Now the right-wingers love Thunberg and "bought journalists"
A topsy-turvy world everywhere. ARD journalists who are paid by the Kremlin are being defended. And Greta Thunberg, previously the absolute hate figure of the right, is now being cheered because she thinks nuclear power plants and Israel are stupid. Who can still see through that?
Yesterday was Friday. Unless the truth press has ignored it or forgotten to report it, Greta Thunberg and her queer and twisted comrades-in-arms from Fridays for Palestine have once again not taken to the streets of the Gaza Strip to protest for "climate justice on occupied land" and warn in powerful words against a "conflagration in the Middle East", because every schoolchild knows that smoke is linked to the production of CO2 and that war also harms the climate in other ways, especially interpersonal ones.
"Is Greta Thunberg just naive - or anti-Semitic?" asked a well-known magazine. I, for my part, find the question naive. After all, does it make it any better if a brat from a good family talks garbage about Jews and the motive for it is childishness or infantilism? Naivety would then be a yardstick and, under certain circumstances, an excuse for political idiocy. If you ask me, that was a nice attempt to question the actions of Greta Thunberg, who was hyped until recently, without breaking the baton over her. After all, the naive question is intended to suggest that the Swedish has-been may not know what a-historical nonsense she is spouting to the world public.
Would the magazine ask in a report about a Reichsbürger: "Is Peter Hofmann just naive - or a neo-Nazi?" Or in a portrait of an Islamist nationalist: "Is Amir Güneş just naive - or antichrist?" Before you google: Peter Hofmann and Amir Güneş are fictional characters, figments of my imagination. But they could very well exist.
Islamists can be vindictive
Peter Hofmann lives in the Ore Mountains, warns in Saxon dialect against the green eco-dictatorship, refugees, Islam and Antifa, reads books by Kopp Verlag and says things like: "I am neither left nor right and I think for myself." His friends like him for this clarity.
Amir Güneş was born in Berlin-Wedding as the son of Turkish immigrants and barely made it through school. He recently went to the Olympic Stadium with friends to root for the country of his ancestors at the international soccer match between Turkey and Germany, even though he has spent his entire life in Berlin, has German citizenship, has made extensive use of the free school system and was given a drop-out program by the state of Berlin. Amir Güneş has a Mesut Özil jersey, which he wears proudly, thinks Recep Tayyip Erdoğan is great and considers İlkay Gündoğan a traitor because he chose the German national team.
As an anti-Christian, Amir Güneş doesn't attract much attention. Because Christian bashing is allowed in Germany. Especially against the Catholic Church, which, as any naïve person knows, was responsible for the Crusades, the Inquisition and the abuse of boys, and tolerated Hitler. That's why it's allowed to make jokes about them, even on ARD and ZDF, broadcasters that stand for tolerance. People are generally more cautious when it comes to radical Muslims - and rightly so, as Salmon Rushdie's right eye shows. Jan Böhmermann and Carolin Kebekus hold back with jokes because they know: Islamists can be vindictive if you insult them or the Koran. Then they sometimes set off bombs. Catholics are quite tolerant. Although they don't like homosexuals, which we don't let them get away with.
Mr. Böhmermann and Ms. Kebekus are tolerant. Not homophobic. And not islamophobic. They have the latter in common with the Taliban. The Taliban are also wary of making jokes about Muslims because that would jeopardize their business model. Despite their Islamophilia, the Taliban are considered suspicious in this country. Politicians have them in their sights, as the saying goes. They are cracking down on Taliban expatriates. After the fact. In thought, that is. Because the security authorities don't know whether Taliban representatives are currently visiting us. They only find out from the media after they have left.
Objectivity is easy to explain
Nancy Faeser, who as Minister President in Hesse almost nobody wanted, which is why she was allowed to remain Minister of the Interior, does not appreciate this at all. She has "strongly criticized the appearance of a high-ranking Taliban official in a Cologne mosque belonging to the German-Turkish umbrella organization Ditib and called for clarification". That's what I read in the truth press. According to Ms. Faeser, the Ditib should provide "complete and very rapid" information on "how the appearance in Cologne came about".
But every child knows that: the man came through the door on foot, because the flying carpet thing is a fairy tale, and then he told his audience that he likes tolerance, Christians, especially Catholics, and gender stereotyping, but not nuclear power and the German weather. Something like that. I wasn't there myself, as atheists are not invited by the Ditib when Taliban officials give a speech. I use my imagination to picture what a Taliban official might say in a mosque in Cologne. Some people find what comes out of my brain funny, others don't.
"Your post is so bad and totally out of line. You know you're lying," a reader who knows more about me than I do wrote to me the other day. The man is one of those who want me to write "the truth" as well as "objectively" and "neutrally", which is difficult with opinion pieces like commentaries and columns. Nevertheless, I make a great effort. You can bet that ARD's Moscow correspondent Hubert Seipel did the same. He is suspected of having received 600,000 euros to write a book saying that Kremlin cleaner Putin - leader of the cleaning crew that is supposed to cleanse Ukraine of Ukrainians - is a great guy.
It's strange that many of those who usually rail against the lying press and have devoured Udo Ulfkotte's "Gekaufte Journalisten" are now defending Mr. Seipel and advising his critics to take a good look at themselves. Since German journalists "disseminate Green propaganda, Hubert Seipel will also be allowed to disseminate Kremlin propaganda". This corresponds to the logic of the 21st century and the upside-down world in which new cross-fronts pop up every month. Even Greta Thunberg, previously the absolute hate figure of the right, is now being cheered by them because she rejected the shutdown of nuclear power plants and defends terrorists who want to kill Jews and destroy Israel. It's all very strange. But I don't understand the world any more anyway. Or am I just naive?
1 In this topsy-turvy world, Greta Thunberg's support for nuclear power plants and criticism of Israel has earned her praise from right-wingers who previously despised her. This raises questions about their ability to see through their own contradictions.
2 The anti-Semitic conspiracy theories circulating in some Muslim communities also seem to have found their way into the world of football, with Mesut Özil and Ilkay Gündogan being subjected to such claims.
3 The German-Turkish umbrella organization, Ditib, has come under scrutiny for hosting a high-ranking Taliban official in a mosque, raising concerns about their commitment to objectivity and neutrality.
4 The case of journalist Hubert Seipel, accused of accepting money from the Kremlin to write a favorable book about Vladimir Putin, highlights the complexity of maintaining objectivity in an increasingly polarized media landscape.
Source: www.ntv.de
