 1971. In September 1971, as a result, more than ten percent of the people employed in the FRG were guest workers.

I was one of them.

The guest worker program was fraught with contradictions from the start. Maybe the German politicos were expecting a blond and blue-eyed baby boom that would eliminate the need for foreigners, maybe they thought the wall would come down in a few years and they’d be flooded with “real Germans” from the east. It never happened. Instead, “guests” became permanent residents, married, brought family from abroad, had children and grandchildren and great-grandchildren, all without ever receiving citizenship. In Germany you are not automatically a citizen just because you’re born on German soil. Look up the difference between jus sanguinis and jus natalis. France and America have the latter, Germany the former.

So the fantasy was that you could bring people in, use their labor, and not owe them anything but a paycheck. That’s not how life works.

The unregenerate Nazis and their successors used the presence of these Fremdarbeiter (their word for “guest worker” - fremd meaning foreign, but also literally strange) for their own purposes from the beginning. I lived in Germany for ten years and saw the results firsthand. At the time it was nothing to do with Islam, except as an added dose of “strangeness”. It was pure xenophobia. In my town, a young man accused of shoplifting was strangled to death in broad daylight by a shop attendant. The DA declined to prosecute. At the demonstration I attended, an incensed German lady of the middlebrow sort yelled at me that the whole thing had been “just a mishap” (blo a Malhr).

Now that the problem has become militant Islam, the same old haters are using that to preach the same old genocidal Rassenhass (race hatred). Yes, it’s racism, with a veneer of opposing jihad. There’s no getting away from it.

This is the dilemma: How to fight militant jihadists without becoming their mirror image. Some people care about that. Others don’t. For them, the end justifies all means, even if (especially when) they deny it. Just look at their associates (kedja.net) to see through the mask.