The past two months have seen the meteoric rise of PEGIDA and related anti-Islamization groups in Germany. The largest marches have occurred in Dresden, where tens of thousands of participants take to the street every Monday night in an orderly protest against mass immigration.

Rembrandt Clancy has translated an article by Michael Stürzenberger from Politically Incorrect. He has also translated and subtitled two videos about PEGIDA, BOGIDA, DÜGIDA, and other groups marching under the same anti-Islamization umbrella. He includes an extensive introduction and other explanatory material

Die Zeit Opinion Poll: Half of Germans in Favour of PEGIDA

by Rembrandt Clancy

Introduction

Notwithstanding the focus on an opinion poll in the title, Michael Stürzenberger embeds a video which shows how Germany’s The Second public broadcaster, the ZDF, treats an interview with him at the Dresden PEGIDA [Patriotische Europäer Gegen die Islamisierung des Abendlandes, Patriotic Europeans Against the Islamisation of the West] demonstration on15 December 2014.

In the ZDF Mediathek report at 21:45 hours on Monday 15 December (27 seconds), the editors freeze the video immediately after their interview with Michael Stürzenberger and flash a political warning on the screen which reads as follows:

“Editor’s note, heute-journal:

After the broadcast, it became known that Michael Stürzenberger participated in “PEGIDA” as the representative of a right-wing populist party.

Stürzenberger is state chairman of the party “die Freiheit” in Bavaria.

This state association has been monitored by the Bavarian Intelligence Service [Verfassungschutz] since March of 2013.

The reason: Hostility to Islam“

The exposé is repeated by the anchor in the news segment included with Mr. Stürzenberger essay below. The editors for Politically Incorrect, however, make the following observation about the circumstances of the interview in their report of 18 December:

“Recordings from Dresden show that Stürzenberger spoke immediately prior to the ZDF interview with another television broadcaster and indicated that he is a Journalist and Federal chairman of the FREIHEIT party, but that he came to Dresden only as a citizen of Munich, who together with thousands of others would like to set an example within the framework of the PEGIDA demonstration. The ZDF editor must have witnessed all this for he was standing directly next to them.”

We have added an additional 29 seconds to the start of the news video segment which Michael Stürzenberger includes in his presentation. It shows how the reporters frame the demonstration as a whole. Prior to the added segment, the ZDF reporter, Cornelia Schiemenz, had just concluded a long report on the first year of Angela Merkel’s new “Grand Coalition” wherein she mentions a number of deficiencies, including the ongoing child pornography scandal plaguing the socialist SPD (Sebastian Edathy). The coalition has accomplished relatively little, according to reporter Schiemenz, including the failure to integrate immigrants. And that is what has caused the PEGIDA phenomenon, to which she does not attribute the capability of generating an idea, but psychologises it as an expression of “diffuse anxieties”, and immigrants are the “scapegoats”.

Is it possible that reporter Schiemenz could have taken the term “diffuse anxiety” from the politicians who used it the day before? On 14 December 2014 at 19:10 hours, on the ZDF’s Berlin Direkt newscast, Federal Justice Minister, Heiko Maas, makes a reference to PEGIDA demonstrators having “anxiety” (1:50); and then the Interior Minister of North Rhine-Westphalia, Ralf Jäger (SPD), uses exactly the same language in the context of his well-known comment about PEGIDA organisers being Nazis in pin-striped suits:

“In the background there are organisers at work, well-known right-wing extremists, Nazis in pin-striped suits, which must be distinguished from many participants who take part in such gatherings out of diffuse insecurity and diffuse anxiety“ [2:56 min., emphasis added].

In a similar vein, the website of the Archbishopric of Bamberg in Bavaria (18 December) quotes Archbishop Ludwig Schick’s offering the same level of psychiatric insight. In full expression of the new religion of Ecumenism (multiculturalism sanctified), and in the dialogue mode of the neo-Catholic Church founded during Vatican II in the 1960s, he says:

“Pegida activists spread racial hatred and stir up irrational anxieties amongst the people; they are a reservoir of diffuse aggression against people of other cultures and religions. … For that reason we must uphold the values of Christianity, which preaches humanism, equality in dignity and rights, justice and peace.” [emphasis added]

Enlightened “humanism” now in the Catholic Church? That happens,

“…not with demonstrations, but through engaged and credible Christians, who open themselves to dialogue, in truth and love, with those who think differently.”

Then the archbishop, addressing all Christians, and putting dialogue into practice, demonstrates his engagement with the thought content of “those who think differently”:

“Christians must not take part in PEGIDA.”

But where are the Archbishop’s divisions? It is well known that, although the tax supported, entrepreneurial neo-Catholic Church in Germany is extremely wealthy, the churches themselves are mostly empty except for a dwindling number of older people.

Zeit Opinion Poll: Half of Germans in Favour of PEGIDA

Source: Politically Incorrect
Translation: Rembrandt Clancy

16 December 2014

Yesterday die Zeit published an opinion poll, which shows that every second German is sympathetic to PEGIDA. Of the 1,107 persons questioned, only 13% answered with “no, not at all”. This is evidence of how much the people’s opinion differs from the published opinion of the system-media. The fact-free and slanderous statements of established politicians about PEGIDA prove the extent to which demonstrations of concerned citizens every Monday have stirred up the wasp’s nest. Now journalists and politicians swarm around like agitated wasps and show themselves to be completely helpless in dealing with the more than legitimate protest.

by Michael Stürzenberger

To the question of whether it is of concern to citizens that radical Islam in Germany could increase in importance, 73% answered with “yes”. Die Zeit reports:

The fear of radical Islamists is on the minds of a great number of people in Germany according to the survey. 73 percent of German citizens indicated they are worried that radical Islam is gaining in importance. This view is quite prevalent among people over 55 years of age (78 percent). But also 66 percent of the 18 to 24 year age group answered “Yes, I am worried”.

Well over half the total number of respondents polled from 12 to 15 December also believed that Germany accepts too many refugees. Here is the complete article at Zeit Online [in German].

While the majority of citizens have recognised the danger of Islamisation and the threat caused by the unrestricted influx of asylum seekers, the media continue to broadcast while ignoring reality. The ZDF, [Germany’s second public broadcaster], reported yesterday evening, negatively as usual, in “The Journal Today” [Heute Journal] on PEGIDA (to be seen at ZDF Mediathek from 17:50 [in German]). In that broadcast, they attempted to deny by all means possible an Islamisation of Germany. In today’s news broadcast [16 December 2014] Marietta Slomka, showing herself to be very much affected, announced the following at around 22 hours:

It is to be noted that on Monday, around 18 hours, the ZDF recorded interviews on location. Each person was asked for his name, but not for his profession or his political activities. Afterwards, the ZDF broadcast my statement at 19 hours and again at 21:45 hours. One day later [16 December] the editors evidently noticed that I too do political work.

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