It is disappointing to see the LSE German Society event „Europe’s Future – Decline of the West?“ going ahead tonight at LSE. Despite the efforts of numerous people, two formal complaints and several open letters to the LSE, the sponsors of the event as well as the organisers, no efforts have been made to listen to the concerns that were raised.
One contributor of Part A said: „Thilo Sarrazin should not be given a platform at LSE as he has re-introduced fascist and islamophobe arguments to the integration debate in Germany and continues to do so. This is especially due to his pseudo-scientific approach, claiming for example that intelligence is from 50 to 80 per cent congenital, which has been rejected by several associations of biologists. In addition he has said things like ‚Turks are conquering Germany just as Kosovans conquered Kosovo, namely by means of a high birth rate‘ and that he will not acknowledge anyone who ‘constantly produces new little headscarf-girls‘.“
An LSE masters student in law, Nicola, was astonished with regard to the imbalanced arguments that denying Sarrazin to speak would be mean to oppress freedom of speech: “There is also a lot of confusion with the concept of ‚free speech‘. Thilo Sarrazin is technically free to talk anywhere in public (in parliament, in his books, on the news) and by saying that he is not welcome at LSE we are not denying his freedom of speech neither from a legal nor from any political or moral point of view. On the contrary, it is a simple proposition of being coherent with the basic foundational values of the LSE not to provide a platform for people who make fascist-like remarks. The position Thilo Sarrazin stands for, and therefore what inviting this person represents, is deeply out of line with the way we live with unity in diversity at LSE and all other educational institutions in the world. It is very sad that the German Society is not capable to agree with this point, at least in principle.”
In contrast to what the LSEsu German Society produced in a vacuous statement it is not an independent and non-political student society. It has to abide by Students’ Union policy, which includes ensuring that the Students’ Union members are treated equally with respect to their identity, ethnicity and religion.
The appointment of Jan Fleischauer as moderator of the debate does not change the opinion of many who are against the event. With two islamophobic intellectuals and one representative of an organisation, which has a very orthodox stance on muslim values, it cannot create a space where open debate on integration will be provided.
LSE students and members of the public will gather today at 17:30 at the Hong Kong Theatre, LSE, to make their voices against fascism and islamophobia at LSE heard.
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Feliks Dzerzhinsky
February 15, 2011
Comrades – the renegade Sarrazin has not “re-introduced fascist and islamophobe arguments [in]to the integration debate in Germany” – no need in case of the former as they had never left and the latter could not be re-introduced as they are quite new. Of course ve needed some new arguments introduced – antisemitism has run out of semites, the Yosemites are too far away and most Germans haven’t yet realised that most muslims are semites too with the exception of the Turks and the Persians. But these facts seem too often to be swept under the carpet.