After a Palestinian migrant stabbed to death two teenagers with a knife and seriously injured five others on a German train on Wednesday, the public broadcaster is concerned with politically correct reporting. When asked about the origin, the editors chide the readers.
While two young people – a girl (16) and a young man (19) – had to lose their lives on a regional train to Kiel because of the prevented deportation of a Palestinian serial offender, and five other people were injured, some of them seriously, the prioritisation of the Nordwestdeutscher Rundfunk (NDR) is now causing a stir on the net.
A user asked why the origin of the perpetrator had been censored by NDR after it had previously been mentioned by a user in the comments below the article. The prompt answer from the editorial team: “The origin of the perpetrator is not relevant to the report and leads to a discriminatory generalisation or misinterpretation”. To incensed comments from users who regard the omission of origin as unobjective, the broadcaster responds with moral high ground of a different kind: “Correctness is very important to us. Our sites are free of racism and xenophobia. This is not censorship, but preservation of democracy”.
In the meantime, more and more details about the perpetrator have come to light. The man, a 33-year-old Palestinian named Ibrahim A., had been released from prison only a week ago and had already been sentenced again to a prison term without parole. However, as the sentence was not yet final, the man was released. He had been living in Germany since 2015 and had a total of 12 previous convictions. However, he was never deported – no state wants to take in a stateless person, according to the Germans’ reasoning.
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The obvious harm in not releasing the attacker’s origin is that the public is not fully aware of the threat that exists, thanks to the government’s irresponsible asylum policy. No decent person wants to incite hate and violence at another group or to imply that every member of an ethnic or national group is violent. At the same time, the public is entitled to know if a threat exists.
The German government has more blood on its hands-as do the governments of most Western European countries.
Of course, our own (US) government is currently responsible for an intolerable border crisis right here at home.