Not the first time a good book because bestseller in germany while being totally ignored or slandered by MSM.
Thilo Sarrazin s a German politician, writer, and former member of the Executive Board of the Deutsche Bundesbank
Sarrazin was appointed Finance Senator to the Senate of Berlin in January 2002
He became well-known worldwide after publishing a controversial book about Muslim immigrants in Germany in 2010. In his book Deutschland schafft sich ab ("Germany abolishes itself"), he denounces the failure of Germany's post-war immigration policy, sparking a nationwide controversy about the costs and benefits of multiculturalism.
Sarrazin's book came under criticism for claiming that Germany's immigrant Muslim population is reluctant to integrate and tends to rely more on social services than to be productive. Moreover, he calculates that their population growth may well overwhelm the German population within a couple of generations at the current rate, and that their intelligence is lower as well.
The first edition of his book sold out within a few days. By the end of the year, the book had become Germany's number 1 hard-cover non-fiction bestseller for the year and was still at the top of the lists
An uproar was caused at the same time by an interview with Welt am Sonntag in which he claimed that "all Jews share a certain gene like all Basques share a certain gene that distinguishes these from other people."
Polls suggest that almost half of the German population (including SPD members) agree with Sarrazin's political views and 18 percent would vote for his party if he started one
"Political correctness is silencing an important debate" said Matthias Matussek of Der Spiegel magazine. "Sarrazin's findings on the failed integration of Turkish and Arab immigrants are beyond any doubt. He has been forced out of the Bundesbank. The SPD wanted to expel him from the party, too. Invitations previously extended to Sarrazin are being withdrawn.
This just goes to show how different actual german private views are from what the german media is potraying the country to be to the outside. I'm living in france but I get german television and they have 2-3 debate shows were they invite people from both sides to discuss. They regulairly have party chairmen, NATO generals, russian diplomats etc on television giving their arguments. But for some reasons germans are coy about showing how divided their opinions realy are. Probably because of the cold war were germany was dis-united and ideologically divided for so long and now they want to look unified and stable.