Thursday, September 9, 2010

Banker Quits Due to Negative Remarks; Claimed Muslims, Jews Impaired German Society

The Deutsche Welle (German) website reports today (September 9, 2010) that controversial German central bank board member Thilo Sarrazin has decided to step down from his position at the end of this month, as a result of a series of controversial comments he made about race and religion.

In his recently-published book -- titled "Germany Does Away with Itself" -- Sarrazin claims that Muslims were undermining German society by failing to integrate, having too many children, and underachieving in education.

Sarrazin also caused concern with comments that all Jews shared a gene that made them different from other people.

Earlier this year, Sarrazin caused controversy by claiming that immigration from Muslim countries was making Germany "more stupid."

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