Alte translated this. What this shows is that continual abuse and rudeness leads to pushback.

The author is Heinz Buschowsky, the SPD mayor of the district of Neukölln.

 

What I’m concerned with here is the daily helplessness in such a world. A world in which a man strolls through the supermarket, taking what he wants, marches right by the cashier without paying, and then threatens her that she better dare not call for the police. A world where five walk next to each other along the sidewalk and everyone has to get out of their way. There, where everyone stares straight ahead while waiting to cross the street, so that the streetfighters from the car next to them don’t start to harass them with, “Do you have a problem? We can solve it for you!”

There, where little children have to pay a toll to youths at the playground in order to obtain access to the jungle gym.

There, where young women are asked if they want to be fertilized. There, where they pour a soda out on the bus driver’s head when he asks them for their bus ticket. That all puts a damper on the mood. Even just reading it does that.As long as we maintain a policy of “we empathize with everything” and “we forgive everything”, we will be signaling to these people that we don’t even contemplate changing the situation. So long as we consider this degrading of mores to be part of someone’s cultural identity and the key to our global conscience, so long will we struggle to find any significant support for cultural integration. Mostly, it’s the elderly, who suffer under the wild circumstances, or the very young, who are tired of being pushed around.

This constant disdain shown for behaviors like politeness and sympathy, the simplest rules that teach us how to behave in public. That is what leads the people to wonder: Where am I? Is this still my city, my homeland?

This is why many eventually decide: I don’t like these people. If they don’t want to live with me, then I don’t want to live with them either.

via The bitter truth about multi-culti « Traditional Christianity.

Now, the behaviour described (what the Mayor did not say is that he is describing primarily Muslim gangs) is simply stupid. Firstly, there is much about any culture that is neutral. I like porridge in the morning, not grits: both are boiled cereal.  I enjoy Austrian Cafes, but prefer NZ coffee (without any sugar or liquor). But when in the US, I have drunk industrial products that masquerade as coffee and I do not ask for an espresso.

There are other things which are moral: do not steal, do not cheat, remain faithful to God and your spouse. Now, most Jews, most Muslims and most Christians agree on these things.  Some (from all communities) see faith as a division and those outside that faith as people to whom the law does not apply.

They forget that Christ healed traditional enemies’ children (Samaritans) and modern enemies servants(A Centurion). And they forget that having the basic rules of civil society allows for the education of the next generation and the ability to make things, trade, and grow wealth. A society that goes completely tribal falls apart.

Consider India and Pakistan. In 1948 they were both part of the British Empire: they had the same civil service, laws, justice system, telephones, telegraphs and railways. They were both rural, with some industrialization.

India is now on its way to being a great power. Pakistan is struggling. NorthWest Pakistan has become tribal and is as lawless as neighbouring Afghanistan (which is fairly lawless). And the remainder of that nation is now poorer, much poorer, than their Hindu neighbours.

How you act and how you live matters. You cannot make up the rules. If you have not simple understanding of your neighbours as human and treat them instead as refuse you will eventually be excluded and expelled.  It is better to, as a community, find a way to live alongside each other — as used to occur throughout Mitteleuropa — than find yourself, hated, shunned and expelled.