George’s ShockBlog                  Jan 2016

German Guilt Brings Down Society

When you hear modern German expressed on television it is delivered with a sing-songy kind of accent, with the minimum of assertion, and an overwhelming need to concur, and to placate other speakers. Often it is interlarded with English words to avoid referencing cringe-making German words of the Third Reich. Possibly it is a long, slow reaction to Hitler. His sharp, belligerent delivery, with their vulgar overtones, has intimidated German-speakers who came after. And so the German people are in a long, slow search for a new identity.

One of the more profound and traumatic lessons internalised by most Germans concerns previous brutal treatment of minorities in their country. So averse are Germans to insulting their ‘guests’ that many public figures engage in a dance of  avoidance and denial about the bad behaviour of minorities. It parallels the disturbing cases across Britain where Pakistani paedophile gangs who raped young white girls was the source of a sustained and unconscionable cover-up by the authorities for fear of appearing racist. Who could have believed in the early days of Political Correctness that there would evolve  so many officials, tongue-tied and lying, to deny the facts before them? Who would have believed that Political Correctness would, one day, make donkeys out of politicians and mules out of mayors? Who could have believed that those called-upon to take action would retreat behind a barrier of evasive lies, and cunning false explanation?

Many young Muslim men have a familiar technique to touch foreign women. I have seen it for years out side the Rochechouart Station in Paris, where the ever-present gang of several hundred block the path to the station allowing a narrow alley of groping hands for the women hurrying to work. It is thought allowable because the police refuse to take action.

The New-Year’s Eve attacks upon German women on the last day of 2015 has engendered such a rash of denials and lies from officials that it sometimes looks like a new social disease;  kind of mass mental aberration whereby many people in responsible positions lose the ability to see or learn what is going-on around them. Similar in a way to all those German citizens who lived close by the death-camps, saw the smoke of crematoria, smelt the burning flash, saw their streams run pink with blood, but denied everything. The mayor of the town of Ohrdruf committed suicide, along with his wife, after General Walton Walker ordered the people of the town to visit a sub-camp of Buchenwald near Ohrdruf.

The Mayor of Cologne, Frau Henrietta Reker suggested that the thousand rampant Muslim men at the main station on New Years Eve were possibly not as described by many witnesses; Muslim men from Arabia and North Africa. She seemed to be putting the blame upon the molested girls themselves and proposed the simply solution that German girls should keep an arm’s length between themselves and the attackers; as if the women could simply rely on Muslim men to respect that supposed arm’s length. One official suggested that the sexual assaults were done by ‘tourists from North Africa’, or foreigners coming to the party from all over Europe. They simply refused to believe that the hundreds of thousands of Muslim immigrants that had trekked up through the Balkans last summer could have attacked German women so openly. At the time of the mass immigration there was a suggestion that the many ‘families’ holding-out trays of sweets to the new arrivals on German stations everywhere were actors appointed by the government to sweeten the invasion.

Denial is necessary when the world we occupy does not correlate with our hopes. Many Germans hoped to assuage the gnawing pains of guilt over their past by demonstrating, somewhat hysterically, that they have changed, and nothing will turn them against their minorities again. And into that delicate charade of the cuddly German steps a ruthless group of religious believers from the seventh century. ‘You must treat us well; Frau Merkel invited us!’, a dodgy Syrian  is supposedly told the suspicious police. He already knew of his power over the softy Germans. Play the guilt card. And that guilt is deep. On YouTube you may see a Right Wing German member of parliament inviting the days, twenty years hence, when Muslims will run Germany. Immigration of Muslims is leading to a slow German suicide, which has begun with denying rights to their own white citizens that they over-generously offer to Muslim Rapists.

Days after the assaults, the German opinion is hardening. Days  later  Frau Merkel described the assaults as "repugnant criminal acts that Germany will not accept".  She added: "The feeling women had in this case of being at people's mercy, without any protection, is intolerable for me personally as well.

We must examine again and again whether we have already done what is necessary in terms of deportations from Germany in order to send clear signals  to those who are not prepared to abide by our legal order."

There is, of course, something complex behind all this confusion; something that has never occurred to the German. Those who cheered the arrivals last summer jointly suffer an innocence concerning the nature of ‘culture’. And it is this. Culture is not simply a form of Group belief and Behaviour. It is a heritable set of beliefs and values that take millennia to evolve. The Germans will not be able to retrain Muslim misogynists simply by lectures upon appropriate behaviour, nor by revealing the German Laws protecting women in public places. The culture of Arabs and other North Africans is as old as their tribes and as intractable as as their genes. Most of the visiting Muslims will never be able to change their beliefs about women, and nor will their children and grand-children. Many do, of course, and adopt Western values, and enjoy Western family lives.  But most continue Tribal  behaviours that allow the slap, the punch, and the occasional murder. It can be seen in the laws and habits of all Muslim countries, and among the many closed Muslim communities in The West. Women wear the burka not only to hide the bruises, but to signal submission in the unconscious hope of escaping the moment of masculine anger.

What is missing from all these new confrontations between Islam and the West, which the chief of police described as an unprecedented mass crime on the streets of Germany, is any kind of understanding of Islamic misogyny.  And, curiously, it is not about Islam; it is about us in The West! Unknown to most people in The West we have enjoyed two millennia of slow emancipation of women. We are perhaps fortunate in our history to have had strong women leaders; Elizabeth the First, Victoria, and our present queen; all setting a limit to public perceptions that women are stupid and inferior. And so the changes over hundreds of years have been slow and almost imperceptible. Such is the importance of Feminism. Back in the nineteen forties, there was still so much to do to bring British women to the forefront. I feel shame at what I believed as a child, but I was a child of my times. And was it not extraordinary that women of those times endured the patronising and humiliating attitudes of men? The changes were not trivial; they were monumental. It took the evolution of the male brain to the stage that women are respected as intellectual equals. And the job is not finished yet. Another century might do it for us in The West.

And so what hope for Muslim men? Even under the criticism of powerful women in The West, it may take centuries for Muslim men to evolve a reasonable attitude toward their womenfolk. For now, most Muslims continue to treat their womenfolk as children. Or donkeys. They cannot help it. To criticise them is to confuse our ‘elightenened ways’ with twenty centuries of slow evolution of men’s attitudes towards women. The misogynists are, after all, in the majority in this world.