Germany: Public split on fate of race row banker Via Reuters : German public opinion is deeply split over the fate of a central banker whose disparaging comments about Muslim immigrants have triggered a heated debate on race and integration, surveys showed on Wednesday. Over the past week and a half, Thilo Sarrazin has dominated headlines with criticism of Germany’s large Muslim community, and contentious remarks asserting that Jews have a particular genetic makeup. (…) A survey by pollster Emnid for N24 television showed 51 percent of respondents saw no need for the Bundesbank to fire board member Sarrazin, with 32 percent taking the opposite view.

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Austria: Prosecution investigating FPÖ muezzin-shooting game Via Austrian Times : The Styrian Greens have reported the Freedom Party (FPÖ) for agitation over a computer game in which the player must shoot at mosques and kill muezzins [ed: with little stop signs]. The FPÖ’s Styrian branch is identified as creator of the online game called “Moschee ba ba” (Bye, bye mosque).

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Germany: Turks demand measures against Sarrazin More on Thilo Sarazzin’s new book here . Via The Local : The chairman of the Turkish Community in Germany (TGD) has called on Chancellor Angela Merkel to send a clear signal condemning anti-Muslim comments by Bundesbank official Thilo Sarrazin, according to a Saturday report.

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Sweden: TV channel refuses to air anti-burqa campaign ad ( Sweden Democrats ad ) Via France24 : A Swedish TV station on Friday refused to broadcast a campaign advert by a far-right political party because it contained racial hatred, the broadcaster said. The advert by the Sweden Democrats, a far-right party that could become a kingmaker after tight September 19 legislative elections, showing a race between an elderly woman and several women in burqas pushing prams with a slogan promising to safeguard pension funding at the expense of immigration. “We decided not to broadcast it,” Gunnar Gidefeldt, communications director for TV4, told AFP.

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Germany: ‘Germany is destroying itself’ ‘Germany is destroying itself – how we’re jeopardizing our country’ Via Spiegel : (…) This week, though, the Social Democrat (SPD) seems to have outdone himself. German media outlets, including SPIEGEL, have published excerpts of his soon-to-be-published book on Germany’s supposed demise.

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Denmark: Islam’s power, Europe’s new reality One day Karen Jespersen and Ralf Pittelkow drove from their home in Dragør, over the Øresund bridge, to the Rosengård district in Malmö. They drove around and felt that they’ve arrived in a different world

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Copenhagen: Hizb ut-Tahrir hatred now a hate crime “You think Muslims are praying for a black eye?” [In Danish 'blue eye'] (campaign poster via Uriasposten ) The city of Copenhagen launched a new campaign urging victims of hate-crimes to report attacks. The three groups appearing on the campaign posters: Blacks, gays and Muslims.

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Norway: ‘Neither Christians nor Jews could have done something like this’ Members of the Islamic community in Fredrikstad saw red when a swastika and ‘oink Allah’ were painted on the mosque in the city center.

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Sweden: ‘Islam is like Nazism’ says Immigration ministry worker Via The Local : A civil servant working under Integration Minister Nyamko Sabuni will be assigned new duties after writing a blog saying that there are no good adherents of Islam and comparing the religion to Communism or Nazism. The man, a non-political appointee, shared his opinion on Islam on his blog in September 2008 when he commented on an article by writer Lena Andersson in which she warned against the “religious terrorism” directed at artists, writers and journalists

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