Identity politics in the West: Islam – no longer the bogeyman

[TomSea]

Identity politics in the West: Islam – no longer the bogeyman - Qantara.de

Identity politics in the West
Islam – no longer the bogeyman

The champions of white identity are re-grouping. In the West hostility towards Islam has had its day. It is now being absorbed into common or garden racism, says Stefan Buchen in his essay

When the head of the economic wing of Germanyʹs CDU party, Carsten Linnemann, publishes a book titled "Political Islam does not belong in Germany", SPD party member Thilo Sarrazin interprets the Koran under the title "Hostile takeover", and Germany's new defence minister Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer, chairwoman of the CDU party, explains on her first trip to the Orient how the Bundeswehr's Tornado reconnaissance planes are stopping the caliphate of the "Islamic State" from rearing its ugly head again, we may get the feeling that we've hit rock bottom.

We are scraping at the last vestiges of some already quite solidified dregs. All that talk about the Islamic menace, the Islamic challenge, the Islamic threat so keenly cultivated in the West over the past thirty or forty years has now run dry.

Read more at: https://en.qantara.de/content/identity-politics-in-the-west-islam-%E2%80%93-no-longer-the-bogeyman

I had to post this. This website comes out of Germany (DE) apparently.

[Fishrrman]

Normally, I would post the question:
"Who's winning?"

But in this case, the more appropriate question might be:
"Who's surrendering the fastest...?"