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GERMANY’S SURRENDER: TURKISH POLICE TO PATROL IN WESTPHALIA

Posted By Ruth King on July 23rd, 2010

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Germany’s Surrender
Posted By Stephen Brown

It is another dismal capitulation on Europe’s sad road to dhimmitude.

The police union for the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) [1] stunned Germans this week when it announced it would bring policemen from Turkey to help patrol the turbulent streets of some immigrant neighbourhoods in NRW cities. With this announcement, the state’s police administration is admitting domestic police forces can no longer handle violent Turkish and other youths of immigrant backgrounds inhabiting these quarters.

“It can’t go on like this any longer,” said the union’s chairman, Erich Rettinghaus, in the German national newspaper, Die Welt. “Perhaps it is a good measure. One should try it out. The new NRW Interior Minister is from Duisburg and knows the problems.” According to Die Welt, the Turkish police would patrol the immigrant Turkish areas in their own uniforms together with German policemen.

There are 3.5 million Muslims in Germany and those of Turkish background constitute 2.3 million of that number. With 18 million people, North Rhine-Westphalia, located in western Germany, is the most populous and economically powerful of Germany’s 16 states. NRW’s most important cities, such as Duisburg, Dusseldorf, Dortmund and Essen have large numbers of residents of different ethnicities that make up about 25 per cent of their populations. Overall, of Germany’s 82 million people about 20 per cent have a non-German background.

Many Germans do not view their police as the guilty party in this shameful surrender. Rather, they view the police’s admission regarding their loss of control of German territory as a failure of Germany’s politicians. Having failed to enact measures to deter or control such criminal behaviour and to enforce existing laws that would allow the police to take a tough stand against the hoodlums and criminals of immigrant background, they have allowed the security environment in these neighbourhoods to deteriorate to the point where gangs of violent youths now rule the roost.

Naturally, no German politician has commented on the police union’s proposal let alone resigned or been fired for allowing German civil authority to become so deeply discredited. One German observer probably captured their attitude of appeasement best when he wrote, “The priority is that Germans support with tolerance and good will the formation of these Turkish areas.”

Ignoring the implications and significance of the police union’s announcement also keeps the fiction of Germany’s official multicultural policy intact, in which some Germans, including politicians, unfortunately still believe. Others, however, are much more cynical about multiculturalism. Concerning the arrival of foreign police on German soil, one observer sarcastically wrote: “This is what multicultural enrichment looks like.”

Besides being legal and practical, taking a tough stand would earn the German police the respect of immigrant youth who are used to hard reactions for misbehaviour from police in their native countries. As it stands, the German police and their sympathizers feel their hands are tied by political correctness, which does not allow them to create that respect. If police react too strongly, Germany’s strong leftist media condemn them as racist or as a new version of the Gestapo. On the other hand, if Turkish neighbourhoods experience outbursts of violence, then German police are accused of not having listened to the residents. Lack of education, unemployment and failed integration policies are also given as reasons for immigrant violence; but the left magnanimously holds all of German society responsible for this.

Germans also blame a destructive immigration policy for the current lawless situations in their cities. No less a personage than former German Federal Chancellor Helmut Schmidt [2] confirmed this view. Surveying the damage done to Germany’s social fabric by irresponsible immigration, Schmidt, Germany’s chancellor from 1974 to 1982, said in 2004 the Turkish migrant workers that started coming to Germany in the 1960s should never have been allowed in. And when a socialist like Schmidt makes an admission of this magnitude, then one can be certain the situation is bad.
Besides the humiliation of having to go to a foreign state for help in keeping order in their own country, Germans are asking themselves whether they will be subjected to the further humiliation of being asked for identification from a non-citizen. Some believe this to be illegal, even in the problem Turkish neighbourhoods where some residents are German citizens. Among these German-Turks, several oppose using police from Turkey in their neighbourhoods.

“The people who are supposed to be reached by the Turkish police are not foreigners but rather native. The idea to fetch police from Turkey, hence from a foreign country, is therefore absurd,” said Deniz Guner, chairman of the NRW Turkish Association. Guner proposes instead that the police hire more home-bred German-Turks.

Other Germans are questioning why they have been paying taxes for law enforcement if police no longer control the country. Still others are apprehensive as to what may come next. Will arrested Turkish criminals, for example, now demand Turkish judges and will they want to be tried by sharia law [3]?

There are also a number Germans who take the loss of civil control in Turkish neighbourhoods in NRW much more seriously, calling it a step towards civil war. German writer Udo Ulfkotte, author of Der Krieg In Unseren Staedten (The War In Our Cities) and Vorsicht Burgerkrieg! (Beware of Civil War!) sets 2020 as the date for this eventuality in Germany. When one looks at the three nights of rioting recently in a Muslim neighbourhood in Grenoble where police came under gunfire, this prediction may not be so far-fetched. In case of civil war, some Germans also wonder whether Turkish troops will be sent next to Germany.

The only good thing that has come from the NRW police union’s announcement, as has been pointed out, is that immigrant youth violence can no longer be portrayed as isolated events. Nevertheless, the police union’s intention to bring help from Turkey to maintain order on German soil against some of its own citizens has rightly been called a declaration of the constitutional state’s moral and legal bankruptcy. Some have even called the move racist.

Perhaps what Germany needs from Turkey is not her policemen but rather her Interior Minister. Then, one can be assured, the lawless situation in German cities would be quickly cleaned up – and without any further help from abroad.

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