In response to the question "islam gehört zu Deutschland, oder?" Said German Interior Minister Horst Seehofer, CSU, March 2018, that Islam does not belong to Germany because, according to him, the country was shaped by Christianity. This includes free Sundays and church holidays. He added that Muslims present in Germany do belong. European Commissioner Frans Timmermans claimed on German television that Islam has belonged to Europe for 'two thousand years', while this religion has only been around for 14 hundred years. Chancellor Merkel said she did not agree with Seehofer because there are now so many Muslims in Germany that their religion also belongs to the country. People talk past each other: Islam now belongs, but is not part of the foundations of Germany's Leitkultur. Back in time to 1987. Frans Timmermans proves with his statement that he knows absolutely nothing about Islam, but he thinks he can speak out about it.
Should Frans Timmermans become prime minister, he will give ample ground for further transfer of sovereignty to the EU. European Commissioner Frans Timmermans wants an ever closer union, 'an ever closer union. He claims that "the European Union will reduce the differences between member states". It is not true, for the differences in the EU have actually widened, both socioculturally and economically. The weak member states are emptying out in terms of labor, they are becoming poorer, the hinterland is deserted and the peasants are in despair, magisterially described by Michel Houellebecq in Serotonin.
The familiar cry "The EU has made the region more powerful and empowering nor has it stopped us from having war", is untrue That is not to the EU's credit. The contradictions have been growing. Moreover, there was a war in the former Yugoslavia. The Yugoslav wars represent a series of ethnic conflicts that erupted when Yugoslavia disintegrated. The heaviest violence broke out in the republic of Bosnia-Herzegovina; here the Serb population group tried to hold the entire area for a "Greater Serb state.
Frans Timmermans is the high priest of repopulation. If he becomes prime minister, he will turbocharge it here. The European elections are behind us and in the Netherlands voters voted for Frans Timmermans, Partij van de Arbeid. Everyone was perplexed. Where on earth did this election result come from? But it is understandable, because as good nationalists we naturally want to have a Dutchman as president of the European Commssion. Nationalism is no longer allowed, but of course there are exceptions, aren't there! And Timmersmans has good ideas: "Vfor countries that want to preserve their own identity as a people or a country, there is no place and no future." This indicates "repopulation" (remplacement in French), later used by the philosopher Renaud Camus, in the 1990s. Minister Wolfgang Schäuble in Die Zeit: "The task in the globalizing world will be to cause one more massive revolution, to cause a profound change without exaggeration. It is the partitions that are destroying us and will degenerate us through inbreeding. For us, the Muslims are an enrichment of our openness and diversity." Schäuble wants to polish us away. But that won't work because Thilo Sarrazin shows in his book "Deutschland schafft sich ab" that German Turks, German Turks remain and German Syrians remain German Syrians and German Germans remain German Germans and Moroccan Dutch remain Moroccan Dutch and Turkish Dutch remain Turkish Dutch and Dutch remain Dutch Dutch. It is no different. Timmermans and Schäuble want to polish away homogeneity and Leitkultur. Then what is to become of community spirit, solidarity and loyalty? If a nation no longer has its own identity and is completely diversified, what is the point of standing up for "us"? Schäuble and Timmermans want to 'de-fund', not to help refugees, but to get rid of (alleged) inbreeding and degeneration and brush away identity and civilization from ideology. The two gentlemen come across as sympathetic..... Schäuble and Timmermans are ideologues, heading for a makeable world, utopia. Timmermans sees a pioneering role in the Netherlands.
Eurocommissioner Frans Timmermans in Brussels says in his speech to the EU Fundamental Right Collogium in May 2016: "Monocultural states must be eradicated and multicultural diversity must be accelerated in each individual country. No country should escape the inevitable mixing and immigrants. People should be urged to reach even the 'farthest corners of the planet to ensure that no more homogeneous societies remain anywhere.'"and then in his impeccable English "The future of the world is diversity.... To fight is like trying to unscramble scrambled eggs. It makes a mess. Let's enhance diversity." Speaking of "mess... The Scientific Council for Government Policy, the WRR, thinks entirely differently, unfavorably. A monocultural society is one in which there is no diversity within a given area with respect to ethnic, cultural and religious values. Japan is the example of a westernized, globalized monocultural society. Crime is low, togetherness and sense of community are high. The once European monocultural societies with Christian-Jewish values of diligence, discipline, honesty and efficiency have led to a high point in history. It has proven to be a formula for success. We have a multicultural world with exactly opposite wardens.
Should Frans Timmermans not become prime minister, he can be expected to become director of an asylum seekers' center. He makes his spacious house available to refugees, with tents in his garden. He is married to a dark-skinned Muslim woman from the jungle of Nigeria. He gives the asylum seekers language tutoring and gets compliments for his beautiful pronunciation of Nigerian. Blessed is the country that has Frans Timmermans as prime minister. I wrote in 2019 the book "Does the Netherlands also abolish itself?" Mark Rutte has provided an excellent preface to that. Should Timmermans become prime minister, the job will definitely be done. Will the Dutch people engage with Timmermans? What do you yourself think?
Frits Bosch is an economist and sociologist. He is also the author of "Risk as Obsession", "That's the Risk", "World at a Turning Point", "Unfear among the elite", "Does the Netherlands also abolish itself" and "Feminism in the Workplace".