German Newspaper Editor: Muslims Who Went on Anti-Terrorism March Are ‘Uncle Toms’

This pro-jihad Jew-hater is not some reviled fringe figure, as he should be. He gets columns in Der Spiegel, a major German publication, despite the fact that he exemplifies the convergence of German Jew-hatred with Islamic Jew-hatred, as seen during World War II with the residency of the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, Hajj Amin al-Husseini, in Hitler’s Berlin, and his activity for the Nazis.

“Newspaper Editor: Muslims Who Went on Anti-Terrorism March Are ‘Uncle Toms,’” by Chris Tomlinson, Breitbart, June 21, 2017:

German newspaper editor Jakob Augstein, who has been identified as an anti-Semite by some groups in the past, wrote that Muslims in Germany who attended an anti-terror protest in Cologne are “Uncle Toms”.

Mr. Augstein wrote that the Muslims in Germany were being “told” by the German government to demonstrate against Islamic State terrorism. Those who showed up to the failed Cologne anti-terror march over the weekend were doing the bidding of their “German overseers”, he wrote in a column for Der Spiegel.

10,000 demonstrators were hoped for over the weekend in the Cologne anti-terror march, but fewer than 2,000 turned up. To Augstein, the son of the founder of Der Spiegel Rudolf Augstein, those who attended were “Uncle Tom Turks”.

Augstein described an “Uncle Tom Turk” as: “One who always does what is expected of him. It used to be: Ali, clean the toilet. Aische, wipe the ass of Grandpa. Today it is said: Ali and Aische, attend the anti-terrorist demo. And if not, then we are very, very disappointed.”

Siding with the German Muslim organisation DITIB, who were suspected of spying on Turks in Germany on behalf of the Turkish government, Augstein said anti-terror demonstrations “stigmatise” Muslims.

He claimed even if Muslims turned up for anti-terror demonstrations, ethnic Germans would not accept them. Augstein claims that terrorism is purely political and social, with no religious element at all.

“Just because terrorists justify their crimes with Islam, there is still no special obligation for people of Muslim faith to distance themselves from these crimes,” he wrote adding: “If I were a Muslim, I would refuse such requests.”

Mr. Augstein is the editor of the left-wing paper Der Freitag and has a history of making controversial comments, particularly against Jews and Israel. He was slammed by the Simon Wiesenthal Centre in 2012 for various comments including comparing ultra-orthodox Jews to Islamic Jihadists.

A year later, the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) said that Augstein’s claim that Israel directs U.S. foreign policy, “crosses the border with anti-Semitic conspiracy theories”.

Die Welt journalist Henryk M. Broder has called Augstein a “little Streicher” referring to infamous Nazi anti-Semite Julius Streicher who published the most virulent anti-Jewish propaganda during the Nazi period….