Some 30,000 Germans protest against anti-Islam rallies

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26. In Germany I'm positive

it was this asshole:

As German journalist Henryk Broder put it after the 2006 riots over the Danish cartoons of Muhammad: "Objectively speaking, the cartoon controversy was a tempest in a teacup. But subjectively it was a show of strength and, in the context of the 'clash of civilizations,' a dress rehearsal for the real thing. The Muslims demonstrated how quickly and effectively they can mobilize the masses, and the free West showed that it has nothing to counter the offensive -- nothing but fear, cowardice and an overriding concern about the balance of trade. Now the Islamists know that they are dealing with a paper tiger whose roar is nothing but a tape recording."

http://www.brusselsjournal.com/node/3501

These words, among others by the same author, figured prominently in the "manifesto" of mass murderer Breivik in Norway.

Mainstream politics bred Breivik

In Germany the pernicious campaign against Islamism has been led by the ardent Zionist and former leftist Hendrik Broder, who is cited positively several times in Breivik’s manifesto. Broder pens his anti-Islamist diatribes for one of Germany’s main daily papers, Die Welt, and its most read weekly magazine, Der Spiegel.

Last year Broder received significant support in his campaign from the Social Democratic Party member and former Berlin finance senator Thilo Sarrazin, who wrote his own bigoted tract defaming the country’s Arab and Turkish communities—Germany Abolishes Itself.

http://marxistupdate.blogspot.de/2011/07/mainstream-politics-bred-breivik.html

At the other end of the spectrum are political commentators who write from a neo-conservative or culturally conservative perspective. They do not directly support the idea that there is a deliberate conspiracy theory to Islamicise Europe and impose multiculturalism, and they certainly do not advocate violence. Rather they warn that through omission, through naivity, through an unwillingness to act, or even recognise the dangers ahead, Liberal elites leave Europe vulnerable to Islamisation. These include, in the UK, Conservative Education Minister Michael Gove (author of Celsius 7/7), Douglas Murray (Director of the Centre for Social Cohesion, Associate Director of the Henry Jackson Society and author of Neoconservativism: Why we Need it), the Christian Zionist Baroness Caroline Cox (former education advisor to Margaret Thatcher), Melanie Phillips (columnist on the Daily Mail, formerly of the Spectator, and author of Londonistan: How Britain has created a Terror State Within); in Germany, the philosopher and cynic Henryk M. Broder (writer on Der Spiegel, Die Welt and author of Hurrah We Capitulate: On the desire to cave in). For such neoconservative writers, combating Islamisation is also part of their duty, as intellectuals, to combat the kind of civilisational decline, and the sapping of the European creative spirit, that the German writer and philosopher Oswald Spengler identified as the key threat to western civilisation in his 1918 text The Decline of the West.

These neoconservatives also share the counterjihadists’and extreme Right’s fascination with Israel as a muscular nation, uncorrupted by European decadence (ie cultural relativism and hatred of its colonial past) and thus best placed to defend civilisational values in the face of the Islamic onslaught. Indeed, the extreme Right, which is uniting today under the banner of the International Freedom Alliance, has issued the Jerusalem Declaration12 in support of more illegal Settlements in the West Bank and greater commitment to Israel as ‘the centre of the fight against Muslims’, on the basis that ‘if Jerusalem falls, Athens, Rome, Amsterdam and Nashville will fall’.13 An ardent defence of Israel is also very much part of the DNA of neoconservative commentators such as Douglas Murray, Baroness Cox, Melanie Phillips and Henryk M. Broder.

http://www.irr.org.uk/pdf2/ERA_BriefingPaper5.pdf