Attitude: To HELL with "THE" [alleged] Holocaust
Knowledge: It's the new religion and it's based on belief rather than
knowledge.
The Crypto-Jews in Turkey get in on the act.
They slaughtered Armenian Christians (a PROVEN fact), but they don't want
nobody talkin' about it.
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Turkish, Jewish groups slam German citizen****p test
Jewish and Turkish groups have attacked a new citizen****p test that
foreigners will have to pass to get a German pass****t, arguing it fails
to mention the Holocaust and tests attitudes rather than knowledge.
After months of work, the Interior Ministry published the 310 multiple
choice questions on the Internet this week. From Sept. 1, applicants
will have to take an exam comprising 33 of those questions and get at
least 17 right to pass.
However the quiz, which asks who wrote Germany's national anthem, what
the population of Germany is and which German body individuals should
register their dog with, is already a subject of controversy. Germany's
Central Council of Jews complained there was no allusion to the
Holocaust, in which Nazis killed over 6 million Jews, saying that
betrayed a strange understanding of history. And a question on which
religion had molded European and German culture was intolerable because
the multiple choice answers did not include Judaism, but instead
Christianity, Hinduism, Buddhism and Islam. "The questionnaire does not
only leave an unsavory taste behind, but even borders on ideological
distortion as a false picture of history can arise through the omission
of facts," Stephan Kramer, general secretary of the council, said.
German authorities also landed themselves in hot water with Turks, who
form Germany's biggest minority. The Turkish Communities in Germany
(TGD) have raised objections to the way some of the questions appeared
to be examining attitudes rather than factual knowledge. "We do not
think that is a good thing," said TGD head Kenan Kolat, questioning
whether average Germans would pass the exam.
One question asks what allows people to speak out openly against the
government and other questions are related to Christian festivals such
as Christmas. Interior Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble defended the quiz,
saying while German citizen****p did not come without conditions, it did
not require a university degree. "This is not as difficult as getting
your drivers' license. No one will be overtaxed," he said. About one in
five people living in Germany has an immigrant background.
Chancellor Angela Merkel has talked a good deal about trying to boost
integration but many immigrant groups say she has achieved little.
Statistics released this month showed the number of naturalizations in
Germany fell last year by about 9.5 percent from 2006 to about 113,000.
Germany reformed its citizen****p laws in 2000 under former Social
Democrat Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder. Now, children born in Germany to
foreign parents can apply for German nationality if one parent has lived
in the country for at least eight years.
12 July 2008, Saturday
REUTERS BERLIN
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