His bestseller ‘Germany is abolishing itself’ hit like a bomb. 14 years later, Thilo Sarrazin follows. “Everything has become much worse,” says the most successful and controversial non-fiction author in an interview with Conny Bischofberger. A conversation about dramatic grievances in immigration policy and the serious consequences thereof.
“Sarrazin?” He says his name carefully, with a hint of a question mark after it. We already know each other personally and are therefore conducting the interview by telephone as an exception. The 79-year-old is sitting at the table in the garden, as he was during my last visit to his home in the west of Berlin. “I was just answering questions from a Catholic magazine by e-mail,” says Sarrazin, and that he and his cat “Leo” are doing well.
Since the awkward lateral thinker presented his new book last week, he has once again become a much sought-after discussion partner. “Germany on the Wrong Track,” coupled with his limited optimism about the future and his relentless criticism of a failed migration policy, is sure to cause many problems again. His former party, the SPD, has therefore expelled its decades-long member (1973-2020). The accusation: Sarrazin is xenophobic and Islamophobic. Much of what the controversial author said and wrote long before the refugee crisis in 2015 is now a consensus.
“Crown”: Mr. Sarrazin, your new book also deals with the subject of immigration. Why is this subject so important to you?
Thilo Sarrazin: I always talk about demography and immigration, simply because we cannot judge the issue of immigration without our own birth poverty. Ultimately, the question is where Western societies are going demographically if each generation is a third smaller than the previous one. Why is this topic so important to me? If we fill this void with immigration that is foreign to our culture, it will be the end of our society.
Source: Krone
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