Anti-Immigrant Hate in Germany Leads to Neo-Nazi Terror

For years the Web site Politically Incorrect has been spreading hate against immigrants from Turkey in Germany and against any person with a Muslim background or connection.  Journalists such as Udo Ulfkotte and Henryk Broder have openly called for the deportation – or elimination – of immigrants who are "contaminating" the racial purity of the German people, and the central banker Thilo Sarrazin wrote a best-selling book disparaging immigrants with a Turkish or Arab background as genetically inferior. A few people in Germany have spoken out against this open display of hate, but for the most part, authorities have looked the other way. Amazingly, Ulfkotte, Broder and Sarrazin are welcome guests on myriad TV talk shows.

Recently I wrote about the Web site "Nürnberg 2.0", where anonymous accusers make open threats against public figures in Germany who are supposedly aiding and abetting an Islamic takeover of German society. Here, too, law enforcement officials have declared the content "harmless" and have refused to take action to shut it down.

We now know that all along the constant refrain of anti-immigant hate was hitting its mark – especially in the town of Zwickau in Thuringia.  For years a neo-Nazi cell has been systematically killing primarily Turkish immigrants at different locations throughout Germany – the socalled
"doner killings".  Only after a bank robbery and the murder of policewoman last week were authorities able to find the right-wing terrorists.  It now appears that this neo-Nazi cell was hardly isolated; it was part of a much bigger right-wing terror network: 

The idea that the murders could be traced back to far right groups is unsettling in Germany, a country that around 3 million Turks call home.

"This would be a new dimension in the brutality of neo-Nazis," said statement from the state interior ministry of Bavaria, where five murders took place.

Ralf Jäger, the interior minister of North Rhine Westphalia, also expressed his worry: "Extreme rightists have turned into terrorists. We have to do something about the fact that these perpetrators could operate underground in Germany for years on end."

 Who could have predicted that it would come to this?  Meanwhile, Henryk Broder, Sarrazin & Co. continues to spill its poison over the entire German media landscape.