Rembrandt Clancy has translated a speech by Udo Ulfkotte at a recent PEGIDA rally, in both video and written form. A slightly longer version was published at Kopp Online, and the translator has added the omitted excerpts to his transcript.
Sixteen Arguments in Favour of PEGIDA Taking to the Streets
Introduction
by Rembrandt Clancy
The following is the speech which Dr. Udo Ulfkotte gave at the demonstration in Bonn on 22 December 2014. It appears to be an adaptation of a longer written version of a 16-point presentation which was published by Kopp Online a day later. Some of the wording in the speech differs from the written version, there is material added, and Dr. Ulfkotte omits some text altogether, but some of this has been reintroduced in the translation below preceded by appropriate notification.
Udo Ulfkotte is well-known in Germany as a writer, an Islam critic, a Euro-sceptic and most particularly, a critic of the mainstream press (Qualitätsmedien). For those who would like a brief biography as background to this speech, one can be found at the American Free Press Newspaper which offers details consistent with those provided by Udo Ulfkotte himself in recent German language interviews. The author provides pertinent background in a recent thirteen-minute interview he gave in English to RT.
by Udo Ulfkotte
Written and Video Sources: Kopp Online
Translation: Rembrandt Clancy
23 December 2014
Hello, a very good evening. My name is Udo Ulfkotte. I am a rat; I am a Mischpoke* [member of an evil cabal]. I am what politicians call vermin. For 17 years I was with the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. I worked for publishers like Gruner und Jahr; I spread lies; I was controlled and backed by the Federal Intelligence Service [Bundesnachrichtendienst BND] and by foreign secret services. Now, I do not wish to support a particular political group. I do not represent Right or Left or anyone else; but right here and now I would simply like to deliver a few hopefully factual arguments; sixteen good arguments for taking to the streets. Perhaps even some of those who are standing immediately beyond the police cordon will identify with what I am going to say to you now.
*[Mischpoke or Mischpoche, in Yiddish means clan, family or relationships. Here it is used pejoratively to mean evil company, a group of unpleasant people or in this case, a member thereof.]
1. No trust in the Politicians: Those of us who are taking to the streets with PEGIDA no longer have confidence in our politicians. For years the reputation of the politicians of all the established parties has been waning among the population. Only 15% of Germans trust our politicians. But they are not interested in that. They block out the growing dissatisfaction which is being directed at all the political parties.
2. Lies of the Media: Only about every third person in Germany still has confidence in our “quality-media”; and that does not come from me or from the political parties of the Left and Right. Among Germans, 63% no longer have confidence in the news coverage of the Ukraine. More and more journalists are unemployed.
Ladies and gentlemen, I can only tell you that the media and the politicians, who are now showing the citizens their full contempt, close down the comment function on the Internet and describe us, the citizens, as basically too stupid; or they call us rats because we, too, wish to draw attention to our problems once in a while. They will simply have to seek other readers and viewers in the future. We do not need the politicians and the media.
3. The Theme of Islamisation: The theme of Islamisation is in fact the most important subject which has brought PEGIDA onto the streets. Politicians and media are ignoring the people’s concerns over the relinquishment of our values, above all when it comes to Islam. They dispute that there is any Islamisation.
In this connection, to see whether or not there is Islamisation we need only look at today. The Green human rights expert, Omid Nouripour; the Baden-Württemberg SPD politician, Thomas Funk; and the Muslim functionary Aiman Mazyek in Baden-Württemberg, demand from us Germans that we, as a sign of OUR readiness to integrate, should sing Muslim songs in our Churches at Christmas time. — At a Christmas service on Christmas Eve, Muslim songs?
What would happen, ladies and gentlemen, if I, as Udo Ulfkotte, at the next Islamic festival of Breaking the Fast, were to go to a mosque here in Germany and belt out Christian Christmas carols? It goes without saying that I would be arrested immediately, charged and convicted of a crime against fasting. And of course our media would call me a right-wing radical. By way of inversion, is that supposed to be a sign of integration? Supposedly there is no Islamisation?
But wait a minute ladies and gentlemen! From the perspective of ever more citizens, Islamisation means that in schools and kindergartens, out of consideration for Muslims, we no longer find the preparation of pork there. Islamisation in our swimming pools means special bathing days with consideration only for Muslim clothing customs. Islamisation in cemeteries means that Muslims must not be buried in earth “defiled” by Christians. They may bury their dead without a coffin or an urn, and so on.
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