''Germany Abolishes Itself: How We're Putting Our Country in Jeopardy'' (German title: ''Deutschland schafft sich ab: Wie wir unser Land aufs Spiel setzen'') is a 2010 book by
Thilo Sarrazin.
Themes
According to
John Judis
John B. Judis is an author and American journalist, an editor-at-large at ''Talking Points Memo'', a former senior writer at the ''National Journal'' and a former senior editor at ''The New Republic''.
Education
Judis was born in Chicago to a ...
, Sarrazin argued for restricting Muslim immigration to Germany on the grounds that Muslims who had immigrated to Germany from Turkey and other Muslim countries had failed to assimilate into German society, lived culturally separate lives in densely Muslim neighborhoods, and that two thirds of Germany's Muslim immigrants were on welfare.
Sarrazin argued that if immigration continued, Germany would, over time, become a predominantly Muslim country.
Publication
The book "shot to the top of the bestseller list;"
It held the #1 spot on the German bestseller list for 21 weeks,
selling 1.5 million copies,
and becoming "Germany's best selling political nonfiction book, by a German author, of the decade."
Reception
The book sparked heated debate.
Necla Kelek
Necla Kelek (pronounced ; born December 31, 1957) is a Turkish-born German feminist and social scientist, holding a doctorate in this field, originally from Turkey. She gave lectures on migration sociology at the ''Evangelische Fachhochschule f ...
argued that Sarrazin's ideas on education and immigration should be debated, without condemning him, and that the political class declines to engage with his arguments.
Journalist
Simon Kuper
Simon Kuper is a South African-British author. He writes about sports "from an anthropologic perspective."
Kuper was born in Uganda of South African parents, and moved to Leiden in the Netherlands as a child, where his father, Adam Kuper, was ...
has argued that, with over 1 million copies sold, Sarrazin had done more to publicize the concept of
Eurabia
Eurabia is a political neologism, a portmanteau of Europe and Arabia, used to describe a far-right, anti-Muslim conspiracy theory, involving globalist entities allegedly led by French and Arab powers, to Islamise and Arabise Europe, thereby w ...
more than anybody else in Europe.
References
2010 non-fiction books
Criticism of multiculturalism
Eurabia
German books
German nationalism
Anti-immigration politics in Germany
Non-fiction books about immigration to Europe
Anti-Islam sentiment in Germany
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