Tag: islamophobia

It’s as if the German state is jealous, and wants to prove it’s just as racist as its Danish sister. The German Interior Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble came out on Wednesday with brilliant statements, saying “all European newspapers should print these cartoons,” in the name of “press freedom.”

Wolfgang you are a racist, and you are the last one to talk about “freedom.” You send your troops to the Islamic World, and help out the Americans in their dirty war in Afghanistan. You treat foreigners and immigrants like shit in your country. You even have legal clauses that allows you to carry out “preemptive detentions” against demonstrators (like those you conducted against the anti-G8 protesters). No wonder then that your Ambassador to Cairo, Bernd Erbel, would come out in praise of Mubarak’s regime recently saying:

Egypt is a country that enjoys enough freedom and democracy to overcome any negatives that take place in the Egyptian Society. The European community respects Egypt ’s special status in dealing with its internal problems as a strong country that aces its challenges in a constructive manner and on the highest level.

And no wonder that your Orientalist chairman of the German Chamber of Commerce in Egypt would come out praising the son of the dictator, Gamal Mubarak, saying:

There is a Pharaonic tradition that the son assumes power after his father. There are many countries that speak a lot about democracy and elections and have now disastrous conditions like Kenya and Brazil…

That’s the “freedom” you understand indeed.