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All over Germany discussed. The old tabloid headline, here it is. What about racism in the country? And who are his victims? In the net, migrants and their children collect tales of humiliation, humiliation, and disappointment under the sign of #MeTwo. But the outcry immediately brings with it the contradiction: the complaint against racism in the country testifies to nothing but ingratitude, self-pity and persecutory delusion. Does Germany deserve the "racist hammer"?
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Issue 31/2018
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It's not that easy. Because the case Özil and many of the # MeTwo cases are not about any racism: It is about the Islamophobia of the Germans. And it's not about any migrants. It's about the Muslims. Above all, #MeTwo is an outcry from German Muslims. The now report in the network about discrimination, are called Nadir, Tayfun, Bahar. They are migrants and their descendants from Muslim countries.
If you are of Italian descent and, say, Giovanni di Lorenzo, you are less likely to be victims of discrimination in Germany today. On the contrary: The potato German conjures up such a name a soulful smile in the face, and in the pizzeria the daughter donated by the innkeeper still an espresso.
But journalist Ali Can, the son of Kurdish-Alevi parents from southeastern Turkey, who kicked off #MeTwo, knows what discrimination means: German racism today targets Muslims in particular.
Religious affiliation is ethnised
Now Muslims are not a race, nor is Islam. Nevertheless, the term racism meets. Because even racism goes with the times. Biological arguments are an old hat of past centuries. Today it's about culture.
Religious affiliation is ethnised. And resentment disguises itself as a criticism of religion. The "criticism of Islam" has become a favorite sport of the right-wing Germans - the term is just as nonsensical as that of the "criticism of Israel." An entire country does not make sense to criticize, and the criticism of a whole religion should rather be left to the theologians.
Video: Initiator Ali Can about #MeTwo and Mesut Özil
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Étienne Balibar coined the term "racism without races". The racist lies in the assumed inferiority and immutability of the other. In Germany, this means that what used to be the "guest workers" are today the "Muslims".
For example, Michael Wolffsohn in the "Bild" rejected the accusation of racism: "If Germany were indeed as racist as Özil - and also Erdogan - claim, the question arises, why millions of people from all over the world, all first of all Islamic, just want to come to Germany or come. "
So it can not be so bad Muslims in Germany, if they come here from bombed Syria, so says Wolffsohn - who goes into a remarkable associative context, when he writes, just as a Jew he has both something against the '' Auschwitz-Club '"as well as against the" racism hammer ", if it is turned on innocent Germans.
Wolffsohn once learned historians. Source study is actually part of the education there. Maybe that was too long, or he was not paying attention. In any case, Özil had not at all accused of German racism in itself, but the racism of some Germans. On the sidelines, in his bandage, on social media. To make the difference clear, he said about these people, "They represent a Germany of the past." The Germany of the present is, as Özil sees it, another.
Muslims should not be victims
For the dark thinkers of German Islamophobia, this difference did not really arrive. Why? Because with them the need is overwhelmingly great to prevent an impression, which can adjust itself under no circumstances: Muslims may not be victims.
The German knows his Muslims namely. They can not adapt. Have archaic customs. Feeling strange in the modern age. Have neither Pope nor Luther. Belonging to an inferior culture. And their religion definitely does not belong to Germany.
What does religion mean? In the dark rooms of the right-wing everyday theologians it has long been established that Islam is not really a true religion - but an ideology. A ruling ideology. Even worse: a fascist. Repression was his program: oppression of women, homosexuals, Jews.
And because that is all, Muslims can never be victims - but are always perpetrators. Everyone knows that. Muslims are the ones who blow themselves up.